Uganda Stands in Front of the Uncertain Future!

The United Nations issued a report about the crimes committed by LRA in Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has killed and abducted thousands of children, men and women in its homeland, Sudan and DRC.

The United Nations reported what the international organization called rampage of killings, rape and mutilation in the neighbouring countries, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The UN report says the Ugandan rebel; the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has killed 1,300 civilians, abducted 1,400 including hundreds of women and children, and displaced almost 300,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan.

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) raids different areas in the Ugandan borders with DRC and southern Sudan many times. LRA is also notorious for two decades of murderous rampages in its homeland, according to the United Nations.

Joint reports by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Mission in the DRC (MONUC) and the Untied Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), have detailed those murderous rampages.

Reports called for international action to halt the slaughter and bring those accountable for such crimes to trial. The report on Sudan said, "The brutality employed during the attacks was consistent, deliberate and egregious," and suggested that machetes, axes, knives and hoes were used as preferred weapons even against babies.

The United Nations said the report cited gruesome witness accounts, including that of a man who reported discovering the mutilated body of a fellow villager, as the villager's leg had been chopped off, his jaws had been dislocated and his teeth had been pulled out.

The report of the Democratic Republic of Congo said that LRA killed at least 1,200 people in DRC, abducted 1,400 people and displaced 230,000 people in dozens of attacks on towns and villages in Orientale province in the period from September 2008 to June 2009.

These attacks involved mutilations, torture and multiple rapes. The junta often raped women and girls before they killed them. They forced many of the abducted to marry LRA members and subjected them to sexual slavery, or both.

While people buried the dead in the town of Batande, they testified to the UN human rights staff that they have found a dozen of women with their hands tied, cloths torn and legs apart.

The UN said two groups of between 100 and 150 LRA fighters killed at least 477 civilians and abducted hundreds of people in most devastating wave of synchronized attacks during the 24 hours period on Christmas Day in 2008.

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