Rebels kill 84 people in northern Uganda -army
KAMPALA, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels killed at least 84 people by torching their grass-thatched huts in an attack on a camp of people fleeing fighting in the north of the country, the army said on Sunday.
"About 6 pm (1500 GMT) (on Saturday) the LRA rebels attacked a camp in Ogur sub-county, Lira district and killed 84 people. Another 50 are now in hospital being treated mainly for burns,' Ugandan army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza said.
( Reuters should add something like: there is NO INDEPENDENT CONFIRMATION that "rebels" carried out this atrocities against our people)
02/22/04 07:27 ET
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