VOICE Injured following LRA attack on village that killed 200

(23 Feb 2004) VOICED BY: AMANDA PALMER



Barloonyo camp, Lira District
0.00 - Men digging graves
0.05 - Hand of dead person
0.09 - Wide of destroyed camp
0.14 - SOUNDBITE: (Lango) Voxpop, Anne, survivor of the massacre:
"A rebel chased me as I ran into my house to grab my children," this woman. "I fled, hiding with my kids in a ditch until the Ugandan military came to our resuce."
0.28 - Wide of camp with people around
0.34 - Men pulling out charred body
0.38 - Woman walking through camp
0.46 - SOUNDBITE: (English) Charles Angiro, MP for Lira district
"This is a real massacre in which we appeal to the international community to come in to intervene and bring this carnage to an end."

Lira Referral Hospital, Lira District
0.56 - Various wounded being treated
1.17 - VISION ENDS

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A rebel attack in northern Uganda has left more than 200 civilians dead.

The Lord''''s Resistance Army carried out the massacre in one of the worst rebel attacks in the African nation''''s 17-year old insurgency.

Government forces swept through the countryside in Lira district on Monday in pursuit of rebel fighters.

VOICE-OVER:
0.02:
Unarmed and under attack.

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More than two hundred civilians living in a refugee camp in northern Uganda died after rebels shot and burnt them alive.

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Survivors gave harrowing accounts of their ordeal.

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UPSOUND: Survivor

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SOUNDBITE: (Lango) Voxpop, Anne, survivor of the massacre:
"A rebel chased me as I ran into my house to grab my children," this woman said. "I fled, hiding with my kids in a ditch until the Ugandan military came to our resuce."

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The attack on Barloonyo camp in the district of Lira was carried out by the Lord''''s Resistance Army.

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The group, which wants Uganda to be ruled by the Ten Commandments, has been fighting the government for 17 years.

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People are desperate for help say officials.

0.46:
SOUNDBITE: (English) Charles Angiro, MP for Lira district
"This is a real massacre in which we appeal to the international community to come in to intervene and bring this carnage to an end."

0.56:
The local hospital is struggling to treat the wounded, many of whom were badly burned.

1.02:
Others are nursing shrapnel and gunshot wounds.

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Survivors will also have to cope with the mental trauma of living through one of the worst rebel attacks in Uganda in a decade.

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VISION ENDS

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