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	Acholi - Ethnos - Books about the Acholi People
		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.
		The Acholi are known to the outside world mainly because of the insurgency of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony, an Acholi from Gulu.
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Acholi.htm (429 words)

	Acholi people - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Acholi are an ethnolinguistic group of the upper Nile valley dwelling on the east bank of the White Nile, about a hundred miles north of Lake Albert.
		The Acholi in Uganda live predominantly in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum, and Pader, a region known as Acholiland.
		The Acholi are known to the outside world mainly because of the insurgency of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony, an Acholi from Gulu.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Acholi_people (368 words)

	The Black Commentator - The Acholi of Uganda Face Starvation and Genocide - Issue 93
		The people have nowhere else to go and are not allowed to leave the camp since their homes have already been destroyed by the government that should have been their protector.
		As if the terror by Museveni’s troops were not enough on the people, the rebels of the LRA also stepped up their atrocities against innocent local Acholi people.
		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.
	www.blackcommentator.com /93/93_otika_uganda_pf.html (1239 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Acholi
		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.
		Acholi (also Acoli, Shuli, Gang, Lwo) is a language primarily spoken by the Acholi people in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, a region known as Acholiland in northern Uganda.
		Nilotic peoples Acholi (also Acoli, Shuli, Gang, Lwo) is a language primarily spoken by the Acholi people in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, a region known as Acholiland in northern Uganda.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Acholi (2051 words)

	The Fletcher School - Tufts University - Fletcher Perspectives 2005
		In a rebellion that began in 1986 between an insurgency called the Lord?s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government, the Acholi people have largely become the targets.
		Today, over 30,000 people have been abducted in the 18-year war, many of whom have been transformed into child soldiers and sex slaves.
		As tragic as the narratives are, the Acholi people are also a powerful voice for forgiveness.
	fletcher.tufts.edu /perspectives/2005/finnegan.html (281 words)

	People of the Masai Mara National Reserve - The Maasai
		The Maasai speak the Maasai language, an Eastern Nilotic language closely related to Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburu people of central Kenya, and to Camus spoken south and southeast of Lake Baringo.
		The Maasai, Samburu and Camus people are historically related and all refer to their language as Maa, although they acknowledge mutual cultural and economic differences.
		One of their spiritual beliefs is that their rain god Ngai gave all cattle to the Maasai people, and therefore anyone else who possesses cattle must have stolen them from the Maasai.
	www.masai-mara.net /masai_mara_people.html (719 words)

	The Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rwot Onen Achana II, the chairman of the Acholi Council of chiefs, is the chief of Payira, the largest clan.
		He is referring to 90 percent of the Acholi who have been displaced from their homes by the 18-year rebellion led by Joseph Kony rebellion.
		While Acholi elders are confident that if the rebels surrendered and apologise, Acholi would forgive them, there is concern about the attitude of victims of the conflict - victims of landmines, rape and those orphaned to the government amnesty.
	www.monitor.co.ug /specialincludes/agenda/rd04082.php (1705 words)

	Schools For Schools > About The Cause > The Situation In Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alienated from their own people, the LRA has resorted to waging terror on the civilian population as a means to maintain attention and challenge the government.
		People in the camps endure disease, malnutrition, and nighttime attacks from the LRA.
		The report had received information directly from Acholi people, who blame both Kony and Museveni for the conflict while the government troops and rebel guerrillas were to blame for the atrocities committed against the local population.
	s4s.invisiblechildren.com /about_the_cause/uganda (1402 words)

	Northern Uganda Lobby Day - Oct. 9-10 Washington D.C.
		Thousands of innocent Acholi were killed, mutilated and abducted as Joseph Kony strengthened his resolve to battle the Ugandan military and overthrow Museveni.
		He claims to be fighting for the rights of the region's Acholi people, against perceived discrimination by the government.
		Over 90% of Acholi people are now displaced and forced to live in IDP camps for their protection.
	ugandalobbyday.com /about.html (1953 words)

	ENOUGH :: Northern Uganda :: Roots of the Crisis
		It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people were killed during his regime, and he particularly targeted the Acholi people of northern Uganda, partly because of their support for his predecessor but also because they traditionally composed the bulk of the army, and thus posed a potential threat to his reign.
		As tensions built, Obote was being overthrown in 1985 by a group of ethnic Acholi people led by General Tito Okello.
		During the civil war between the Sudanese government in Khartoum and the rebel Southern People's Liberation Army, Khartoum supported the LRA, driven in part by a desire to retaliate against the Ugandan government for its support of the SPLA.
	www.enoughproject.org /region/northern-uganda/roots.php (943 words)

