... Lendu for the attack on the French patrol. The Lendu could not be reached to comment. Later. French troops scoured the hilly area from where the fire had come but found nothing - "no corpses, nothing," Pons said. Roots of conflict ...
... Lendu fighters launched dawn raids on positions held by the Union of Congolese Patriots, or UPC, a group from the Hema rival ethnic group that controls the town. The Lendu militia was after positions it lost to the UPC about 10 days ago ...
... Lendu civilians in. "There is a real massacre that took place there," Wamba -told The. Associated Press from Kampala, the Ugandan capital. "After the Lendu attacked the airport in Bunia, the Hema took machetes, going around town killing any ...
... Lendu for the attack on the French patrol. The Lendu could not be reached for comment. Later, French troops scoured the hilly area from where the fire had come but found nothing - "no corpses, nothing," Pons said. The Hema and Lendu ...
... Lendu fighters marched down Lu- mumba Boulevard toward the town of Madzi-Pella three miles away — the stronghold of their mortal enemies, the Hema. As the Lendu fanned through the city, hunting their enemies, the U.N. soldiers could do ...
... Lendu warriors using spears and arrows attacked rival Hema tribesmen Friday in Bunia, a trading town on the border with Uganda. The Ugandan army, deployed in northern Congo in support of anti ... Lendu or anyone looking like Lendu."
... Lendu militias have targeted rival Hema tribespeople with murderous raids and macabre massacres. Hema militia respond by killing Lendu civilians. Recently, raids that were sporadic have become an almost daily event and spread to every ...
... Lendu and Hema tribal factions that has killed hundreds of people in and around the town. The Hema faction, known as the Union of Congolese Patriots, which controls Bunia, said it was Lendu fighters who fired on the French on Saturday ...
... Lendu and Hema tribal militia. SUNDAY, JUNE. The Hema Union of Congolese Patriots, or UPC, which currently controls the town, blamed the Lendu for the attack on the French patrol. The Lendu could not be reached for comment. Later, French ...
... Lendu tribe erected roadblocks near the eastern Congolese town of Bunia in June and began attacking members of the Wahema tribe, said David McAllister, regional representative for Christian Blind Mission. Thousands more have been ...