The Lord's Resistance Army: The U.S. Response

Arieff, Alexis ; Ploch Blanchard, Lauren ; Husted, Tomas F.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Foreign relations -- U.S. -- Uganda;    Foreign relations -- Uganda -- U.S.;    Diplomacy;    Foreign policy;    International affairs;   

RP-ID  :  R42094
RP-ID  :  R42094_2015Sep28

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses the background and history of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the U.S.'s response. The LRA is a small armed group that originated in northern Uganda in 1987 and is currently operating in remote border areas between the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Sudan. The LRA's actions--which include massacres, abductions (notoriously of children), sexual assault, and looting--have caused humanitarian suffering and instability.