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A new video released May 25 shows Joseph Kony, leader of Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), agreeing to engage in talks with the Ugandan government after two decades of fighting. The video footage from Reuters shows segments of talks between Kony and the southern Sudanese Vice President Riek Machar and his delegation; Machar's presence in the video certainly adds more credibility to this call for negotiations than Kony's previous claims of truce had.

If Kony is sincere, it will mean the end of the LRA's brutal operations in the border areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and southern Sudan. This goes along with a regional trend of disassociating militant groups from their former benefactors as the regional balance of power and alignments shift.

Known for its brutal tactics, including murder, rape and the kidnapping of children for use as porters and soldiers, the LRA has sought to overthrow the current Ugandan government and replace it with one headed by Kony, who would rule based on the Ten Commandments (and an additional commandment of his own creation: "Thou shalt not ride bicycles"). The LRA always has been a thorn in the side of the three countries whose border regions have been its theater of operations; each of the three countries has accused the others of either harboring the group or not doing enough to disrupt LRA operations.

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