Brutal punishments were inflicted on those who were accused of disloyalty by an increasingly paranoid leader.



Kony once gave an order that anyone caught riding a bicycle should have their legs cut off.

Bicycles were a very common means of transport in rural areas and he was worried that informers, if they saw the rebels, would rapidly pedal away and alert the nearest army post.

And similarly he would cut off people's hands as a kind of warning not to raise any hands against the rebels.