{UAH} Acholi violence: An Acholi Lt gives orders to shoot

   1st Atiak massacre, Gulu District, Acholi, 18 December 1993: 9 killed    In the first Atiak massacre, the NRA killed nine civilians in Atiak market.   People had come from various parts of Gulu for an auction in Atiak trading   centre. The army wanted to use the occasion to make various statements and   speeches but there was a lot of noise. The commanding officer of the 7th   battalion, a Lt. Bbosa, gave an order to shoot. Nine people died instantly with   sixteen others sustaining bullet wounds.

 From Edward Mulindwa series

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*A positive mind is a courageous mind, without doubts and fears, using the experience and wisdom to give the best of him/herself.

 

 We must dare invent the future!
The only way of limiting the usurpation of power by
 individuals, the military or otherwise, is to put the people in charge  - Capt. Thomas. Sankara {RIP} '1949-1987

 *"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent

revolution inevitable"**…  *J.F Kennedy

 

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