Lord's Resistance Army.

The Lord's Resistance Army is a sectarian religious and military group, which operates in northern Uganda and South Sudan.The LRA has been known also as the Lord's Resistance Movement/Army (LRM/A or LRA/M).
Some academics have included the LRA under the rubric Lakwena Part Two. For simplicity's sake, this article refers to all of these various manifestations as the "Lord's Resistance Army.In 1988, Alice Lakwena established the Holy Spirit Movement, a resistance movement claimed to be inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. She portrayed herself as a prophet who received messages from the Holy Spirit of God. She believed that the Acholi could defeat the government run by Museveni by casting off witchcraft and spiritualism embedded in their culture. According to her messages from God, her followers should cover their bodies with shea nut oil as protection from bullets, never take cover or retreat in battle, and never kill snakes or bees.In May 2010 it was reported that an investigation was being undertaken by a senior UN official over the massacre of over 100 people in February 2010. The massacre is said to have been carried out by Ugandan rebels in Kpanga, near DR Congo's borde with the Central African Republic and Sudan.In July 2011, South Sudan seceded from Sudan, cutting the LRA off geopolitically from its former allies in Khartoum.
On October 14, 2011, United States President Barack Obama announced that he had ordered the deployment of 100 U.S. military advisers (with a mandate to train, assist and provide intelligence) to help combat the Lord's Resistance Army. Obama said that the deployment did not need explicit approval from congress, as the 2010 Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act already authorized "increased, comprehensive U.S. efforts to help mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the LRA to civilians and regional stability". The military advisers will be armed, and will provide assistance and advice, but "will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense". The advisers will operate in South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, subject to approval by those states. The military advisors will not operate independently of the host states. Human Rights Watch welcomed the deployment, which they had previously advocated for. General Carter Ham, the head of US Africa Command, said last week that his best estimate was that Kony was probably in the Central African Republic, not located in Uganda.