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	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Acholi in Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Acholi were purged from the military under Amin's reign because he feared that they were Obote supporters.
		Hundreds of thousands of Acholi have abandoned their homes in northern Uganda for fear of being abducted and now live in refugee camps in appalling conditions, suffering from attacks and intimidation by both the Ugandan forces and, more acutely, the LRA.
		While this would indeed be fortuitous for the Acholi people and for Uganda as a whole, much will have to be done to rectify the shattered economy and society of the region, after 17 years of a brutal and relentless war.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=50001 (1206 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Acholi find themselves in a very bad position, caught in the middle of a war between a government and a fundamentalist group who are largely comprised of but doesn’t represent their members.
		However, the Acholi have been caught in the middle of the war, and as a result there is a large army and police presence in their lands.
		The Acholi have also complained that the government has not done enough to protect them from LRA attacks, with some Acholi believing that this insufficient protection results from the closeness of the current government to the former Obote regime (despite the fact that Acholi soldiers overthrew Obote).
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/ugacholi.htm (1399 words)

	Acholi - Ethnos - Books about the Acholi People
		The Acholi are an ethnolinguistic group of the upper Nile valley dwelling on the east bank of the Bahr-el-Jebel, about a hundred miles north of Lake Albert.
		The Acholi are akin to the Shilluks of the White Nile.
		This reached its height with the coup d'état of Acholi General Tito Okello, and came to a crashing end with the defeat of Okello and the Acholi-dominated army by the National Resistance Army led by now-President Yoweri Museveni.
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Acholi.htm (429 words)

	Photo Album
		The Acholi tribe is part of the Luo group in the northern part of Uganda, they originally migrated from southern Sudan.
		The Acholi also worshipped the spirits of the dead and believed that they helped the surviving members of the family if they were treated well.
		Acholi dancing is communal and they have eight different and distinct types of dance- bwola, lalobaloba, otiti, myel awal, apiti, labongo, myel wanga and atira.
	home.comcast.net /~rdmonahan/acholi_people.htm (376 words)

	Acholi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acholi (also Acoli) are the people of the districts of Gulu, Kitgum Pader (known as Acholiland) in northern Uganda, and Magwe County in southern Sudan.
		The Acholi language is a Western Nilotic language, classified as Luo, and is mutually intelligible with Lango and other Luo languages.
		Dwyer, John Orr (1972) 'The Acholi of Uganda: adjustment to imperialism'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acholi (545 words)

	africanfront.com (AUF)
		The Acholi community was instrumental in the resistence against slavery and the colonial ambitions of the Ottomans, the Egyptians and the Arabs and British in Central Africa.
		Acholi soldiers made up over 50% of the guerrila army that overthrew Amin in 1979 with the assistance of the Tanzanian People's Defence Force.
		Hundreds of thousands of Acholi people were forcefully relocated to concentration camps, while others were imprisoned and others confined in dungeons where they were tortured and killed.
	www.africanfront.com /acholigenocide.php (900 words)

	The Black Commentator - The Acholi of Uganda Face Starvation and Genocide - Issue 93 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		To no one’s surprise, the UN has been reluctant to focus seriously on the issue, and is treating the plight of the Acholi in much the same way as it did Rwanda during the genocide in which 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu are believed to have been massacred.
		Sons and daughters of the Acholi are scattered all over the world, among them university deans, medical doctors, lawyers, pilots, engineers and members of the armed forces of the United States and European countries.
		It is time that the leaders of the United States and Britain rethink their support for Museveni, a leader who has failed to provide for the needs and safety of the citizens of his country.
	www.blackcommentator.com /93/93_otika_uganda.html (1198 words)

	CDC - Cultural Contexts of Ebola in Northern Uganda
		Results indicated that Acholi people used at least three explanatory models to explain and respond to the outbreak; indigenous epidemic control measures were often implemented and were consistent with those being promoted by healthcare workers; and some cultural practices amplified the outbreak (e.g., burial practices).
		Most Acholi are agro-pastoralists and have a social organization strongly influenced by patrilineal descent and patrilocal postmarital residence (4).
		Acholi are aware of the biomedical model but view illness as having social, spiritual, and biological dimensions.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol9no10/02-0493.htm (4702 words)

	Acholi Foundation a solution for change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The aim is to provide a starting point in which acholi and friends can productively interact using internet technology so as to assist in achieving some positive objectives in economic and or social recovery for acholiland.
		Acholi's need to over haul what was, and embrace what should be, to initiate an environment for strength and Unity to allow faster recovery from our down trodden state.
		For her, as for thousands of Acholi parents, this conflict is not as simple as "us versus them".
	www.acholifoundation.org (1274 words)

	Acholi - LoveToKnow 1911
		ACHOLI, a negro people of the upper Nile valley, dwelling on the east bank of the Bahr-el-Jebel, about a hundred miles north of Albert Nyanza.
		The Acholi are good hunters, using nets and spears, and keep goats, sheep and cattle.
		By early explorers the Acholi were called Shuli, a name now obsolete.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Acholi (193 words)

