The Lord's Resistance Army blames a breakaway group for the killings. This is a quick excuse and explanation.
Faradje, Doruma and Gurba villages are located in Orientale Province of Congo. The province is a large section in northeast Congo which is bordered by Sudan (to the north) and Uganda (to the east).
Orientale Province is just north of two Kivus (North Kivu and South Kivu) which has been making the news. The Kivus is bordered by Uganda and Rwanda.
All these provinces do not border the Kasai Provinces (Oriental/East and Occidental/West) and are great distances to the east and northeast.
DAILY NATION - Uganda rebels deny killing 200 people.
Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group yesterday distanced itself from the killing of more than 200 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The attacks, which started on Christmas Day, have left close to 200 people dead and more than 20,000 have fled DRC, according to UN humanitarian agency, Ocha.
But speaking to the Nation on phone on Tuesday, LRA Peace delegation leader David Nyekorach Matsanga blamed the attacks on group’s breakaway combatants who he said have since joined the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). According to Dr Matsanga, the attacks were carried out by Battalion 105 on orders of the government of Uganda.
According to the UN, the killings were reported to have been carried out between December 25 and December 27 in Faradje, Doruma and Gurba villages by LRA fighters fleeing a two-week-old multinational military offensive led by Uganda.
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