Uganda: Rebel Strike Killed 39, Displaced Thousands, U.N. Says

An attack Sunday by rebels in northern Ugandan on a camp for internally displaced persons killed 39 people and drove thousands from the camp, the United Nations said, calling it an "appalling atrocity." Representatives of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNICEF and the World Food Program travelled to Pagak camp on Monday and found that 544 huts had been burned and that one-third of the camp's 11,000 inhabitants had fled. According to Ugandan army spokesman Shaban Bantariza, members of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army struck the camp Sunday evening in a three-pronged attack targeting residents, guards and patrol units.