BBC Correspondent Bill Law writes:
They said it was to protect innocent civilians as well as making it easier for them to pursue the LRA.
A few thousand child soldiers led by a charismatic madman called Joseph Kony have run rings around the UPDF.
Mr Kony's LRA, the Lord's Resistance Army, kidnaps, brutalises and brainwashes young children.
In 1997, the government moved most of the Acholi people into camps.
But the camps offer no protection either from the rebel raids or the UPDF-WHOSE POORLY FED AND DEMORALISED SOLDIERS PREY ON THE VERY PEOPLE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DEFEND!
..and that is a description of the Indomitable so called Yoweri Museveni's UPDF
MK

