KAMPALA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Ugandan military has said hundreds of former Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rebel group M23 fighters are still held at a military camp in the western part of the country.
Deputy army spokesperson Henry Obbo said in a statement late on Monday that the defeated fighters who fled to Uganda in 2013 are at Bihanga military training camp in Ibanda district.
He dismissed reports that the former rebels have been crossing back to eastern DRC.
The M23 rebels fled into western Uganda in November 2013 after they were defeated by the United Nations Force Intervention Brigade in the eastern Kivu province.
The M23 rebellion forced thousands of Congolese to flee into western Uganda.