	Analysis: Great Lakes, The Anguish of Northern Uganda - Section 1, Analysis: Sudan, The Anguish of Northern Uganda - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Acholi people generally hold the view that the colonizers exploited them for the uniformed services and for unskilled labor, leaving them at the margins of Uganda’s development, while central Ugandans, such as the Baganda, were the beneficiaries of more durable commercial and educational activities.
		In an instant, the Acholi farmers were deprived of the milk their cows provided; the additional acreage and higher yields which their oxen permitted them; their fallback for marriage dowries and education; and the savings which carried them through drought, hard time, sickness and old age.
		Acholi leaders may have noted that the Iteso in Soroti and Kumi were on the verge of a peaceful settlement of their dispute with the Government.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/4233a0bf811d7767c1256525002b8e44?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=1 (19593 words)

	OJPCR: The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution
		Whether in protected villages or at home, the Acholi have been powerless to stop the LRA from burning their homes, schools, and clinics.
		The team might include Acholi neutrals, who would be best positioned to deal with the nuances of the culture, members of civil society, and outsiders who will be respected as neutrals.
		Acholi parents, in turn, have been robbed of their children.
	www.trinstitute.org /ojpcr/3_2westbrook.htm (7087 words)

	InterAction.org \| Library
		These seven ethnic Acholi staff members were caught in the mob violence that erupted during what had been planned as a peaceful protest march against the government’s failure to stop the deadly LRA attacks the previous week.
		During the mob demonstrations, scores of Acholi people were beaten, and five Acholi people were killed — one was lynched by the mob and the others apparently were shot as the police and army fired into the crowd.
		And many of the Acholi fighting with the LRA did not join willing, but are children who were kidnapped and were forcibly detained.
	www.interaction.org /library/detail.php?id=2744 (565 words)

	United Nations - OCHA IRIN \| Web Special \| Crisis in Northern Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Acholi society was structured in such a way that every family lived in its own compound, and everyone gathered by the fireplace each evening for traditional teachings.
		This is not the case with the IDP camps, where parents are forced to sleep in one small hut with their children.
		Some Acholis do not just blame the LRA for their society's predicament, but also criticise the Ugandan government and the international community for failing to tackle the crisis.
	www.irinnews.org /webspecials/uga_crisis/acholiP2911.asp (896 words)

	The Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The number of Acholi in the army only soared because of hard economic conditions in Acholi after the outbreak of World War I. At the same time, other tribes such as the Baganda grew to despise the armed forces as their economic conditions improved.
		With their record for discipline and honesty, the Acholi and Langi formed the nucleus of the Uganda Army at the eve of Independence in 1962.
		According to several Acholi elders and historians, Idi Amin, persecuted and killed hundreds of Acholi army officers and soldiers and middle class in all walks of life.
	www.monitor.co.ug /specialincludes/agenda/rd04083.php (884 words)

	ABDUCTED AND ABUSED:
		Amin was overthrown by rebel Ugandan soldiers and the invading army of Tanzania in 1979.
		Her Acholi armed movement was defeated in late 1986 and she and a few followers fled to Kenya.
		The NRA forces that occupied Acholi towns also committed abuses against Acholi civilians; supposedly among the NRA were former UNLA forces and forces belonging to the Baganda ethnic group (Luwero triangle) that was abused by the Acholi UNLA soldiers under Obote.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2003/uganda0703/uganda0703a-03.htm (4425 words)

	United Nations - OCHA IRIN \| Web Special \| Crisis in Northern Uganda
		Denis Mwaka, a social worker for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gulu, was abducted by the LRA in 1999 but managed to escape during a skirmish between the rebels and the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF).
		Reagan Okumu, a Member of Parliament whose Aswa constituency is one of those cut off by LRA activities, says he has lost count of how many members of his family have died as a result of the conflict.
		Joe Lakony, a trainee social worker at GUSCO, says the LRA's use of Acholi children to commit atrocities has not only caused bitterness in his society, but has sown the seeds of distrust between the younger and older generation.
	www.irinnews.org /webspecials/uga_crisis/acholi.asp (599 words)

	African Studies Quarterly -- Neither Peace nor Justice: Political Violence and the Peasantry in Northern Uganda, ...
		While it is true that the lack of support from the Acholi would disqualify the LRA from being the “representatives” of the Acholi or of their grievances at present, it does not necessarily disqualify the LRA from having a political agenda.
		The specter of genocide arose again among the Acholi. Some accused Lakwena of being an agent of the NRA (as some would accuse Kony of later) on account of Museveni’s declarations of their community of interests and the thousands of young Acholi whom she led to death.
		Because of the LRA’s history of extreme violence against the Acholi, they refuse to join the LRA in its current form. This is despite the fact that the LRA has consistently articulated, at least in its rhetoric, the grievances of the Acholi civilians.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v8/v8i2a1.htm (11867 words)

