Oyam, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Victims of the Abok camp massacre in Oyam district are crying out to the government for help. On June 8, 2004, a group of 100 LRA rebels led by Dominic Ongwen attacked a camp for Internally Displaced People-IDP at Abok in Ngai sub county, killing …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Minakulu Township in Oyam District are demanding compensations for atrocities committed against them by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army – LRA in 1988. The affected residents say on the 1st of August 1988, LRA rebels stormed the area and overran the then …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Northern Uganda are reaping big through the making of face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19. Up to 35 former child soldiers who attained vocational training in fashion design and garment technology have been contracted by …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Refugee Law Project in collaboration with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has launched a travelling exhibition in Kitgum district. The exhibition under the theme Ododo Wa; Stories of Girls in War was launched on Monday at the National Memory and Peace Documentation …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of residents in Latanya sub-county in Pader district on Saturday converged to remember more than 250 people who were brutally killed by the Lord’s Resistance-LRA rebels. The third commemoration prayers held in Amoko village in Golo parish was in memory of innocent civilians …
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Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Every October 22, Josephine Akullu, 57, a resident of Onyol central village in Omot Sub-county in Agago district suffers an anxiety attack. On this date, 17 years ago, Akullu ended her routine chores with no thoughts of running into trouble. But that very evening, tragedy …
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