Betty spends close to a year living among the people at the camps, working to build trusts with civilians and key players in the region. But there's one person betty has yet to meet face to face, the rebel leader joseph coney. Coney was the leader of the lords resist ance army, or l r a, and he believed that he received messages directly from god. Betty: I'd seen people whose lips had been cut, nose noses have been cut. Ears have been chopped off. This monster.