More than 1,000 Ugandans die each week in camps for homeless
More than 1,000 Ugandans die from disease and violence every week in camps for 1.3 million people who had to leave their homes during an 18-year insurgency in northern Uganda, said a report prepared by the government and the United Nations.
"Peaceful resolution of the conflict is the most crucial step to be sought by all parties in the conflict," said the report by the government, various U.N. agencies, Britain and the International Rescue Committee.
Between January and July, 28,283 people died from AIDS-related illnesses, malaria, fever and other diseases and unspecified violence in the camps in northern Uganda, the report said.
Most of the deaths were fr om disease and 11,068 of the people who died are children below the age of 5, said the report.
"The 1.3 million displaced persons living in the Acholi region of northern Uganda are currently experiencing a very serious humanitarian emergency. Extremely urgent action is needed so as to reduce mortality to non-crisis levels," the report said.
Disaster Preparedness Minister Christine Aporu Amongin said that of the three districts covered in the report, the government has vacancies for 200 doctors in Kitgum district alone.
The government is "going to intervene to make sure the conditions of people, especially those living in camps improve. The issue of sickness in camps will be fully handled," Amongin told the AP.
Another 300,000 people who live outside the camps were not covered in the report.
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Fellow Citizens:
For 19 years , the Military Regime under Dictator Yoweri Museveni in Kampala, was in essense hidding the from the World The truth about the real conditions now pertaining in Northern/Eastern Uganda were many have been forced to leave in camps. Now that finnally the attention of the world and members of the International Community has been drawn to the suffering of our people in Northern and Eastern Uganda under the NRM dictatorship, NRM functionaries like Ms. Amogin Aporu have also now realize that there are people in Northern /Eastern Uganda who need urgent Humanitarian intervention .
The NRM military dictatorship is entirely responsible for this great tragedy in Northern and Eastern Uganda why? because it is the NRM policies of promoting and fighting wars which has utimately lead to this pathetic situation we find ourselves in. The Christin Aporu's Moses Ali, Yoweri Museveni, and other NRM functionaries who have allowed this suffering to continue in Northern and Eastern Uganda must and will be charged with Crimes Against Humanity. This people must realize that those suffering in Northern and Eastern Uganda, also bled blood NOT milk.
Matek
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