Rebels hack and burn 51 villagers to death
More than 50 people have been burned and hacked to death when rebels attacked a village in northern Uganda.
Lord's Resistance Army rebels assaulted the village of Lapono, 240 miles north of Kampala, and forced residents into huts, which were then set on fire.
The rebels killed others with machetes, axes and clubs, leaving 51 people dead in total.
In a separate rebel attack on Saturday, at least 80 people were killed and dozens injured in the nearby village of Aymel.
The Lord's Resistance Army includes remnants of a northern rebellion that began after President Yoweri Museveni, a southerner, seized power in 1986.
Fighting flared after Ugandan troops moved into neighbouring southern Sudan in March and destroyed LRA bases.
The insurgents moved back to Uganda where they have terrorized civilians by looting villages and abducting children for use as soldiers or sex slaves.
