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	Northern Uganda: Causes and consequences of the war in Acholiland
		The roots of the current war between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Acholiland are entwined with the history of conflicts in Uganda and the rise to power of the National Resistance Movement/National Resistance Army (NRM/A).
		Over time NRA soldiers plundered the area and committed atrocities, including rape, abductions, confiscation of livestock, killing of unarmed civilians, and the destruction of granaries, schools, hospitals and bore holes escalated.
		These atrocities in Acholiland were justified by some as revenge for the ‘skulls of Luwero’.
	www.c-r.org /our-work/accord/northern-uganda/causes-dynamics.php (2158 words)

	Uganda: A War Ignored (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Violence in Uganda's Acholiland, a region named for the ethnic group that dominates three northern districts, escalated when the government army launched an aggressive offensive against the LRA in March 2002.
		Acholiland became the breeding ground for several resistance movements, the most prominent of which was the Holy Spirit Movement of Alice Lakwena.
		The president's assessment is met with a mix of derision and sadness in Acholiland, where civil and religious leaders consider the LRA essentially "victorious." The few aid agencies and Catholic missionaries who have maintained a presence in the region point to the government's failure to protect civilians or to respond to humanitarian needs.
	www.africaaction.org /docs03/ug0309.htm (2617 words)

	Acholi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Acholi (also Acoli) are the people of the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, a region known as Acholiland in northern Uganda and in Magwe County in southern Sudan numbering about thirty to fifty thousand people.
		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.
		The LRA's activities have been concentrated within Acholiland and many hundreds of thousands of Acholi remain internally displaced persons.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Acholi (486 words)

	Stephanie Nolen \| Uganda's child soldiers
		Spend some time in Acholiland, talking with children who have been ordered to kill and maim, and talking with their victims, and other questions seep in.
		He was in his early 20s when he first assembled the LRA in the mid-1980s; senior members of the Ugandan army today admit that they badly underestimated him.
		No one likes the Museveni government much; northerners have been left out of Uganda's economic miracle, they resent their marginalization from national affairs, and they remember that it wasn't long ago that Acholi soldiers were fighting Mr.
	www.stephanienolen.com /dispatches/uganda.htm (4522 words)

	Uganda
		Displaced people living in protected camps, set up by the government to regroup the rural population around trading centres protected by the army, enjoyed increased freedom of movement, had regular access to larger tracts of land and were able to plant their seeds at the start of the rainy season.
		Although the plight of the displaced people in Acholiland improved over most of the year, the security situation deteriorated rapidly in December and many of those who had left the camps set up for the displaced were obliged to return.
		Thanks to close monitoring of the health situation in Acholiland, an outbreak of measles in some of the biggest camps in Gulu district was detected in time and the relevant authorities duly informed.
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList171/429855433E171037C1256B66005EC6D3 (3056 words)

	InterAction.org \| Library
		According to the latest update from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, there were 1.4 million persons displaced by the conflict in the north, including over 900,000 in the three districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader alone.
		Camps in Acholiland are mostly made up of huts with thatched roofs, called Tukuls.
		The prevalence of AIDS is presumed to be substantially higher among displaced persons in Acholiland than in Uganda, where the adult prevalence rate was estimated at 6.1 percent in 2001.
	www.interaction.org /library/detail.php?id=2738 (644 words)

	Global Challenges \| IRIN/AllAfrica.com Examines HIV/AIDS in Camps in Northern Uganda, Lack of Access to Health Services ...
		IRIN/AllAfrica.com on Friday examined the HIV/AIDS epidemic in overcrowded camps in the Acholiland region of northern Uganda, where the disease "can't always be given priority" despite the fact that AIDS-related illnesses are among the "top self-reported causes of death" in the roughly 200 camps, which are home to nearly two million internally displaced persons.
		The Lord's Resistance Army and the Ugandan government have been fighting for almost 20 years in the region, leading to insecurity and underdevelopment in the country and leaving displaced people without health care services, access to antiretroviral drugs and other medicines, care and support services, education, clean water, food and appropriate sanitation systems, IRIN/AllAfrica.com reports.
		According to 2005 Ministry of Health figures, Uganda's HIV prevalence nationwide is 6.4%, compared with greater than 9% in northern Uganda.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=36657 (311 words)

	African Studies Quarterly -- Neither Peace nor Justice: Political Violence and the Peasantry in Northern Uganda, ...
		[103] In Acholiland, the rebels survived and the state survived, and the population was left in the middle, not cooperating with either and being accused by each of collaborating with the other.
		The fact that this “rebel priestess,” her troops chanting hymns as they walked into battle only to be mowed down by the NRA, made it to a few dozen kilometers from Kampala before being defeated, accomplishing what the UPDA never managed, was attributable to her mobilizing discourse.
		As Lakwena moved south during 1987, in Acholiland violence between rebel groups intensified further. Although her forces had generally avoided violence against civilians, the fragmented UPDA and the splinters of the HSM terrorized each other’s civilian base.
	www.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v8/v8i2a1.htm (11867 words)

