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Our correspondent ventures deep into the jungle for the first interview with Joseph Kony and challenges the Lords Resistance Army leader on the massacres, mutilations and mystical spirits that made him Africas most wanted man
Pictures of the Lord’s Resistance Army
AS WE walk into the dark, airless jungle clearing after 12 days of increasingly arduous travel I understand how Stanley must have felt when he finally tracked down Livingstone.
My quarry is rather less benign. Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), is the most wanted man in Africa. He and his followers are accused of slaughtering 10,000 civilians during a 20-year campaign of terror in northern Uganda, abducting 25,000 children and turning them into killers, and driving as many as two million villagers into filthy refugee camps.
For two decades Kony