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>Subject: ugnet_: Worsening insecurity in northern Uganda
>Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 09:06:10 EST
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> > UGANDA 7/2/2004 10:35
> > ABIA MASSACRE: CALVARY OF SURVIVORS IN HOSPITAL
> > Church/Religious Affairs, Standard
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> > To comprehend the cruelty of the rebels of Joseph Kony it is enough to visit
> > the North Ugandan government hospital of Lira, ideated by the British in
> > colonial times, to respond to a limited need in respect to the current. In the
> > years unfortunately the structures of the facility deteriorated. The terrible
> > hygienic conditions render the small and stuffy wards a real inferno. But it
> > is most anguishing to enter the women’s Ward 2, where the wounded from the
> > Abia displaced camp, attacked on Wednesday night by the LRA (lord’s Resistance
> > Army), are laying everywhere: on the cots, under the beds and on mats. Little
> > victims such as 10-year-old Akullu Eveline, with severe burns to her head
> > and chest, leave you completely breathless. Next to her, an elderly lady,
> > crouched on the floor, assisting an 8-year-old boy, called Odongo, placed in the
> > women’s ward with a serious stab injury to his stomach. The elderly lady
> > explained that she is his aunt and that the rebels in Abia camp killed Odongo’s
> > father, mother and three little brothers, letting them burn to death in their
> > hut. Ward 6 is however the absolute worst, the paediatrics ward. A nurse named
> > Ester tells that in Abia camp she lost her sister with seven children, also
> > they burned to death. Left and right of the large ward are beds of children
> > from 4 to 8 years-old. Ten of them from Abia and all in terrible conditions
> > due to the various traumas suffered in the LRA raid. According to the doctors,
> > the wounded are currently around fifty, 21 of which children. Since Thursday
> > ninety-some people have been hospitalised, some of which died in the
> > facility. Comboni Father Sebhat Ayele, secretary and spokesman of the Lango Religious
> > Leaders Forum (LRLF), spent at least an hour on Friday afternoon with his
> > consoeur Fernanda Pellizzer, a nurse, to gather information on the victims.
> > Unfortunately it is still difficult to know exactly how many people died in
> > Abia. The people in the Lango local language say “apol ata” (“many, incalculable”
> > ). An over all toll in fact seems premature. Fifty-some bodies have been
> > identified, but independent sources from Abia believe the toll to be higher,
> > given that many bodies were carbonised. It is not excluded that the victims are
> > many more, considering that the displaced camp was populated by 8-thousand
> > people, already for time surviving in unspeakable conditions from malnutrition
> > and diseases such as malaria. On leaving the hospital, Fr. Sebhat, visibly
> > emotional, stated: “In face of this tragedy all we can do is pray that the
> > people have the courage to continue living”. Meanwhile, Kony, a crazy visionary
> > supported by Khartoum, continues terrorising the people of all the northern
> > Ugandan districts, while the international community looks on in silence.
> > (Translation of article by Fr. Giulio Albanese)
> > [BO]
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> > UGANDA 7/2/2004 9:46
> > KITGUM: REBEL AMBUSH, VICTIMS
> > General, Brief
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> > The rebels of the LRA (lord’s Resistance Army) yesterday killed four people
> > in the North Ugandan district of Kitgum. The news was referred by MISNA
> > sources, specifying that the ambush was carried out by the olum (‘grass’, as the
> > rebels are called in the Acholi language) in the location of Lomura, 17km
> > north-west of Kitgum, along the road to Padibe. The victims, three civilians and
> > a soldier, were travelling along the road on their bicycles, when the rebels
> > at 10:00a.m. local time, suddenly opened fire. The same sources refer that
> > the rebels stole the personal belongings of the victims; in particular they
> > took the soldier’s weapon and ammunition. The olum, commanded by Joseph Kony, a
> > crazy visionary backed by the Sudan government, continue to terrorise
> > civilians of the northern Ugandan districts. Despite Khartoum’s firm denial of
> > continuing support to the LRA, numerous testimonies of the civil society indicate
> > the exact contrary.
> > [BO]
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>"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."
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