President Barak Obama
FIRST READ:
U.S. in Uganda: $50 million more to help Museveni hunt Kony???
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2012/05/us-in-uganda-50-million-more-to-help.html
Wind of Change or deception and trickery as usual: President Obama's bill regarding Eastern DRC specifically calls for sanctions on foreign aid to any country working to destabilize The Congo.
Kony will be brought to justice – AFRICOM: But why did you take all that long and why now????
THE MAIN REASON THAT THE U.S. IS TARGETING THE LRA IS THAT IT IS
"UNSETTLING" AMERICA'S
ATTEMPT TO RAPE THE AREA OF ITS OIL AND MINERAL RIGHTS.
http://www.antipasministries.com/other/article026.htm
Crisis In The Congo: Uncovering The Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLV9szEu9Ag
http://www.antipasministries.com/other/article026.htm
Crisis In The Congo: Uncovering The Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLV9szEu9Ag
Obama sends 100 US troops to Uganda to fight LRA: It is not what you think!!!
Obama signs law that places cash reward for Kony arrest
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/638944-obama-signs-law-that-places-cash-reward-for-kony-arrest.html
Publish Date: Jan 16, 2013
By Raymond Baguma
US President Barack Obama has assented to an amended law which places a cash reward for whoever arrests the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony and his top commanders.
The “Department of State Rewards Program Update and Technical Corrections Act of 2012,” was introduced in February last year by the representative from California Ed Royce, who chairs the foreign affairs subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation, and trade.
The law updates the State Department’s Rewards Program which was introduced in 1984 to offer rewards for information related to terrorists, narcotics traffickers and specific international war criminals.
Now, the amended law updates the Rewards Program to include those involved in transnational organised crime and others wanted for the most serious human rights abuses.
It will allow the use of the Rewards Program to target those indicted by international, hybrid or mixed tribunals for genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity.
After President Obama’s signing, Royce in a statement said, “As criminal networks and terrorists morph into something new – and killers like Joseph Kony of the LRA terrorize the innocent - this law will give us additional tools to target the world’s worst.
Obama hailed over law on Kony
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/638974-obama-hailed-over-law-on-kony.html
Publish Date: Jan 17, 2013
By Raymond Baguma
The international non-governmental organization Invisible Children has hailed President Obama for assenting to a US law which will offer a cash bounty to whoever apprehends LRA leader Joseph Kony and his top commanders.
Obama on Tuesday assented to an amended law which places a cash reward for whoever arrests the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony and his top commanders.
Invisible Children has played a central role in lobbying the US congress to support the end to the LRA atrocities. The Invisible Children, CEO Ben Keesey was present at the Oval Office as President Obama signed the law.
The “Department of State Rewards Program Update and Technical Corrections Act of 2012,” was introduced in February last year by the representative from California Ed Royce, who chairs the foreign affairs subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation, and trade.
“As an NGO committed to bringing a permanent end to LRA atrocities and improving the quality of life of LRA-affected communities by providing access to quality education and improved livelihoods, this legislation reinforces our firm efforts to see an enduring end to LRA conflict in and outside Uganda,” said Jolly Grace Okot, Invisible Children’s regional Ambassador in Central and East Africa.
The law updates the State Department’s Rewards Program which was introduced in 1984 to offer rewards for information related to terrorists, narcotics traffickers and specific international war criminals.
The amendment updates the Rewards Program to target those indicted by international, hybrid or mixed tribunals for genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity.
Kony and his commanders are wanted by International Criminal Court (ICC) to answer charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
President Obama said that besides LRA leaders, this rewards program will also target perpetrators of human rights violations, citing indicted commanders of the Congolese M23 rebel group as well as the Hutu extremists FDLR operating in DR Congo.
Since the inception of the rewards program in 1984, the US government has paid rewards to over 70 people who provided intelligence that prevented terrorist attacks and court convictions of terrorist.
Okot said, “That previous and related Justice Reward programmes have succeeded in leading to arrests of war criminals fortifies our belief that this law will indeed move forward the hunt for Joseph Kony and his associates.”
LRA was kicked out from Uganda by the UPDF five years ago. However, the LRA remains active in South Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo.
