Who was the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) that abducted Grace Akallo in Uganda?
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Grace Akallo Grace Akallo (born 1981) is a Ugandan woman who, at the age of 15, while attending a Catholic school, was abducted by Joseph Kony to be used as a child soldier in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). As part of her initiation into the army, she was forced to kill another girl, a very common practice among armies that employ child soldiers. She remained in the LRA for seven months, during which Akallo became a skilled AK-47 user. She was raped and became a sexual slave. She was eventually rehabilitated and became a mother.
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Joseph Kony Joseph R. Kony (] ; born likely 1961) is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group that formerly operated in Uganda.
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Gérard Hoarau Gérard Hoarau (7 December 1950 – 29 November 1985) was an exiled opposition leader from the Seychelles and was head of the Mouvement Pour La Resistance (MPR) that sought the peaceful overthrow of the France-Albert René regime which had come to power on 5 June 1977 in a coup d'état. The opposition was based in London. He was assassinated on 29 November 1985 by an unidentified gunman, on the doorstep of his London home.
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Daniel Lisulo Daniel Muchiwa Lisulo (6 December 1930 – 21 August 2000) was the 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia from June 1978 until February 1981.
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Maurice Mpolo Maurice Mpolo (4 March 1928 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and close political ally to Patrice Lumumba who briefly led the Congolese army. He was executed alongside Lumumba in Katanga in 1961.
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Grey Mabhalani Bango Grey Mabhalani Bango (born Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe),son of Luposwa Bango, was a trade-unionist and chief of the Kalanga people of Matopos. He is best known for guiding Joshua Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) through the shrines of the Matopos Hills (now Matobo National Park) during Nkomo’s legendary 1953 visit to Dula.
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Grace Akello Grace Akello (born 1950) is a Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist, and politician. She is the Uganda Ambassador to Italy.
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Leopold Kyanda Leopold Eric Kyanda is a Brigadier in the Uganda People's Defence Force. He currently serves as the Chief of Staff of the Land Forces in the UPDF. He was appointed to that position in May 2013, replacing Major General Charles Angina, who was promoted to Lieutenant General and appointed "Deputy Chief of Defence Forces of Uganda" (DCDF).
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Laurent Nkunda Laurent Nkunda (or Laurent Nkundabatware Mihigo (birth name), or Laurent Nkunda Batware, or as he prefers to be called The Chairman; born February 2, 1967) is a former General in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is the former warlord (leader of a rebel faction) operating in the province of Nord-Kivu, sympathetic to Congolese Tutsis and the Tutsi-dominated government of neighbouring Rwanda. Nkunda, who is himself a Congolese Tutsi, commanded the former DRC troops of the 81st and 83rd Brigades of the DRC Army. He speaks English, French, Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Lingala and Kinande. On January 22, 2009, he was put under house arrest in Gisenyi when he was called for a meeting to plan a joint operation between the Congolese and Rwandan militaries.
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Walter Sisulu Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (18 May 1912 – 5 May 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC), serving at times as Secretary-General and Deputy President of the organization. He was jailed at Robben Island, where he served more than 25 years' imprisonment.
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Uma Maheswaran Kadirgamapillai (Kathirkamar) Nallainathan (Tamil: க. உமாமகேசுவரன் ; 18 February 1945 – 16 July 1989; commonly known by the nom-de-guerre Uma Maheswaran) was a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel and founder/leader of the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka.
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2008–09 Garamba offensive The 2008–2009 Garamba offensive (codenamed Operation Lightning Thunder) started on 14 December 2008, when joint Ugandan, DR Congolese and Southern Sudanese forces launched a botched military attack against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Garamba region of DR Congo.
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Ambrose Gunda Brigadier General Ambrose Paul Gunda (died June 28, 2007) served in the military of Zimbabwe, heading the presidential guard, and allegedly participated in an attempted coup d'état against the Mugabe administration in June 2007.
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Sylvestre Mudacumura Sylvestre Mudacumura (born 1954 in Gisenyi, Rwanda) is the overall commander of the military wing of the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), known as the Forces Combattants Abacunguzi (FOCA). He was the deputy commander of the Presidential Guard of the Rwandan Armed Forces during the 1994 genocide. Described as being age 55 in 2009, prior to the genocide he attended "the leadership academy of the armed forces in Hamburg" on a two year scholarship. (This institution appears almost certainly to have been the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr.) Following the genocide, it is believed Mudacumura's wife and children were moved to Germany with the help of FDLR political leader Ignace Murwanashyaka.
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Ivan Koreta Ivan Koreta (born 15 October 1955) is a Ugandan military officer, diplomat and legislator. He is a lieutenant general in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and a representative for the armed forces in the Parliament of Uganda; where he serves as a member of the "Public Accounts Committee" and the "Committee on Presidential Affairs".
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David Muhoozi General David Muhoozi is a Ugandan lawyer and army officer. He currently serves as the Chief of Defense Forces appointed on 9 January 2017 the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), the highest rank in the Ugandan military. He was appointed to that position in January 2017, replacing General Edward Katumba Wamala, who was appointed State minister for works .
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Emmanuel Ndahiro Emmanuel Ndahiro is a Rwandan soldier. He was the chief of the intelligence agency of Rwanda until 2011.