Kony's killers

International | UGANDA: A rebel group is on the move again in Uganda, and a pair of American missionaries may have been its latest victims | Mindy Belz

ARMED INTRUDERS DRESSED IN military uniforms shot and killed schoolteachers Warren and Donna Pett during an overnight raid on March 18 at the technical school where they worked in Uganda. The killings highlighted not only the elevated danger faced by Americans working overseas but also a little-noticed civil war in northern sectors of Uganda, where President Yoweri Museveni is regarded as a key U.S. ally in Africa.

The raid occurred at a school near Yumbe, only miles from Uganda's northwest border with Sudan. The Petts, dairy farmers from Wisconsin, went to work at the school exactly one year ago after a previous tenure with Africa Inland Mission in Nairobi. Both 49 and the parents of three grown children living in the United States, the couple were killed in their home, along with a Ugandan student who, according to sources at the school, was trying to protect them. Several huts in the area were burned. The raiders, who locals said included about seven men dressed in military uniforms, stole money from a female German missionary living at the school.