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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan rebel leaders from the Lord's Resistance Army will leave their hideouts under terms of a tentative truce despite facing arrest warrants by an international court on war crimes charges, their lead negotiator said Sunday.
Rebel leader Joseph Kony, who has been seen in public only a handful of times during the 19-year insurgency, will assemble along with other fighters at two agreed locations in southern Sudan, said Martin Ojul, the rebels' chief negotiator.
There they will be monitored and protected while negotiators continue to work toward a formal cease-fire and peace deal. Uganda's government and the rebels agreed Saturday to a cessation of hostilities. The rebels have fought a shadowy insurgency from bases in Sudan, Congo and northern Uganda.
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