	MPI \| Research
		Nearly a decade after their establishment, it is difficult to reconcile the continued existence of the villages with the requirement that displacement last "no longer than required." Continued looting and atrocities against civilians in the villages are a clear indication that they are not "protected." Nor has a military victory over the LRA been achieved.
		This responsibility is twofold – a responsibility to ensure that civilians are protected in the camps into which the government itself forced them; and a responsibility not to contribute to the insecurity of the civilians.
		When in became clear that they were not better protected in the camps, it became the responsibility of the Ugandan government to either ensure such protection or, at the very least, not to forcibly keep civilians in clearly unsafe situations and cut off from any type of self-support mechanisms.
	www.migrationpolicy.org /research/uganda_two.php (2125 words)

	Lord's Resistance Army - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The group performs abductions primarily from the Acholi people, who have borne the brunt of the 18 year LRA campaign.
		The insurgency has been mainly contained to the region known as Acholiland, consisting of the districts of Kitgum, Gulu, and Pader, though since 2002 violence has overflowed into other districts.
		The June 1988 peace accord between the UPDA and the NRA, as well as the defeat the year before of the Holy Spirit Movement, left the group led by Kony as the only significant rebel force operating in Acholiland.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Lord's_Resistance_Army (6714 words)

	africanfront.com (AUF)
		Acholiland is located in northern Uganda and forms the substantive region that sits astride the Uganda/Sudan state frontiers in the African Union.
		The current estimated population of Acholi in Uganda is 750,000.
		According to a 2001 census, the population of Kitgum, Pader and Gulu districts, which constitute Acholiland, is slightly over a million.
	www.africanfront.com /acholigenocide.php?printable=1 (843 words)

	LEMU Documents - The Land and Equity Movement in Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This study took place in the three District of the war-torn Acholiland, in Northern Uganda, where almost the entire rural population has been forced into displacement camps.
		LEMU examined how land ownership works in Acholiland, looked at the links between land rights and the conflict, and analysed the legal implications of forced displacement in the light of Ugandan law.
		The study found that there are widespread misconceptions about land ownership in Acholiland which are contributing to land rights violations.
	land-in-uganda.org /documents.htm (956 words)

	10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Saturday Night, Coolidge Park
		Youths from around the world will be walking to city centers to show support for Ugandan children who walk every night into city centers attempting to avoid capture by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
		These children, between the ages of 3 and 17, from Acholiland in Northern Uganda, are referred to as "night commuters".
		The Global Night Commute is similar to other initiatives raising awareness about the plight of the children in Acholiland like the Gulu Walk in Toronto, Canada; however, the the Global Night Commute will take place on a much larger scale.
	blog.thorg.com /archives/035487.html (240 words)

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		Humanitarian agencies in Gulu and Kitgum (northern Ugandan districts which, along with Pader, form the area known as Acholiland) are understood to have drawn up contingency arrangements based on the possibility of 4,000 or more ex-LRA combatants (perhaps 1,000 adults and the remainder mostly children) arriving in the north of the country.
		LRA operations have included the killing and abduction of civilians, and the looting of people's goods and destruction of their homes, to the extent that humanitarian officials have described its operations as a war against the civilian population and not the Kampala government.
		By the late 1990s the LRA had turned much of Acholiland into a war zone and forced more than 400,000 people, predominantly peasant farmers, into government "protected villages", where they continue to live in conditions of some squalor.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=27340&SelectRegion=East_Africa&SelectCountry=UGANDA (1699 words)

	Situation Reports: Uganda, The growing crisis in Northern Uganda
		According to the latest OCHA humanitarian update, there were 1.4 million persons displaced by the conflict in the north, including over 900,000 in the three districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader alone.
		The prevalence of AIDS is presumed to be substantially higher among IDPs (in Acholiland) than in Uganda, where the adult prevalence rate was estimated at 6.1% in 2001.
		Lastly, most IDPs have little access to land to cultivate: in Gulu, the only accessible land is around the camps, in small plots, where it is difficult to have crop rotation.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/6247062e0c5c0a6485256e55007d8c1f (828 words)

	New Vision Online : Thrilling sounds from Acholiland
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		THRILLING: Members of the Watmon Amone perform the Bwola dance.
		The group also does dingidingi, otole, acut, nanga, and apiti, all age-old dances of the Acholi.
	www.newvision.co.ug /D/9/38/453558 (978 words)

