Acholi people
Africa
The forced displacements of Acholi people began with
Museveni’s ascension to power in 1986, but major forced displacements occurred
throughout the 1990’s and again in 2002-2003. However, there was a massive
displacement operation in 1996 that appears to have been coordinated in part
with the planned U.S. invasion of Zaire from Northern Uganda and Rwanda.
The UPDF Army barracks at Masindi
and airstrip at Gulu, both in Northern Uganda, served as the staging grounds for
the U.S. invasion of Zaire. The Museveni government organized the closure of
northern Uganda in October 1996 ostensibly because of heightened LRA attacks.
The UPDF, in chronological coincidence with the U.S. invasion, forced hundreds
of thousands of Acholis into concentration camps in the fall of 1996, often by
bombing and burning villages and murdering, beating, raping and threatening
those who would not comply.
[2007] Darfurism, Uganda and the U.S. War in Africa -
The Spectre of Continental Genocide by Keith Harmon Snow
Anyone who dismisses the organized and intentional RPF/A and UPDF military campaign against millions of Hutu people—massacred and chased from the Uganda border to Kigali, into eastern Congo, and finally attacked in refugee camps and butchered all the way across Zaire—is a genocide denier. (Of course, the UPDF-RPF/A alliance also summarily executed and massacred Rwandan Tutsis and indigenous Twa, and Congolese people.) Similarly, anyone who dismisses the organized persecution and atrocities against the Acholi people in northern Uganda—maintained by the Museveni government and the UPDF occupation—is a genocide denier. [2008 Dec] Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa. White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys by Keith Harmon Snow