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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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This topic is giving "I am a bigot" vibes
*Spits thick saliva and walks out*

Hmmn... these people really got dark complexion mehn

The colonialists are trying hard to use terrorism to destabilise African countries that say no to LGBTQ and exploitation of resources.

But whether na the news dey confuse me abi na the blogger's caption, I no know. Which Christian terrorists come or came from Sudan?

They should come and help us destroy the northern nigeria islam extremist

Blood sucking Jesgod bastards

Reinaldo:
This topic is giving "I am a bigot vibes"
*Spits thick saliva and walks out*

Are you afraid of your blood sucking idol ?? 😂

Bastard hypocrite 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😹😅

immortalcrown:
Whether na the news dey confuse me abi na the blogger's caption, I no know.

Which Christian terrorists come or came from Sudan?

Meanwhile, the colonialists are trying hard to destabilise African countries that reject LGBTQ and exploitation of resources.

Show me where you see sudan in the post bloody hypocrites that are too shy to accept their infants blood sucking jesgod

Kseeker:
Show me where you see sudan in the post bloody hypocrites that are too shy to accept their infants blood sucking jesgod

Sudan is mentioned at least 6 times in the post. You are the bloody hypocrite here.

[quote author=immortalcrown post=125195737][/quote]Your idol 🤩 jesgod kill infants Abi e no kill

Kseeker:
Your idol 🤩 jesgod kill infants Abi e no kill

First of all, prove I have an idol called jesgod.

immortalcrown:
Sudan is mentioned at least 6 times in the post. You are the bloody hypocrite here.

Anyway the incidence according to OP happened in UGANDA..use your phone to browse your fellow christian terrorist. Lord(Jesus) Resistance Army

Kseeker:
Anyway the incidence according to OP happened in UGANDA..use your phone to browse your fellow christian terrorist. Lord(Jesus) Resistance Army

Your cafty attempt to change the topic shows you are the bloody hypocrite who argues without facts. You obviously comment without reading posts, that's why you quickly claimed Sudan is not mentioned in the post. Shame on you. You called me a bloody hypocrite and claimed my comment does not follow the post. Now that I have proven to you that my comment follows the post, you want to quickly divert to what the post is not about.

Kseeker:
Why do your idol jesgod love sucking infants blood

Terrorist. I know that you are looking for attention but I am not going to give to you mumu

EbolaTinubu:
Terrorist. I know that you are looking for attention but I am not going to give to you mumu

I'm not surprised, idol jesgod is known for slaughtering even infants

immortalcrown:
Your cafty attempt to change the topic shows you are the bloody hypocrite who argues without facts. You obviously comment without reading posts, that's why you quickly claimed Sudan is not mentioned in the post. Shame on you. You called me a bloody hypocrite and claimed my comment does not follow the post. Now that I have proven to you that my comment follows the post, you want to quickly divert to what the post is not about.

Read the post again

Kseeker:
Read the post again

You are the one who needs to read the post again to confirm that Sudan is mentioned many times in the post. Next time, try to read a post and understand it before commenting on it.

Kseeker:
Are you afraid of your blood sucking idol ?? 😂

Bastard hypocrite 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😹😅

Idile yin ni bastard

*Blows heavy mucus on his empty head*

Reinaldo:
Idile yin ni bastard

*Blows heavy mucus on his empty head*

That jesgod work.

Kseeker:
Why do your idol jesgod love sucking infants blood

You should either be abolished or stoned to death or even set you ablaze for blasphemy but it won't happen because Christians tolerates as much nonsense as you can give. You can go on and talk whatever you want; freedom of speech is allowed in Christianity but you won't get that in mushlem or head sl#m*ers religion.

Ikpunnegi01:
You should either be abolished or stoned to death or even set you ablaze for blasphemy but it won't happen because Christians tolerates as much nonsense as you can give. You can go on and talk whatever you want; freedom of speech is allowed in Christianity but you won't get that in mushlem or head sl#m*ers religion.

So, there's peace but here is Jesus Resistance Army killing icer 321 people, a christian terrorist organisation

Ikpunnegi01:
You should either be abolished or stoned to death or even set you ablaze for blasphemy but it won't happen because Christians tolerates as much nonsense as you can give. You can go on and talk whatever you want; freedom of speech is allowed in Christianity but you won't get that in mushlem or head sl#m*ers religion.

This is your idol jesgod sucking infants blood

What did infants do to your idol jesgod