	Acholi World Test
		There will be no Kikuyu, Luo, Chagga, Tutsi, Baganda, Acholi or Sanaki vote to...
		Late 1996 The Ugandan government begins moving Acholi villagers into "protected villages" to...
		It was in Gulu that the filmmakers learned about the Acholi tribe and the invisible...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Test/World/Acholi (334 words)

	POSTCARDS: from Kampala's Acholi Quarter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Alice came to the Acholi Quarter in 2002 when her husband died, he was killed by the rebels supposedly because he wasn't an Acholi although she thinks there was other reasons as normally people who aren't Acholi aren't usually attacked.
		Part of the Acholi tribe is in Sudan so when the war broke out lots of people including Agnes ran away to meeet their Acholi counterparts and settle in a place where the same language was spoken.
		she moved to th acholi quarter in 1995 after the death of her father she was married when she arrived and lives with justine, one of the main points of contact in the acholi quarter.
	www.omidyar.net /user/u566286243/news/1 (7545 words)

	Analysis: Great Lakes, The Anguish of Northern Uganda - Section 1, Analysis: Sudan, The Anguish of Northern Uganda - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		According to some northerners, Ugandan Acholis residing as refugees in Sudan as well as Acholi in Gulu and Kitgum living in their home areas were recruited for this purpose.
		Acholi soldiers returned home from Luwero with stolen property and in some cases with young girls as abductees.
		Grassroots Acholi interviewees in Gulu and Kitgum in principle support the SPLA cause (though, like many northerners, they are uneasy about the conduct of the SPLA’s predominantly ethnic Dinka element).
	wwww.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/0/4233a0bf811d7767c1256525002b8e44?OpenDocument (19805 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Uganda artist draws for the future
		Ugandan artist John Okot hopes to preserve the Acholi people's rich cultural heritage that he says has been eroded by decades of brutal war in the north of his country.
		The brew, made from fermented sorghum and maize flour, is popular among the Acholi.
		For the Acholi people, however, Uganda's northern conflict, while not a part of their traditional culture is now a part of Acholi history, whether they like it or not.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/6131890.stm (731 words)

	Spero News: Uganda: Acholi elders may hold key to peace talks
		Otti instead demanded a meeting with elders of the Acholi tribe, the dominant ethnic group of northern Uganda to which Otti, Kony, and the others belong.
		These elders, he insisted, were responsible for the decades-old conflict which had put more than 1.6 million residents of the north and largely fellow Acholis in 200 refugee camps across the north.
		After being criticised for killing mostly their fellow Acholi tribesmen in the decades-long war, Otti explained that early on Acholi tribal elders had given their blessing to the LRA’s war against the government of Yoweri Museveni who came to power in 1986.
	www.speroforum.com /site/print.asp?idarticle=4522 (973 words)

	GuluFuture.org Helping the Acholi people build a Future
		to complaints from the Acholi elders against the NRA soldiers.
		officials forced the Acholi to kill their own sons and daughters.
		of the Acholi population from the grave genocide situation being
	homepage.eircom.net /~gulufuture/ibrahimfall.htm (1956 words)

	New Vision Online : Acholi elders in Juba
		Acholi paramount chief Rwot Achana Onen is in Juba for talks between the LRA rebels and the Government.
		Achana, leading six Acholi elders, said he had a message of hope and reconciliation from the Acholi people.
		Orach, the head of the Orthodox Church in Acholi, has also been invited to the talks seen as a last ditch effort to end the 20-year long war.
	www.newvision.co.ug /D/8/12/509004 (503 words)

	Comment by Rhiannon Talbot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Beyond the railway track in Kampala lies the Acholi Quarter, a place completely overlooked by socitey, a life so unbearable that the 'day to days' are completely forgotten.
		Here, the view of Kampala changes, the tidyness, cleanliness and pride in their houses that's part of the culture here cant be achieved or maintained when you're having to live together like sardines and squat up the side of the quarrey.
		Over time this invitation spread to his family, and theirs, and after a while an Acholi community developed and with the war in the North other Acholis flocked here, running from the government and the Lords Resistance Army to a place where their language, culture, members of their families and hopefully work awaited them.
	www.omidyar.net /user/u566286243/news/0/1 (610 words)

	The WE Cultures Gallery @ Life in Africa!
		After quickly finding 20 people ready to get out of the local rock quarry and start working for a partner project, one of the first things our team found was a fabulous stockpile of unique handmade beaded jewelry, made from recycled magazine paper.
		A project called BeadforLife buys beaded jewelry from the Acholi quarter monthly, but they aren't able to buy everything that all the beaders in the area are now able to make.
		These women have moved from their homes in Northern Uganda and are now trying their hardest to have a life here and a house here that they can take pride in.
	lifeinafrica.com /4/we/3/gallery/2/cultures/1/acholi/2/kla (409 words)

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