Uganda - Villagers flee to stay out of LRA control скачать в хорошем качестве

Uganda - Villagers flee to stay out of LRA control

(22 Mar 1998) T/I 10:31:20 The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a brutal rebel movement operating in northern Uganda, has abducted some 20,000 children since it launched a campaign in 1987 to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni. Northern Ugandans are terrified of the rebels. Thousands of villagers come to St. Mary's Hospital every night to stay out of the rebels' reach, joining about 2,000 villagers who are camped permanently at the hospital, a few kilometres (miles) from Gulu. Nearly 300,000 other villagers - more than a third of the population of Gulu and neighbouring Kitgum districts - live permanently in "protected villages," with soldiers on patrol. SHOWS: UGANDA 19-20 MARCH: GULU, NORTH UGANDA - 19 MARCH: INT VS Children and mothers at Gulu hospital, where they are being cared for by the World Food Programme after being displaced by fighting in the region; EXT VS children at Gusco Centre, who have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army, and have since escaped or been captured by the Ugandan army; INT VS children playing cards; SOT, Ochora Ochitti, Deputy Programme Co-ordinator (in English): "Sometimes they walked in the night, sometimes they were forced to raid villages, and sometimes they were forced to burn houses, and sometimes they were forced even to kill people in the village"; VS Injured child in yellow t-shirt, Walter Ojok, who was abducted by the LRA and spent a month with them before escaping, but was shot in the leg in the process; GULU, NORTH UGANDA - 20 MARCH: VS Ugandan army running along the road, in fitness training; VS United Nations food warehouse, with workers loading food to be taken to Amuru village, 30 km away; MS UN food truck drives away from warehouse; AMURU, NORTH UGANDA - 20 MARCH: VS Village scenes, in protected village of Amuru, now home to thousands of displaced people; VS food convoy arrives from Gulu, with military protection; MS Man with monkey on shoulder; MS women distributing grain; MS UN worker organizing distribution; MS soldier on guard during food distribution. Runs 4.00 mins Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...