Ugandan Army Kills Ex-Seleka in Central Africa Mix-Up

Bangui – Ugandan troops have killed at least 15 former rebels from the Central African Republic after mistaking them for fighters of the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army, police has said.

“Fifteen ex-Seleka members were killed in a clash with the Ugandan army in the village of Kono in the Nzako region” of Central African Republic on Monday, a police official at Bangassou, the main town in the area, said yesterday.

The Ugandan soldiers were hunting down members of the Ugandan rebel group, and in the violent clashes, the former members of the Central African Republic’s Seleka rebellion fled, leaving behind weapons, equipment, uniforms and shoes, the police official said…

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