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United States Sends Military Forces to Central Africa to Aid in Combating the Lord's Resistance Army

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 Scott Wilson & Craig Whitlock, U.S. Troops to Help Battle Uganda Militants, Wash. Post, Oct. 15, 2011, at A8; Craig Whitlock & Greg Jaffe, U.S. in Uganda, Focus on Hunt for Rebel Leader, Wash. Post, Nov. 19,2011, at A22. Kony has been indicted by the International Criminal Court.

2 Thorn Shanker & Rick Gladstone, Armed U.S. Advisers to Help Fight African Renegade Group, N.Y. Times, Oct. 15, 2011, at A9; Michael Gerson, A Worthy Mission, Wash. Post, Oct. 18, 2011, at A15.

3 50 U.S.C. §§1541-1548.

4 White House Press Release, Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate Regarding the Lord’s Resistance Army (Oct. 14, 2011), at http://www.white house.gov/the-press-office/2011/10/14/letter-president-speaker-house-representatives-and-president-pro-tempore.