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ADF rebels killed in army crackdown

    NAIROBI
    The Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) has killed at least 34 rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the Ruwenzori area and captured five others during a week-long crackdown in the mountain ranges, the semi-official 'New Vision' daily reported. It said a joint force of UPDF and Local Defence Units (LDUs) destroyed seven camps and seized arms and ammunition in the swoop. In another incident, the paper noted that government troops killed 15 Rwandan Hutu extremists at the Virunga National Park in a battle at Kihito, some 50 km inside the Democratic Republic of Congo. The government has launched a massive mopping up exercise to flush out rebels in the Bundibugyo district.

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