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Another ADF Commander Surrenders NATIONAL NEWS NEW VISION, Friday, May 1, 2015 5 Another ADF ADF operation area in DRC SOUTH SUDAN commander Faradje DEMOCRATIC surrenders REPUBLIC OF CONGO UGANDA By John B. Thawite One of the longest serving commanders of Ituri the Allied Democratic Forces/National Army Kamango and Beni L. Kyoga for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF/NALU) have faced intensive L. Albert has surrendered to the Government, security Bunia sources have said. clashes between DRC Eringite Fenahansi Kisokeranio aka Kisokyo is govt forces and ADF being detained under tight security in an Kamango undisclosed location in Kampala. Kisokyo’s surrender comes shortly after the Beni ADF/NALU overall leader, Jamil Mukulu, a Kampala Catholic-turned Muslim, was smoked out of Kikingi his hideout in Tanzania. However, security is Butembo Kasese tight-lipped on the surrender of Kisokyo. Who is Kisokyo? Bwera is used as L. George A Mukonzo from Kitholhu sub-county, transit route for Kasese district, Kisokyo, now in his 70s, L. Edward L. Victoria served as a commander in the 20-year long ADF recruits armed Rwenzururu struggle against the Toro Kisoro Kingdom. Kivu However, following misunderstandings in the Rwenzori Mountains-based Rwenzururu high command, he surrendered to the UPC Kigali government in the early 1980s. As part of the resettlement package, he was appointed a member of the district land committee. RWANDA He, however, lost the positions later. Disgruntled, he later joined the 1989-1993 TZ NALU formed by former Obote Minister, Amon Bazira. Kisokyo is associated with the massacre Demba and Kikwanga. spokesperson, General Leon Richard On April 15, the rebels also massacred 19 in Isango Trading Centre, Kitholhu sub- Demba and Kikwangwa later abandoned Kasonga, quoted by international news other people around Beni and five more county, Kasese district, of nine Local Council the rebellion after the defeat of ADF in 2001. agencies. hardly a week after. chairpersons while they were celebrating Demba and Kikwangwa joined the Uganda Kasadha Karume was reportedly killed in The ADF has suffered major setback with independence on October 9, 1989. People Defence Forces (UPDF), where they over-night military operations between April the arrest of Mukulu and the killing of When the ADF formed, it forged an are currently serving as officers. 24 and 25 in the restive North Kivu Province. Kasada. alliance with NALU, making Kisokyo one of Kisokyo’s surrender has also come after the The incident occurred at a rebel camp In 2012, the UN report indicated that its commanders. killing of the ADF number three, Kasadha in Bango, 100km from the town of Beni, the ADF top commanders included Jamil Kisokyo has been operating in the jungles Karume. where over 260 people, mostly civilians, Mukulu, Hood Lukwago, Amis Kasadha, of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Kasadha was killed in the eastern DR were hacked to death between October and Musa Baluku, Mohammed Kayiira, Filipo where at first he recruited his sons, Benjamin, Congo, according to the Congolese army December last year. Bogere and Jamil Muzzanganda. Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacks and atrocities over the years November 1996 Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) make first attack on Uganda at Mpondwe trading centre in Kasese November 22, 1998 ADF rebels attacked Karago trading centre in Kabarole district, killing three people, and abducting district killing scores of civilians. several others. They set ablaze a police post. One of the rebels was injured in a UPDF counter October 10, 1997 Two teachers were abducted and killed by the ADF rebels in Bugoya sub-county, Kasese offensive that repulsed the rebels. October 24, 1997 Civilians in Kasese district recovered 30 guns from ADF rebels April 15, 1999 Eight suspected ADF rebels were produced before court in Bundibugyo and charged with treason. October 31, 1997 The 19 students that were abducted from St. John's Seminary in Kasese over two months earlier April 21, 1999 UPDF soldiers in eastern Congo overran the ADF rebels' headquarters in Lume hills in Buhira by the ADF rebels were reportedly held hostage at Kalebulebu on the Congo side of the Rwenzori killing fourteen rebels and injuring many others. mountains. November 9, 1999 More than 6,000 UPDF soldiers, with special training in mountain warfare, were deployed in a fresh April 24, 1998 President Yoweri Museveni told the parliamentary committees on Defence and foreign affairs that offensive in the Rwenzori to flush out the ADF rebels. ADF rebels had been flushed out of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) December 11, 1999 ADF rebels attacked UPDF barracks in Bundibugyo after raiding Katojo Prison in Fort portal where April 30, 1998 Eight people were killed when ADF rebels ambushed fishmongers at Muruti along the Bwera-Lake they freed 365 inmates. Four UPDF soldiers and six rebels died in the fighting. The rebels also Katwe road. attacked Butama and Ngite army barracks in Bundibugyo. June 9, 1998 The marauding rebels of the ADF staged a hair-raising attack on Kichwamba Technical College, January 17, 2000 At least 25 people were massacred and 17 others, three of them UPDF soldiers, injured when ADF Kabarole, killing 57 students and abducting 80. rebels attacked the Kirindi IDP camp in Bundibugyo. June 10, 1998 The death toll of students who were massacred by the ADF rebels rose to over 80. April 26, 2000 ADF rebel Commander Benz surrendered in Kasese. June 16, 1998 Hundreds of residents of Kasese town deserted the area fearing a similar attack deserted suburb is May 30, 2013 ADF rebel leader Jamil Mukulu's son was granted amnesty after he denounced the rebellion and Nyakasanga II a.k.a Acholi Quarters. handed himself over to Ugandan authorities. Hassan Nyanzi, 25, surrendered in April 2013. August 7, 1998 Rebels of the ADF mounted an early morning attack on a UPDF detachment and killed 33 people, a January 17, 2014 Democratic Republic of Congo forces attacked ADF in the lawless east, launching a U.N.-backed few hours ahead of President Yoweri Museveni's arrival in the district. offensive to clear insurgents from the mineral-rich zone. August 10, 1998 Serious fighting erupted in the Rwenzori mountains between government forces of the UPDF and March 2, 2014 UN gunships targeted a base of ADF-Nalu in the eastern DRC for the first time. rebels of the ADF. The fighting resulted from a massive attack launched by the ADF rebels on the October 18, 2014 Twenty two people, most of them women and children, were hacked and clubbed to death by ADF towns of Kasese and Kilembe on August 1-2 in which 38 people, most of them women and children, rebels in DRC. died. January 15, 2015 The Uganda Police linked six suspects, arrested in connection with the murders of three Muslim August 11, 1998 A total of 366 children in Kasese were reported abducted since the rebel ADF first attacked the clerics in a space of two weeks, to ADF. district in 1996. April 16, 2015 At least five people were beheaded in a machete attack in an eastern area of the Democratic October 11, 1998 Two hundred and twenty two civilians were rescued and 18 ADF, and rebel camps destroyed in the Republic of Congo. ADF suspected. Rwenzori Mountains..
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