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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Acholi Paramount Chief David Onen Acana II has challenged the government to consider urgent support for a group of men he claims are victims of sexual violence perpetrated during the war in the region between 1987 and 1992.<\/b><\/p>\n

Rwot Acana was speaking in Gulu City on Friday at the homecoming party for the new State Minister for Northern Uganda, Dr Kenneth Olusegun Omona.<\/p>\n

Addressing the Prime Minister, Ms Robinah Nabbanja, who was the chief guest, Rwot Acana said the victims were dying as the government looked on.<\/p>\n

However, he did not state whether the male victims were sodomised by the government soldiers or the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is disheartening to believe that at this time, in our lives, we still have people who have been raped during the war in northern Uganda, especially in the Acholi Sub-region, and these are male victims who are still leaving in very wanting conditions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He claimed that most of them are unable to take care of their medical bills while their conditions deteriorate day by day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met some of them, and they told me because of their raptured anuses, they have had to spend most of the time lying down instead of sitting since they were sodomised, and these are people who seem to have been forgotten, and there are so many others,\u201d Rwot Acana said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI even wrote a letter to the President, and they were raped in the period between 1987 and 1992,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Rwot Acana asked the government to hasten the passing of the Transitional Justice Policy Bill and the rollout of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund 4 (NUSAF 4), which will ensure such victims of sexual violence are accommodated and supported.<\/p>\n

\u201cI request your (OPM) office and the government to look seriously into this problem and give proper support to these war victims. We, the leaders on the ground, continue to experience the people\u2019s problems every day, and some of them are too painful, yet you can\u2019t do anything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In her speech, Ms Nabbanja admitted that the region continues to endure the scars of war but stressed that the upcoming NUSAF 4 will not tackle anything outside the livelihood support to communities in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorthern Uganda endured the ravages of war, and scars are still very visible, as explained by the Paramount Chief. However, we are in the process of introducing NUSAF 4. The President guided us, and he told us only to focus on the livelihood of the people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Government pledge<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not going to construct schools, we are not going to build health centres, among others, but we are going to inject money into our people. The President has insisted that the programme (NUSAF 4) should focus on intensive agriculture if we are to move our people from the low-income status to at least somewhere,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Dr Omona\u2019s homecoming ceremony was also attended by Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo, Government Chief Whip Denis Hamson Obua, MPs from across the region, local government, religious and cultural leaders, among others.<\/p>\n

Looking back<\/b><\/p>\n

In 2014, the Refugee Law Project (RLP) published a report, citing how the National Resistance Army (NRA) soldiers\u2014now Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF)\u2014allegedly raped men between the late 1980s and early 1990s in the region.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the victims were accused of being former Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) soldiers who regrouped to form the Uganda People\u2019s Democratic Army (UPDA) in the Acholi Sub-region in protest of the brutality mounted by the NRA forces a few years upon capturing power.<\/p>\n

The violence, it said, did not spare those accused of being collaborators of the UPDA that collapsed in 1988 following a peace pact it signed with the government in Gulu at Pece Stadium.<\/p>\n

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