Alice Lakwena, the self-proclaimed prophetess whose rebellion against the government of Uganda spawned the Lord's Resistance Army, died in a refugee camp in Kenya on Wednesday, the BBC reported . Lakwena was reported to have mystical powers and asserted that her fighters could not be killed by bullets. After Lakwena left the scene, her cousin, Joseph Kony, picked up the bloody mantle and for twenty years has continued the insane killings, kidnappings and raids that have characterized the war in northern Uganda.

It is distressing that one woman can cause such mayhem. However, in these days when the international press is reporting her death, AFJN wishes to point out the role that women have played in the past and are playing today in restoring peace to northern Uganda.