Posted on 04/29/2002 5:56:12 AM PDT by Mom_Grandmother
Ugandan rebels shoot 60 mourners dead inside Sudan
April 28, 2002, 09:43 PM
KAMPALA (AFP) - Up to 60 mourners have been shot dead in southern Sudan by suspected Ugandan rebels who forced them to eat a dead body they were about to bury, the Ugandan army charged.
Army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza told AFP that the attack took place Friday on the ranges of mountain Agoro, which straddles the Uganda, Sudan border.
"The LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) attacked them as they were about to bury a person," Bantariza said, adding that Ugandan forces battling the rebels in the area gave the report.
"At gun point they forced them to cut to pieces the dead body and ordered them to mix the (human) meat with the sorghum they were cooking. They were forced to eat it before 60 of them were shot dead," Bantariza added.
He said that frightened locals fled the area and sought refugee at camps of the Sudanese army nearby.
No independent confirmation of the incident has been obtained.
Bantariza said the rebels turned against the locals because they could not get their support.
"The rebels asked for their support, but when they (the rebels) started eating their cows and food, they abandoned them," Bantariza explained.
The rebels have been entrenched in the mountainous areas near the border where the Ugandan army (UPDF) has said it is besieging them.
On March 10 Uganda and Sudan signed an agreement allowing the UPDF to deploy in Sudanese territory to carry out search and destroy operations against the LRA rebels which operate rearguard bases there.
Sudan's decision to allow Uganda to pursue rebels into its territory marked a considerable improvement in relations between the two former foes.
Since the operation started on March 28, the UPDF has overrun a number of bases, capturing a large amount of arms and forcing the rebel army to flee towards the south in the mountainous terrain near the border.
Kampala previously accused Khartoum of supporting the LRA, which seek to oust President Yuweri Museveni's government and replace it with one that follows the biblical Ten Commandments.
Sudan counter-accused Uganda of supporting John Garang's rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), which has been fighting against Khartoum since 1983 to end domination of the Christian and animist south by the Arabised, Muslim north.
No Confirmation is necessary.
Massacres are taken very seriously, you know.
Amnesty International and the UN "fact" finding team will be there by Saturday.
Together with their pre-prepared statements of horror and revulsion.
Right.
Uganda is a worker's paradise where tolerant, happy citizens celebrate a multicultural diversity free from the corrisive influence of the white, male European oppressor class.
This article is clearly a racist attempt to disparage Mother Africa and all her indigenous peoples.
It is hate speech.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
The Sudanese they attacked are also Christians, and have been fighting the northern Muslim Sudanese for seveal decades. The northerners formed an Islamic fundamentalist government and attempted to impose Sharia law throughout the Sudan. In addition, the Muslims have killed over two million southern Christian Sudanese.
Apparently the Lord's Resistence Army tried to force the Christian Sudanese to help them, but were refused.
This is their retribution.
AFP is a reliable enough source.
The source is: "[Uganda] Army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza...." AFP is simply repeating what Bantariza said.
The AFP statement is: "No independent confirmation of the incident has been obtained."
Well... that's *one* redeeming value...
Unfortunately, the apocalyse that has been the norm in Africa - North, South, East, and West - has bred these weird religious sects. You may remember one several years ago which burnt several hundred people alive in a church in Uganda.
The Lord's Resistence is one of the worst, taking religion and twisting it, adding voodoo and magic to it. It is one of the worst abusers of children in Africa.
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