Langi dong Otum... Ka pe wu mako weng wu incingwu...cido Tutsi Tyeku wu..
It was not possible to contact the Lord's Resistance Army, a shadowy group that has been fighting President Yoweri Museveni since he came to power in 1986 after a five-year bush war."...therefore Bantaranzi's claims could not be independently verified...those who killed people could be Kalangala Action Plan, NRM Kadogo, X-ray battalion.
Rebels in Uganda Kill Over 100 Refugees
By GEOFFREY MULEME
.c The Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Scores of rebels fighting a 17-year insurgency in northern Uganda attack a refugee camp, killing more than more than 100 people, a Roman Catholic priest said Sunday.
Armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army attacked Barloonyo camp in Uganda's Lira district late Saturday, burning huts and shooting people as they fled, said the Rev. Sebhat Ayele, who visited the camp Sunday. Ayele said he counted 121 bodies and was told another 51 had already been buried.
Army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza confirmed the attack, but said he did not know the death toll.
He said it was possible that more than 100 people were killed in the camp, which was home to about 5,000 people, 16 miles north of the town of Lira.
It was not possible to contact the Lord's Resistance Army, a shadowy group that has been fighting President Yoweri Museveni since he came to power in 1986 after a five-year bush war.
``I saw one hut with seven family members still burning and three (people) in the next hut were also still burning,'' Ayele, said by telephone from Lira, 155 miles north of Kampala.
The camp was guarded by members of a local defense force but they were outnumbered and outgunned, Bantariza said.
``Instead of running away they (people in the camp) entered their huts and the rebels burnt them alive,'' Bantariza said.
An army spokesman, 2nd Lt. Chris Magezi, said government forces were pursuing the rebels.
Led by Joseph Kony, who claims to have spiritual powers, the rebels have wreaked havoc across northern and northeastern Uganda, forcing an estimated 1 million people to flee their homes. The group replenishes its ranks with children it abducts to use as fighters, porters or concubines.
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- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
