UGANDA 13/7/2004 11:12 NEW DETAILS ON "REBEL" MASSACRE IN LIRA DISTRICT, AN ENTIRE FAMILY EXTERMINATED General, Brief New details are emerging on the massacre carried out by the "rebels" of the LRA (lordâs Resistance Army) in the Lira district, in North Uganda, where 11 civilians were killed, 3 of which children and a six-month old baby. MISNA has learned that all the victims were of the same family. The head of the family Raimond Odia had decided to leave the Abia displacement camp (around 30km east of Lira). The lack of food and terrible living conditions in the camp â where the people take refuge from "rebel" attacks â had pushed the family to return to their home in the location of Apunga, a little over 1km away, in the intent of cultivating something to feed the family. On Saturday at around 6:30p.m the rebels killed them in a ferocious manner. Based on a reconstruction on the scene conducted yesterday by administrative representatives of the Lira district, not a single shot as fired to exterminate the entire family, beaten to death and mutilated. The representative of the Lira district, Pita Ochamp, firmly condemned the episode, deploring the fact that the LRA "rebels" committed another crime just as a sort of amnesty was launched and the combatants were urged to disarm. The "rebels" also abducted six people, probably for the transportation of food and loot from raids against villages. An ongoing practice for the past 18 years in North Uganda, devastated by a nameless war that has so far resulted â based on local estimates â over 100,000 victims and at least 1.5-million displaced and the abduction of some 25,000 children. In February the LRA "rebels" killed 50 people in the Abia displaced camp
