Ugandan Rebels Deny
Congo Killings
Uganda's
Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group says a report that its
members killed hundreds of villagers in the Democratic Republic
of Congo late last year was fabricated.
In a report, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said 321
people were massacred in a killing spree that took place in
villages in DRC's remote northeast in December.
LRA's Nairobi-based spokesman, Justine Labeja, said the claims
of massacres, coming almost four months late, are yet another
fabrication by NGOs, which are advocating war.
Labeja said although the LRA was in Congo, they do not have
problem with the Congolese people or its government and vowed to
continue to call for a ceasefire to end the war.
Colonel Michael Anywar, an LRA official in the Kenyan capital,
accused the United Nations of making the rebel group a scapegoat
and an excuse to stay in the mineral-rich nation.
The group, which is led by Joseph Kony and is accused of turning
boys into child soldiers and girls into sex slaves, says it
wants to rule Uganda according to the Bible's Ten Commandments.
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