Toward the end of a three-month multinational offensive against them, Ugandan LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) rebels in northern Congo hacked 12 people to death and kidnapped around 40 others, according to rights activists.
The US military helped the Ugandan government finance and plan an attack on a rebel group that went awry in Congo, with fighters from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army killing up to 900 civilians as they fled, The New York Times reports.
A gang of 13 rebels from the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army killed more than 100 people in a January 16 attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN has reported.
The Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda (LRA) reportedly killed 189 people over a period of three days between Dec. 25 and Dec. 27 in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN humanitarian agency OCHA said citing local authorities.
The Ugandan army on Sunday blamed rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army for the slaughter of at least 45 people in a church in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Most of the victims are said to have been killed with machetes and clubs.
The UN Security Council has unanimously backed a joint military offensive by Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Sudan against the Lord's Resistance Army but urged the offensive to be conducted in line with international law.
Troops from Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Sudan launched military operations against Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army and have destroyed its main camp, a joint military statement said.
