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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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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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#2. To: Rotara (#0)
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.
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 !
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.
#11. To: Rotara, Old Friend, Mudboy Slim, echosierra, All (#7)
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
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Thank you sir for noticing.
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Replies to Comment # 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.
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