No Mention Kony’s Been A Moslum Since 1973

US Advisers Raise Hopes in Hunt for Rebel Warlord: Uganda’s Gruesome ‘General of God’

He’s like a phantom. Of course, thousands have seen him, tens of thousands have died because of him, and hundreds of thousands have suffered thanks to him and his supporters. But the people on his trail haven’t been able to catch him.

The man is 49-year-old Joseph Kony, the self-appointed general of God, guerrilla fighter and mass murderer. For more than two decades, he and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have terrorized people living in an area of roughly 100,000 square kilometers (40,000 square miles) of jungle in Uganda, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan.

At times, his forces have included several thousand armed men, women and children, though they have reportedly now dwindled to only several hundred. On his behalf, they have murdered, robbed, plundered and raped. Uganda has sent out elite soldiers to hunt him down. In 2005, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of committing crimes against humanity. But no one has succeeded in capturing him.