Tragedy in Uganda: #Joseph_Kony massacre survivors tell their stories | World news | The Observer
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Martin took part in those burials. Like many other survivors here, he dug a mass grave for his family after the Lord’s Resistance Army came through Amoko on 7 December 1991. You won’t read about the Amoko massacre in any newspaper or book. In fact, today’s arrival of a young social scientist named Deo Komakech, with his notebook and video-recorder, marks the first time that the people who lived through the attack by Joseph Kony’s dreaded men have been asked about it. “There’s no one to listen to our story,” Nekolina Lakot tells him. “It’s good you have come.”
Gathering these stories, quietening these ghosts, is the unusual work of the organisation which employs Deo, the National Memory and Peace Documentation Centre (NMPDC). Based in Kitgum, and supported by the UK charity Christian Aid, their mission is to harvest information concerning the 19 years in which the LRA preyed upon the people of this region, which is known as Acholiland.
Mapping Uganda’s massacres: keeping track of the LRA – video
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