For two decades the people of northern Uganda have suffered the effects of a brutal war between the rebel group, Lord’s Resistance Army, and the Government of Uganda. The Lord’s Resistance Army has targeted civilian areas of Northern Uganda resorting to barbaric tactics of murder, mutilation, rape, mass burnings of villages and camps, sexual enslavement, and abduction of civilians – especially children – as forced combatants.

Over a million civilians have fled the Lord’s Resistance Army and resulted in a majority of the population of Northern Uganda living in crowded and unhealthy displaced persons camps.

This has been one of Africa’s longest running civil wars but now there is the prospect of an end to the fighting.

For more information, contact:

New York: Gerald Martone, (212) 551-3061, Gerald.Martone@theIRC.org
Washington DC: Shannon Meehan, (202) 822-0166 x 24, Shannon.Meehan@theIRC.org
Uganda: Julien Schopp, + 256 41 286 212, Julien.Schopp@theIRC.org