UGANDA REBELS ASK FOR FORGIVENESS !

The LRA has fought a two decade rebellion in the north. A representative for the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels has asked war victims in the north to forgive them. "The LRA made plenty of mistakes and I ask for forgiveness for what happened to our people," LRA spokesman Martin Ojul told a local radio station.
The delegation is in the north to hold local consultations in an effort to end the two-decade northern conflict.
Alternatives to International Criminal Court (ICC) charges against top LRA commanders are up for discussion.
An estimated 1.5m people still remain in displacement camps in the north and thousands were killed during the fighting.
The LRA built a reputation for mutilating their victims and kidnapping thousands of children to serve as fighters, porters and sex slaves.
The BBC's Sarah Grainger in the northern town of Gulu says people there bore the brunt of the atrocities and the delegation will spend their time speaking to people in camps.
LRA leader Joseph Kony remains at a rebel camp across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He has refused to take part in long-running talks, which have been taking place in southern Sudan, unless the ICC arrest war crimes warrants issued two years ago for four LRA commanders are dropped.
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"We are here for reconciliation and we want to come back and live with the people peacefully and in harmony," Mr Ojul told Mega FM radio station in Gulu, AFP news agency reports.

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The LRA consultation process with the general public, led by Mr Ojul, is expected to last for six weeks and will cover the whole of northern Uganda.
On Saturday, the LRA delegation, which represents the rebel movement at the Sudan peace talks, met President Yoweri Museveni as part of their peace tour.
Ugandan journalist John Kakenda says many people from the Acholi tribe, who were main victims of the atrocities, feel if reconciliation brings about peace this would be an alternative to the ICC.
Traditional forms of justice have been suggested which are likely to be much less punitive
"There many people who believe Joseph Kony and his top commanders should be tried but now they feel that this may not encourage them to come out from hiding," Mr Kakenda, an editor with the government-owned New Vision newspaper, told the BBC's Network Africa programme.
In recent years, with dwindling support from Sudan, the LRA fighters have been on the run.
The BBC's Africa analyst Martin Plaut says finding sanctuary in remote areas of DR Congo and funding their operations from diamond mines, the rebel movement is a shadow of its former self.
But ending their rebellion is still vital if peace is to come to northern Uganda, he says.

BBC NEWS REPORT.