Allied Democratic Forces
The Allied Democratic Forces (abbreviated ADF or ADF-Nalu ) is a Ugandan guerrilla organization that was founded in 1995 as an opposition group against the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni . The ADF has been headed by Jamil Mukulu, a former Christian who converted to Islam, since 2007 and is now made up of Islamists from the Tabligh movement.
The ADF first fought the Ugandan central government in Kampala from the Ruwenzori Mountains and then later withdrew to the Ituri district in eastern Congo . It consisted, among other things, of remnants of the battered West Nile Bank Front (WNBF) , the National Army For The Liberation Of Uganda (NALU) , the Uganda Mujahedin Movement (UMM) and ideologically unsound Bakonjo fighters.
The ADF was at the height of its activity in 1999 by the Ugandan government to be more dangerous than the more famous Lord's Resistance Army held (LRA). Similar to the LRA, the ADF was initially supported by Sudan and initially also represented the military interests of the regime in Khartoum during the Second Congo War . Although the existence of the ADF was never the subject of the Ugandan-Sudanese peace negotiations, Sudan's sponsorship ended with the peace treaty of December 1999. Numerous expulsions in Eastern Congo and bomb attacks in Kampala are said to be the responsibility of the ADF. In December 2005, a joint military operation by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United Nations crushed the remnants of the Allied Democratic Forces in the Ituri district, with numerous civilian soldiers escaping. The military strength of the troops, which were severely frayed after Operation North Night Final , will be a source today ? estimated at around 900 poorly equipped fighters, who are no longer supported by anyone and only occasionally take action for unrecognizable reasons.
On December 13 and 14, 2013 there were again reports of bloody massacres by the Muslim militia. Villagers in eastern DR Congo reported that the attackers were ADF-Nalu fighters who attacked two villages, killing at least 21 people. Among her victims were children, some of whom were raped and beheaded.
On October 17, 2014, around 20 women and children died in an ADF massacre in the province of North Kivu in Mwalika , Bundiguya and Eringeti . The presence of around 20,000 blue helmet soldiers (see MONUSCO ) has so far only done little to counteract the terror of the ADF. Three days earlier, more than 20 people had died in the villages of Ngadi and Kadu.
On December 25, 2016, the ADF killed at least 22 people in the town of Eringeti, among other places.
During Holy Week 2018, several attacks were carried out in Goma ( Congo ), in which at least 11 people were killed. The attacks were attributed to the Ugandan ADF militia by local authorities.
In November 2019, the ADF killed 14 civilians.
In May 2020, the ADF used machetes to murder 17 people in Makutano and at least 40 people in Samboko village (Ituri province).
swell
- Portrait of the ADF with many sources ( Memento from May 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Levi Ochieng: Uganda won't find peace , taz.de on January 4, 2000
Individual evidence
- ^ IRIN, Special Report on the ADF rebellion , Africa Center, UPenn, March 2, 2011
- ^ Rebels rape and kill in Congolese villages, Tagesanzeiger, December 2013
- ^ Children among the victims of a savage attack in Democratic Republic of Congo The Telegraph, December 2013
- ↑ Arte Report from January 17, 2015, archive link ( Memento from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Second massacre in days leaves 20 dead in east DR Congo
- ^ United Nations New Center ; DR Congo: UN envoy calls for decisive joint military action to neutralize rebels
- ↑ At least 22 killed in troubled North Kivu province. In: Al Jazeera. December 26, 2016, accessed December 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Suspected rebels kill at least 11 in northeastern Congo. In: Reuters. March 28, 2018, accessed April 22, 2018 .
- ↑ https://taz.de/Neue-Anzüge-im-Kongo/!5645253/
- ↑ Thilo Thielke , FAZ No. 125, p. 7