article_snippet: Sasha Lezhnev, associate director of policy at the Enough Project, an organisation which works to end genocide and crimes against humanity, this month interviewed an LRA defector.
article_snippet: The LRA - a violent rebel group led by Kony - is renowned for being one of the most brutal forces in the world. '
article_snippet: The LRA first emerged in northern Uganda in 1986, where The LRA claimed to fight in the name of the Acholi ethnic group against the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
article_snippet: Over the years, The LRA has moved across the porous borders of the region: The LRA shifted from northern Uganda to sow terror in southern Sudan before moving to northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and finally crossing into southeastern Central African Republic in March 2008.
article_snippet: The LRA - a violent rebel group led by warlord Kony (right) - is renowned for being one of the most brutal forces in the world .