LRA Kill 40 in Southern Sudan

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

http://allafrica.com/stories/200407260109.html

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The LRA rebels last week killed about 40 people during a raid on villages in southern Sudan, including seven Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) guerrillas, a church leader and SPLA officials said on Saturday.

"On Friday morning, LRA rebels raided the small village of Moti, came across our small detachment there, overran it and killed seven of our fighters," SPLA liaison officer in Kampala, George Riak, told AFP by telephone.

Moti is a remote village about 50Kms southeast of the Khartoum-held town of Juba. The SPLA, which controls the major part of southern Sudan, has signed a framework peace agreement with Khartoum on ending the 21-year-old civil war in the south.

Another militia force, the Equatorial Defense Forces (EDF), claimed the LRA was aided by the Sudanese government gunships. "Hundreds of LRA rebels supported still by Government of Sudan Army have launched fresh full attack on the village of Moti," EDF's Secretary General, Charles Barnaba Kisanga, said in a press release.
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[wtmusic]

1. The only news is that this is news

This has been going on on a daily basis for 21 years.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. does that mean I shouldn't post this?

:shrug:

[bemildred]

4. No, by all mean, post these.

I've been putting Sudan stories up for years.
Mostly they sink like a stone.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. Absolutely they do

Most Africa news posts and posts about AIDS - they're usually DOA - odd for a place that is supposed to be so proud of caring more than the general public.

[bemildred]

3. Indeed. I think we may be considering a regime change in Sudan.

Otherwise it's hard to explain the sudden interest in this mess.
When Tony Blair takes an interest in a bit of ethnic cleansing
against blacks in sub-Saharan Africa, it's reasonable to wonder
what got his attention. Perhaps this will work out better than
Somalia did.

[David__77]

5. LRA in Sudan?

I thought of the Lord's Resistance Army as a Ugandan group. I didn't know they were bust slaughtering Sudanese too. Interesting, fascist-theocratic outfit. So they are killing the Christian Sudanese...

[bemildred]

7. The fictitious nature of international borders is clearer

in some places than others. The nexus of Sudan, Uganda, Congo
etc. is one of those places.

Edit: LRA seems to be singularly indiscriminate in it's activities.