Uganda calls UN to rout out LRA rebels from Sudan, Congo
Jan 29, 2006 (KAMPALA) — The Ugandan government has appealed to the United Nations (UN) and the international community to rally behind its efforts to rout out the rebels currently hiding in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC).
According to a report from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) Radio on Sunday, the call was made by Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa at the UN Security Council meeting.
Kutesa told the meeting that a group of Ugandan rebels continueto terrorize innocent people in northern Uganda, Sudan and the DRC.
The minister stressed that the Ugandan government was committedto restoring peace in the north.
The UN Security Council condemned the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels for killing innocent people in the Great Lakes region.
The UN Security Council also noted with regret that the Ugandanrebels recently killed UN peacekeepers in eastern DRC.
The LRA rebels, based in southern Sudan, have killed tens of thousands civilians, abducted over 20,000 children and displaced over 1.4 million people in their nearly 20-year rebellion in northern Uganda.
A group of LRA rebels, who entered eastern Congo from southern Sudan in September last year, on Monday killed eight Guatemalan peacekeepers in eastern Congo and the UN has called on the DRC transitional government “immediately to take all necessary measures to bring to justice those responsible for this attacked.”
(Xinhua)