Bei den Überfällen von Mitgliedern der ugandischen Gruppierung "Widerstandsarmee Gottes" auf Dörfer im Nordosten der Demokratischen Republik Kongo (DRK) sind in den letzten zwei Monaten mehr als 100 Menschen getötet worden. Etwa 80 Menschen gelten als vermisst ...

Massaker der "Widerstandsarmee Gottes" im Kongo
21.01.2010 - RIA Novosti

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Evidence of the massacre of at least 321 people in Democratic Republic of Congo has been uncovered by the BBC. The killings took place last December but have not previously been reported. Fighters from the notorious Lord's Resistance Army raided several villages in a remote part of north-eastern DR Congo, killing and abducting children. Human Rights Watch says this is one of the worst massacres carried out by the LRA, whose fighters roam across several countries after spreading from Uganda ...

DR Congo rebel massacre of hundreds is uncovered
28.03.2010 - BBC mit Video

Ugandische Rebellen haben im Dezember vergangenen Jahres ein Massaker unter Zivilisten im Kongo verübt. Nach Angaben der Menschenrechtsorganisation Human Rights Watch HRW wurden dabei 321 Menschen getötet und weitere 250 entführt. Unter den Entführten sollen auch 80 Kinder sein, das jüngste Todesopfer war ein 3-jähriges Mädchen, das die Täter verbrannten ...

Massaker im Kongo fordert 321 Tote
28.03.2010 - news search

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LRA rebel fighters did not carry out a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman has said. Justin Labeja told the BBC it was a "baseless accusation". The BBC uncovered evidence that 321 people were killed over several days last December, with local people and Human Rights Watch blaming the LRA ...

LRA rebels deny DR Congo massacre
29.03.2010 - BBC

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The UN is investigating reports of a massacre by Ugandan rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A senior UN official says as many as 100 people were killed in the alleged attack, which is believed to have taken place in February. John Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, said on a visit to the country that an investigation was under way. If the claims are true it would bring the number of people killed between December and March to more than 500. Mr Holmes said rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army had carried out the massacre in the village of Kpanga in the north-east of the country, near the border with southern Sudan and the Central African Republic ...

Top UN man investigates massacre claims in DR Congo
02.05.2010 - BBC

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Die "Widerstandsarmee des Herrn" hat in den vergangenen Monaten in Uganda rund 700 Menschen entführt, unter ihnen mindestens ein Drittel Kinder. Die Rebellen machen Kinder zu Soldaten und Sexsklaven ...

Die Presse: Uganda: Rebellen verschleppen Hunderte Kinder

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The United Nations warns that attacks by Ugandan rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army could completely paralyse the breadbasket of South Sudan. Violence blamed on the group has displaced about 25,000 people there this year alone.

Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports from Nzara in South Sudan, an area facing increasing attacks from LRA fighters.

LRA raids increasing in south Sudan
20.08.2010 - Aljazeera



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USA und Frankreich unterstützen die Zentralafrikanische Republik im Kampf gegen die Rebellen aus Uganda. Weil die Armee nichts unternimmt, werden Selbstverteidigungsgruppen aufgestellt ...

LRA-Rebellen in Zentralafrika: Krieg den "Tongo-Tongo"
20.08.2010 - taz

When the dreadlocked gunmen burst out of the jungle at night firing AK-47 assault rifles, the men of the village took up bows and arrows to defend their families. But the brave defence was futile. The rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) simply shot the men and dragged off others into the forest to join their force. "Two of us were killed, and three more wounded," said Vanetta Tamenda, who fled as the rebels began their work, torching his small farming village of Basukangbi, on south Sudan's remote border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ...

LRA spreading reign of terror in south Sudan
22.08.2010 - AFP

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Caritas international und das UN-Flüchtlingskommissariat UNHCR evakuieren zurzeit 1.500 Flüchtlinge aus der Zentralafrikanischen Republik in ein sicheres Flüchtlingscamp in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, das von Caritas errichtet worden ist. Die Menschen mussten nach Angriffen der ugandischen Rebellenorganisation "Widerstandsarmee des Herrn" (Lords Resistance Army, LRA) zwischen März und Mai 2010 aus ihren Heimatdörfern fliehen [...] In einer ersten Phase werden zunächst ca. 1500 Flüchtlinge in Kpala-Kpala nahe der Stadt Bondo mit Notunterkünften, Nahrungsmitteln und anderen Bedarfsgütern unterstützt ...

