{"id":2331,"date":"2012-05-13T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-captures-lra-rebel-commander\/"},"modified":"2012-05-13T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T17:29:23","slug":"uganda-captures-lra-rebel-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-captures-lra-rebel-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Captures LRA Rebel Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Uganda Army has reported the  captured a top Lord Resistance Army commander Maj. Gen. Caesar Achellam ({Below}) . He is among the top five LRA commanders.}}<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1447 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/lra.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Maj. Gen. Achellam said he felt a \u201cfree\u201d man leaving rebellion.\u201cI feel free now after 24 years in the bush,\u201d He told Journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan military officials prevented journalists from probing Acellam on grounds that would unravel information likely to undermine the ongoing regional effort to rout Kony.<\/p>\n<p>State owned media quoted military saying that the capture is a step closer to catching Joseph Kony, the LRA leader accused of war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda People&#8217;s Defence Forces said  Gen. Achellam had been captured in an ambush on Saturday along the banks of the River Mbou in neighbouring Central African Republic.<\/p>\n<p>They said Achellam had been armed with just an AK-47 rifle and eight rounds of ammunition. He was being held with his wife, a young daughter and a helper. <\/p>\n<p>Kony has evaded the region&#8217;s militaries for nearly three decades, kidnapping tens of thousands of children to fill the ranks of Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army and serve as sex slaves as he moves through the bush. <\/p>\n<p>Thousands have been killed by his brutal army.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment of U.S. special forces as advisers to help Ugandan soldiers track Kony and his senior commanders in the dense equatorial jungle across a region that spans several countries has raised hopes the sadistic leader&#8217;s days are numbered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Uganda Army has reported the captured a top Lord Resistance Army commander Maj. Gen. Caesar Achellam ({Below}) . He is among the top five LRA commanders.}} Maj. Gen. Achellam said he felt a \u201cfree\u201d man leaving rebellion.\u201cI feel free now after 24 years in the bush,\u201d He told Journalists. Ugandan military officials prevented journalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}