	IRC \| The Difficult Path from War to Normal Life
		People here do not care so much if justice comes before or after peace.
		Without the traditional Acholi cleansing ceremony - which involves a series of rituals, from stepping on an egg to killing a goat, or even a cow, depending on the gravity of the misdeed to cleanse - no reintegration is possible.
		His aunt paid for the goat, the ceremony was held for him, and now, he says, he is free from the memories of the atrocities he was forced to commit by the LRA's leader Joseph Kony.
	www.theirc.org /news/latest/the-difficult-path-from-war.html (785 words)

	Invisible Children Run 2005
		The Acholi people who inhabit this region have dealt with indiscriminate killing, house burning, rape, and the kidnapping of children, which has driven 1.6 million people to seek safety in refugee camps.
		While the Acholi people inhabit the North and face the majority of the brutality, the LRA is strikingly composed predominantly of Acholi.
		The final part of the LRA strategy is that the abuse of the Acholi people creates anger and frustration among the population toward the government, which stems from the fact that for many years, it failed to adequately protect the northern region.
	www.invisiblechildrenrun.com /uganda.html (1035 words)

	Catholic World News : The Forgotten War
		When the current president took office, many of the Acholi people feared that he would seek reprisals against residents of the northern provinces who had controlled the army under the previous regime, and had been accused of their own atrocities.
		Whatever their political sympathies might have been, however, by 1998 the Acholi people were ready to take action to bring the war to an end.
		The Acholi people are skeptical of the government's amnesty proposal.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=29396 (3230 words)

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		At that time little attention was paid to the suffering of the Acholi people by the international community that was hailing the progress made in other parts of Uganda.
		We have learnt that the Acholi people continue to uphold sophisticated cultural beliefs of a spiritual nature which greatly shape their perceptions of truth, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation.
		This spiritual void in the current condition of the Acholi People, most of them confined to living in Internally Displaced Peoples’ (IDP) camps, is often neglected when focusing on the physical survival through food aid, and interventions in water, sanitation and health, the value of which is as such obviously unquestionable.
	www.deluga.cec.eu.int /en/speeches/Speech_Coronation_Acholi.doc (959 words)

	Northern Uganda: Kacoke Madit: A diaspora role in promoting peace
		In 1996 members of the Acholi community living in the diaspora started the Kacoke Madit (KM) initiative as a means of raising awareness about the conflict and finding a viable means of bringing the conflict to an end.
		A Kacoke Madit conference is an open forum for all sides of the conflict: Acholi people and community leaders, parliamentarians and traditional and religious leaders, government officials and civil servants, representatives of the LRM/A, and overseas members of the Acholi diaspora.
		“Acholi people who have borne the brunt of the conflict are concerned about being marginalized from a process, which will have far reaching implications for them, whatever the outcome.
	www.c-r.org /our-work/accord/northern-uganda/kacoke-madit.php (937 words)

	Uganda: Stolen children, stolen lives - A plea for the Acholi people in Uganda - Online Petition
		Where people from Sudan seek refuge among the refugees because of the war in their country.
		At a time when billons of dollars are being spent on arms and the military, people are starving to death.
		Through this petition we plead for aid and support for the Acholi people, a forgotten people.
	www.gopetition.com /online/1346.html (424 words)

	Acholi people . Muslim . History of Uganda . Buganda . Lord's Resistance Army
		A Muslim man can only marry a woman from the People of the Book Christians, Jews, and in some cases other religions, though offspring must be raised as Muslim.
		the 52 clans of the Baganda people, the largest of the four traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda.
		Prior to this support, the LRA could be treated as a minor irritant in the outskirts of the country; now it also had to be considered a proxy force of the Khartoum government.
	www.uk.kunsimuna.net /Acholi_people_UK_195911_bj (549 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Newsnight Home \| Uganda rebel leader breaks silence
		Museveni went into the villages and cut off the ears of the people, telling the people that it was the work of the LRA.
		He want to destroy all Acholi so that the land of Acholi will be his land...
		The interview is the first Kony has given to a journalist, he says, adding that claims that he has given telephone interviews to radio programmes are false and the interviews were not given by him.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/newsnight/5124762.stm (686 words)

	The Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		The fear of the Acholi people peaked with the coup.
		The Acholi are concerned that the government has refused to stop supporting the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army even when it knows that the Khartoum regime is arming Kony in retaliation.
	www.monitor.co.ug /specialincludes/agenda/rd04083.php (892 words)

	YouTube - War Dance a video Story of Truimph of Acholi Children
		Since 1986 when Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni took power, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have never enjoyed peace.
		LRA Rebels and Uganda Goverment have comitted atrocities and Genocide on acholi.
		How ever here is a story of acholi children who inspite of all the odds have beaten the challenges to win in this music competition War Dance Video.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=E4ROJ5A6ds4 (535 words)

