{UAH} IDDI AMIN NEVER TARGETED LANGIs/ACHOLIs, THEY TARGETED HIM {---Series eighty four }

Friends

 

The Institute of Security studies that works towards a stable and peaceful Africa decided to go after the violence of Acholi, that is why Uganda ended up included into the document "Domestic Terrorism in Africa: Defining, addressing and understanding its impact on human security" This document was edited by Wafula Okumu and Anneli Botha. Ugandans what you are reading in this part of the report is what Acholi did to fellow Acholi. And the question that must cross  your mind is if this is how brutal an Acholi becomes to a fellow Acholi, how brutal will he be to you as a Mutoro when you arrive at his road block in Kawempe? We are posting from page 79 of the study.

 

Ugandans, we need to start discussing Acholi violence but candidly.

 

LRA methods and strategies

 

The LRA has used brutal tactics to terrorise the population

of northern Uganda. Kony has gained infamy by

defi ling girls, forcefully conscripting boys into his ragtag fi ghting force, sadistically mutilating and hacking victims

to death, and displacing over 2 million people. In specifi c

terms his terrorist methods include:

Chopping ■ off hands and other body parts such lips,

ears (and enclosing them in envelops), legs, breasts and

fi ngers

■ Beheading and chopping bodies into pieces and stuff -

ing parts into cooking pots

■ Slicing off private parts

■ Burning victims to death

■ Burning homes and granaries

■ Killing anyone riding a bicycle

 

A chronology of LRA brutality

Th e following chronology over a ten-year period, between

1995–2005, highlights the brutal LRA methods mentioned

above:

■ 13 April 1995: Fourteen hacked to death in Kitgum.

■ 2 August 1996: Four tortured and killed at Patiko.

■ 13 September 1996: Alice Lakwena's brother-in-law

knifed to death at Ajulu in Aswa county.

■ 7 October 1997: Two beheaded and another chopped

into pieces in an ambush at Pajok.

■ 27 February 1998: Rebels attack Aruu county and cut

off the ears of seven residents.

■ 15 May 2002: Kony slices off the private parts of Ojok

Marino Duca, a captive.

■ 15 October 2002: Rebels burn 65-year-old Mary Okello

of Ayago parish to death. Ninety huts set ablaze and 30

civilians abducted.

■ 29 October 2002: Th irty-four civilians massacred in

Agago county, Pader district. Kony cuts a man up and

stuff s the pieces into a cooking pot.

■ 20 September 2002: Th irteen hacked to death in Gulu.

■ 15 November 2002: Nine hacked to death in Lira district.

■ 6 March 2003: Six Uganda People's Defence Force

(UPDF) soldiers beheaded in Pader.

■ 16 June 2003: Eighteen hacked to death in Apac.

■ 19 November 2003: Twelve hacked to death in Lira.

■ 2 June 2003: LRA rebels enclose a boy's ears in a

letter warning the Acholi not to cooperate with the

government.

■ 27 October 2003: A man and two of his sons killed

and mutilated in an internally displaced peoples (IDP)

camp in Angopet, Soroti district.

■ 4 April 2004: Kony kills nine people and cuts off one

woman's lips and ears in Aloi sub-county, Lira.

■ 11 March 2005: LRA kills seven in Adjumani. Th ey cut

off the fi ngers of 11 people and burn 76 houses.

■ 24 March 2005: Five killed and one woman mutilated

at Paicho subcounty in Gulu district. 26 February 2005:

LRA cuts off eight women's lips in

Ngomoromo village, Kitgum district.

■ 21 March 2005: LRA chops off the lips, ears and

breasts of three women in Kitgum district.

■ 7 January 2005: LRA rebels chop off the fi ngers of two

women, injure three others and abduct one in Pader

district.

 

 

Stay in the forum for Series eighty-five on the way   ------>

 

EM

On the 49^th Parallel          

                 Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
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