{UAH} Bur Coro massacre, Paicoo Sub-County, Gulu District

iii. Bur Coro massacre, Paicoo Sub-County, Gulu District, Acholi: 1990 : more   than 200 killed    The period 1987-1988 was one of the worst in the history of the Acholi. It was   at that time that Museveni's army intensified atrocities on the civilians. This   was the period that Museveni declared a state of emergency. He entrusted his   commanders like his brother General Salim Saleh and Major General David   Tinyefunza to help him carry out the job. Their atrocities included the   terrible forcing of Acholi civilians in a pit dug into the earth in a place   called Bur Coro. The top of the pit was then covered with soil and grass which   was then set ablaze. The civilians slowly suffocated from the smoke. Many   others were killed by having their throats slit while others were shot and then   thrown into the pit. More than 200 civilians were killed in the place. Such   sadistic killers have never been punished. Later, the army exported such   atrocities into Teso in Eastern Uganda.

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