Un historique de l'attitude américaine depuis une quelques années...
"So how did we get here? First of all, although the LRA first assembled in the late 1980s to combat some ethnically driven practices by the Ugandan government, it now largely operates from the surrounding countries of South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Africa policymakers often refer to this as the "Great Lakes Region," reflecting how the LRA have morphed into a transnational problem.
It was partly the cross-border nature of their violence that led the U.S. to designate the group a terrorist organization in 2001.
The U.S. has been involved in tackling the LRA via one means or another pretty much since then. However, for quite some time it had been hard to cozy up too close to the LRA's main pursuers - the Ugandan army - since they had been accused of some of the practices (recruiting child soldiers, raping people, generally being pretty dodgy) that the LRA was also committing.
That said, for all the problems of the "Ugandan People's Defense Force," most experts agree the LRA was and is far worse. Major-General Patrick Cammaert (ret.), a former UN force commander who has had some tangles with the LRA, told TPM the group's outlandish brutality had long since "scared and turned away any people who had the slightest sympathy with their goals."
That brutality is all the more astounding given that most experts reckon the LRA has only between 500 and 1000 combatants left within its ranks. Since 2005 its top commanders have been under indictment by the International Criminal Court, and Cammaert told TPM that were African armies able to arrest or otherwise "finish" those leaders, then that could have an immediate calming effect.
Numerous international NGO and humanitarian agencies have pointed this out for some time, and called for a more aggressive approach to tackling the LRA. Indeed, while such groups are often the first to cry "we need to tackle the underlying problems" when it comes to insurgencies, in the LRA's case it seemed many just wanted it smashed apart as soon as possible.
Several years ago the U.S. started trying to do a bit of both."
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/how-the-us-came-to-be-involved-in-fighting-the-lords-resistance-army.php?ref=fpb
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