The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, killed innocent people. This rebel group operates in northeastern Congo.
International news - Radio Netherlands Worldwide - English.
A United Nations agency says a Ugandan rebel movement killed nearly 200 people in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during Christmas. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the Lord's Resistance Army killed 189 people over three days in the villages of Faradje, Doruma and Gurba. A spokesman for the rebels has denied the killings.
Earlier reports said that 45 bodies, apparently also killed by the rebels, had been found in a church in Doruma. It is unclear whether those victims were included in the total announced by the OCHA on Monday.
The Lord's Resistance Army is led by Joseph Kony, who is being sought by a UN tribunal for war crimes. The armies of Uganda, Congo and Sudan have recently begun a military offensive against movement.
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