Twenty-two dead and around thirty wounded is the still preliminary toll of an attack carried out last night by the rebels of the LRA (lord’s Resistance Army) in a village of the district of Lira, North Uganda. The news was referred to MISNA by the staff of Lira’s diocesan ‘Radio Wa’ (‘our radio’), specifying that during the night a large group of Olum (grass, as the rebels are called in the local Acholi language) attacked the village of Alanyi. The raid was fast and violent, the armed rebels told the people to take shelter in the village Church and beat and killed all those who did not escape in time. Before leaving the village, the LRA rebels looted the local market and many homes. Radio Wa today received confirmation from an administrator of Alanyi on the number of victims. The LRA rebels of Joseph Kony have been devastating the northern Ugandan districts since 1986: in 17 years of terror they killed and tortured tens of thousands of people (at least 100-thousand), abducting over 20-thousand children, reduced to slavery and forcedly enrolled in the rebel lines.
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