Uganda - Villagers flee to stay out of LRA control

Описание: (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.

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