Ugandan troops killed a senior rebel from the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the north of the east African country, the army said on Thursday, according to Reuters. Brigadier Dominic Ongwen was one of the most feared commanders of the cult-like group that has massacred civilians across northern Uganda for the last 19 years, displacing more than 1.6 million people and triggering a humanitarian crisis. A Ugandan army official said he was killed on Friday in a gun battle after his fighters torched scores of huts in northeastern Teso region -- an area that had been relatively free of rebel activity for two years. Colonel Charles Otema-Awany, head of military intelligence in the north, said Ongwen's body was paraded on the streets of Soroti town on Saturday by the resident district commissioner Musa Ecweru, who also heads a local defence militia. Uganda's army said four LRA fighters were also killed in clashes in northern Uganda's Pader district on Wednesday. Another was captured and one surrendered, a spokesman said.
