"U.S. Assisted With Attack on Ugandan Rebels"

Here is a NY times article about the US helping the Ugandan army with an attack on the Lord's Resistance Army (the one that was attacking northern Uganda). This attack went awry and resulted in more civilian deaths. Here is the web address:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/world/africa/07congo.html?_r=1&hp

This is a quote from the article:
"No American forces ever got involved in the ground fighting in this isolated, rugged corner of Congo, but human rights advocates and villagers here complain that the Ugandans and the Congolese troops who carried out the operation did little or nothing to protect nearby villages, despite a history of rebel reprisals against civilians.

The troops did not seal off the rebels’ escape routes or deploy soldiers to many of the nearby towns where the rebels slaughtered people in churches and tried to twist off the heads of toddlers."

Sigh, I guess some things don't changes (look at my earlier blog entries in 2007 to see what I think about the violence caused by the Lord's Resistance Army).