Senate passes KONY 2012 resolution and earmarks funds to help detect LRA

Members of the US Senate continue to press for action to see LRA atrocities ended. Last week, a Senate resolution that shared the goals of the KONY 2012 campaign passed unanimously, with 47 Senators adding their names as official cosponsors.

In a press release, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), the lead sponsor of the resolution and Chair of the Africa Subcommittee, commented, “Kony and the LRA have terrorized Uganda and its neighbors in central Africa for more than two decades, tearing families apart and destroying communities… I applaud my colleagues for unanimously passing this bipartisan resolution condemning the crimes committed by the LRA and supporting ongoing regional efforts to bring Kony and top LRA commanders to justice once and for all.”

The lead Republican sponsor, Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), added, “This resolution reinforces my important legislation that we passed in 2011 called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act… Bringing Kony and the LRA to an end will remove a major destabilizing force while providing better security for the people of Africa.”

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