Archive for August, 2006

North Uganda: The volunteers’ eyes

The volunteers’ eyes – the eyes of those who do not belong to large NGO’s and whose reports will never be laid on the important tables of those who make decisions on the peoples’ future – seem to most people to be dimmed by high principles and candour.

Probably the volunteers’ work will never give figures or numbers for interesting statistics about the development and aftermath of a war, but the eyes and ears of those volunteers who share their life with people suffering “for and in the war� can and will express the feelings of anger and the inequity those who count for nothing must endure.

In the fields the news is collected with difficulty through the waves of small radios or from rare papers and it cannot do away with people’s doubts and uncertainty about the peace negotiations under way.

Doubts raise when one reads ambiguous phrases in local papers and sees photos that can be described as at least “nonsensical�.

The photo of Joseph Kony – head of LRA rebels – in which he is described as a general, but in fact he is sought by the International Law Court for war crimes and everybody knows that he is the leader of a fanatical group that is one of the “terrorist groupsâ€? of the world, guilty of murder, kidnapping and abuses especially against children, is in our opinion nothing else than a shameless way of exalting and increasing the frenzy of a murderer.

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[Israel-OPT update] At Twani / 24 July-13 August 2006

Main Facts:
Summer camp started on the 6 August and will last two weeks: the army is supposed to escort children from At Tuba and Maghayir al Abeed to At Tuwani at 7 am and back to their villages at 1 pm.

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