OLUM GRASS & CO.
It is funny, for a long time the Ugandan media has been misinterpreting the word “OLUM” as grass.
My understanding is that:
LUM means grass. But it can also imply “ in the wood”, Wilderness, Yonder etc.
“Olum” to me corresponds those latter categories.
The Uganda mass media should correct that simplistic direct “misinterpretation”.
OLUM means of the wilderness. Our journalists do more often than not misrepresent ”OLUM” as meaning grass
Best regards
Noc’l
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>Subject: [Ugandacom] UGANDA - REBELS ATTACK VILLAGE ABDUCTING CHILDREN, 1 CIVILIAN KILLED
>Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:56:31 +0100
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> UGANDA 8/3/2004 10:10
> REBELS ATTACK VILLAGE ABDUCTING CHILDREN, 1 CIVILIAN KILLED
> General, Brief
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> The rebels of the LRA (lord's Resistance Army) conducted a raid in a location near the North Ugandan administrative centre of Gulu. The episode occurred at 2:00a.m. on Sunday morning in the village of Obia, 1.5km north of the missionary Hospital of Lachor. The 'Olum' ('grass', as the rebels are called in the Acholi language by the locals) raided some homes for around twenty minutes, killing an around 30-year-old man and abducting three children. This episode is symptomatic of the widespread insecurity in the northern districts of Uganda, infested by followers of Joseph Kony, a crazy visionary financially backed by Khartoum.
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