Northern Uganda memorial project in post conflict

The Goal of the project is to promote reconciliation and sustain peace in northern Uganda through documentation and presentation of a selection of memorial places, buildings and cultural heritage sites of significance to the conflict.

From the period  1986 to  2006, the Acholi people of northern Uganda lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government.  Many people of northern Uganda  especially Acholi were murdered, maimed and driven into displacement.

By 2003, the  violent conflict extended to wider areas of northern Uganda, stretching to Langi, Teso and Westnile. Almost 2 million people (80% of the population in the north) forced to live in IDP-camps, changing the mindset of people and the landscape of the region forever. Children growing up in the IDP camps have in many cases lost their cultural traditions, their identity and sense of belonging. As well as displacement, over 30,000 children were abducted and forced into the LRA[. At the height of the conflict, thousands of children would flock into Gulu and other towns at night to seek protection from the nightly raids of abductions and killings. The United Nations Undersecretary Jan Egeland called the conflict  "the most neglected humanitarian crisis and the biggest scandal of our generation”(2003) The conflict has dehumanized and traumatized large parts of the population in the north, and though life is now slowly settling into some kind of normality, we are still shocked when we realize how recently these terrible events took place.

 

 

Slave Trade forts form the northern Uganda Slave trail.

Geo-Pal discoveries of Uganda