DR Congo's terrain with dense forest, the ADF rebels' adaptive tactics of dodging direct combat while using civilians as human shields, and lack of infrastructure have combined to gift the rebels a lifeline, Ugandan army says.
Operation Shujaa covers 17,160 square kilometres from Kyavinyonge near Lake Edward in North Kivu province to Mont Hoyo in Ituri province in the North, eastern DRC.
In August, the joint forces killed two ADF commanders — Juruga Ahmed from Yumbe District in Uganda and a foreign fighter only identified as Abdul from Somalia in a raid in the region, seven kilometres west of Mboga, between Malibongo and Maraya, the statement said. Local politicians, civil society activists, non-governmental organisations and international experts say the joint operation has only succeeded using long range weapons to combat the ADF.
Uganda launched their operation with artillery and airstrikes on November 30 before infantry and mountain brigade crossed into DR Congo on December 1 last year. “Operation Shujaa has become a tree that hides the forest. Apart from the first two or three days of the launch of these operations when the Ugandan army bombarded the positions of the ADF in the forest of Beni, the rebels operate as before,” says Jimmy Nzially Lumangabo, National Coordinator of Positive Generation-DRC, a civic movement.
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