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The Times (UK), Stuart Ramsay, "Lord's Army threatens war over court charges", 24 May 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1832264.ece

The military leadership of the Lord's Resistance Army is threatening to return to war and to "capture power and overthrow" President Museveni's government in Uganda if International Criminal Court indictments against four named leaders are not withdrawn.

"We cannot go back to Uganda without lifting these indictments. That is impossible. We cannot go and without our going none of the other soldiers can go. But we can fight," General Oti, who is also deputy chairman of the LRA's political movement, told me.

"If they refuse then the war will continue. I am prepared to do anything - even war. I am ready for war. If they don't drop the indictments you will see that we have enough to capture power. We were seven, now we are thousands. Everybody in Uganda wants change but they can't do anything without the barrel of a gun," he said....

For three days I stayed with the LRA in their camp, which is two days driving and walking from the nearest village, Naban-ga, in southern Sudan. I saw at least 100 heavily armed soldiers, some of them boys of about 14 or 15.... There are four or five camps of similar size in the area. The fighters carry their weapons at all times.... A member of the LRA's negotiating team at the peace talks, who asked to remain anonymous, says he believes the LRA numbers a few thousand but can still command support in northern Uganda.

The Nation (Kenya), Dean Diyan, "Africa's longest war dies out ever so slowly", 18 May 2007,
http://www.africafiles.org/article.aspID=15036&ThisURL=./index.asp&URLName=HOME

...The peace talks have marked the first time in the history of thiswar that the LRA has abandoned northern Uganda.... Some observers see the rebel trek into CAR as signaling the resumption of hostilities. Speaking on radio recently in Gulu, District Chairman Nobert Mao warned the internally displaced persons who are returning home hoping that the war was over, to do so at their own risk.... In the past year, more than 300,000 of the displaced have left the camps to return to their areas of origin in northern Uganda, and there have been no civilian abductions since the start of the talks. Children who daily travel long distances to escape a conflict have reduced....The rebels, too, nearly all of them former abducted soldiers with no sense of the comfort of a settled life, have lived a better life during the period of the peace talks. They have been fed in Owinyi Kibuland and now don't have to steal and travel freely. That is very different from their previous life: rape and murder.