WHERE JOSEPH KONY GETS THE POWERS
It is claimed that LRA’s Joseph Kony often went to the Aweri hills to recharge his mystic powers,
The Awere hills look just like any ordinary rock in the countryside. The area is surrounded by lush green vegetation in a quiet environment, where only birds and insects seem to have a right to announce their presence.
With its tall grass and thicket, punctuated by gardens of crops, the hills fail to arouse any fear or suspicion, unless you are informed about its history and significance to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebellion.
They are located about 60km south-east of Gulu town along the Gulu-Moroto Road, Awere hills are known to be home to spirits that Joseph Kony, the commander-in-chief of the LRA, used to consult regularly for guidance on how to defeat the Government forces and sustain the war.
These hills have more significance, according to the LRA history. Located atop the expansive bare rock are several species of local herbs that the rebel leader reportedly used to make concoctions to treat his wounded fighters.
It is claimed that Kony often went to the rock to recharge his mystic powers, which probably enabled him to constantly elude the government forces, despite the many military offensives against him, the latest being the December 2008 Operation Lightning Thunder. .
The claims of mystic powers is the reason many pastors and church leaders have, in the past, visited the hills to exercise the spirit to weaken the rebellion.
Kony has repeatedly claimed that he leads the rebel group along the doctrine of the 10 Commandments of the Bible.
It’s on this rock, commonly known to the local population as Odek hill, that Kony allegedly drew herbs to treat his fighters of ailments and conditions said to include barrenness, tuberculosis and syphilis. Capt. Ray Apire, one of Kony’s former commanders, claims the local herbs cured a number of LRA commanders like Brig. Ocan Bunia, who reportedly had chronic TB and Brig Caesar Acellam, whom Kony said was suffering from HIV/AIDS.
Many women abandoned Makamoi after realising that he was impotent and would refer to him as a ‘woman’. But he fathered many children after taking the herbs.
Awere hills were also pivotal in Kony’s war game plan. Apire says Kony would fetch water from one of the collection points for mixing with sheanut butter (moo yaa) to smear on the new recruits and abductees, before they joined the LRA ranks.
Upon reaching at the top of the hills, Kony would gather his commanders and fighters to pray to his spirits for more power and strength, before collecting the water. This water would be mixed with shear-nut butter and white soil, before sprinkling it on their way back to the bush and smear some on the newly-abducted people.
Kony, according to Apire, warned his commanders and fighters not to tell his enemies what his spirits showed him, since they (enemies) could also the spirits to work against him. Kony allegedly used powers from the hills to confuse his enemies and make their soldiers lazy. The enemy’s troops would quarrel among themselves and sometimes get lost in the bush, according to the LRA’s belief.
Using the water mixed with soil and sheanut oil, Kony would put a sign of the cross on the chest of the new abductees. “Kony said it would make the abductees courageous and not to think about their people at home,” says Apire, adding that they would also become immune to bullets and the fear of dead bodies or death.
Estherr
The Awere hills look just like any ordinary rock in the countryside. The area is surrounded by lush green vegetation in a quiet environment, where only birds and insects seem to have a right to announce their presence.
With its tall grass and thicket, punctuated by gardens of crops, the hills fail to arouse any fear or suspicion, unless you are informed about its history and significance to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebellion.
They are located about 60km south-east of Gulu town along the Gulu-Moroto Road, Awere hills are known to be home to spirits that Joseph Kony, the commander-in-chief of the LRA, used to consult regularly for guidance on how to defeat the Government forces and sustain the war.
These hills have more significance, according to the LRA history. Located atop the expansive bare rock are several species of local herbs that the rebel leader reportedly used to make concoctions to treat his wounded fighters.
It is claimed that Kony often went to the rock to recharge his mystic powers, which probably enabled him to constantly elude the government forces, despite the many military offensives against him, the latest being the December 2008 Operation Lightning Thunder. .
The claims of mystic powers is the reason many pastors and church leaders have, in the past, visited the hills to exercise the spirit to weaken the rebellion.
Kony has repeatedly claimed that he leads the rebel group along the doctrine of the 10 Commandments of the Bible.
It’s on this rock, commonly known to the local population as Odek hill, that Kony allegedly drew herbs to treat his fighters of ailments and conditions said to include barrenness, tuberculosis and syphilis. Capt. Ray Apire, one of Kony’s former commanders, claims the local herbs cured a number of LRA commanders like Brig. Ocan Bunia, who reportedly had chronic TB and Brig Caesar Acellam, whom Kony said was suffering from HIV/AIDS.
Many women abandoned Makamoi after realising that he was impotent and would refer to him as a ‘woman’. But he fathered many children after taking the herbs.
Awere hills were also pivotal in Kony’s war game plan. Apire says Kony would fetch water from one of the collection points for mixing with sheanut butter (moo yaa) to smear on the new recruits and abductees, before they joined the LRA ranks.
Upon reaching at the top of the hills, Kony would gather his commanders and fighters to pray to his spirits for more power and strength, before collecting the water. This water would be mixed with shear-nut butter and white soil, before sprinkling it on their way back to the bush and smear some on the newly-abducted people.
Kony, according to Apire, warned his commanders and fighters not to tell his enemies what his spirits showed him, since they (enemies) could also the spirits to work against him. Kony allegedly used powers from the hills to confuse his enemies and make their soldiers lazy. The enemy’s troops would quarrel among themselves and sometimes get lost in the bush, according to the LRA’s belief.
Using the water mixed with soil and sheanut oil, Kony would put a sign of the cross on the chest of the new abductees. “Kony said it would make the abductees courageous and not to think about their people at home,” says Apire, adding that they would also become immune to bullets and the fear of dead bodies or death.
Estherr
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