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...need a national truth and reconciliation process," says Norbert Mao, chairman of Gulu district, one of the Ugandan towns hardest hit by the conflict. In Gulu, over 70% of displaced people still have not been able to leave the camps due to fears of safety and lack of land - though many are in settlements within 20 km of their home. "It's a situation where many feel that they are in limbo... and there are mixed feelings about whether the LRA leadership should be tried by traditional justice," says Harry Leefe, head of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR's office...
...Loss of support from former Sudanese allies and a long Ugandan military campaign have also pushed most LRA fighters into the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. "They don't have the capacity to recruit," says Walter Ochora, Uganda's Resident District Commissioner in Gulu, the epicenter of the conflict. "They're surrendering on a daily basis." Child abductions and other attacks are way down from their peak in 2002. Farmers in Uganda's army-defended camps tentatively return to cultivate their land by day. And the north's main town of Gulu is once again bustling with commerce...
...them, returning to civilian life is hard, says Philip Ludara, Gulu's distrtict coordinator for the Concerned Parents' Association, a local organization with records on nearly 20,000 of Uganda's abducted children. "You're trained how to torture. You're trained how to kill. It's all you know," he says. "Fitting into the community is a big challenge...
More than 90 people—including members of the Harvard community—braved the cold and rain to raise awareness of the so-called “night commuter” children of northern Uganda in Boston’s first-ever “Gulu Walk” on Saturday. “Night commuters” walk all night in order to avoid capture by and abduction into the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Both students and local residents alike carried signs along a six-mile route through Cambridge before convening in the Winthrop...
DIED. MATTHEW LUKWIYA, Ugandan doctor who led the country's fight to contain an Ebola outbreak that began in September; days after showing symptoms of the disease; in Gulu, Uganda. Lukwiya, who was in his early 40s, was the first to recognize that people were contracting the virus and is credited for the relatively low death toll, which reached 156 last week...