{UAH} VIOLENCE AGAINIST WOMEN IN UGANDA Pg. 811

Friends

 

This is from the Giller’s report that was filed on Uganda after their investigating on how Acholi’s raped women in Luwero. These are the reports that were made by non-Ugandan, but independent people on what UPC now is stating that it happened because Baganda men are sexually weak. The violence Acholi’s did in Luwero as I have stated over and over was backed by The UPC government, we are just now starting to get it from the UPC members that it had to be done for Baganda are weak sexually. Now if Edward Pojim has made such a statement about Baganda one can only expect that West Nile women were as well raped for West Nile men are weak as well.

 

What a day !!!!!!!!!!

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN UGANDA 811

That Ugandan soldiers regard women as property is illustrated

by the following report from the Luwero Triangle (an area in the

center of the country comprising the districts of Luwero, Mpigi

and Mubende from which Museveni launched his drive for power,

and where the war between Obote's troops and Museveni's guerrillas

was most intense). An Obote government soldier abducted

a 14-year-old girl and took her to his base where he repeatedly

raped her. When he was transferred, he sold her for one thousand

Ugandan shillings (about one U.S. dollar) to another soldier; this

soldier sold her again for the same amount when he was transferred

(ISIS-WICCE, 1998, 31).3 This next incident also occurred

during the war in the Luwero Triangle:

G and her twelve-year-old classmate had been taken from

their school by two [government] soldiers who, laughing

and joking between themselves, had slit open the girls' vaginas

with their pangas [machetes] and had raped them on

the open ground outside the school...G survived, and was

taken after several weeks, by the soldier who had raped her,

to be his 'wife', when he was stationed in the north of

Uganda. She had stayed there for the remainder of the war

and had been forced to act as a wife: preparing food, cleaning,

working on the land and having sex when it was

demanded (Giller, 1998, 140).

 

M was forty-two when the soldiers entered her village [in

the Luwero Triangle]... Despite her and her husband's plea

for mercy, several soldiers raped M and her flfteen-year-old

daughter on the mud floor of the room while her husband

and the rest of the family were forced to watch and clap....M

and her daughter had to work for the soldiers, gathering all

the food from the shambas [farm plots]. The soldiers stole

everything (Giller, 1998, 139-140).

EM

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