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[Ugnet] Why is IRIN acting as Museveni's Propaganda Machinery?

Matek Opoko
Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:59:57 -0700

"The 19-year-old war in northern Uganda pits the LRA, led by self-proclaimed mystic Joseph Kony, against the government of President Yoweri Museveni. The brutal conflict has killed tens of thousands and forced some 1.6 million people into internally displaced persons' camps in the north and east."
 
Why is it that IRIN provideing erroneous reporting about the number of those who have died  in the so called "LRA" war with Museveni's Regime? The fact of the matter is that  over 1/2 of a million Ugandans have died  in the war now going on in Northern Uganda...and not "tens of thousands" . IRIN needs to get it's figures correct ...other acting as Yoweri Museveni's Propaganda Machinery whose job is to minimize the suffering of the people in Northern Uganda
Matek
 
UGANDA: LRA kills 14 in northern weekend ambush

Matek Opoko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
UGANDA: LRA kills 14 in northern weekend ambush
11 Jul 2005 15:56:13 GMT
Source: IRIN
KAMPALA, 11 July (IRIN) - At least 14 people were killed on Sunday when rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed them in the district of Kitgum, about 400 km north of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, officials said on Monday.

"A group of rebels ambushed a pick-up vehicle between Potika and Paloga [60 km northwest of Kitgum town]. Fourteen people have been confirmed dead and more than ten were injured," Nahman Ojwee, Kitgum district council chairman, said.

Army spokesman Lt Col Shaban Bantariza said the victims were going to the market in Patika when their vehicle was ambushed and set ablaze. He said the rebels, thought to number about seven, had looted the goods in the vehicle.

The head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Kitgum, Mohammed Siryon, said some of the dead were burnt in the vehicle.

"The victims' bodies were still lying at the scene of the incident 24 hours later," he added.

The 19-year-old war in northern Uganda pits the LRA, led by self-proclaimed mystic Joseph Kony, against the government of President Yoweri Museveni. The brutal conflict has killed tens of thousands and forced some 1.6 million people into internally displaced persons' camps in the north and east.

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