ACHOLI MEMORIAL DAY 26 JANUARY 2008
Dear Friends, readers and Acholi compatriots, It will be 22 years to the day, on Saturday 26 January 2008, when an ethnic army seized state power and initiated a pogrom against the Acholi people. Former soldiers, Acholi civilian, children, women and the elderly were rounded up, imprisoned, tortured, raped, sodomised and massacred throughout Uganda. A war was imposed on our people, and a genocide has been decimating our people since. They were driven from their homes, dumped in concentration camps without protection and provisions. As our people hang onto their lives by the skins of their teeth, the murderous NRM /A regime is conniving with Acholi apostates to make the final solution a reality by denying Acholi forcibly confined into concentration camps undisputed rights to return to their ancestral lands. This is being done under the pretext of development and creating employment. This is most harrowing because education and other socio-economic infractures in Acholi ground to a stand ...