Talk:Lord's Resistance Army insurgency

message: I've only helped a little, but I hope it's a start. I changed the wording of the opening sentence around, changed the "Ugandan government" to link to Politics of Uganda, fixed some grammar, and changed the heading "Chronological List of Reported Incidents" to "Recent incidents involving the LRA," it's more descriptive. Mtrisk 03:56, 5 January 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I've been cautiously changing the intro.  The "based on the Ten Commandments" line found in nearly every news article about the LRA is a pet peeve.  The 1997 Amnesty report appears to oversimplify the syncretism of Acholi religion, e.g. the melding of spirit medium and Christian prophet in the figure of the nebbi, as opposed to the ajwaka.  And I don't agree that the HSM had a clear political program.  The UPDA was the only Acholi rebel group that was clearly led by people who thought in political rather than religious terms, which is why they realized that the insurgency was hopeless and negotiated a peace on favorable terms.  An escaped abductee stated that Kony "always told us that he spoke with the angel who told him that he would one day be president of Uganda and the young people he has abducted and the children born in captivity would take over the country." (HRW), which appears to be about as political as the Auma quote above.  Insane, but still vaguely political.  I'm sure that the article has some of my personal bias on what is important and what is not, so additions by others to it and the related pages can only help.  Cheers, BanyanTree 00:03, 15 January 2005 (UTC)

text: It's very well might be an anachronism.  The first source that I remember mentioning "Lakwena Part Two" is Allen, T. 1991.   “Understanding Alice: Uganda’s Holy Spirit Movement in Context.” Africa 61 (3). I also vaguely recall it being mentioned in another more recent article, possibly Doom and Vlassenroot.  Since the first reference is from 1991, when the LRA still had a decent amount of popular support (at least compared to post-1994), I don't know why the NRA would have used it as propaganda.  However, Allen makes a couple of mistakes that are later mentioned and corrected by Behrend, and this appears to be the only work he published on the LRA, so I'm a little leery of his work.  I have modified the relevant sentence in the article.  Tell me what you think.  BanyanTree
I've read through this as an SME on the region and the LRA, the content is good - the main comment is on the 'meted out atrocities' in the background by the NRA. These should be defined - what atrocities are we talking about, how many people affected? Ngo-analyst (talk) 14:06, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer Review Process

message: Does this mean that the LRA is so diminished that it's mostly dormant now? 82.37.67.151 (talk) 13:57, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The LRA hasn't featured in any attacks for several years, it isn't considered in any counter-insurgency threat models at present. The most recent relevant news from 2021 is the reintegration of LRA captives in 2021 from invisible children which is cited in the article with the statement about this on the link here: https://invisiblechildren.com/who-we-are-today/ -- the inclusion of this might help add to the article on the groups dormancy, but also that their impact is still felt today. Ngo-analyst (talk) 14:05, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  No news in timeline for 4 years now 

message: The 2008-present section suffers from some of the worst WP:PROSELINE I have ever seen. Willbb234 21:39, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proseline