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East/Subsaharan Africa
Uganda Rebels Abduct Schoolgirls in Night Raid
2003-06-25
This story shows that you don't have to be islamic fundi to be a nut-bag.
Rebels, fighting to install rule in Uganda according to the Biblical 10 commandments, abducted 30 schoolgirls in a raid in the east of the country on Monday night. The girls seized in the ambush on the Lwala Girls Secondary School in Kabermaido district, about 100 miles northeast of Kampala, were aged between 12 and 18.
Rounding up some new breeding stock.
The rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), led by self-proclaimed prophet Joseph Kony, has been fighting the government in northern Uganda since 1987. The group has earned a terrifying reputation for abducting children to use as child soldiers and sex slaves, and for maiming villagers.
"Yeah. We do that. It's okay, though. It says so in the Bible someplace. You could look it up."
Army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza said initial fears that 100 girls had been taken have been scaled down but added that around 30 were still unaccounted for. "We now think that the girls herded away by the LRA are about 30," Bantariza said. The LRA has generally been most active in northern Uganda, but in the past week attacks further south of its traditional area of operation have caused mounting concern. "This is the greatest level of insecurity the rebels have created in the last 17 years," opposition MP Aggray Awori told Ugandan radio. "The rebels seem to be getting stronger and the army is unable to handle the situation."
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