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| East/Subsaharan Africa |
| LRA overruns refugee camp in Uganda... |
| 2002-08-05 |
| Rebels overran a camp for Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda on Monday, killing an undetermined number of people and destroying equipment and supplies. The U.N.-run refugee camp in Acholipii, about 185 miles north of Kampala, houses 24,000 Sudanese refugees who have fled fighting near their homes in southern Sudan, said Bushra Malik, spokeswoman in Uganda for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. She said it was too early to know how many refugees were killed. Probably lots of them, since the LRA seems to be made up of pseudo-Christian lunatix... Fighters from the Lord's Resistance Army attacked the camp early Monday morning, driving away 100 Ugandan soldiers and looting the camp for valuables and setting fire to anything they couldn't carry away, she said. "There was extensive, large scale damage to property, wide scale looting of equipment and supplies," Malik said, adding that the rebels stayed in the camp for two hours. "We are deeply concerned about the incident and we are working closely with the government to address the situation." Does that mean they're going to send troops to hunt those orifices down and kill them? Or are they going to Hold Discussions™? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |