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UPDF’s Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, Monday confirmed that Sudanese militia, the Janjaweed, not LRA rebels, probably killed over 10 Ugandan soldiers in the Central African Republic (CAR) recently.

“They were around 300 heavily armed militias that attacked UPDF. The UPDF were few. They were patrolling before they were attacked and overpowered,” the sources said. Lt. Col. Kulayigye insisted he was not aware of the militia attack. “I don’t have that information,” he said.

Nyakairima added that Kony, who fled to the DR Congo and later to the Central African Republic, after the UPDF flushed him out of Uganda, had “no capacity to abduct and cannot replenish military wise”, but was in the “business of stealing so that he can live for another day”.

“Kony’s capacity to cause untold suffering in northern Uganda during the over 20-year long insurgency had been reduced. If he was causing chaos in neighbouring countries, there would be refugees in our country,” Nyakairima stressed.