"The divisional commander, Colonel George Etyang, said several children abducted by the LRA had been killed accidentally in the latest clashes."
Fellow citizens:
I would like to draw your attention and that of members of the International Community to UPDF division Commander George Etyang's statement.... he says :
quote" several children abducted by the LRA had been killed accidentally in the latest clashes."
In otherwords the UPDF killed several abducted Acholi children in their hunt for "rebels": ..this was apparently done "accidentally" ..and this is a statement form UPDF division commander . Why then, isn't the ICC investigating such massacres.. as stated by George Etyang?
Matek
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Uganda army targets LRA rebels
Ugandan soldiers say they have killed 30 rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in fighting in the north.
An army spokesman said some of those killed were suspected of involvement in last weekend's massacre of displaced people at a camp. It is believed 200 civilians died but the government puts the figure at 80. The divisional commander, Colonel George Etyang, said several children abducted by the LRA had been killed accidentally in the latest clashes.
Anger
Ugandan troops have been stepping up their offensive against the rebels in the wake of the massacre. "We killed 30 of these thugs on Thursday in neighbouring Pader district," army spokesman Lieutenant Chris Magezi told the French news agency, AFP.
He said 15 of the dead were suspected to have been among the group that attacked the Barlonya camp in Lira province. There has been intense anger in Lira at the killings and the government's perceived inability to defeat the rebels.
Q&A: Why haven't the rebels been defeated?
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said he is determined to wipe out the rebellion - a promise he has repeatedly made. He has also long complained that by placing restrictions on his military spending, international donors are hampering his campaign to defeat the insurgents.
But a Western donors' delegation in Uganda said strict limits on such spending would be maintained. "We reject the assertion that donors' restrictions on defence expenditure have impeded the Ugandan army's capacity to defend citizens from such attacks," a donors' statement issued on Friday said. The donors also called on the Ugandan government to explore all avenues to resolve the conflict via a negotiated solution. "Humanitarian assistance is not enough.
The conflict which causes such great suffering must be resolved." Some 4,000 people were living in Barlonya when the massacre happened. The World Food Progamme is distributing food to survivors. The UN agency has been supporting some 80,000 people displaced by the rebel insurgency since September 2003. They had fled their homes because of fighting elsewhere in northern Uganda.
"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
