I could be wrong on this, but if I'm not mistaken, the issue at hand was whether it was the UPDF killing the people in the North or the Rebels having/wearing UPDF uniforms. According to the eye witnesses, the rebels in uniforms similar to those of UPDF and not the UPDF possing as rebels, killed the people. It is not impossible for the rebels to acquire uniforms similar to those of the UPDF. Therefore what uniforms they were wearing should not carry more wait that the fact that they killed all those many people.
That all those many people can be killed is a sign that the UPDF is failing in
its cardinal responsibility of protecting the people of Uganda and their
property.
However, the fact that some of us on this forum have not condemned the rebels
for this killing and insteady seem to derive satisfaction, political or
otherwise is even a worse sin that that of UPDF's failure.
As has been stated on this forum before, the rebel problem in the Uganda is a
political problem that has to be politically and not militarilly addressed.
May the souls of those that have perished in these useless wars rest in peace.
"The area youth delegate to the district council, Mr Bob Okodi, told The
Monitor that the rebels wore uniform similar to that of the UPDF"
Netters:
Some NRM Sycophant wanted me to prove to him that the so called rebels wore
UPDF UNIFORMS......I hope now that he has got his prove what, if anything,
does he have to say?
Matek
Rebels Kill 60
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November 10, 2003
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Frank Nyakairu & Agencies
Kampala
More than 60 people were killed in the north last week by suspected rebels of
the Lord's Resistance Army, religious officials said at the weekend.
"Thirty people were killed in the villages of Awayapiny and Alanyi, 20 in
Omarari and nine more at Omoro North Primary School - all in Lira district on
Thursday night," Fr. Sabbat Ayele, a Catholic missionary, told AFP.
Ayele quoted witnesses as saying that the rebels beheaded some of the people
while a number of grass-thatched huts were also torched.
He said that one person was also killed at Adweki trading centre on the road
leading to Soroti from Lira.
"I talked to a woman by the name of Consolata Atim, one of those people
beaten up by the rebels, who told me that she witnessed people being beheaded,"
said Ayele, an Eritrean Comboni missionary.
The army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza said only 42 people have died.
"To be exact the number is 42 with 21 of them killed on Friday night alone,"
Bantariza said yesterday.
"They are avenging the death of Tabuley and I wonder why they are doing it in
Lango when we killed him from Kaberamido [in Teso]," Bantariza added.
The army announced last week that it had killed a top LRA commander called
Charles Tabuley.
Meanwhile, Joe Wacha reports from Lira that seven people were killed
yesterday morning after more than 20 rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army
raided
Sunday Club, a market at Akura parish in Aloi sub-county, 25 miles from Lira on
the
road to Kitgum.
The area youth delegate to the district council, Mr Bob Okodi, told The
Monitor that the rebels wore uniform similar to that of the UPDF.
He said the rebels opened fire on area residents who had gone to the market,
killing seven on the spot.
He identified some of the dead as Mzee Odyek, Odong Auci, Ogwel Okeng, Okello
Omara Adriano, Opido Martin, and Jackson Okabo.
Mr Okodi said the traders were forced to abandon their merchandise as they
fled into the surrounding bushes. Lt. Chris Magezi, the spokesman of the army's
5th division, had not yet verified the report by press time.
The officer said he was only aware of an attack in the area the previous
night in which, he said, two people were killed.
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Netters:
Some NRM Sycophant wanted me to prove to him that the so called rebels wore UPDF UNIFORMS......I hope now that he has got his prove what, if anything, does he have to say?
Matek
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November 10, 2003
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Frank Nyakairu & Agencies
Kampala
More than 60 people were killed in the north last week by suspected rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army, religious officials said at the weekend.
"Thirty people were killed in the villages of Awayapiny and Alanyi, 20 in Omarari and nine more at Omoro North Primary School - all in Lira district on Thursday night," Fr. Sabbat Ayele, a Catholic missionary, told AFP.
Ayele quoted witnesses as saying that the rebels beheaded some of the people while a number of grass-thatched huts were also torched.
He said that one person was also killed at Adweki trading centre on the road leading to Soroti from Lira.
"I talked to a woman by the name of Consolata Atim, one of those people beaten up by the rebels, who told me that she witnessed people being beheaded," said Ayele, an Eritrean Comboni missionary.
The army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza said only 42 people have died.
"To be exact the number is 42 with 21 of them killed on Friday night alone," Bantariza said yesterday.
"They are avenging the death of Tabuley and I wonder why they are doing it in Lango when we killed him from Kaberamido [in Teso]," Bantariza added.
The army announced last week that it had killed a top LRA commander called Charles Tabuley.
Meanwhile, Joe Wacha reports from Lira that seven people were killed yesterday morning after more than 20 rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army raided Sunday Club, a market at Akura parish in Aloi sub-county, 25 miles from Lira on the road to Kitgum.
The area youth delegate to the district council, Mr Bob Okodi, told The Monitor that the rebels wore uniform similar to that of the UPDF.
He said the rebels opened fire on area residents who had gone to the market, killing seven on the spot.
He identified some of the dead as Mzee Odyek, Odong Auci, Ogwel Okeng, Okello Omara Adriano, Opido Martin, and Jackson Okabo.
Mr Okodi said the traders were forced to abandon their merchandise as they fled into the surrounding bushes. Lt. Chris Magezi, the spokesman of the army's 5th division, had not yet verified the report by press time.
The officer said he was only aware of an attack in the area the previous night in which, he said, two people were killed.