	News: Uganda, Uganda's 16-year civil war costs over 1.3 billion dollars
		KAMPALA, Nov 6 (AFP) - Sixteen years of fighting in northern Uganda's Acholiland district have cost the economy 1.3 billion dollars (euros), a sum expected to rise when more complete data comes in, relief agencies said Wednesday.
		"The total cost of the war in Acholiland to the country has been estimated conservatively at close to 1.3 billion dollars during 16 years of the conflict," said a report commissioned by relief agencies active in the region.
		Acholiland has most recently seen conflict between the military and the Lord's Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony, which claims to want to set up a regime based on the biblical Ten Commandments but is better known for atrocities and kidnappings.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/a7e3764c162d542b49256c6a000c182d (640 words)

	Acholi Foundation a solution for change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		I have tried to focus on what I think is important: holding down a steady job, going to school, raising decent children, exercising and fundraising for breast cancer and the like; but I cannot get Acholiland out of my head.
	www.acholifoundation.org (1274 words)

	Amazon.fr : Living With Bad Surroundings: War & Existential Uncertainty in Acholiland, Northern Uganda: Livres en ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		War has ravaged Acholiland in northern Uganda since 1986.
		Finnstrom explores the various ways people in Acholiland struggle to establish control and balance in quotidian life in a situation of ongoing civil war.
		While it has been postulated that some cultures or ethnic groups is essence are more prone to war than others, Finnstrom argues here that this is not a fruitful way of analyzing cultural life.
	www.amazon.fr /Living-Bad-Surroundings-Existential-Uncertainty/dp/9155457479 (483 words)

	w o r d s » Blog Archive » War on children in Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George told me about the 19-year-old conflict in Acholiland (N. Uganda) and the devastation this war has wreaked upon his country.
		These children, some as young as seven years old, are forced to fight government troops and conduct raids on Acholi villages to swell the ranks of the LRA.
		The world needs to care what happens to Acholiland, so as to pressure the Ugandan government to find ways to make peace with the LRA, end this conflict, disarm and re-integrate the child-soldiers.
	words.yovo.info /?p=114 (569 words)

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		This region, also known as Acholiland, has experienced 15 years of chronic complex emergency fomented by the armed rebellion of the Lord's Resistance Army, and exacerbated by drought and economic collapse.
		Eighty percent of the population of Gulu District (one of three districts comprising Acholiland) is internally displaced, and food production in this former breadbasket of Uganda has hit an all-time low.
		Through the DAP, CRS and its partners propose to increase agricultural production of vulnerable households, rehabilitate community infrastructure such as valley dams, and support the re-establishment of local markets through agricultural research and mobilization of community-based marketing associations.
	members.tripod.com /dev_jobs/crs-ghana.html (588 words)

	FAO Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The violence has displaced almost 2 million people and tens of thousands have been killed or kidnapped over the course of nearly two decades.
		Acholiland, as well as parts of bordering districts in the south, harbour approximately 1.7 million IDPs who live in squalid conditions in over 200 overcrowded camps, relying largely on external assistance for survival.
		At the same time, due to increased security in other parts within the same areas, approximately 400 000 IDPs are returning to their villages.
	www.fao.org /reliefoperations/uganda_en.asp (1734 words)

	The EastAfrican on the Web
		A recent report prepared by relief agencies working in the north, the country's most deprived region, says the government is under an obligation to resolve the Joseph Kony-led rebellion, the method used notwithstanding.
		The report, made public last month by a group of agencies who call themselves Civil Society Organisations for Peace in Northern Uganda, say that the past 16 years of fighting in Acholiland have cost the economy at least $1.3 billion.
		While the current national budget dwells on poverty reduction and programmes such as modernisation of agriculture, universal primary education and primary healthcare, the government commitment has shifted to the rebel activities in the north, which it says must be brought to an end before the end of this year.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/25112002/Regional/Regional13.html (993 words)

	Lord's Resistance Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This sparked a diplomatic row between the governments of the DRC and Uganda, with both militaries making a show of force along their border, while the Congolese ambassador to the United Nations sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General demanding that an economic embargo be placed on Uganda in retaliation.
		The insurgency has been historically contained to the region known as Acholiland, consisting of the districts of Kitgum, Gulu, and Pader, though since 2002 violence has overflowed into other Ugandan districts.
		The LRA has also operated across the porous border region with Southern Sudan and most recently into the northeastern Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord's_Resistance_Army (3401 words)

	Special report on the northern crisis - Continued (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		News of the launch of a major military operation to eliminate the LRA, following an agreement signed between the Sudanese and the Ugandan government in March last year, initially raised hopes that the insurgency would be brought to an end and normal life would return to the 1.4 million residents of Acholiland.
		The operation, code-named “Operation Iron Fist”, prompted humanitarian agencies to make contingency plans to receive an estimated 3,000 children who were to be rescued by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) from LRA rear bases in southern Sudan.
		Julliand pointed out that the devastation in Acholiland was already cancelling out much of the progress Uganda had made on the socio-economic front.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=33892 (1318 words)

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