KAMPALA: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday (Jun 18) ordered more troops to western Uganda where attackers from a group with links to Islamic State killed at least 37 secondary school students.
Members of the rebel Allied Democratic Forces killed the students late on Friday at Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Museveni said more soldiers had joined the pursuit in the area, which includes Rwenzori Mountain, from where the ADF launched their insurgency against Museveni in the 1990s."Their action, the desperate, cowardly, terrorist action, therefore, will not save them. We are bringing new forces to the Uganda side as we continue the hunting on the Congo side."
The attack drew widespread international condemnation including from the United Nations, the African Union and East African's Intergovernmental Authority on Development. Ugandans were shocked by the attack. Museveni said the government would also investigate if there were any lapses that enabled the attack to happen.
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