Ugandan Rebel Group Abducts 700 to Replenish Ranks, HRW Says
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Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army abducted about 700 people, a third of them children, over the past 18 months as the group seeks to replenish its ranks, Human Rights Watch said.
A military campaign against the LRA in northeastern Congo by the Congolese and Ugandan armies has forced the rebels into remote regions of Central Africa, where they are kidnapping people, the New York-based rights group said in an e-mailed statement late yesterday. The rebels killed more than 250 people in the region over the same period.