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Title: Ugandan army says rebels kill 45 people in Congo church
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2008122 ... ugandaunrestrebelsdrcongosudan
Published: Dec 28, 2008
Author: afp
Post Date: 2008-12-28 17:02:15 by Rotara
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Views: 736
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KAMPALA (AFP) – The Ugandan army on Sunday accused Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels of hacking to death 45 people in a church in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. An aid official speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity confirmed Friday's massacre, saying the killings took place in a Catholic church in the Doruma area, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Sudanese border. "There are body parts everywhere. Inside the church, the entrance and in the church compound," the aid official said. "We got information the rebels cut 45 people into pieces," added army spokesman Captain Chris Magezi. "They were cut with pangas (machetes) and hit with clubs but some luckily managed to escape. Our forces came to know about the killings while pursuing the LRA yesterday (Saturday) and the pursuit is on for the killers." Magezi said the victims, mostly women, children and the elderly, were mutilated in the style used by Hutu extremists during the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Magezi later said 13 of the insurgents were shot dead by the forces. "We came in contact with the group that killed the civilians in the church near Doruma. We put 13 of them out action and we recovered from them nine sub-machine guns," he said. "We are pursuing the rest of the group." Forces from Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and south Sudan launched a joint operation against the Ugandan LRA rebels in northeastern DR Congo earlier this month. The vice-governor of Orientale province, Joseph Bangakya Angaze, told AFP by telephone that "fighting has broken out around Doruma since Friday, between elements of the LRA and local groups" set up to defend their communities. Magezi had also accused the rebels of killing 35 civilians in attacks on Wednesday and Thursday in areas in south Sudan and northeastern DR Congo. But LRA spokesman David Nyekorach Matsanga denied the rebels were behind any of the killings. "Reports about the LRA killing innocent civilians is another propaganda campaign by the Uganda army," Matsanga told AFP. "I am not a military spokesman for the LRA but I have it on good authority from the field commanders that the LRA is not in those areas where the killings are reported to have taken place. "We need an independent verification to know who is responsible for these killings in Doruma because LRA has stated before we want peace not war because fighting won't help," he said. The two sides have been engaged in peace talks led by the government of South Sudan for more than two years. On Saturday Matsanga said the LRA chief Joseph Kony was still open to talks but preferred Tanzanian or South African mediation because south Sudan was involved in the military offensive. Kony has repeatedly refused to sign a peace deal with Kampala because of International Criminal Court arrest warrants against him and his lieutenants for war crimes. But Magezi insisted the killings of civilians will not deter the joint forces from hunting the rebels. He also condemned "these heinous acts by the LRA terrorists." "They (LRA) think by killing innocent civilians the allied forces will be intimidated to back off from the operation. They are misleading themselves," said Magezi, who is also the spokesman of the regional forces. "We will continue to pursue them and they will pay with their blood." Uganda has already signed the final peace agreement concluded in April to end the civil conflict that has ravaged the country's northern region. Kony's rebels are accused of having raped and mutilated civilians, forcibly enlisting child soldiers and of massacring thousands during two decades of conflict. Kony, a semi-literate former altar boy, took charge in 1988 of a regional rebellion among northern Uganda's ethnic Acholi minority.
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Fighters from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army are pictured in southern Sudan in 2006. The Ugandan army on Sunday accused Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels of hacking to death 45 people in a church in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (AFP/File/Stuart Price)
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#1. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#0)
Do you prefer your little Obots serving the NWO in the Iranistanian region or in arfrikerr ?
4um Traitor An aid official speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity confirmed Friday's massacre, saying the killings took place in a Catholic church in the Doruma area, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Sudanese border. "There are body parts everywhere. Inside the church, the entrance and in the church compound," the aid official said. "We got information the rebels cut 45 people into pieces," added army spokesman Captain Chris Magezi. The world is truly in darkness.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Countries Without a Draft circa 2001 (You'll need this soon if you have kids) RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP Thank you sir for noticing. I realize they weren't beloved muzzies or jews that were barbarically destroyed, but thanks nonetheless good man. And Happy survive the new year Day tomorrow !
4um Traitor I want to visit Africa. If they wouldn't kill me that is.
Soon you won't be safe anywhere. All you'll have is Jesus, that's it.
4um Traitor I realize they weren't beloved muzzies or jews that were barbarically destroyed, but thanks nonetheless good man. And Happy survive the new year Day tomorrow ! The Palestinians are being barbarically and methodically destroyed by the ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S ARMY. That is, the genocide of Palestinians is ISRAEL'S GOVERNMENT POLICY. The Congelese civilians in the article you refer to were murdered by LRA rebels, not by a nation-state's military, not as a routine policy of a First World government. Do you get the difference now and why the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people by the GOVERNMENT of Israel provokes such international outrage?
I get you perfectly. Blind hate of Hitler's variety that leads to both good and bad getting incinerated. You would liquidate AmeriKans and israelis just the same. I dropped you a more detailed post on another thread. Your focus sucks.
4um Traitor IF the palis were next door to me, lobbing indiscriminate rockets on me and my neighbors - I'd give them 3 days to make it stop permanently and then if and when another one flies my way I'm coming over there and wiping you out, your family, any and all that have a connection to you then I would bulldoze and salt the land you lived on. Just to be clear.
