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Gulu University opened in October 2002 amidst a long-running civil war between the government and the Lord’s Resistance Army. This was not an ‘enabling environment’ for education. Headlines such as this one from September 19, 2002 make this point clear: “Rebels in northern Uganda raided a village in the district of [...] As reported in the Monitor: [The Ugandan] State House will foot the funeral bills of rebel leader [LRA] Joseph Kony’s mother who died on Tuesday night, Gulu Resident District Commissioner Walter Ochora said yesterday. According to a report by The New Vision, Norah Anek Oting, the mother of Joseph Kony, the #1 enemy [...] I am horrified by the reported massacres that rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army have carried out over recent weeks in Congo and Sudan, leaving hundreds of people dead, scores of women raped, children abducted and villages ransacked. I condemn these atrocities in the strongest terms. Regional militaries have an important role to [...] The Ugandan military drove the rebels out of Uganda about five years ago and the rebels have been mostly hiding out in a thickly forested area of northeastern Congo ever since. There have been several high-profile efforts, backed by the United Nations and the United States, to persuade Joseph Kony, the rebel’s phantom-like commander, to [...] December 2008, 8 days after Uganda launches Operation Lightning Thunder against the Lord’s Resistance Army in Garamba, DRC: Victory is assured this time…As an old fighter, I would not want to be in Kony’s position. The combined arms operations about to begin will decimate him…Our forces are closing in on Kony. |
I am an Associate in the Poverty, Gender and Youth Program at the Population Council and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Public Health in the New York University Master's Program in Global Public Health. 
 
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