Wednesday, November 26, 2008

LRA peace deal - ICC indictments?

The "chief negotiator" of a peace deal between the Lord's Resistance Army and Uganda (please see The Weekly from October 20th about the background on this matter) claims to have a deal and an agreement to sign on the dotted line on Thursday of this week.

I will believe it when I see it. J. Kony and his thugs have made fools of negotiators before, repeatedly.

More importantly, the supposed requirement of the LRA to make peace was that the International Criminal Court indictments against J. Kony and other LRA leaders be thrown out. No word on what the latest negotiations involved, but the ICC is not likely to allow their mandate to be negotiated away by bit players in the region.

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