The terrorist organizations of the Turkish Left utilize multiple group names, interrelated factions, and sometimes even rename a new terrorist organization after another recent terrorist entity.  The original THKP-C can be seen as a starting point for the Turkish terrorist groups that sprouted up throughout the 1970s and 1980s.  While there are currently THKP-C splinter groups operational in Turkey, the terrorist movement is significantly weaker today.

Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) -- Successor

The Uganda Democratic Christian Army (UDCA) was the main opposition force in Uganda in the early 1990s.  The UDCA was the successor to Alice Auma's Holy Spirit Movement (HSM).  Auma had claimed to be possessed by a spirit (called Lakwena) that would help her create a Christian nation in Uganda.  However, HSM's reliance on magic and bullet-proof potions led to its destruction.  Joseph Kony, inspired by Auma, consequently formed the UDCA in 1990.  The UDCA was comprised mainly of former HSM members and other converted Acholi (a tribal group in Sudan).  Even though he was driven by Auma's spiritual teachings, Kony engaged in  brutal guerilla tactics that proved highly effective in furthering the UDCA cause.  <br /><p><br />UDCA hoped to establish a government that ruled in accordance with an extremist interpretation of Christian scripture.  Engaging in brutal tactics throughout northern Uganda, the UDCA maimed, killed, and enslaved non-Christian Acholi and attempted to overthrow the government of Yoweri Museveni.  By 1994, military setbacks left the UDCA marginalized.  Kony disbanded the group and reformed it as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in an attempt to expand the group's support base.<br />

The UDCA is no longer active though it is essentially still operating as the LRA.  <a href= ?id=3513> See the LRA's profile on the Terrorism Knowledge Base. </a>

Ukrainian Reactionary Force claimed responsibility for the assassination of Valentine Khitrichenko, a staff member of the Soviet embassy in India.  The assassination occured as two gunmen riddled the Soviet envoy's car with bullets and drove off.  Ukrainian Reactionary Force stated that the assassination was intended to drive the Soviet Union out of the Ukraine.