BBC News with Fiona McDonald.
An investigation by the BBC has found evidence that more than 300 people were massacred in the Democratic Republic of Congo last December by the Lord's Resistance Army, the militia which operates across northern Congo, southern Sudan and central African Republic. Our reporter Martin Plaut who went to northeastern Congo said the killings took place west of the town of Angola and lasted five days.
In a remote region in northeastern Congo, a rain of terror was unleashed on villagers by the Lord's Resistance Army. Fighters, some dressed in army uniforms, attacked civilians, raided homes, looted and raped. Children, their arms and feet bound with wire were marched away in human chains. Anyone who fell behind was hack to death. The United Nations which had warning of the attacks, reinforced their presence in towns, but couldn't guard this isolated villagers. When it was all over, witnesses said the stench of death hang over the area.
The NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has urged the alliance to push ahead with construction of a missile defense system and extended to Russia as well. Mr.Rasmussen said it would reassure America that Europe is ready to invest its own defense. Jonathan Marcus reports.
The NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the missile proliferation threat was real and growing. He drew attention to Iran’s nuclear missile programs as a case in point. But he saw a new Euro-Atlantic missile defense system as he called it as more than just means of defending NATO countries against ballistic missile attack. Mr.Rasmussen clearly believed that such a system could reinvigorate not just the European allies relationship with the United States, but also NATO's whole relationship with Russia.