Hutu rebels from the FDLR rebel group, which are being hunted by the Rwandan and Congolese armies, move through the forest deep in the bush of eastern Congo, February 6, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O'ReillyFrom Yahoo News/AP:
GENEVA – Ugandan rebels this year have killed around 1,200 Congolese civilians and abducted 1,500, mostly children, in a remote region of northeast Congo, a U.N. official said Friday.
Fighting between government forces and the Lord's Resistance Army rebels has driven another 220,000 Congolese from their homes in the Haut-Uele region, said Ross Mountain, the U.N. chief's deputy special representative to Congo.
The Lord's Resistance Army rebel group is notorious for torturing, raping and mutilating civilians. The group also forces children it abducts to be rebel soldiers, and Mountain said most of the people kidnapped in the first six months of this year were children.
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My Comment: Only 1,200? Millions have died in this region of Africa over the past two decades. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel? .... from my vantage point no. There is too much history and bitterness .... an environment that would take generations to go away if peace should (magically) breakout today.