4um Traitor Just to be clear. According to the Israeli foreign ministry, 28 Israelis have been killed by rocket fire in the past 8 years. In the past 4 days the Israeli military has killed 398 Palestinians, the majority of which were civilians including women and children. If Hamas has been "terrorizing" Israelis 24/7 all this time, how come only 28 Israelis have been killed by rockets in the past 8 years? Huh? As for your faux analogy of you and your neighbor next door with the Palestinians and the Israelis - presumably you and your neighbor own your respective properties, whereas Israel was created out of thin air in 1948 and super-imposed on the indigenous peoples living in the region ie the Palestinians. And since 1948, the Israelis have been stealing and poaching on more and more Palestinian owned land. What would you do if thieving outsiders came into your house and stole your property and killed your wife and maimed your children?
You murder one of mine indiscriminately I'll kill a LOT of yours intentionally. I don't know how to be more clear. Just because my government was overthrown and is run by a illegal shadow cabal doesn't mean I'm going to allow me and mine to sit under indiscriminate murder, no way no how do you survive it. Hhhhhamas and the palis are just stupid canon fodder for the Globalists. Focus on America, unless of course you're just another muzzie nut pretending to play American on the Internets.
4um Traitor I dropped you a more detailed post on another thread. Your focus sucks. The only hate of an entire group of people that exists on the board is the hate revealed over and over again by you and your Muslim-hating compadres, Old Friend and Mudboy Slim and echosierra. Fyi, Israel is a state. Because Israel's GOVERNMENT POLICY involves the GENOCIDE of Palestinian civilians and theft of their land, any one with an ounce of common sense and human compassion would be speaking out vociferously against Israel. Fyi, I have nothing but utter contempt for Israel. And my sentiment is shared by many Jews in America who are finally waking up to the ongoing massacre of innocent civilian Palestinian people by Israel. That you ignore the blow-back that Israel's war crimes in Gaza will bring to our servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrates that you give two hoots about Americans. All you care about is criticism of your precious Israel, a nation whose fascistically monstrous behavior against the Palestinians would make Hitler himself proud. Do you call these Jews' sentiments examples of "blind hate of Hitler's variety" as you associated with me? You can stick your insulting and baseless allegations where the sun don't shine. If you want to "out" Hitlerian hate-mongers, look in the mirror. a. www.philipweiss.org/mondo...into-shiva-for-gaza-.html "Outraged American Jews turn last night of Hanukkah into Shiva for Gaza" b. www.dailykos.com/storyonl...2/28/114432/83/489/677860 "Today I end my support of Israel" by Chilean Jew c. www.guardian.co.uk/commen.../dec/29/gaza-hamas-israel " Gaza: the logic of colonial power - As so often, the term 'terrorism' has proved a rhetorical smokescreen under cover of which the strong crush the weak" by Nir Rosen
Uh huh...the globalists. In your world of self-delusion and denial of genocide and land theft as demonstrated by a specific nation-state for the past 60 years, it's always the Gggggglobalists' fault. Wake up and see the caterpillered olive tree farms and the bombarded rubble with brown-skinned childrens' hands and legs sticking out. Gggglobalists did not commit this carnage.
Get the fuck off of indian land you squatter. You are squatter not scrapper.
All you'll have is Jesus, that's it. I'm afraid you are correct on that one.
I've enjoyed scrapping with you today. Have a great New Year.
The genocide and land theft committed by Israelis today bears no comparison with the wars of conquest lost by Indians 200 years ago and peace treaties signed thereafter. And btw, Israel was created out of thin air 60 years ago by the UN for the benefit of Eastern European Jews. In other words, Israel was an artificial construct created by fiat not by wars won by the Eastern European Jews over the indigenous Palestinian peoples. Furthermore, prior to the artificial creation of Israel that was super-imposed on the Palestinians, Palestinians got along fine with the minority group of Sephardic Jews living in their midst. The Palestinians did not behave in genocidal ways towards the minority Sephardic Jews as the Israelis are behaving to the minority Palestinians today.
Ditto. Happy New Year!
Obamalamadingdong to the rescue !
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#2. To: Rotara (#0)
The Ugandan army on Sunday accused Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels of hacking to death 45 people in a church in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#3. To: IndieTX (#2)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#4. To: Rotara (#1)
#5. To: Old Friend (#4)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#6. To: Rotara (#3)
Thank you sir for noticing.
#7. To: scrapper2 (#6)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#8. To: scrapper2 (#6)
(Edited)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#9. To: Rotara (#8)
IF the palis were next door to me, lobbing indiscriminate rockets on me and my neighbors - I'd give them 3 days to make it stops permanently and the next one that flies my way I'm coming over there and wiping you out, your family, any and all that have a connection to you then I would bulldoze and salt the land you lived on.
#10. To: scrapper2 (#9)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#11. To: Rotara, Old Friend, Mudboy Slim, echosierra, All (#7)
I get you perfectly. Blind hate of Hitler's variety that leads to both good and bad getting incinerated. You would liquidate AmeriKans and israelis just the same.
#12. To: Rotara (#10)
(Edited)
Hhhhhamas and the palis are just stupid canon fodder for the Globalists.
#13. To: scrapper2 (#11)
#14. To: Rotara (#5)
Soon you won't be safe anywhere.
#15. To: scrapper2 (#12)
#16. To: Old Friend (#13)
Get the fuck off of indian land you squatter. You are squatter not scrapper.
#17. To: Old Friend (#15)
I've enjoyed scrapping with you today. Have a great New Year.
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