Over 900 massacred in Congo since Christmas
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Members of the Lord's Resistance Army
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Rome, Italy, Feb 13, 2009 / 01:53 am
(<http://www.catholicnewsagency.com>CNA).- Troops of the guerilla
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have massacred over 900 people since
Christmas in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The news
reports from missionary media sources, which are not attracting
attention in Europe and America, lament the inaction and "impotence"
of the United Nations forces in the area.
Fides news agency reports that the LRA is a Ugandan group mainly
composed of child soldiers kidnapped and forced into service. For
decades the group has ravaged the land in northern Uganda and is
active in Congo, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic.
The armies of Uganda, Congo and South Sudan formed a joint military
operation in late December 2008 to try to stop the LRA. They moved
against the LRA general headquarters in the Garamba Forest in the
Congo with the backing of the U.N. and the United States.
However, the operation failed to capture the guerilla leaders, who
are wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
The LRA has responded with violence against Congolese civilians,
sacking and destroying entire villages and killing entire families.
Fides, which is a missionary news agency, accused the U.N. Mission in
Congo (MONUC) of being "yet another one of the acronyms that has
become synonymous with the impotence of the international community."
Fides claimed that MONUC members seem to be "mere spectators in the
massacres of these people whom they should be defending."
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