UN mission sent troops to E DRC on reports of civilian massacre _English_Xinhua.
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Friday sent a company of Congolese government troops to the northeast of the country on reports of civilian massacre by Uganda rebels.
Elements of the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) had massacred at least 15 villagers, according to a UN news release. The rebels, fleeing a joint military operation by the DRC, Uganda and Southern Sudan to flush them out of a remote national park in north-eastern DRC, killed the villagers in Faradje, 120 km east of Dungu.
The UN peacekeepers are "gravely concerned by these reports from reliable sources," said the mission, known by its French acronym MONUC.
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