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Gunmen launch deadly attacks on Ugandan police, military
FRANCE 24 - 1 hour ago
Latest update : 2014-07-06
Gunmen killed at least 12 people in what appeared to be coordinated
attacks targeting police posts and military barracks in three
districts near the border with Congo, Uganda's military and police
said on Sunday.
Ugandan police spokesman Fred Enanga said in a statement that the
victims - mostly police and civilians - were killed by "thugs" armed
with guns, spears and machetes.
Seventeen of the gunmen were arrested and are in custody, he said.
Ugandan troops killed at least 41 of the gunmen before containing the
situation, military spokesman Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda said.
The death toll from the Saturday clashes could rise further as
Uganda's security forces pursue the fleeing gunmen, who are believed
to be radical members of a tribal group that has long felt neglected
by the central government.
The attacks took place in Kasese, Ntoroko and Bundibugyo, three
Ugandan districts with a history of anti-government insurgency and
tensions among rival tribes competing for the limited natural
resources in a mountainous region of western Uganda.
Bundibugyo, where the most deadly attacks took place, is a frontier
district located more than 300 kilometres (about 186 miles) from the
capital Kampala.
The attacks were likely carried out by "radical elements" within a
group known as Obusinga bwa Rwenzururu, whose members - from the
Bakonzo tribe - have long had a tense relationship with the
neighbouring Bamba tribe, local police said.
Angelo Izama, a Ugandan analyst with regional security think tank
Fanaka Kwawote, said the Bakonzo and Bamba tribes regularly fight over
natural resources, especially farmland, and that some may feel that
the security forces are not always fair arbiters in such conflicts.
He said it was possible that some members of the local police were
being "individually targeted".
Uganda's military says the recent violence in the region has been
sparked by these longstanding tribal tensions and denies that there
has been a resurgence of militant activity.
Military officials recently warned that an Islamist rebel group known
as the Allied Democratic Forces-National Army for the Liberation of
Uganda (ADF-NALU) - which launched a violent insurgency in the region
in the 1990s - is trying to regroup.
Uganda is concerned that ADF-NALU poses a threat to its oil fields in
the Albertine rift basin where Tullow Oil, Total and China's CNOOC are
preparing to begin commercial production.
The group's fighters are now active mainly in the eastern Democratic
Republic of Congo.
Enanga said security officials are now questioning the suspects to
establish the motive for the attacks. (FRANCE 24 with REUTERS and AP)
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