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Mutilation Sparks Uganda Outrage Over War
Reuters Sunday, May 2, 2004; 9:35 AM By Daniel Wallis

LIRA, Uganda (Reuters) - Sophia Apio dared not utter a sound as Ugandan rebels sliced off her lips and ears with a razor blade. They had threatened to hack her to death with machetes if she cried.

Apio, her husband Ojede and six others were captured by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) while scavenging for food in northern Uganda, where a 17-year-old war has forced about 1.5 million people to flee their homes.

Shadowy LRA rebels led by Joseph Kony, a former altar boy turned self-proclaimed mystic, typically target civilians in their brutal war against the government.

Tens of thousands of children have been abducted and forced by the LRA to become fighters, porters and sex slaves.

Apio, 35, was living in Aloi camp for people displaced by the fighting in Lira district, but, ravaged by hunger, she and the others ventured out on foot into the bush in search of food.

"Between the camp and the village we saw the rebels. Rebels in the trees, rebels in the bushes," she says, dabbing at the saliva that now runs unchecked down her chin.

"We tried to run but very soon they had surrounded us."

On a signal from an LRA commander, Apio's husband and the six others were killed -- their heads smashed in by fighters wielding heavy wooden clubs.
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:hmm: Perhaps the UN doesn't care about Africa...unless the US and our allies are involved, or course...
 
Gato_Solo said:
:hmm: Perhaps the UN doesn't care about Africa...unless the US and our allies are involved, or course...
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Which seems accurate though I would mention that if they dont benefit from it, they wont care either.
 
nah we will live to see the day
I should say rue the day
when it becomes apparent that we will
have to go and clean that place up too
just gotta finish the job in the Middle-East first...
 
Uganda is a little tricky to get to being landlocked and all with nations that won't let us through. It calls for about 3,000,000 daily tv dinners right now more than arms. Even if we did go in shooting and took over... whom do we give power to? All major players are absolutely whacko. It would become a mini-Vietnam. They control no vital resources, they do not have international weapons to threaten external interests, they have been doing this for 30 years. This is a minor war requiring some of our low-tech international brothers to help out with. I suggest Brazil, Argentina, Poland ... all supported with a Japanese fleet.
 
flavio said:
Where's Bush with Operation Ugandan Paradise?
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Like you'd support that. :rolleyes: Whenever the US military gets involved doing anything[/] folks of your ilk are the first to line up with protest signs.
 
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