Word: okello
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...Ugandan government may indeed be moving to shield the LRA from the international court. It recently announced that it will set up a special tribunal to handle internally the war crimes of the LRA. Uganda's Foreign Affairs Minister Oryem Okello says that the tribunal will be comparable to that used in neighboring Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. (To complicate matters, Uganda's displaced have also accused government soldiers of atrocities during their time in the camps. But Uganda's proposed national tribunal will not handle cases of abuse by the army. Instead, the soldiers will be tried by preexisting...
...peace and relative prosperity. At Anaka, the rumored plans for human sacrifice may be averted if peace improves conditions quickly enough. Among the Acholi, even those who found sense in their struggle through spirituality or politics, few will miss the camps. "We are ready to go," says Janani Okello, 59, a former teacher who arrived at Anaka in 1990. The fear of fires in the camp now outweighs the fear of the world outside. That's progress, of a kind...
...decades of suspicion and mistrust between African and European medicine practitioners aren't so easily overcome, and not every traditional healer is so eager as Okello is to pitch...
Take, for example, Yahaya Sekagya. Like Okello, his history was shaped by medical trauma. As a teenager he was consigned to a mental hospital for visions he says were calling him to traditional medicine. "It was misdiagnosed and misunderstood by Western medicine," says Sekagya, 43. Although he ended up going to medical school--more out of contrariness than conviction--he also spent six years studying at a medicine man's shrine. Now he's the director of the Ugandan chapter of Prometra, a Senegal-based advocacy group promoting traditional medicine. Sekagya runs an outdoor school in a forest south...
...Apac district hospital near Alenga, where THETA has encouraged the nurses to accept traditional approaches, it's not uncommon for patients to ask a healer for supplemental herbs or to check themselves out to seek traditional remedies. But even in Apac, the doctors are not so accommodating. Okello carefully fills out referral forms provided by THETA, but they often come back with no comments or diagnosis. "We don't get the feedback," says Okello, who takes it upon himself to make sure patients are following their regimens. "Maybe they feel it time wasting...