Rebels Kill 24 in Agago
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The Monitor (Kampala)
April 30, 2004
Posted to the web April 30, 2004
Elias Biryabarema
Kampala
"Lord's Resistance Army"rebels killed at least 24 people last week in Agago county, in
Pader district.
Local leaders and the army said the rebels killed women who had sneaked out of Lawol
Ude camp in Patong sub-county.
Agago MP, Ogenga Latigo told The Monitor on Wednesday that 12 women had ventured out
for mangoes in the overgrown fields.
"There is [a] severe shortage of food in the camps, so displaced people take risks,"
he said. That same day, in Omot sub-county, the rebels killed three other women.
In Kabala village, Patongo sub-county, the LRA attacked five other women and beat them
up. Two of them later died while the others were taken to Ambrosoli Memorial Hospital,
in Kalongo.
The rebels also killed eight women in Paimor sub-county last Friday. The MP wondered
why soldiers at a UPDF detach in Kalongo town did not prevent the killings.
The World Food Programme and government last delivered food supplies to the IDPs in
February. "Now people scatter about every morning to search for anything to survive
on," he said.
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The army spokesman for the northern region, Lt. Paddy Ankunda, confirmed the killings
on Wednesday.
"It's very unfortunate for our people to die. But we have told them that it's very
unsafe for them to leave the camps unescorted. It's exposing yourself to danger," he
said. He said the women who wanted to pick mangoes should have asked for army escorts.
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