Many LRA fighters are abducted children
Posted on 12/30/2008 6:03:51 AM PST by NYer
Uganda's army has accused the Lord's Resistance Army rebels of hacking to death 45 civilians in a Catholic church in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Capt Chris Magezi said the scene was "horrendous... dead bodies of mostly women and children cut in pieces". The attack happened on 26 December.
A rebel spokesman has denied responsibility for the killings, which follow a collapse in the peace process.
The UN says at least 189 people were killed in several attacks last week.
Some reports say more than 100 people were killed in the church alone.
The armies of Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo carried out a joint offensive against the rebels in mid-December after LRA leader Joseph Kony again refused to sign a peace deal.
The LRA leader, who has lived in a jungle hideout in north-eastern DR Congo for the last few years, is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Uganda's government had been involved in lengthy peace negotiations with the LRA, hosted by the South Sudanese government.
But Mr Kony has demanded that arrest warrants for him and his associates be dropped before any agreement can be struck.
Meanwhile, the UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo says one of its troops accidently shot and killed a Ugandan soldier in the nearby town of Dungu.
'Propaganda'
Aid officials requesting anonymity near Doruma, which is about 40km from the border with South Sudan, confirmed to Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper and to the AFP news agency that the massacre had taken place.
"Bodies of the women and children, with deep cuts are littered inside and outside the church," an aid official told The Monitor.
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WWOD?
This slaughter is horrible. Will the victims be eaten? Remember how it was in Uganda under Idi Amin.
and deadly ones, as all of them seem to be.
The Islamist government in Khartoum has funded and armed the LRA for nearly two decades. In that period the government of the Sudan has been involved in genocidal activity in Southern Sudan, in Darfur in western Sudan, and has attempted to create chaos in Eritrea, Uganda and Chad. In sum, the Sudan is an outlaw nation and the LRA is an outlaw militia that should be wiped from the face of the earth.
Tis will undoubtedly lead to a ban on any knives biger than six inches in Africa
So 45 new martyrs enter Heaven.
“Pray for them that they may shine on Judgment Day.”
How can these things go on and on in the world? I’m not a military expert, but I would bet it’s not that hard to find this LRA guy’s “jungle hideout”. Heck, I can find a 7-11 in Kansas just using Google from my living room. Find the guy and drop a bomb on him. We waited 20 years to take out Saddam and it was a piece of cake once we finally decided to do it. The aftermath is a mess, but what I mean is, can’t the UN, NATO, all these organizations supposedly formed solely to ensure world peace, get their acts together and just kill these troublemakers?
“Peace process” is an oxymoron, it’s not a process and it never leads to peace. It’s pussyfooting and wishful thinking. Look at Israel and Gaza right now. We let Yassir Arafat sit pretty for decades, then idiot Bush decided the Pali’s deserve their own state and they are really noble democracy-lovers, so they have elections and vote in Hamas. So the same battles continue, half-hearted corrective measures by Israel, retaliation by Arab terrorists, for generations.
Look at these two-bit Somali pirates holding the world captive, countries with huge arsenals and diplomatic corps standing around helpless, the poor boat crews having to defend themselves weaponless or be taken prisoner.
As soon as someone starts calling for mass-murder and slaughtering civilians and children, there should be an organized int’l effort to simply eliminate him, not “bring him to trial for crimes against humanity” (I’m sure that really scares them). Top priority is stop the violence, not have trials, and we do that by eliminating the leaders. This would also have a deterrent effect.
We still haven’t caught Saddam’s Baathist Party head al Dhouri, who was the guy who carried out the Halabja chem weapons massacre and one of the financiers of al Qaeda in Iraq.
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