[1] Human Rights Watch (HRW) believes the attacks, which killed 321 people, were perpetrated by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which denied responsibility.

[1] According to Human Rights Watch, LRA forces attacked at least 10 villages, capturing, killing, and abducting hundreds of civilians, including women and children.

The vast majority of those killed were adult men, whom LRA combatants first tied up and then hacked to death with machetes or crushed their skulls with axes and heavy wooden sticks.

[4] News reports stated that the villagers who were spared were sent away with their lips and ears cut off as a warning to what would happen to other people if they talked.

[6] A clergyman from Isiro-Niangara confirmed the HRW reports stating that at least 30 LRA members were involved in the attacks and that "between 200 and 400" had been kidnapped.