{UAH} THE TYPICAL ACHOLI VIOLENCE I AM GOING AFTER {They did this to their fellow Acholi}

The LRA rebels crossed to Atiak in April. They found me asleep at 11.00 am

under a mango tree in our compound. One of them came to me and ordered me

to stand up which I did. Another asked why I was sleeping at that time and I

told him that I had been harvesting vegetables and felt tired, that is why I had

slept. He then asked whether I was of any value to them. I told him I did not

know. He hit my head with the butt of his gun and a machete and I collapsed

in front of the hut. Their commander ordered all other captives to be brought

where I was. They hit many captives with the machete and butts of their guns;

they left many of them dead and others unconscious.

One of them asked why they should leave me. Another replied that they were

already tired of having sex with women and said they should do something

else to me. He ordered that I should be dragged to an open space and was

taken under the mango tree. One of them ordered for a knife and told me to

lie upside down, which I refused. He then said that since I was stubborn,

they would teach me a lesson I would never forget. Two rebels spread my

legs in opposite directions and tied them with ropes. They started piercing

my vagina with a knife and cut it up to the anus. One of them said I should

be killed and my head smashed, but another said that what they had done

to me was enough. After a while, heavy rain fell, it rained on me for almost

two hours as I could not move anywhere. I regained consciousness in the

morning and found bodies of other captives they had killed next to me.

(Isis-WICCE 2001: pg 20)

U n f i n i s h e d B u s i n e s s

 

EM

On the 49^th Parallel          

                 Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
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                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
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