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Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army, past and present

A file picture taken on November 12, 2006 of then leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony.

One of Africa's longest-surviving rebel groups, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has terrorised parts of central Africa for 35 years.

Its leaders are violent pariahs and fugitives from international justice, who were once hunted by US special forces and African armies.