"A Lendu militia leader, Augustine Lobo said the UPDF re-entered Ituri and killed 250 civilians in Boga, near the Ugandan Border. The report which was picked by FM radio stations in Bunia said the UPDF were helped by PUSIC fighters."
Netters:
Could this be the Hema tribesmen who were recently massacred in Ituri!!!. If Rwanda is not careful.. Museveni ( and his UPDF) will finish the reminding Tutsis in DRC Congo !
Then international media claimed that the Lendu did the massacring. ..now we know for sure who the real culprit who perpetrated the massacre of Hema tribesmen, men, women and children...notable the UPDF.
One reason for the massacre could be that the UPDF is massacring the Hema to punish Rwandese Tutsis in General and Kagame in Particular for the Bloody nose the UPDF received at the hands of The Rwanda Army in Kinsagani.
MK
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New Vision (Kampala)
October 16, 2003
Posted to the web October 16, 2003
Emmy Allio
Kampala
The presence of Ugandan rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo is complicating the process of disarmament and peace in Ituri district.
A deputy leader of the Party for Unity and Safeguard of Integratists in Congo (PUSIC) Kisembo Bitamara told a Bunia meeting that Congolese militia groups in Ituri should not plan to end the Ituri conflict without discussing the presence of Ugandan rebels on Congo soil.
"We all know that what brought Uganda to Congo was the issue of Ugandan rebels here (in Congo). These rebels are still in Ituri. Unless we face reality, a problem still lies ahead," Kisembo told a meeting organised last week by the UN Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC).
It was attended by the deputy defence minister in the DRC transitional government, Maj.Gen. Bule Bangole and the deputy Minister of Mobilisation.
Ugandan army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza said the UPDF will not re-enter Congo. He said, "Uganda will constructively engage with the transitional government in Kinshasa and MONUC to resolve the issue of Ugandan rebels in Congo."
The Bunia meeting, which was attended mostly by Hema and Lendu militia groups, agreed on the cantonment of their forces.
MONUC said recently that the militias agreed to provide within 10 days, technical information regarding their numbers and locations. They said the cantonment would take place in tandem with the deployment of its Ituri Brigade from Bunia.
But the meeting in Bunia was overshadowed by the issue of the Ugandan rebels in Ituri.
Kisembo said Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), People's Redemption Army (PRA) and fighters of Taban Amin, son of ex-Ugandan leader Idi Amin Dada, had bases in Ituri.
He said the PRA were supported by Rwanda but mixed among fighters of Union for Patriotic Congolese (UPC) of Thomas Lubanga. He said PRA are now based in Bule and Fakaki, north of Bunia.
Kisembo said Taban Amin's force was based near Nyachuchu, south of Bunia town, but closer to Ugandan border. He said the ADF were regrouping in the areas of Kamango and Eringeti.
Bunia has been awash with rumours of UPDF re-entry into Congo, following an interview on South Africa's Channel Africa Kiswahili programme. A Lendu militia leader, Augustine Lobo said the UPDF re-entered Ituri and killed 250 civilians in Boga, near the Ugandan Border. The report which was picked by FM radio stations in Bunia said the UPDF were helped by PUSIC fighters.
PUSIC leader Chief Madro Kawa Panga said there were no UPDF soldiers in Congo. "These are just rumours. What should be discussed is why the Congolese are hosting Ugandan rebels."
MONUC helicopters flew reconnaissance missions on the DRC-Uganda border to check the rumours. "They (MONUC) said they never saw the UPDF inside Congo," Kisembo said.
