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A people living
in fear

Some 1.6 million Acholi people in Gulu and Kitgum districts are now displaced and living in so-called ‘protected camps’. But they still fear the random terror of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

Godfrey’s story is typical of the horrors ordinary people face on a daily basis. On the evening of 30 May 2003, rebels burst into his home and sliced off his ears, lips and fingers. Godfrey had done nothing.

The attack was meant as a bloody warning to anyone intending to join the government’s local defence forces. “We shall do to you what we have done to him,” was the threat written in a letter the rebels used to wrap up Godfrey’s ears before stuffing them in his pocket.

Bishop Benjamin Ojwang told how his wife’s parents were killed by Ugandan government forces after an LRA ambush. The soldiers refused to believe that they didn’t know the LRA were waiting and couldn’t have warned the UPDF troops.

Hunger had driven the couple to leave their ‘protected camp’ to go back to their own village in search of food. Food supplies into the protected camps are regularly ambushed; the people inside are left with nothing to survive on.

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