Ugandan rebel group raids S Sudan's army camp, killing 21 |
www.chinaview.cn  2008-06-06 21:39:42 |   Print |
| KAMPALA, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan rebel the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) raided a camp of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in a seemingly new wave of violence, killing 21 people, the Ugandan army said here on Friday. Capt. Ronald Kakurungu, army spokesman for northern Uganda, told Xinhua by telephone that between 80 to 100 rebels attacked an SPLA camp at the southern Sudan border town of Nabanga on Thursday morning before they withdrew to their hideout in Garamba forest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Kakurungu said there were reports that the rebel group told Radio France International they launched the attack in retaliation of an earlier attack by the SPLA, which is to him very skeptical. The rebel attack on military target, the first of its kind since the peace negotiations began in July, 2006 under the mediation of the southern Sudanese authorities, came right after a regional military chiefs' meeting here early this week. The meeting was aimed to design a military strategy to wipe out the forces in the region that threaten security and stability of the Great Lakes Region, including the LRA. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said in his State of Nation Address on Thursday that the army is capable of "destroying" the rebel group in its hideout if the DRC and UN seek assistance from Uganda. Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kuteesa, on the other hand, told reporters here on Friday that the LRA still have an option of signing a final peace deal, short of which they risk a military attack. The LRA's over-two-decade conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead and over two million people homeless in northern Uganda before they fled to southern Sudan, then the DRC, following intensified military pursuit by the Ugandan army. |
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