	Fides Service- Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples AFRICA/UGANDA - ACHOLI PEOPLE VICTIMS FOR YEARS OF THE ...
		Thousands of children and young people are afraid to sleep at home for fear of being kidnapped during nightly LRA attacks on villages.
		But the great majority of the people are against the guerrilla war.
		At the beginning, in the 1980s, there was some consensus with regard to the rebellion, but not any more, in fact most of the LRA troops are boys and youths enlisted by force.
	www.fides.org /aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=325&lan=eng (601 words)

	Victims of Indifference - Features - The Oxford Student - Official Student Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Earlier this year, Kony declared that the people of Acholi are not racially pure and that his goal is to wipe them out and repopulate the area using his army's sex slaves.
		Since many in the south believe that the Acholi people were responsible for their persecution, particularly during Idi Amin's brutal rule, they find it difficult to sympathise with the suffering in the north.
		The Acholi people have been displaced from their land and forced to live in secure compounds to protect themselves from attack.
	www.oxfordstudent.com /ht2005wk0/Features/victims_of_indifference (1190 words)

	Archdiocese of Denver - DCR - Local News
		Kony promised the Acholi people his army would defend the teachings of the Ten Commandments and Jesus, but he was later seen practicing witchcraft and celebrating Islamic traditions.
		His focus quickly became the Acholi people, rather than the Museveni government, because he said the public was siding with President Museveni.
		He said the government and the Acholi people have embarked upon a program in which LRA abductees and leaders alike are offered full amnesty for peacefully retreating from the Bush and integrating into the community.
	www.archden.org /dcr/news.php?e=396&s=4&a=8395 (936 words)

	IDMC : Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre \| Countries \| Uganda \| Kacoke Madit (KM) - an organisation of the Acholi ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Kacoke Madit (KM) was established in 1996 by Acholi people living in the 'Diaspora' in response to the escalation of the N. Uganda conflict.
		The initiative has helped to establish and to build the consensus among Acholi people, other Ugandans and the international community at large, for the conflict to be resolved by peaceful means.
		The Origin of KM In 1995, Acholi community in North America unsuccessfully lobbied the Uganda North America Association (UNAA) to include the conflict in Northern Uganda on the agenda of their 1995 Convention in Chicago.
	www.internal-displacement.org /idmc/website/countries.nsf/(httpEnvelopes)/7148FE187366B4AE802570B8005AA912?OpenDocument (777 words)

	IRIN Africa \| East Africa \| Uganda \| UGANDA: â€˜Beginning of the endâ€™ of northern conflict - Egeland \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		OPIT, GULU, 10 September 2006 (IRIN) - Nineteen years of a conflict that has condemned some two million people in northern Uganda to living in appalling conditions in huge camps within their home districts, could be drawing to a close, according to Jan Egeland, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator.
		The war has scarred a generation of Acholi people, the rebels abducting thousands of children to become fighters, weapons-carriers, camp followers and wives, with soldiers from the Ugandan army contributing to abuses against civilians too.
		"The international community should tell the ICC that the Acholi people donâ€™t like the ICC in these affairs because it is holding back the peace process," Nikson Owinyi, one of the IDPs said.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=55491 (914 words)

	Both Uganda
		Museveni, despite his army's atrocities, remains a Western "darling." The period 1987-1988 was the worst in the history of the Acholi, due in part to Museveni's army’s intensified atrocities on the civilians.
		As if his terror was not enough, in 1996 Museveni declared a presidential order that stipulated that all local Acholi living in the villages be forcefully moved into concentration camps to be surrounded by government, troops ostensibly to guard them against LRA rebels' atrocities.
		The result was the creation of communal homelessness for over 500,000 people who up to now, have no permanent home, and live in some of the worse human conditions the world.
	www.thomasmertoncenter.org /the_new_people/March2004/uganda.htm (949 words)

	Quakers in Britain - Building peace in Uganda
		The majority of the population, over 1.6 million people, live in camps for displaced people far from their homes, dependent on food aid and subject to the violent attacks of the LRA.
		A brutal characteristic of this war is that the LRA sustains itself by abducting children from across the north of Uganda for use as soldiers and sex slaves.The current challenges include bringing about the peaceful resolution of the war in a way that will set good foundations for long-term peace.
		We have also been working with the Acholi traditional leaders, whose role it is to oversee processes of reconciliation and justice within northern communities.
	www.quaker.org.uk /Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=90232&int1stParentNodeID=89813&strAreaColor=pink (756 words)

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