Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday vowed to eliminate the militants responsible for massacring at least 41 people in a “cowardly, terrorist” attack on a school in the country’s west.
“Their action — the desperate, cowardly, terrorist action — will not save them,” Museveni said in a statement issued by his press office in Kampala, his first remarks since the attack late Friday by militants linked to the Islamic State group.
Ugandan authorities have blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia based in DR Congo, and are pursuing the attackers who fled back toward the border with six abductees.
“Their action — the desperate, cowardly, terrorist action — will not save them,” said Museveni.
Fifteen others from the community, including five girls, were still missing, said Eriphaz Muhindi, chairman of Kasese district, which shares a long and forested border with DR Congo.
This is indeed a great loss. We all will sincerely pray to God that he relieves the people of Uganda and most especially the family of the victims of this unbearable pain. May their soul rest in perfect peace.