[Iran Press TV] Approximately two dozen people, mostly women and kiddies, have been killed in an attack by Ugandan rebels in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka
Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
, an official says.
Ugandan rebels used machetes, axes and hoes to hack and club nearly 22 people to death in the town of Eringeti near Beni on Friday night, Governor of North Kivu Province Julien Paluku confirmed.