Lords of woe

摘要

For a man whose job consists largely of counting the massacred, raped and abducted among his flock, Father Benoit Ki-nalegu is surprisingly sunny. He firmly expects Barack Obama to send American forces to intervene soon in the nasty guerrilla conflict on his doorstep. "It's not enough just to send money," he says, sitting in his office in Dungu, in the remote north-eastern part of Congo. Two years ago the Lord's Resistance Army (lra), a Ugandan rebel group, unleashed a brutal campaign, perhaps its bloodiest in more than two decades of its existence, against isolated villages in the ungoverned borderlands straddling northeastern Congo, southern Sudan and the eastern bit of the Central African Republic (car).