At least 16 people have been killed during clashes between rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and villagers in the Central African Republic (CAR), a military source from the CAR has said.

LRA fighters – on the run from Uganda where they fought the government for decades before being defeated – attacked two villages in the central mining region of Bria on Thursday, initially killing six people and wounding about 10 others as they looted houses, the source said late on Saturday.

“The rebels were pursued and caught by villagers armed with rifles … who killed four of them,” the source added.

The LRA fighters responded with a fresh attack during which they killed six more people, who they decapitated, placing their heads on tree trunks, he said.

The group committed similar atrocities when they fought in northern Uganda from 1987 to 2005, but have since been forced to flee after suffering a series of defeats.

Joseph Kony, the LRA leader, as well as his senior commanders have been indicted by the International Criminal Court at The Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Kony is said to be holed up in the jungles between Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and CAR.

After the Seleka rebel coalition ousted Francois Bozize, the president of the CAR, in a March coup, interim leader Michel Djotodia vowed to put an end to LRA incursions.

The LRA has killed more than 100,000 people in Central Africa over the past 25 years, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said last month.

The group is also blamed for the abduction of between 60,000 and 100,000 children, many of whom have been forced to fight as child soldiers, Ban said in a report on the region.

Lol

This one is guaranteed to fizzle out because Christians won't support them with donations out of empathy

Africa is Really Blessed

Christian terrorists? This sounds really funny.

The desperation to attach Christianity with terrorism is an idea tht is dead on arrival

Isokotolopia:
The desperation to attach Christianity with terrorism is an idea tht is dead on arrival

is that a lie sir, check LORD RESISTANCE ARMY ON YOUR PHONE

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is that a lie sir, check LORD RESISTANCE ARMY ON YOUR PHONE

Lord Resistance Army are fighting for freedom from the central govt not to establish a Christian state.
Hope you know the difference

Kukutente23:

Lord Resistance Army are fighting for freedom from the central govt not to establish a Christian state.
Hope you know the difference

The Lord's Resistance Army strolled into the village of Palabek one recent morning, a ragged bunch of teen-age boys with machine-guns and machetes. They announced that they were looking for three deserters whom they had abducted from the same village a few months earlier, witnesses said.

They did not find them. So they rounded up nine women and a little girl and took them down to a nearby river bank to interrogate them about the missing boys. That afternoon, growing tired of asking questions, they made the women lie face down on the river bank. Then they went down the line, attacking each woman with stones and a bayonet, a survivor said.

''They are just criminals who came from Sudan,'' said Eveline Achan, a 30-year-old woman who said her wounds had been received in the attack. ''They made us lie down. Don't look at them, they said. And then they killed us one at a time. I was the only one who escaped. They thought I was dead.''

A year after Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni, vowed to wipe out the insurgency in the north of this central African country, the bloodthirsty gangs of self-styled revolutionaries and Christian fundamentalist rebels known as the Lord's Resistance Army have not only survived, but are stepping up their campaign of terror. Theirs is a familiar kind of warfare in this part of the world, repeated in different forms in Rwanda, Burundi and eastern Zaire. Though the rebels claim to be fighting to overthrow Mr. Museveni, their war consists mainly of killing civilians, sowing terror in the countryside and making it appear to Ugandans and the outside world that the central Government cannot control the nation.

''It's not what you would call a bona fide rebellion in the traditional sense,'' a diplomat in Kampala said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. ''I would call them terrorists.''

Militarily, the rebels lack the resources to topple the President, Western diplomats say. They have little support among the people. They survive mostly on the charity of the neighboring Sudan, which arms them to retaliate against Uganda for supporting rebel groups in southern Sudan.

''I don't think their intention is to overthrow the Government,'' said John Bosco Oryem, the chairman of the Kitgum council. ''They are just being used as a whip by Sudan.''Since January, the rebels have stepped up their raids, burning farms and schools and killing at least 400 people in the districts of Kitgum and Gulu, local authorities said. They have also abducted hundreds of young men and women, marching them to training camps in the Sudan, where their leader, Joseph Kony, holds court.

The rebel group began in 1986 as the Holy Spirit Movement, a Christian fundamentalist revolt under the leadership of a cult leader, Alice Lakwena, who claimed to give her followers immunity from bullets by anointing them with holy water .The holy water didn't work, and the movement was crushed by the army. Miss Lakwena fled to Kenya, where she was imprisoned in 1987. But with Sudanese help, Mr. Kony revived the revolt and has been plaguing Mr. Museveni since 1990.

Mr. Kony is a former faith healer who wears white robes and claims to talk directly to God. His followers embrace an eclectic group of beliefs, including prohibitions against riding bicycles, killing pigs and eating white-feathered chickens. Punishment is severe: the rebels have chopped off the feet of young men caught riding bicycles.The recent attacks have devastated the northern provinces, forcing more than 220,000 people to flee their farms at a time when they would normally be harvesting.

With agriculture grinding to a halt and crowds of displaced people jamming towns and refugee camps, the World Food Program, in a $6.7 million relief effort, has begun shipping tons of food into the region to avert famine.

''The big question is, will the security situation allow them to go back to their farms before the March rains?'' asked Herve L. Cheuzeville, an emergency coordinator for the World Food Program in Kitgum. ''We are really praying they can go back to the fields in March. If they can't, it will be a disaster. In six months it will be much worse.''

All along the main roads leading from Kitgum toward the Sudan one can see the rebels' handiwork. There are burned-out farmhouses every mile or so. Here and there the ruins of churches and schools can be seen. There are few people walking on the normally crowded route, but truckloads of soldiers pass by in a dusty whoosh, on their way to search for the rebels.On some farms mangoes are rotting on trees and chickens run wild through the ashy ruins. Still, few of the people in makeshift camps in the towns and trading centers are brave enough to venture back to their farms to get food.

