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THE TARTAN Oct. 19, 2011

US troops sent to African nations to assist in battle against Lords Resistance Army
day, Oct. 12. White house ofcials also announced plans to send U.S. troops, mainly special operations forces, to South Sudan, Congo, and the Central African Republic in an effort to hunt down Joseph Kony, LRA leader. However, troops may only engage in combat in times of self-defense, according to the New York Times. Claiming that he is a prophet from God, Kony believes that he is on a mission to replace the Ugandan government with a Ten Commandments based democracy. Better to call them U.S. personnel, not troops. The Americans will help gather intelligence, said Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni in an interview Sunday in Kampala, Uganda, according to military.com. Wanted by the International Criminal Court, Kony is charged with crimes against humanity. His rebel army has devastated the African community in his plight to seize children, forcing them into the ranks of his rebel army. Other children have been captured and forced to become concubines while thousands of civilians have been brutally murdered, according to Mail Online. The deployment furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a signicant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in Central Africa, said Obama in a letter to Speaker of the House, John Boehner. After visiting the terror-stricken region, Republican Senator James Inhofe showed support of the deployment. I have witnessed rsthand the devastation caused by the LRA, and this will help end Konys heinous acts that have created a human rights crisis in Africa. I have been fervently involved in trying to prevent further abductions and murders of Ugandan

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On Friday, Oct. 14, President Barack Obama announced that he is sending about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to battle insurgents of the Lords Resistance Army, according to CBS News. Accused of rape, murder and kidnapping children in a campaign that has lasted nearly two decades, the LRA is considered one of the most brutal rebel groups in Africa. However, the Ugandan government estimates that LRA rebels have dropped from around 3,000 guerrilla ghters to a fractured army of nearly 200 to 400 ghters that carry out deadly attacks in isolated African villages, according to CBS News. U.S. troops rst arrived in Uganda Wednes-

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U.S. troops were sent to Uganda on Wednesday, Oct. 12, to help in battle against rebel forces.

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Rebel leader of the Lords Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, has a warrant our for his arrest for his crimes against humanity.

children and todays action offers hope that the end of the LRA is in sight. According to State Department spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, The U.S. has provided over $40 million in support since 2008 to back the regions military efforts to take out the rebel army. In a letter to Obama, the LRA-affected nations cited the gruesome massacres claiming that, During these attacks, our family members were killed in unimaginably savage ways: their heads crushed with clubs or machetes; their faces disfigured; and their genitals, mouths, ears, legs and arms cut off, for no reason other than to terrorize.

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni shows appreciation for US assistance.

OCCUPY: Protestors stress need for change in midst of financial crisis

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County and Blacksburg where more occupy protests occurred. Blacksburg saw an overlap in protests as Virginia Tech presented its very own Occupy Virginia Tech movement a few days prior on Thursday Oct. 13. With over 100 people in attendance, gatherers formed around the Virginia Tech War Memorial Chapel stressing the burden of debt incurred from the high costs of education that made victims of individuals who didnt fall in the category of the wealthiest 1 percent of people in America and an education system that overpaid only a few of the college faculty positions, whereas, they offered barely anything to those on lower levels. Zhao Gao, a sophomore at VT told WDBJ7, Schools shouldnt increase tuition every year. Education is a basic right humans should have. A unison of voices chanting Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Greed and corruption have to go, could be heard across the campus as more individuals paved the way for a continuous movement that is hitting college campuses and cities around the US and across the world.

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