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To: Brumar89 who wrote (280962)11/4/2013 10:16:29 AM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Christian militants seize teen girls in raid



Kampala - Rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) early on Monday attacked a displaced people's camp in northern Uganda and abducted six teenage girls, a military spokesperson said.

The raiders entered the Pabo camp, the largest in Gulu district, during the night after engaging a dozen soldiers stationed there in a firefight, army spokesperson Lieutenant Paddy Ankunda said.

The rebels also looted several shops near the camp, but no one was hurt during the attack, he said.

The chairman of the local council, Christopher Ojera, said by telephone from Gulu that the rebels had taken advantage of a reduced military presence at the camp.

The camp shelters about 63 000 of an estimated 500 000 people displaced by the unrest in northern Uganda, which began 16 years ago.

The LRA was set up in 1988 by former Roman Catholic catechist Joseph Kony with the declared aim of overthrowing President Yoweri Museveni's government, which it accused of marginalising northern Uganda, and replacing it with a regime based on the Bible's Ten Commandments.

The rebels' main method of recruitment is by abduction, and the group is estimated to have abducted at least 10 000 children and young people in the last six years alone. - Sapa-AFP

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