In continuing with our theme on human rights violations by the army in northern Uganda, Acholi Times brings you a statement from the first NRA Commander who “liberated” Gulu, Col. Samson Mande. The NRA advance to the north that I happened to lead was swift in capturing the Northern Uganda territory due NRA superiority in […]

Last week we looked how the policy of hatred towards the northerners, which was at the epicentre of NRA operations, fueled the discrimination, marginalisation and destruction of the northerners, particularly the Acholi people; in public and private domain and were the basis upon which the war in northern Uganda was prosecuted.  The Acholi people witnessed the […]

  General David Tinyefunza Even after seizing power 1986 and removing the northerners from the epicenter of power in Uganda, Museveni and his army and supporters; advocated a policy that was right from the beginning, virulently hostile to the northerners, particularly towards the Acholi people, identifying them as enemies. The policy of hatred and power […]

Three men suspected of being rebel collaborators were transported to the army barracks in Lukome where they spent one night inside an uncovered pit. The next morning the three men were put in a military vehicle and taken to the Fourth Division barracks in Gulu town. As one remembered: When we reached the division barracks […]

At sunrise on Tuesday the 16th the people were awakened after only a few hours of sleep. At around 8:00am the men were taken out of the pit one by one and forced to sit together under a tree. Most were weak and disoriented from lack of food and the time spent trapped. Those that […]

Throughout the long and complex history of the brutal war in northern Uganda, a great number of actors have been involved in committing grave crimes and abuses against civilians. The LRA has traditionally been considered responsible for all the killings and abuses carried out in the region. However, as the situation in the north stabilized […]

Documentary filmmakers in Uganda were subjected to intimidation and coercion and were the victims of break-ins while attempting to film what a former U.N. official calls “Uganda’s secret genocide” in the northern part of that country. The filmmakers say these threats came from Ugandan officials and secret intelligence organizations there. The cameraman for an American […]

  Northern Uganda is the worst place on earth to be a child today, says a former United Nations Under-Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflicts. According to Oxfam, the rate of violent death in northern Uganda is three times worse than Iraq’s. Since 1996, the government has herded more than 1.6 million people in […]

Introduction In June 2003, the then Presidential advisor on Political and Military Affairs in northern Uganda, Lt Gen Salim Saleh[1] unveiled a blue-print for ending the LRA insurgency with a price tag of Shs 4bn, entitled ‘Security and Production Programme’ (SPP). [2] Saleh’s security and development concept, envisages setting up economic projects to ‘empower’ the people of […]