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LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quasi-religious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Domain region:
Republic of Uganda; Uganda (a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962)
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