"They forget what they came for": Uganda's army in Sudan
Uganda's army, the Uganda People's Defence Force, has been operating on Sudanese territory since the late 1990s
Abstract
Uganda바카라 사이트™s army, the Uganda People바카라 사이트™s Defence Force (UPDF), has been operating on Sudanese territory since the late 1990s. From 2002 to 2006, a bilateral agreement between the governments in Khartoum and Kampala gave the Ugandan soldiers permission to conduct military operations in Southern Sudan to eliminate the Ugandan rebel Lord바카라 사이트™s Resistance Army (LRA). Instead of conducting a successful operation against Uganda바카라 사이트™s most persistent rebels 바카라 사이트“ who had withdrawn into Sudanese territory and acted as a proxy force in Sudan바카라 사이트™s civil war 바카라 사이트“ the UPDF conducted a campaign of abuse against Sudanese civilians. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over several years, this article documents local experiences of a foreign army바카라 사이트™s involvement in the brutal Sudanese civil war. It outlines why continued operations of the UPDF outside their borders recreate the same problem they purport to be fighting: abuses of civilians. Since 2008, US military support for the UPDF mission against the LRA has called into question the viability of continued militarisation through an army that has committed widely documented human rights abuses. The foreign military has not brought peace to the region. Instead, it has made a peaceful environment less likely for residents of South Sudan.
Citation
Schomerus, M. "They forget what they came for": Uganda바카라 사이트™s army in Sudan. Journal of Eastern African Studies, Special Issue: Uganda from the margins (2012) 6 (1) 124-153. [DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2012.664707]