{UAH} IDDI AMIN NEVER TARGETED LANGIs/ACHOLIs, THEY TARGETED HIM {---Series One-Hundred and forty-one}

Friends

 

Again we are going to go back to what has been very faithful to us all along, the dear numbers that never lie. The first table is a report from Gulu Police Station, there is a standard escalation in defilement and assault. The second table is from Pabo Police station, watch on defilement we have even 12 years old screwed. Look at the spike of assaults. It reaches a point and one wonders if Acholi do anything in life than assaulting and defile children. The last table was a collection of data from Pabo camp. The table talks for its self.  Suffering in Silence:  A Study of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) In Pabbo Camp, Gulu District, Northern Uganda. Commissioned By Gulu District Sub Working Group On SGBV Researchers And Authors: Ms. Akumu Christine Okot, Ms. Amony Isabella and Mr. Otim Gerald.  Researched in September 2004, Published in January 2005. We are posting from page 8.

 

Ugandans we need to discuss Acholi violence but candidly.

 

 

Table 4; Gulu Central Police Station statistics on reported SGBV cases in 2004. Nature of offences	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May		Jun	Jul	Aug	Total
Rape	1	1	2	-	-		2	1	1	8
Defilement	12	8	13	8	10		19	19	6	95
Agg Assault	4	5	7	2	5		3	6	10	43
Assault	9	12	27	17	19		52	95	81	312
Drug offence	3	2	2	1	4		4	-	2	19
Total.						469

Source: Gulu Central Police Station

 

 

Table 5: Pabbo Police Station and Pabbo Health Center records of SGBV cases. Nature of cases	Ages		May – July 2003		April—Aug 2004
Rape			5
Defilement	12 – 17 years		52		78
Assault		27		221
Trauma-domestic violence		81		78

Source: Pabbo Police Post

 

 

Age group in years	No of Cases reported
0-19	25
19-35	140
36-60	54
Total	219

Source: Pabbo Health Center

 

camp: A. SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Type of act	Description/Examples	Perpetrated by	Most Prevalent
Rape and marital rape	Forcing a woman into sex either by the husband or any other person. Men in Pabbo do not regard marital rape as a form of violence.	Soldiers (UPDF), husbands, strangers	1
Child sexual abuse, defilement and incest	Any sexual relations/interaction with a child. A Primary five girl was defiled by a soldier. The case was addressed to the witchdoctor instead of the police or LCs.	Uncles, friends, teachers, soldiers	3
Sexual abuse	According to the women, this occurs mainly in the camp by husbands and by soldiers when they go out of the camps for firewood or to the gardens.	Community members, strangers, leaders, soldiers, Spouses.	7
B. PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
Physical assault	Some female interviewees in the camp complained of battering by their husbands, especially when drunk.	Intimate friends, soldiers, strangers, spouses	2
C. EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE
Abuse/Humiliation	Verbal abuses, not necessarily sexual. That is degrading, demeaning and insulting. E.g., Public verbal abuse by the husband is common.	Leaders, Spouses, Family members, Elders	4
Emotional	Extra-marital affairs. E.g. when a husband visits concubines (malayas).	Spouses	10
D. HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES
Early marriages	Arranged marriage under the age of 18yrs. In Pabbo, girls constitute most victims. This means defilement is a common.	Parents, community members	5
Forced marriages	A parent forced the daughter to marry a trader in exchange for money.	Parents, Family members	6
Wife inheritance	Forcing a man to marry the wife of the deceased brother. To bear the fruits of the bride price that was paid for the woman. It is not a common practice within the camp.	Community and family members	11
E. SOCIO-ECONOMIC VIOLENCE
Discrimination and/or	Exclusion, denial of access to	Spouse, other family	8

 

We are going to come back at this study in next series.

Stay in the forum for Series One hundred and forty one on the way   ------>

EM

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