Maria Burnett is the Uganda researcher for Human Rights Watch.

Blog Entries by Maria Burnett

UN Envoy's Term Ends, but Rebels Go On and On

Posted July 14, 2009 | 11:00 AM (EST)


The former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano will give his final briefing to the United Nations Security Council on July 15 in his role as the secretary-general's special envoy for the areas of east and central Africa that are affected by the Lord's Resistance Army and their two-decade campaign of violence....

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Africa's Longest War Still Taking Lives

10 Comments | Posted June 19, 2009 | 04:07 PM (EST)


On June 11, 2009 the military chiefs of Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic met in Kisangani, Congo, to discuss operations against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The brutal Ugandan leaders of the rebel LRA, wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, have killed...

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