A burned out building in Faradje, where rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army have terrorized communities. (Vanessa Vick for The New York Times )From International Herald Tribune:
DUNGU, Congo: The American military helped plan and pay for a recent attack on a notorious Ugandan rebel group, but the offensive went awry, scattering fighters who carried out a wave of massacres as they fled, killing as many as 900 civilians.
The operation was led by Uganda and intended to crush the Lord's Resistance Army, a brutal rebel group that had been hiding out in a Congolese national park, rebuffing efforts to sign a peace treaty. But the rebel leaders escaped, breaking their fighters into small groups that continue to ransack town after town in northeastern Congo, hacking, burning, shooting and clubbing to death anyone in their way.
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My Comment: Africa (with U.S. assistance) is going to have many more military operations targeting small and violent rebel groups. Let us hope that something was learned from this operation, and that 900 lives were not lost in vain.
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