[2] Jamil Mukulu was born David Steven in the village of Ntoke in the Kayunga District of Uganda on 17 April 1964, to Lutakome Sserwada and Aisha Nakiyemba.
[6] Unable to hold ground in Uganda, Mukulu led his group to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and set up camp in North Kivu.
Between 1996 and 2001, Mukulu's forces carried out numerous bombings, massacres, and other terror attacks in the Congo, killing an estimated 1,000 civilians and displacing over 150,000 others, according to a UN study published in 2002.
Though linked to other groups in the global jihadi firmament, ADF-NALU has not attracted as much attention as Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM), Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), Ansar Dine, al-Shabaab or Boko Haram.
[citation needed] In 2014, a court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo convicted Mukulu of terrorism and murder, and sentenced him to death in absentia.