A brutal attack on a school by suspected extremist rebels left 42 people dead, most of them students
, most of them students, as security forces stepped up patrols along the frontier with volatile eastern Congo.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the attack in a statement, urging “the importance of collective efforts, including through enhanced regional partnerships, to tackle cross-border insecurity between and Uganda and restore durable peace in the area.” In a statement on Sunday, his first comment on the incident, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni described the attack as “criminal, desperate, terrorist and futile,” vowing to deploy more troops on the Ugandan side of the border.
The attack followed the same playbook: violence against students. The attackers targeted two dormitories, using extreme force when the boys resisted, according to Ugandan officials. The raid appears to have taken Ugandan authorities by surprise: first responders arrived after the attackers had left. But attacks by the ADF on the Ugandan side of the border are rare, thanks in part to the presence of an alpine brigade of Ugandan troops in the region.under a military operation to hunt ADF militants down and stop them from attacking civilians across the border.
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