Opening broadside

The LRA's insistence on sharing political power and wealth is threatening the peace process

Opening peace talks with Kampala last week, Lord's Resistance Army representatives began with a broadside against President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's government. It underlined the gulf between the two sides - and the LRA's awareness that it can get away with a lot in these breakthrough negotiations, arranged by Southern Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and held in its capital, Juba.

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