(AFP)
KAMPALA Uganda claimed Saturday the item welcomed US battle troops to help their aids battle the actual Lord's Resistance Army, a brutal rebel drive whose leaders usually are worldwide war-crime fugitives.
"We welcome that gesture many experts have well overdue," claimed Uganda's actors foreign minister Henry Okello Oryem.
US President Barack Obama reported Friday that 100 troops will assistance Uganda find rebel primary Joseph Kony along with older LRA leaders, but aware they would not direct the struggling with themselves.
"For twenty years, that govt connected with Uganda has been pleading by using each of our American and European good friends to help you in the LRA problem, because they are international terrorists," Oryem said.
"We required our buddies to assist in providing complex help for example intelligence because they contain the best."
LRA rebels are usually arrested associated with terrorizing, murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of people in a very 20-year war in north Uganda.
However, lately they've got altered to regional nations, creating chaos and pumping civilians that will flee their homes.
The typically exclusive treatments energies might deploy around Uganda, South Sudan , the Central African Republic in addition to Democratic Republic involving Congo, at the mercy of endorsement regarding regional governments, Obama said within a principles to be able to Congress.
Uganda's defence spokesman Felix Kulayigye said the earliest batch connected with US troops ended up witout a doubt within Uganda.
"Some on the makes are already in your country," Kulayigye said. "Their tactic can be regional DR Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan along with Uganda. How far these people will go will depend for the assistance arrangements."
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