Read an article from the AP the other day on Joseph Kony and the LRA selling ivory and minerals to obtain weapons and other supplies. Kony's 200-300 troops must be the best armed troops in the world or at least the best fed, best housed, something of the sort. If you are selling ivory and gold at black market prices, you are making bankroll.
Oh wait, Kony's forces are pretty much bottled up in eastern Centeral African Repbulic and the Kafia Kingi district of Sudan. The only reason the LRA continues to exist at this point, for my two cents, is that the criminal regime of Omar al-Bashir allows the LRA to hide in Kafia Kingi and will not allow Ugandan, CAR, and U.S. forces to cross into the district in the hunt for Kony and the LRA. My other guess is that the LRA is not that well heeled at the moment because Kony is probably paying al-Bashir for the Sudanese hospitality thus the need to traffic in ivory and gold on the black market.
So, will LRA rebound? Probably not, instead they will continue to exist in a precarious state until al-Bashir grows tired or finally caves to international pressure. Either way, Kony and al-Bashir remain fugitives from international justice. They are thick as thieves as the saying goes, or in this case murdering scum.
Oh wait, Kony's forces are pretty much bottled up in eastern Centeral African Repbulic and the Kafia Kingi district of Sudan. The only reason the LRA continues to exist at this point, for my two cents, is that the criminal regime of Omar al-Bashir allows the LRA to hide in Kafia Kingi and will not allow Ugandan, CAR, and U.S. forces to cross into the district in the hunt for Kony and the LRA. My other guess is that the LRA is not that well heeled at the moment because Kony is probably paying al-Bashir for the Sudanese hospitality thus the need to traffic in ivory and gold on the black market.
So, will LRA rebound? Probably not, instead they will continue to exist in a precarious state until al-Bashir grows tired or finally caves to international pressure. Either way, Kony and al-Bashir remain fugitives from international justice. They are thick as thieves as the saying goes, or in this case murdering scum.
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