Bashir Declares Kony A Terrorist

Mar 04, 2004

SUDAN has declared Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels terrorists and its enemies.

By Alfred Wasike
SUDAN has declared Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels terrorists and its enemies.
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) yesterday announced that President Omar El-Bashir, whose country has harboured Kony and his terror organisation for 17 years, issued the condemnation during a meeting with Uganda’s defence minister Amama Mbabazi.
Mbabazi was in Khartoum on Wednesday to deliver a message from President Yoweri Museveni.
Uganda and Sudan have renewed, for three more months starting March 1, the protocol that allows the UPDF to pursue Kony into Sudan. The deal was first done in early 2002 as a precursor to the anti-LRA Operation Iron Fist.
Bashir sent condolences to President Museveni and Uganda for the 200 people massacred by the LRA rebels at Barlonyo on February 22.
Mbabazi’s statement to the weekly media briefing yesterday reads, “The President of Sudan was happy with the consolidation of the existing cooperation in defence. He reiterated his government’s commitment to rid Sudan of Kony and his band of terrorists whom he declared as enemies of Sudan.”
The briefing was moderated by information minister James Nsaba Buturo, who challenged government critics to produce Kony for talks to end the conflict.
Others at the briefing were the Minister of State for Security, Betty Akech, and the Police spokesperson, Asuman Mugenyi, who warned unregistered political parties against holding public rallies.
Army spokesman Shaban Bantariza said the Sudanese defence minister, Maj. Gen. Bakri Hassan Saleh, met Mbabazi’s delegation that included the Chief of Staff, Brig. Joshua Masaba and the Chief of Military Intelligence, Col. Noble Mayombo, at Khartoum airport.
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