Suffering In Uganda

The country known as Uganda was once a British colony just like the majority of its neighbors in East Africa. It was initially intruded into by the Arab traders led by Speke and the British explorers led by Stanley in 1862 and 1875 respectively. They both paid homage to Mutesa who was the King (kabaka) of the Buganda. Uganda remained predominantly under the colony of the British until 1962 when they were granted internal self government by Britain (History World, 2011).

Also, in an interview conducted by Journeyman Pictures, the leader of the LRA, Joseph Kony lied about abducting villages. He was trying to cover up for the atrocities that he and his troops had caused. In the video, Kony addresses, “The LRA has never been involved in any abductions, rapes or mutilations. That's just Museveni’s propaganda.” He was blaming others for his wrongdoings. Throughout the interview, Kony blamed it on “Museveni's propaganda” four

In recent times, the media has highlighted the genocide that has been occurring in Darfur, Sudan. Darfur, Sudan is a country roughly the size of the state of Texas (Darfur Scores, n.d.). Genocide is the systematic killing of an entire ethnic group of people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do away with them all (Darfur Scores, n.d.). Beginning around 2003, according to Darfur Scores (n.d.), “the Sudanese government in Khartoum and the government-sponsored Janjaweed militia have used rape, displacement, organized starvation, threats against aid workers and mass murder. Violence, disease, and displacement continue to kill thousands of innocent Darfurians every month.”

About 2.3 million Darfurians have fled their homes and communities and now reside in displaced person camps in Darfur. It has started spilling over into neighboring countries such as Chad and the Central African Republic. There are still over 200,000 more Darfurians living in refugee camps in Chad. Immediately after the Janjaweed entered the conflict, the rape of women and young girls, often by multiple militiamen and often throughout entire nights, began to be reported at a staggering rate. Children as young as 2 years old were reported victims, while mothers were assaulted in front of their children.Young women were attacked so violently that they were unable to walk following the attack. “.. These refugees and IDPs are almost entirely dependent on the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations for their basic needs – food, water, shelter, and health care.”(The Genocide in Darfur). The Darfurians that are still living in their country are feeling as though they are under a constant threat or being tortured, raped and murdered. In October 2004, 7,400 troops and personnel were sent by the U.N peacekeeping forces to Darfur. In the summer of 2007, outbreaks of violence between some of the Arab tribes that worked together as part of the Janjaweed began to occur more frequently. The United Nations recently reported

These are the words of a 15-year-old girl in Uganda. Like her, there are an estimated 300,000 children under the age of eighteen who are serving as child soldiers in about thirty-six conflict zones (Shaikh). Life on the front lines often brings children face to face with the horrors of war. Too many children have personally experienced or witnessed physical violence, including executions, death squad killings, disappearances, torture, arrest, sexual abuse, bombings, forced displacement, destruction of home, and massacres. Over the past ten years,

2003 marked the beginning of the Darfur Genocide. It has consisted of some of the most appalling treatment and murder of the innocent citizens of Darfur. It also quickly became clear why the government never stepped in. A group known as the Janjaweed, which ironically enough translates to ‘devils on horseback,’ has been at the head of the genocide. They are armed and funded by the government. Their disturbing actions consist of destroy the people by burning villages, looting money, polluting water, and worst of all, the murdering, raping, and torturing of men, woman, and children. It continues there today.

This warlord of Uganda is just another Hitler of our world. Kony is a man with a mission to stay in power. He will do all he can to maintain a superior status.Kony has not committed these crimes himself, but has become the rising leader for Lord's Resistance Army

In 2003 there was a mass slaughter and and rape of the people in Darfur. This happened to so many people like men, women, and children. Many people suffered from the mass torturing. This is known as a genocide. The genocide has been going on for about 13 years and is still going on today. This genocide is the first genocide in the 21st century. The darfur genocide was gruesome. Since the Darfur bloodshed was gruesome and had people attacking, it led the United States and Court to believe it was considered a genocide. Darfur is a horrible time in history for so many people. The Janjaweed and the Sudanese forces attacked hundreds of villages in Darfur. The genocide is what caused so many people to suffer from the United States, court, crimes

The Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency is an ongoing guerrilla campaign that started in 1987. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group was led by Joseph Kony. Kony proclaims himself as the “spokesperson” of god. His objective is to overthrow the Ugandan government, establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and Acholi tradition.

