{UAH} HE ATTACKED A FUNERAL PROCESSION AND FORCD PEOPLE TO COOK THE CORPSE IN SORGHUM AND EAT IT

Uganda Rebels Kill 60, Force
Victims To Eat Corpse
By Paul Busharizi
4-30-2

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Rebels fleeing the Ugandan army in southern Sudan forced 60 mourners in a funeral procession to eat the corpse they were carrying before gunning them down, an army spokesman said Monday.   The army has been chasing Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) from their bases over the border in Sudan in the past month to try and stamp out a 15-year insurgency led by self-proclaimed prophet Joseph Kony.   "Kony attacked a funeral procession of about 60 people, forced them to cook the corpse in sorghum and eat it," army spokesman major Shaban Bantariza told Reuters.   "They thought that they would survive if they obeyed but the rebels shot and killed all of them after they had eaten the corpse."   The attack happened Friday in the Agoro hills near the Sudanese border with Uganda where the rebels have taken refuge from the army's operation "Iron Fist."   Bantariza said Kony -- who wants to found a state based on the Biblical Ten Commandments -- believes the people of the area are helping the Ugandan army in their offensive, which is being conducted with the permission of the Sudanese government.   The massacres happened about a week after Kony ordered a rebel escapee to be tied to a tree and burned to ashes in front of his troops, Bantariza said.   "You cannot begin to make sense of what Kony does, you will just go mad," he said.   The LRA rebels have been fighting a low-intensity war against government troops in northern Uganda from rear bases in southern Sudan since 1987, aiming to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni to rule a fundamentalist Christian state.   As a result of the war about 12,000 children have been abducted and hundreds of thousands of people displaced, aid workers say.   Uganda has in the past accused Khartoum of aiding the rebels while Sudan has accused Kampala of supporting Sudan's own rebel movement, the Sudan People's Liberation Army, which is fighting for greater autonomy for the largely Christian, animist south from the Islamic north.   Both governments agreed to stop aiding each other's dissidents under a peace deal signed in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in 1999. In March, Khartoum gave Ugandan troops permission to enter Sudan and attack the LRA's rear bases.

 

 

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