Adf is an islamist group that originated in uganda. they waged war. the attackers were about five in number. they were initially led by ugandans and they waged war against the yoweri museveni government in the 1990s. they were based in that same region in the rwenzori mountains and they were pushed in the 90s into the drc. but even then, their methods of operation were very similar to what happened friday night. they burned villages, attacked travellers on buses, and in 1998 they had attacked a technical school and killed about 80 students there. they burned their dormitories down as well. but in the last couple of decades, they ve only been based in eastern drc, except for 2021, when a series of suicide bombs in kampala were blamed on them. the rebels now say they are linked
To experience this kind of attack. in the last couple of years there have been small scale bomb attacks including the capital kampala that the authorities have blamed on this adf group, but western uganda has not been seen as particularly vulnerable to attacks by this group, and certainly the presence of the ugandan army, working with the congolese military, may have provoked the group into this attack, if indeed it was the adf, because we only have the official saying it was. but parents will be absolutely desperate now, also knowing that the army says that the rebels were in that area for about two days before the attack happened, so some questions about intelligence and why