Lord's Resistance Army Attacks Villages, Kidnaps Children On Sudan-Congo Border (VIDEO)

By Doctors Without Borders

With photography and video by photojournalist Brendan Bannon, Doctors Without Borders brings you the underreported story of hundreds of thousands of Congolese who are fleeing the violent attacks of Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistant Army (LRA).

Following a military offensive against them, the LRA has intensified attacks against civilians. During these attacks, entire Congolese villages are often looted and burned to the ground; people are hacked to death with machetes and women and children are abducted as sexual slaves, forced to carry looted goods or recruited to fight.

Approximately 250,000 people have been displaced from their land and livelihoods, many of them taking refuge in Southern Sudan. These are their stories:

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[Klimb]

03:28 PM on 08/11/2009

History to conflicts in the great lakes region...
http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/5931/2009-08-11.html

[Gail McGowan Mellor]

05:37 AM on 08/11/2009

Thank you Brendan and MSF for compassionate, accurate, courageous reporting and for all you do in the thousand places that you are needed and in spite of often incalculable odds there saving lives.

[mamapanya]

01:36 AM on 08/11/2009

Joethepauper:

Finally! Someone who is really informed about the truth - Sometimes as I read through the "news" on Congo and I see the outrage towards rebels (who are, to put it bluntly, a horrific symptom of the disease). I am amazed at the lack of information regarding who should really be answerable to all these human atrocities. Don't get me wrong, the Congolese governmnent takes first place on the blame list for their refusal and head-in-the-sand approach in accepting what's really in-front of them. They continue to do business as usual while the everyday Congolese has no basic - everyday basic necessities to live on. As they continue to sign private contracts with huge corporations in Canada, Belgium, France and the USA - who do you think is suffering those consequences? I see some HuffPo journalists ranting and raving about Rwanda being the problem - although she has drastically reduced her criticism ever since Kagame detained Nkunda Batkware - its as if they are to blame for all the years that Congo has been pillaged and raped for the last 40 years! - This history has many layers - if you really want to know the truth you will have to scratch the surface.

[Joethepauper]

06:31 PM on 08/10/2009

Besides education and to stop allowing missionaries to go over and fill their heads full of superstitious nonsense, we could stop mining and buying the crap they mine. The Carlisle group owned and operated a mine there (Bush Sr. was one of the "big wigs" of the group, at the time, along with another member named Bin Laden). Anyway, during the Clinton Admin., the workers of the mine went on strike for better wages (they were payed very little anyway for spending all day everyday in a hole doing back-breaking work). After a few weeks of negotiations, they got their raise......or so they thought. As soon as they went back into the mines, the entrance was buldozed-in and they died in the mines. A couple hundred miners, that's all. Carlisle hired the next group of miners (for less) and there was no need (or desire) for anymore "collective bargaining". Look it up!