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September 24, 2004
Atrocities in Uganda
If you subscribe to The New York Review of Books, you may have read this article in the September 23, 2004 issue. If not, you can purchase it here or visit your local library. I, too, thought Uganda was a success story.
From The New York Review of Books web site:
Volume 51, Number 14 · September 23, 2004
Feature
Uganda: The Secret War
By Tim Judah
War, cannibalism, sex slavery, massacre, and mayhem are not usually words that one associates with Uganda. Indeed, if you mention this East African country to people outside East Africa they will likely say: "But I thought Uganda was one of the more successful African nations." In many respects it is, but one of its greatest successes has been in concealing from the outside world the brutal war that has afflicted its northern region for eighteen years.
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Posted by apc at September 24, 2004 11:40 PM