The Darfur Genocide started on February 26, 2003. This genocide is still continuing till this day. Darfur Genocide is the mass slaughter of Darfuri men, women, and children in Sudan. This is happening because of the oppression of Darfur’s non-Arab population.. The people started to revolt and wanted the government to stop the oppressing of the non–Arab population. The government did not listen and got violent with the people. When the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) started to attack the government, the government responded with there own attack. The Sudanese government decided to use the Janjaweed a Sudanese military group to attack the non–Arab population. Now because of the Janjaweed millions of people

Sudan is a country in which had been affected with a history of civil wars, inhumane acts, and genocide. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and Justice and Equality movement began to attack government targets in early 2003, accusing the president of Sudan, Khartoum of oppressing Non-Arabs. The government reacted with a campaign of ethnic cleansing. This resulted in over 400,000 deaths and hundreds of villages destroyed, wells were poisoned, live stocked was killed and millions of people sent to camps. The Janjaweed were forced by Sudan to attack their villages, the Janjaweed militias raided hundreds of villages throughout Darfur. Over 400 villages and ⅓ of Darfur’s people have fled. More than 100 people die everyday, five thousand people die every month. The Sudanese government denies any connection with the Janjaweed, because they are the ones who are responsible for such inhumane actions.

Though, despite mostly being a advertising scam, it did bring attention to the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and its leader, Joseph Kony, who would go on to be known as one of the most wanted criminals on the planet. He built an empire by forming the biggest child soldier militia that would help him commit countless war crimes. In addition to documentaries, I've read a lot of news stories about Kony, short biographies of victims, etc. One story in particular just struck me as a perfect example, and that is the story of Norman Okello. Norman was just like any other child, and he had a family that loved him dearly. All of this would be taken away from him, and all of it at age 12, the age LRA prefers to recruit

The L. R. A. still exists. He changes his tactics often, so it is very hard to catch him. This story of all those childrens made me simply speechless and I hope it made you too. Over the years the awarness of this situation has grown, but it is still not finished because Kony still isn’t done justice! You might think rigth know, yes it is very sad that those children has to live like that, but what can I do about it? Who am I to end a war? But let me tell you, who are you not too. You can make a change, you can give money to an organisation or you can help spread the story of all those children all over the world. There is power in numbers, if everyone knows it there has to be done

They wanted a system that would shrink the divide between the state and the Acholi people. In 2000, the people who were victimized in this conflict requested that the government passes an Amnesty Act. Under this act, anyone who renounces violence can return to their town with fears of repercussions (ICC 145). This shows a sense of reconciliation amongst the Ugandan people to those members of the LRA, and an understanding if their situation. By 2004, more than 5000 former LRA soldiers had applied for amnesty. Many of them took their story to main radio stations in the Gulu district in order to encourage others to apply (ICC, 145). This was met with backlash from Kony, stating that this was a threat to the LRA, and decided to attack a refugee camp in Pagak, the home of a former LRA commander (ICC,

Who is the Lord’s Resistance Army? The LRA is a rebel Christian cult that has “terrorized” Uganda for nearly thirty years. In 1986, the LRA began as an “evolution of the Holy Spirit Movement.” Led by Alice Lakwena, the Holy Spirit Movement was a rebellion against the oppression of North Uganda by their president, Yoweri Museveni.(invisible children, 2014) Claiming that she was possessed by the spirit of a long-dead Italian soldier, Lakwena was seen unfit to remain the leader of the Holy Spirit Movement. When she was exiled in 1987, Joseph Kony, her supposed cousin, took over the group, renaming it the Lord’s Resistance Army. With hopes of bringing down the Ugandan