{UAH} Mulindwa's notes on Acholi violence

Omot massacre, Pader District, Acholi, August 2003: 25 children killed by   UPDF     In August 2003, twenty-five children were killed by the UPDF in Omot Division,   Pader District. The children were a group set free by the LRA rebels. The UPDF,   frustrated and angry at its lack of success against LRA, ordered armored Mamba   vehicles to turn fire on the children, who were completely unarmed and posed no   threat whatsoever to the government army. The Ugandan press were later told   that the 25 children died in crossfire with the LRA. Witnesses however tell of   a cold-blooded massacre.    x. Rape and murder of a blind woman, Kitgum town, Acholi, 7 October 2003    One of the most hideous acts of rape and murder was committed on October 7,   2003 when six armed government soldiers raped and murdered Ms Betty Alum, a   blind teacher at St Theresa School in Kitgum town, northern Uganda. After   raping her the soldiers bayoneted her chest, forced her underclothes and bra   through her mouth with a stick towards her stomach and then smashed her head   with a grinding stone. The incident took place less than 50 metres from an army   detachment. Later the soldiers who committed the heinous act were merely   transferred to other army posts. In effect they had accomplished their mission   of an officially sanctioned policy of brutalizing the local Acholi people.    xi. Abia massacre, Lira District, Lango, 6th February 2004: 71 camp IDPs killed     After an attack by the LRA rebels on an army (UPDF) detachment near Abia IDP   camp in Lira, the UPDF on February 4, 2004 retaliated for their defeat and   attacked the camp killing 71 people.

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