REBELS PILLAGE MINAKULU AND ABDUCT CHILDREN IN DISTRICTS OF KITGUM AND PADER
The Ugandan rebels of the LRA (lordâs Resistance Army) last night attacked the location of Minakulu, in the northern district of Apach. MISNA sources refer that the raid lasted over two hours, starting at 1:00a.m. local time. The eight government soldiers presiding the zone responded to the fire, resulting in the injury of one. The âOlumâ (âgrassâ, as the rebels are called by the locals) ransacked the residential area, beating to death a 70-year-old man called Albino Obua. While pillaging all the small stores of Minakulu, the rebels also abducted an unconfirmed number of youths, who according to the same sources were forced to transport the loot, particularly food and covers. The situation is however critical also in other zones of North Uganda. MISNA sources in fact report the abduction of minors in the location of Lokojo, 2km south of Kitgum, capital of the homonymous district, and Paimol, Pader district, where fighting is still underway between rebels and government troops. It is impossible to make any estimates on the number of minors captured yesterday and that in all probability will be forcedly recruited in the rebel lines. Based on recent data provided by Monsignor John Bapist Odama, Archbishop of Gulu, in the past years a total of 25-thousand children have been abducted by the LRA. Todayâs edition of the âMonitorâ, independent newspaper of Kampala, contains a surprising declaration by 4th Division commander Colonel Nathan Mugisha, in which he says that the civil war in North Uganda is over. The facts reported above irrefutably prove the contrary.
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
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