Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of mysticism, Acholi nationalism and Christian fundamentalism, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition.



Kony has been accused by government entities of ordering the abduction of children to become child-sex slaves and child soldiers.

An estimated 66,000 children became soldiers and two million people have been internally displaced since 1986.

Kony himself has at least 60 wives, and mainly all are young girls. Young abductees who escaped from the LRA report that Kony would tell them he got his instructions from the Holy Spirit.