March 28, 2010 10:31 AM

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321 civilians killed in Congo massacre: Report

<br/>A rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 321 civilians and abducted 250 others, including at least 80 children, in a previously unreported rampage late last year. Human Rights Watch in its report said, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) carried out the brutal campaign in northeastern Congo over four days in December. LRA forces attacked at least 10 villages from December 14 to 17, killing and abducting hundreds of civilians, including women and children. Human Rights Watch, report said, LRA combatants tied up villagers in the nation's remote Makombo area and hacked them to death with machetes or crushed their skulls with axes and heavy wooden sticks. According to those who managed to escape, children captured by the LRA were forced to kill other children who had disobeyed the LRA's rules, the report said.

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