Gabriel Onen is typical of many of the 4,000 farmers who are now camped out around an old hotel in Kitgum town. He was shot in the leg during a rebel attack last September and still uses a crutch. He stayed in his village, however, until another attack just before Christmas. It was too much, he said. He packed up a few belongings and took his wife and five children to town.

''I am not able to do anything,'' he said, two dirty children clinging to his good leg. ''I don't know when I can go home. The village is empty. They are all in the centers now.''

The success of the rebels' tactics has undermined Mr. Museveni's standing among Ugandans, even if he won election last May in a landslide and is presiding over an economic boom.

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What's the source of this epistle?
It sounds like a propaganda piece from Museveni.
But that's not my problem.
What I'm pointing out is they are not fighting for God or for their Christian beliefs. Rather, they see fighting to break free from Uganda. So i don't know how they become Christian terrorists.
Except you mean Christian members of Nigerian army are terrorists.
What describes religious terrorists is that they are fighting for a religious ideology. Like boko Haram are fighting for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate.

Kukutente23:

What's the source of this epistle?
It sounds like a propaganda piece from Museveni.
But that's not my problem.
What I'm pointing out is they are not fighting for God or for their Christian beliefs. Rather, they see fighting to break free from Uganda. So i don't know how they become Christian terrorists.
Except you mean Christian members of Nigerian army are terrorists.
What describes religious terrorists is that they are fighting for a religious ideology. Like boko Haram are fighting for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate.

new york times is a liar too

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new york times is a liar too

And why can't New York Times lie?
Is the paper run by angels?
You still fail to realise that even from your write up, they are not fighting the cause of Christianity but for their homeland.

Kukutente23:

And why can't New York Times lie?
Is the paper run by angels?
You still fail to realise that even from your write up, they are not fighting the cause of Christianity but for their homeland.

I bet you swallowed every propaganda they spread about Taliban? Did you doubt them when they write about Islamic terrorist group defending their homeland against America?

Dennisbulkan:

I bet you swallowed every propaganda they spread about Taliban? Did you doubt them when they write about Islamic terrorist group defending their homeland against America?

Which propaganda did they write about Taliban?

Truthday:
At least 16 people have been killed during clashes between rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and villagers in the Central African Republic (CAR), a military source from the CAR has said....

You are just recycling same story we have debunked for you. LRA has been removed from terrorist group since years ago by USA and international community after finding out it is more tribal and political war. Check current list of current terrorist groups in the world as being maintained by US and show me LRA in the list. 95% of that lists are Islamic terrorists.

You can find more than 70 terrorists groups claiming Islam, but you can't find 5 claiming Christian terrorists. Although, I know you are looking for christians to join your blood sucking islamic terrorist organizations, that is why you always look for information on LRA that you can quickly associate with Christians. Are you not ashamed that despite Christianity is more than Muslims more than a billion in population worldwide, you can only point to only LRA as Christian terrorist, but Islam that is smaller in population worldwide has more than 120 terrorists organizations worldwide.

Islamic terrorists see themselves as soldiers of Islam as commanded by Quran, they believe there is reward for it hereafter, they see themselves as better Muslims than those Muslims that are claiming peace at homes. No Christian terrorist can claim that Jesus instructed them or that they would be rewarded, otherwise; with huge Christian population, if Jesus allows it, even; Islam will not be allowed to spread to this level, Christians would have killed it off since it existed before islam

Truthday:


new york times is a liar too

You are citing from old 1997 to justify your 21st century Islamic killings. Same America later found out LRA is not a terrorist organization by removing their name from the list. Show me authentic current terrorist list from US and indicate where LRA is listed

There's no such thing as Christian terrorists. Muslims are just trying to make sure that they are NOT the only ones known for terrorism.

sreamsense:

You are just recycling same story we have debunked for you. LRA has been removed from terrorist group since years ago by USA and international community after finding out it is more tribal and political war. Check current list of current terrorist groups in the world as being maintained by US and show me LRA in the list. 95% of that lists are Islamic terrorists.

You can find more than 70 terrorists groups claiming Islam, but you can't find 5 claiming Christian terrorists. Although, I know you are looking for christians to join your blood sucking islamic terrorist organizations, that is why you always look for information on LRA that you can quickly associate with Christians. Are you not ashamed that despite Christianity is more than Muslims more than a billion in population worldwide, you can only point to only LRA as Christian terrorist, but Islam that is smaller in population worldwide has more than 120 terrorists organizations worldwide.

Islamic terrorists see themselves as soldiers of Islam as commanded by Quran, they believe there is reward for it hereafter, they see themselves as better Muslims than those Muslims that are claiming peace at homes. No Christian terrorist can claim that Jesus instructed them or that they would be rewarded, otherwise; with huge Christian population, if Jesus allows it, even; Islam will not be allowed to spread to this level, Christians would have killed it off since it existed before islam

Taliban, iRGC, Hamas were also once removed from USA terrorist organisation list too what's the point ? Vindicate them.from killing thousands in name of Jesus ?

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new york times is a liar too

Do they shout praise thy Lord hallelujah when they attack? Just asking because Muslims terrorists do chant Allahu Akbar.

mysticwarrior:
Do they shout praise thy Lord hallelujah when they attack? Just asking because Muslims terrorists do chant Allahu Akbar.

They kill based on their christian ideology

They were also shouting a unique sentence