Ugandan President, Mr Yoweri Museveni, pledged to win the battle against Lord's Resistance Army rebels, speaking during a visit to survivors of one of the group's worst attacks in years.
Local officials said 192 people were killed when LRA attackers rampaged through a camp about 30 kilometres from the northern town of Lira on Saturday, burning people alive as they cowered in their huts.
Mr Museveni, himself a former guerrilla leader, has repeatedly pledged to crush the revolt led by self-proclaimed mystic Mr Joseph Kony that has plagued northern Uganda for most of the president's 18-year tenure in office."We've got a big struggle but we shall win, we have won before," Mr Museveni said in brief remarks to reporters after visiting a hospital in Lira treating more than 50 survivors of the attack nursing bullet wounds and burns.
The Ugandan army says it has killed dozens of rebels in northern Ugandan in recent months, describing recent attacks by the LRA as the "last kicks of a dying horse." The government says it favours a military solution rather than negotiations.