CEGUN Documentary on Acholi Genocide

CEGUN (Campaign to End Genocide in Uganda Now), has released a mini-documentary about the ongoing genocide in Acholiland. The documentary focuses on the "protected villages" the Ugandan government set up as a method of "protecting" people from the LRA. Instead, the villagers became sitting targets in the camps, and the camps themselves became death traps, characterized by disease, hunger and death.

At one point over 1,000 people were dying weekly as a result of the conditions in the camps. Today, a hepatitis epidemic has begun to spread through camps in Kitgum District, as a result of similar conditions.

Featured in the film are Olara Otunnu, former UN Undersecretary General for Children in Armed Conflict, Milton Allimadi, Black Star News Publisher and CEGUN members Lucy Larom, Gloria Oloya, Kathy Smith and Tim Hardy.

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Travel to Uganda, to see what the Ugandan government has successfully hidden from the world. Witness the suffering of innocent civilians caught between a brutal rebel army and equally lethal government troops.

Why have these Ugandans been denied a right to protection? Why does the world's superpowers continue to support a government which has failed its own citizens? Where is the world's concern for this ongoing, slow-motion genocide? What does the future hold for northern Uganda's children?

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Video Link: Two sides of the same coin: the LRA and Ugandan Government

In the wake of what could be the collapse of recent peace talks between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government, discussion has focused on the peace talks, the way forward and the millions of displaced Ugandans who were left unprotected by their government.

The story of forcible displacement has been eclipsed by the atrocities of the LRA, but it is the people in the government-created death camps which must remain the focus. Conditions of imposed poverty and ill health created a death toll far higher than the LRA's, making the government of Uganda's negligence the number one cause of loss of life.


Debating the issue on Press TV, featured gues Milton Allimadi sought to dispel the prevailing myths surrounding the LRA-UPDF war.

MILTON ALLIMADI:

"...the Ugandan military has had no interest in defeating the Lord's Resistance Army. The Lord's Resistance Army is the other side of the same coin as the Ugandan militaristic government..."

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