The raiders from the Lord's Resistance Army on Feb. 21 forced many people into their huts and torched them in the camp near the town of Lira, some 360 km north of the capital Kampala, a local member of Parliament said.

The nearly 17-year-old rebel war in northern Uganda pitting the LRA against government troops of President Yoweri Museveni has displaced over 1.2 million people, who live in squalid conditions cramped together in camps set up by the army.

The Japan Times Weekly: Feb. 28, 2004
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