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The Ugandan Army (UPDF) have released a list of people they allege are supporters and funders of the LRA. One prominent person on this list is Olara Otunnu. Mr Otunnu is UN special representative of the secretary-general for children and armed conflict.

In his capacity he as a UN representative he meets with both sides of conflict. He speaks out on behalf od children who are abducted or conscripted to fight wars by both rebels and governments around the world. He has been outspoken regarding the conflict in Northern Uganda and taking neither side. He gives critisim where critisim is due.

Here are a list of articles about Olara Otunnu

Secretary-General Appoints Special
Representative To Study Impact of Armed Conflict On Children

Olara Otunnu

Olara Otunnu, Special Representative
of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict

Interview with Olara Otunnu

Visit of Mr. Olara Otunnu to Romania

UN move to protect children from war

Olara A Otunnu
UN Under-Secretary-General Special Representative
of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

Human Rights Watch calls upon the Ugandan government

Sudan in June 1998
Olara Otunnu, visited Sudan in June 1998 and raised his concerns about LRA abductions with the Sudanese government. Sudan handed over an additional three Ugandan abducted children to Otunnu, and pledged to assist with ongoing efforts to release LRA abductees. Sudan’s efforts so far have been negligible

Stop Using Child Soldiers

Interview with Olara A. Otunnu,
UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict

Otunnu To Meet Kony

Internal Refugees: Uganda Among the Top Ten

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
For several years UNICEF and the U.N. special representative of the secretary-general for children and armed conflict, Olara Otunnu, have worked to end abductions of children by rebel groups.

Carol Bellamy, executive director of UNICEF, and Otunnu briefed a Security Council meeting on children and armed conflict in late July 2000. At the same meeting, a representative from Uganda described the plight of children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and then used in a terror campaign against their own people.

But the plight of Congolese children trained by Uganda and Rwanda for their respective Congolese rebel allies and deployed in combat zones received little mention during the debate.