Quote Originally Posted by M-A Lagrange View Post
Well, actually it is widely agreed, shared and known that it was LRA. After this incident in 2006, LRA was labelled as "special forces" by the UN and no troops contributors did want to conduct any "find and ..." missions on LRA.

This is way in 2008 and 2009 when the peace talk went wrong MONUC did not respond to LRA killings (800 civillians).
Even more absurd, the MONUC HQ in Kisangany was dismanteled just several weeks before this happened.
The LRA are equivalent to "special forces"? Not sure about that.

Also not sure about what chance of success an 80 patrol would have in a strange and foreign jungle which the hunting grounds of the LRA.

I would assume this operation was an aberration. And there is no military skill in killing 800 civilians.

I need to try and find out more about the results of combat between the LRA and the Ugandan Army. I accept that the leadership of the LRA which has been there for years now has become wily and cunning and they know the terrain like the back of their hands. But that is about as far as I'm prepared to go on this.