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 Two Canadians, Andrea McKinlay and Lara Rosenoff, are spending the entire month of July living in Padibe internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in northern Uganda. They will stay in a rented hut and they will work with, eat with - - and will live like family with the 25,000 residents of Padibe IDP.
This is not a stunt.
Andrea and Lara are doing this, not as a personal challenge, but to draw attention to this endless injustice. The plight of the residents of the IDP camps of northern Uganda continues to be pacified with empty words, not action, from both the government of Uganda and the international community.
The time has come to put real effort and resources behind resettlement in northern Uganda and finally end this trauma and insecurity for an entire generation of people who have never known peace.
Click on the link to read the blog, and see the photos and video at www.summercamp08.org.
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 LONDON (Reuters) - Military action against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) could plunge northern Uganda into another nightmare of fear and misery, the leader of the tribe most affected by the rebel group's insurgency said on Thursday.
Uganda's army says it has agreed with Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo to jointly fight the cult-like LRA if peace talks with its elusive leader Joseph Kony fail.
But Rwot David Acana, the paramount chief of the Acholi tribe of which Kony and his fighters are also members, said the gains of 18 months of fragile peace were too precious to squander on a hasty resort to military strikes.
"The military option should wait," he told Reuters in an interview. "Let's explore peaceful means... The people at home still have hope. If they have hope at home, the international community should also have hope."
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 As Ugandan civil society leaders meet to clarify transitional justice mechanisms in advance of their scheduled May 10th meeting with Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, NGOs from around the world have united in a message of support for local efforts to salvage the peace process to end northern Uganda’s 22-year war. They are calling for patient and persistent engagement to ensure that humanitarian progress achieved during the Juba negotiations is sustained.
“Over one million displaced northern Ugandans continue to face the difficult task of trying to create a life in the absence of peace and in fear of a return to violence,” says the statement released today by more than thirty humanitarian, faith-based and civil society organizations from Brussels, Geneva, Gulu, Kampala, London, New York, Oslo, Pader, Toronto and Washington DC. “Recent developments have made it clear that all efforts must now be aimed at salvaging the Final Peace Agreement.”
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