Congolese Bishop Richard Domba Mady terms the latest report on the Lord’s Resistance Army as a document which demonstrates the level of atrocities by the Ugandan rebels, Human Rights Watch writes in the report entitled Trail of Death about the recent massacres committed by the LRA in North Eastern Congo.
Bishop Domba Mady works in the diocese of Doruma-Dungu where the LRA rebels have tormented the population for several years.Bishop Mady said the researchers of the human rights organization made serious investigations, traved lled the area attacked by rebels and interviewed survivors.
According to the report, the LRA fighters attacked 10 villages, killed and captured hundreds of civilians, including women and children.
Most victims are men whom the fighters first tied to trees and then killed with machetes or crushed their heads using a hatchet and wooden clubs.
The bishop expressed hope that the Congolese authorities and the international community finally act to stop these killings.
In the meantime eyewitnesses reported that suspected LRA rebels attacked Nartiza Village six miles from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria.
One of them told Miraya FM that five armed men in military uniforms looted his house and abducted his grandfather.
The commissioner of Yambio County, David Beilly, acknowledged the presence of LRA activities in the area but declined to confirm the incident.