Alice Auma

[1] Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony previously claimed that Auma and he were cousins, however, he merely did so in order to garner support from her constituents.

Auma claimed Lakwena then guided her to Murchison Falls National Park, where she disappeared for 40 days and returned a spirit-medium, a traditional ethnic religious role.

Before the defeat of Tito Okello in the Ugandan Bush War, Auma was one of many spirit-mediums working near the town of Gulu as a minor oracle and spiritual healer.

A letter to local missionaries explained the transition: The good Lord who had sent the Lakwena decided to change his work from that of a doctor to that of a military commander for one simple reason: it is useless to cure a man today only that he be killed the next.

So it became an obligation on his part to stop the bloodshed before continuing his work as a doctor.Auma claimed that Lakwena required that she be possessed by numerous other spirits to achieve its goals.

After a series of spectacular victories, Auma led the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM) south out of the Acholi heartland of northern Uganda towards Kampala.

However, subsequent military setbacks suffered by the HSM prompted some followers to accuse Auma of being a witch and of using spirits for destructive ends.

As the HSM suffered its final defeat under artillery fire in the forests near Kampala, Auma fled and claimed that Lakwena had left her.

[4][5] Auma lived in the Ifo refugee camp near Dadaab in northern Kenya for the remainder of her life, and claimed to have been abandoned by the spirits.

And God ordered that a lamb be offered, so that they should repent their sins and to put an end to the bloodshed in Acholi.In her book Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits.