Uganda Rebels Raid Village, Kill Captives
By HENRY WASSWA
.c The Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Rebels from the shadowy Lord's Resistance Army slashed more than a dozen of their former captives to death with machetes during an attack on a village in north central Uganda, officials said Sunday.
Franco Ojur, an official in the Lira district 155 miles north of Kampala, said the raiders attacked the village of Bata on Saturday morning, slashing up to 15 people to death and making off with 40 children.
But the Lira district army spokesman, Lt. Chris Magezi, put the number of dead at 13 and did not confirm the abductions. ( As if to say the number 13 or 15 really makes a difference?)
``We have established that all the people killed were formerly abductees who had been rescued,'' he said. ``The army intervened and rescued 20 others who were going to be massacred.''
The Lord's Resistance Army is led by Joseph Kony, who claims spiritual powers protect his fighters. They have been fighting the government of President Yoweri Museveni since it took power in 1986 after a five-year bush war.
The group, whose numbers are not known, replenishes its ranks with children it abducts to use as fighters, porters or concubines.
In a statement Sunday, the army said it killed 20 rebel fighters and rescued 127 abducted children. ( can somebody tell the NRM that those 20 killed rebels were once abducted children themselves ... and so why is museveni's army gloating over the killing of 20 Ugandans.. that is the question?)
``There are positive indicators that the LRA terrorists are losing their campaign,'' it said.
(Ugandans .. I guess only it is only the NRM military dictatorship which sees quote "positive indicators " end quote ... that the so called LRA are loosing their campaign... as for typical Ugandan Villagers the terror in Northern Uganda and now eastern Uganda , to which they are deeply in, continues unabated ........
The fact of the matter is that , fellow citizens and members of the International Commuinty, Yoweri Museveni's UPDF troops have miserable FAILED (Yes with a capital F) to contain the wars ( started by the NRM to begin with) which has now ravaged and destroy Northern Uganda for many generations.
Unfortunately the UPDF refuses to admit this fact. Instead, the UPDF is bent of constantly conveying a false impression to the people of Uganda and members of the International community that the UPDF is winning the war in Northern Uganda and now Eastern Uganda.
It is this Propanda upon which the NRM military dictatorship depend in order to continue to survive.
MK
08/17/03 17:49 EDT
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
