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| Lord's Army kills 470 civilians in south Sudan |
| 2002-05-11 |
| Ugandan rebels killed more than 470 Sudanese civilians in the past week, the Roman Catholic Church in southern Sudan charged in a statement received by AFP today. Insurgents of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) committed the alleged atrocities as they fled an offensive by Ugandan troops, the church's diocese of Torit in southern Sudan said in the statement dated Thursday. The killings were carried out in several villages along the Imotong mountain range in the Eastern Equatoria region of southern Sudan, the statement said, adding that another 500 people had fled their homes in the area. Torit Bishop Akio Johnson Mutek appealed to the international community "to come to the aid of these destitute people who are forced to desert their villages as they had just begun cultivating their crops," the statement said. Uganda said they'd broken these bastards up over a month ago, but the remnants appear to be pretty vicious. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |