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President Signs Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament Act

By Howard M. Friedman

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On Monday, President Obama signed S. 1067, the "Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act." In his Signing Statement, the President said: "The legislation crystallizes the commitment of the United States to help bring an end to the brutality and destruction that have been a hallmark of the LRA across several countries for two decades, and to pursue a future of greater security and hope for the people of central Africa." The Lord's Resistance Army is Christian militant group based in northern Uganda that is classified as a terrorist group by the United States. LRA leader Joseph Kony claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and the Acholi ethnic tradition. (Wikipedia.) However President Obama described it quite differently:

The Lord's Resistance Army preys on civilians ? killing, raping, and mutilating the people of central Africa; stealing and brutalizing their children; and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Its leadership, indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, has no agenda and no purpose other than its own survival. It fills its ranks of fighters with the young boys and girls it abducts. By any measure, its actions are an affront to human dignity.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on May 28, 2010 (boomark / email).