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Obama sends 100 U.S. troops to Uganda to help fight rebels
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| News Date | Monday, October 17, 2011 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | US President Barack Obama said Friday he is sending 100 “combat-equipped” troops to Uganda to help and advise forces battling Lord’s Resistance Army rebels accused of grievous human rights abuses.
The US troops, subject to the approval of national authorities, could also deploy from Uganda into South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Obama said in a message to Congress.
LRA rebels are accused of terrorizing, murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of people in the four nations, and tens of thousands of people died in their 20-year war with security forces in northern Uganda.
“These forces will act as advisors to partner forces that have the goal of removing from the battlefield Joseph Kony and other senior leadership of the LRA,” Obama said, but warned they would not lead the fighting themselves. |
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