Ugandische 'Lords Resistance Army' entführt hunderte Menschen - Caritas international errichtet Flüchtlingscamp
27.08.2010 - caritas

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The night began like any other. Sarah John was busy preparing the evening fire at her village, when suddenly, seven armed men appeared from among the shadows. "They were dirty and smelly, had ragged clothes and hair unlike any normal human being," she says now, three weeks after the incident. The uninivited visitors began ransacking her place, destroying whatever they could not carry away. When the intruder assigned to guard her stepped away to relieve himself, she escaped ...

The Ruthless Guerrilla Movement That Won't Die
31.08.2010 - Time

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The Ugandan rebels Lord’s Resistance Army(LRA) has killed eight people in raids over the weekend in South Sudan’s state of Western Equatoria, a local official has said ...

LRA rebels kill eight in South Sudan raid, local official says
07.09.2010 - Sudan Tribune

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The rebel Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), a signatory of a ceasefire agreement and currently negotiating peace deal with Khartoum in Doha, said today their troops were attacked in South Darfur by the notorious Ugandan rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The attack took place in the remote area of South Darfur, Davaq, which also borders West Bahr El-Gazal state and Central African Republic (CAR) in the morning of Thursday 2 September ...

Darfur rebels say LRA attacked their positions near Central African Republic
09.09.2010 - Sudan Tribune

Two attacks by Ugandan rebels on a town in the north of the Central African Republic left 16 people dead including two civilians, police said Thursday. The rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacked on Monday and Tuesday the town of Ouandda Djalle, according to regional police headquarters in Birao contacted by phone from Bangui. "During the first attack (Monday), five rebels were killed as well as two members of the self-defence committee of Ouandda Djalle. A third person was seriously wounded," a police official said ...

16 killed in Ugandan LRA attacks in C.Africa: authorities
09.09.2010 - AFP

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THE residual LRA rebels’ delegation to the stalled Juba peace talks has written to the secretary general of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon, appealing for the resumption of negotiations with the Government. In a September 6 letter, the LRA supporters asked the UN boss to take urgent steps to bring the peace talks back on track ...

LRA wants peace talks resumed
13.09.2010 - New Vision

The Regional Conference of Religious Leaders on the Impact of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) called on the regional governments of the four countries - Uganda, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central African Republic (CAR) - and the international community to seek peaceful settlements to end more than two decades of death, rape and destruction at the hands of Joseph Kony and his cruel fighters ...

Religious leaders recommend peaceful settlement to LRA insurgence
14.09.2010 - Sudan Tribune

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The Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) on Thursday called for the quick and timely provision of security information, saying that delays in passing on sensitive information to relevent authorities in the region, such as that relating to security, results in delays in crucial intervention. Kuol Deim Kuol, official spokesman of the SPLA told Sudan Tribune from Juba that the latest Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) attack in western Equatoria, occurred just eight miles away from Yambio, capital of the state and the information about their presence was not passed onto the SPLA forces in the area early enough ...

South Sudan army calls for quick provision of security information
17.09.2010 - Sudan Tribune

Mit einer von über 30 Kirchen- und Regierungsvertretern aus vier afrikanischen Ländern unterzeichneten Erklärung hat der Bischof von Tombura-Yambio (Südsudan), Edward Hiiboro Kussala, die internationale Gemeinschaft erneut um Hilfe im Kampf gegen die Rebellenarmee "Lord´s Resistance Army" gebeten. Bischof Edward Hiiboro Kussala: „Es ist einfach zu viel für uns!" ...

Südsudan bittet um Hilfe gegen Rebellenarmee
17.09.2010 - Zenit

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Uganda has offered to train troops of the Democratic Republic of Congo, its former foe, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Felix Kulayigye said Tuesday. "It is the first time that Uganda is offering her military academies to train Congolese government soldiers," [...] The Ugandan and Congolese armies are conducting joint operations against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in DR Congo and the Central African Republic. Congolese troops fighting rebels from the Allied Defence Forces (ADF) in eastern DR Congo close to the Ugandan border are benefiting from Ugandan intelligence. The two ministers, who will meet again in November, agreed to do everything possible to neutralise the LRA and the ADF, a joint statement said ...

Uganda offers to train DR.Congo troops
21.09.2010 - AFP

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The report must have caused a furor when it reached the Kinshasa headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo: Last week, residents of Duru, a town of several thousand residents in Congo's inaccessible northeast, told peacekeepers at a nearby U.N. base that the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebel group had just attacked and abducted several people ...

War is Boring: Congo Peacekeepers Always a Step behind LRA
22.09.2010 - WPR

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