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Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has arrived at a neutral camp in southern sudan due to a truce he signed with the government. Joseph Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Joseph Kony has signed a truce with the government after a violent insurgency that has lasted nearly twenty years and has resulted in the death of thousands. The terms of the deal specify that the rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army are to gather in camps in the mostly uninhabited areas of southern Sudan. It is in these camps that the Lord's Resistance Army rebels are to be put under protection until a broader peace deal is signed. Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti have implied that the deal could be under threat due to their unwillingness to emerge from the jungle because of their ICC charges hanging over their heads. However, the Uganadan president has offered Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti amnesty if they agree to end the insurgency. The UN has estimated that the LRA rebel group has kidnapped approximately twenty thousand children in the past two decades. They forced the boys to become child soldiers and the girls to be sex slaves. Vincent Otti announced on september eleventh that LRA would be willing to release the women and children. During LRA's insurgency they were known to cut off the lips and toungues of civilians. I'm not exactly sure what my oppinion is on this article because i see both sides of what people are saying. I can see how granting Joseph Kony amnesty wouldn't make him pay for his crimes and considering what he did that seems extremely unacceptable. However, I can also see Yoweri Museveni's (the Ugandan president) point when he says that even though it would be basically letting Joseph Koni and Vincent Otti off the hook for what they did, it would bring peace to the LRA affected areas and peace is the priority. I think I agree with Yoweri Museveni in that they should strive to establish peace in the region. The coverage of this event was was good in my oppinion in both the Aljazeera article and the BBC article. Both of the articles tell a lot about the event in detail but the Aljazeera article focuses a lot more on the deal signed with the government by Joseph Kony whereas the BBC article simply gives the facts of the event. The same facts that are in the BBc article are in the Aljazeera article so I'd say Aljazeeras' coverage is a little more helpful and informative. The title of the Aljazeera article is "LRA leader emerges in Sudan" and the BBC article's title is "Uganda's LRA rebel boss 'emerges'". I think that this again signifies the media in these countries that the articles are being written (Middle East and Britain). BBC tends to be more negative towards African rebels and Aljazeera tends to be much more neutral in oppinion.

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