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Justine Odong Latek

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Justine Odong Latek[1] was a brigadier in the government Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) who, following the victory of Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA) in 1986, formed his own rebel Uganda People's Democratic Army (UPDA) before joining the Lord's Resistance Army. Little reliable information about his activities as a rebel is available. On 20 August 1986, the UPDA began attacks upon NRA units in Acholiland. However, the UPDA was unable to wrest control of the population centers wrong the NRA.

Following a 21 March 1987 meeting with the NRA, General Salim Saleh flew to the UPDA base and met with Latek, who is reported to have stated his support for the peace agreement. However, in May the UPDA replaced Latek with Angelo Okello, who had been commander of the UPDA Division One in Gulu. Okello signed a peace agreement on 3 June 1988.[2] According to the recollection of a captured LRA commander, in September 1987 Latek met with LRA leader Joseph Kony, who appointed Latek overall military commander.[3] A 1997 report states that Latek and several UPDA units loyal to him did not take place in the peace talks on the advice of the UPDA political wing in London.[4]

According to reports, Latek was killed by NRA units while in the Nyono Hills in 1989.

Notes and references

  1. ^ Commonly referred to simply as Odong Latek. Tim Allen, "Understanding Alice: Uganda's Holy Spirit Movement in Context" Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 61, No. 3, Diviners, Seers and Prophets in Eastern Africa (1991) , pp. 370-399 refers to him as Justin, and as Justine Richard M. Kavuma, "Ghosts from Nairobi 1985 haunt Museveni in Acholi", The Monitor, 28 March 2004 and Lamwaka, Caroline. "The peace process in northern Uganda 1986-1990" in Okello Lucima, ed., Accord magazine: Protracted conflict, elusive peace: Initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda, 2002. Given that English language names are often of secondary importance, the use of a normally female given name is not inconceivable.
  2. ^ Kavuma, op. cit.
  3. ^ After the Last Fight, New Vision, 25 November 2004
  4. ^ The Anguish of Northern Uganda, Government of USA, 2 October 1997
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