The Enough Project and Resolve Uganda issued a joint statement today calling on the incoming Obama administration to take “swift and decisive action” to protect civilians from the grave violence that has resulted from the poorly executed (and still in progress) “Operation Lightning Thunder” joint military operation against the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, by the armies of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Government of Southern Sudan.
Enough and Resolve assert that “Operation Lightning Thunder” is still salvageable and should be salvaged. Ending the LRA insurgency is a crucial step toward sustainable peace not only in the LRA’s home turf of northern Uganda, but also in areas of northeastern Congo, the Central African Republic, and southern Sudan that have more recently fallen prey to the LRA’s brutality. To learn about Enough’s and Resolve’s recommendations to the international community—in particular the Obama Administration—for making “Operation Lightning Thunder” a more targeted and focused mission with a greater chance of defeating the LRA, read the statement here.