Key Statistics
Deaths
- The LRA is responsible for more than 100,000 deaths over the course of the conflict [5]
- More than 2,400 killed by the LRA in DR Congo, CAR, and South Sudan since 2008, as of December 2011 [10]
- DR Congo: Over 1,900 killed between September 2008 and December 2010 [1]
- South Sudan: 216 killed between December 2008 and November 2009 [2]
- Central African Republic: 175 killed between February 2008 and November 2010 [3]
Abductions
- More than 3,400 abducted by the LRA in DR Congo, CAR, and South Sudan since 2008, including over 1,500 children as of March 2011 [10, 11]
- DR Congo: 2,615 people abducted, including 886 children, as of December 2010 [4]
- South Sudan: 149 abducted between December 2008 and November 2009 [2]
- Central African Republic: 352 abducted, including many children, as of November 2010 [6]
- Uganda: 66,000 people/youth between the ages of 14 and 30 from the mid-1990s to 2006 [7] and 30,000 children (under 18) abducted from 1988 to 2004 [8]
Displaced People
- 438,504 LRA-induced displacements in DR Congo, CAR, and South Sudan as of December 2011 [9]
- DR Congo: 347,360 IDPs in LRA-affected areas of DRC as of December 2011 [9]
- South Sudan: 70,000 estimated number of people displaced due to LRA violence as of December 2011 [9]
- Central African Republic: 21,144 displaced in southeast Central African Republic as of December 2011 [9]
- Uganda: approximately 1,700,000 internally displaced from 1986 to 2007 [12]
Sources:
- December 14, 2010, Oxfam, “Ghosts of Christmas Past: Protecting Civilians from the LRA.”
- December 2009, HIU State Department, “Conflict Without Borders: Lord’s Resistance Army Reported Attacks (Dec. 2008-Nov. 2009), Displacement, and Peacekeepers.”
- June 2010, Ledio Cakaj, “On the Heels of Joseph Kony: The Untold Tragedy Unfolding in the Central African Republic.” + November 25 2010, OCHA CAR “Records of LRA attacks in CAR in 2010.”
- December, 2010, Action Humanitaire en Province Orientale, “Rapport mensuel et bilan annuel partiel 2010.”
- May 2013, United Nations, “Report of the Secretary General on the activities of UNOCA and on the Lord’s Resistance Army.”
- August 11 2010, Human Rights Watch, “CAR/DR Congo: LRA Conducts Massive Abduction Campaign: New Regional Strategy Needed to Protect Civilians and Rescue Children.” + November 25 2010, OCHA CAR “Records of LRA attacks in CAR in 2010.”
- 2007 SWAY Report “The State of Youth and Youth Protection in Northern Uganda.”
- February 2004, UNOCHA “Child Soldiers at Centre of Mounting Humanitarian Crisis.”
- January 25, 2012, OCHA, “LRA Regional Update: Central African Republic, DR Dongo and South Sudan: January-December 2011.”
- October 14, 2011, US Department of State, “Fact Sheet: U.S. Support to Regional Efforts to Counter the Lord’s Resistance Army.”
- March 10, 2011, UNOCHA, “DRC: ERC Amos calls for better security in LRA-affected areas.”
- 2005, UNOCHA, “2005 Annual Report”