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Uganda: The Lord's Resistance Army

An examination of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which killed more than 40 civilians in a 2004 attack on a camp of internally displaced persons near Lira, notes that such events are becoming commonplace in northern Uganda. Four theories about the LRA are considered: (1) LRA's...

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Published in:	Review of African political economy 2004-03, Vol.31 (99), p.139-142
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