Occupy Underground

Spreading this with two caveats (1) The interview with Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court highlights the fact that the United States of America is not party to the Rome Statute because it fears prosecution of its own politicians and military personnel (2) The reality on the ground is much more complex than portrayed, the Lord's Resistance Army operates not just in Northern Uganda but in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and Southern Sudan. Cooperation between the disorganized security forces of these countries is non-existent. Without a greater commitment of US forces including substantially greater amounts of US forces the odds that Kony himself will be killed, much less captured are not very good. The Northeastern DRC in particular, where Kony likely is headquarted, has a patchwork of militia and criminal elements. An estimated 5.4 million people have died in war or of war related causes in the the DRC since 1996, and this is despite a decade long UN military mission (MONUC) with thousands of personnel. It's a mess.