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"Several youth are now armed with guns. Tell me how you can reverse that situation?"Ochora accused Erute North MP Charles Angiro of incitement."Angiro is responsible for all this. He incited anti-Acholi sentiments and see what has happened," he said.
Lira Killings Shock Leaders
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The Monitor (Kampala)February 26, 2004
Posted to the web February 25, 2004
Frank Nyakairu
Kampala
Political and religious leaders in Acholi have said they are shocked by what they claim were tribal killings in Lira yesterday.Some five people, believed to be Acholi, were killed in Lira yesterday during a demonstration against the Barlonyo camp massacre on Saturday.
Barlonyo is in Lira district."I did not expect this to happen in this modern era," Gulu district chairman Walter Ochora said by telephone yesterday. "I have been receiving calls from Acholi students in hiding in Lira asking me what they can do.
"The chairman of the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative, Archbishop John Baptist Odama, blamed the escalation of the violence on government."If government had not involved the population in this conflict, this would have definitely not happened," Odama said by telephone.
"Several youth are now armed with guns. Tell me how you can reverse that situation?"Ochora accused Erute North MP Charles Angiro of incitement."Angiro is responsible for all this. He incited anti-Acholi sentiments and see what has happened," he said.
Angiro denied the accusations, and in turn counter-accused Ochora."He is the one who is inciting hatred. I have been injured. My car was smashed," Angiro said by telephone last evening.
"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
