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Ugandan army kills over 40 rebels in 3 days
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-08-19 16:44
The Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) has killed over 40 rebels of the
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in separate operations in northern Uganda and
southern Sudan in three days of air raids, a senior army officer said on Friday.
Charles Otema Awany, the UPDF intelligence coordinator in northern Uganda,
was quote by the state-owned newspaper the New Vision as saying some 20 LRA
rebels were killed in southern Sudan on Wednesday just after they had crossed
from northern Uganda.
Otema said that during this helicopter raid, the LRA second-in- command,
Vincent Otti narrowly survived the attack.
On Tuesday, 13 rebels were killed in two separate helicopter raids in Atiki,
southern Sudan while on Monday, the UPDF helicopter gunship attacked a rebel
hideout at Kadomera in the northern Ugandan district of Kitgum killing at least
10 rebels.
During these operations several military equipment and looted items were
seized from the rebels.
The LRA rebels have been fighting the government for 19 years, killing tens
of thousands of people and displacing over 1.4 million others.
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