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Alice Lakwena

A self-proclaimed prophetess and spirit medium, Alice, an ethnic Acholi whose real name was Alice Auma, claimed to be possessed by the spirit of a dead Italian army officer called Lakwena who, in August 1986, ordered her to create a Holy Spirit Movement to liberate the world from sin and bring an end to the bloodshed.

Ms Lakwena founded her movement in 1986 after the overthrow of the northerner Milton Obote by President Yoweri Museveni.
After gathering a group of followers, Alice convinced the leaders of the UPDA to put some of their troops under her control. In November and December 1986, under the command of His Holiness Lakwena, the Holy Spirit Movement achieved two unexpected victories over government forces which attracted more recruits. Eventually Alice Lakwena's followers numbered some 10,000.

The Holy Spirit Movement fought as a regular army, albeit one whose weapons were as much magical as military. Alice Lakwena persuaded her followers that smearing themselves with nut oil and taking magic potions would make them invulnerable to bullets.

LRA leader Joseph Kony is Lakwena's cousin

The spirit-medium said she was fighting to purify the aggrieved northern Acholi people.

She promised her fighters that use of her "Holy Oil" would protect them from bullets, turning them to water.Her followers believed magic potions protected them in battle, but they were defeated by government forces.

After she fled, Ms Lakwena lived in a refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya where she died in exile after a long illness.

Following the Holy Spirit Movement's demise, Many later regrouped to form the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), led by her cousin Joseph Kony. Over the next two decades went on to abduct thousands of children to become fighters or sex slaves.

It has not been clear what Mr Kony, who also sees himself as a spirit medium, has been fighting for but he has said he wanted to rule according to the Biblical Ten Commandants, and create a "new generation" of Acholis.


Mr Kony says his group will not disarm until the International Criminal Court in The Hague drops war crimes charges against him and other LRA leaders.

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