2012年5月5日 星期六

Genocide in Uganda Websites

Facts:
- genocide against Acholi people in Northern Uganda
- children are abducted
- the world did not really know about this because they are busy worrying about the war between Iraq and Afghanistan
- the government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) displaced these Acholi people
- only about a million and a half survived
- happened since 1986 when Yoweri Museveni came to power
- he order troops to kill these Acholi people
- thay blamed these people for rebel collaboration are not proven and they punish them cruely
- Museveni band the local and international media so the community wouldn't know about this genocide against the Acholi
- in 1996, the government order the Acholi to leave their homes and move to concentration camp
- if you delayed, they will bombed your house
- the camp contain more than 500,000 people now, everyone is treated cruely
- the LRA is another group that stepped in the genocide against the Acholi people, they cut off the legs of Acholi to prevent them from reporting to the government about the LRA
- they cut off their arms because they used to work for the government, they cut off their limbs to prevent them from working on Sunday
- they turns children into soldiers as young as 5 years old
-these children will kill those who cannot work with machetes and pounding sticks
- the UN estimates over 20,000 children being abducted and turns into children soldiers
- different non-governmental and humanitarian organizations report to rescue these Acholi
- the UN representative weren't really serious about this issue
- USA and Britain have been supporting Yoweri as he came to power in 1986
-USA and Britain start to rethink their support
-Acholi people have been caught between the government troops under Museveni and LRA

This is a lecture on saving the children from war, focusing mainly on the genocide in Uganda
- inant mortality rate in Uganda is 172/1000 live births
- kids under five: 276/1000 die
- 25 kilos of corn flour & 6 kilos of pulses per family (each family contain 6-8 people)
- 2500-3000 people share a water source, often takes 4-6 hours of waiting in line to collect water
- a family live in a tiny hut of 4.5 square metres (smaller than the size of Mr. Webb's classroom)
- 85% in the camp suffer from severe trauma and depression
- is entirely normal for the government soldiers to rape and generalized sexual exploitation to the people
- HIV/AIDS is use as a weapon to kill the people
- some 40,000 children sleep on the streets to prevent being abducted
- Joseph Kony is the accomplice of Museveni
- Uganda is under a one-party undemocratic rule for 20 years, now...still

3. http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/01/22/african-genocide.html
- more people in Uganda died compared to the number in Rwanda genocide
- more than 500,000 were beaten up and arrested, raped girls under age 15 to kill them with AIDS

- the Lord's Resistance Army is made to overthrow the government
- leader: Joseph Kony
-95% of the population have been under violent abuse, the other 5% has been abandoned
- children abducted by LRA were transformed into child soldiers
- in concentration camps, the people's clothes were replaced with prisoner uniform
- children hid at night to prevent being caught by LRA, if caught, they were trained to kill, sometime they are even forced to kill their families
- LRA did not use many propaganda campaign so they didn't gain country's support, but they also kept all these violent act in a secret to other countries
- kill people for religious motives, they want to convert the country into a nation whose government is based on the Ten Commandments
- LRA forced the people they abducted and even their own army to obey the Ten Commandment and to not work on Sunday, if they disobey, their hands will be cut off
- the LRA doesn't have a clear set of goals compare to the Nazi

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