Uganda LRA rebels 'forcing civilians to join them'
Kampala, 12 Aug-(ANA)-The Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group operating across a large stretch of central Africa, has been accused of a campaign of enforced recruitment.
Human Rights Watch says the group has brutally abducted at least 697 adults and children over the past 18 months.
Civilians were said to have been taken in remote regions of the Central African Republic and the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The LRA, led by Joseph Kony, has its origins in northern Uganda.
Today its fighters are spread across northern DRC, southern Sudan and the east of the CAR.
Some of those abducted managed to escape, bringing with them tales of children forced to kill other children and trained to treat other human beings as animals. (ANA)