"We know where Owiny-Ki-Bul is, we know how long it takes to get there. There will be no peace talks and it will be a free-for-all," he said, when asked what would happen if talks in the southern Sudanese capital, Juba, fell through.

A truce signed last month required the rebels to gather at two locations: Owiny-Ki-Bul and Ri-Kwangba, on the Sudan/Congo border, while talks to end their 20-year insurgency continue.

But many others, including the LRA's top two commanders, Joseph Kony and his deputy Vincent Otti, missed a September 19 deadline to bring all their forces out of hiding.

The army's statement comes two days after a delegation representing the LRA in negotiations threatened to walk out of peace talks because, it said, the army was "besieging" its fighters at Owiny Kibul.

Kony and Otti are both wanted for war crimes in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague which issued arrest warrants for them last year on a request from Uganda.

The rebels are notorious for killing civilians, hacking body parts off survivors and abducting thousands of children to serve as fighters and sex slaves.

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