Ugandan rebels kill 400 in DR Congo: charity

[Adsos Letter]

Source: AFP

KINSHASA (AFP) - - Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels killed more than 400 people in Christmas massacres in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Caritas aid charity said Tuesday.

The rebels denied any responsibility and accused troops from DR Congo, Uganda and South Sudan of "bombing" the victims.

The LRA targeted a town where a Christmas Day concert was being held and a Roman Catholic church, and attacks were going on along the Sudanese border, the Catholic charity said in a statement.

Caritas workers say that "over 400 people have been killed in the attacks in an area of northern Congo including Faradje, Duru, Gurba, Doruma, and Province Orientale," it added.

The archbishop of Dungu-Doruma, Monsignor Richard Domba, told AFP that at least 150 people had been killed at a Christmas Day service at Faradje and later, 80 at Duru and at least 200 others at Doruma and in the surrounding villages.



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[uppityperson]

1. k&r

[bunnies]

2. The whole world is turning to shit.

People getting slaughtered all over the fucking place. And you know what? No one will do a damn thing about *this* either.

[question everything]

3. While we here are busy with the "important" stuff

atrocities in Africa continue.

[virgogal]

4. What does any of it have to do with us? What can we do

about it?

[question everything]

6. I'd rather have us participate in peace keeping force

in Congo, and Zimbabwe and Guinea, and Somalia, and other places that we hear about only when there is a slow news day, then stay in Iraq where we have long extended any welcome some many have felt.. six years ago.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. No worries

They were just trying to prevent mortar attacks into their area...:eyes:

[Sultana]

7. Fuck the LRA

Do they really want to start shit w/ SPLA?

Hopefully, Obama will focus some attention to the Congo, some really disturbing stuff has been happening there for yrs yet no one has come to stop it. :(

Uganda needs to do more to stop the LRA!

Maybe God has truly forsaken Africa :cry:

[Posteritatis]

8. The LRA is evil even by the standards of groups in that region

Not quiet up there with the Janjaweed, but certainly making them work for the #1 spot. They need to get thoroughly Chapter Sevenned, though MONUC has been doing that a bit more lately..