LRA: SUPPORT Chase Shaffer

Recruitment Forcibly abducted from their families Brainwashing-feeds them lies, promises fortune and wealth After being recruited children are ordered to commit atrocities such as killings or kidnappings Some make attempts to escape -Brutal child abductions, sometimes beaten -LRA adopted the policy of forced recruitment of children in the 1990s -many are killed during fighting, others are killed because of their unwillingness to obey orders or because they try to escape

Funding Elephant poaching Ivory trade with Arab businessmen and Sudanese army Stealing Pillaging villages -Ivory is traded with Arab businessmen and the Sudanese army in exchange for cash, guns, food, medical supplies, and ammunition -Steal from wherever and whoever for anything they can manage to get there hands on -Pillage and destroy villages in search of food and supplies

Governmental Support Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army and Sudanese Government The Séléka-Central African rebel group (Ally/Enemy) -This relationship has been characterized as an alliance, and began in 1994 when peace talks failed between Uganda and Kony -This support from the Sudanese would end in 1999, but is thought to have continued for several years after -The Seleka have been in contact with kony since 2013 when they overthrew the CAR government -The leader of the seleka claimed he was in the process of negotiating kony’s surrender but made it clear that his government made supplies accessible to the LRA

No Support for the LRA In 2014, the LRA was said to be in “survival mode”, due partly to the continuing support of the Séléka. Funding and recruitment are nowhere near what is was some ten years ago, but the LRA still exists, and that is enough to tell us that they’re still active Today the LRA’s area of operations has extended deep into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, southern Sudan, and Sudan’s Darfur region comprised of only several hundred members using small arms and light weapons. Paraphrase Extend time