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For some 19 years, a widely misunderstood and largely ignored two-tiered war has been waging in Northern Uganda between rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army (“LRA�), the Ugandan Government and local Acholi civilian population, in particular, and by disaffected northern Ugandans with real grievances against their central Government. Tens of thousands have been maimed or killed, more than 25,000 children between the ages of 7 and 17 have been abducted and forced to fight or serve as wives and some 90% of the region’s almost 2,000,000 people have been displaced into refugee camps.

Yet this conflict has remained one of the ten most underreported humanitarian stories (MSF-USA: Special Report, 2005). It has been described by U.N.Under-Secretary General of Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, as “the world’s most neglected humanitarian crisis� and as “one of the biggest scandals of our generation.�

Recently, a renewed peace initiative has been sponsored by the......

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