In a special July-August genocide edition of the Science and Theology News entitled "Humanity's Worst Plague: Genocide continues to afflict civilization" uNight's executive director, Daniella L. Boston, writes on the crisis in northern Uganda.

Other contributing writers include: Nicholas D. Kristof, the New York Times columnist and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Professor Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winner, and Arun Ganhdi, the fifth grandon of Mahatma Ganhdi and founder and president of the M.K. Gandhi Insititute for Nonviolence.

"The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (ratified in 1951) describes genocide as a crime constituted by "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical or racial, or religious group, or destroying conditions of life calculated to destroy a group; killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; or deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."

These elements of genocide exist in northern Uganda today. In the Acholi region alone, more than a quarter of the population has been killed since 1986, and the killing has continued with increased intensity, causing the progressive destruction of a culture and a way of life. As a Catholic priest who has worked in the region for the past 50 years maintains, "Everything Acholi is dying."

Government officials have sanctioned a propaganda campaign that refers to the northern population as "murderous" and "backward." President Yoweri Museveni himself has consistently referred to the people in the north as "those people," and during an interview with The Atlantic Monthly in September 1994, he said that those who are stupid deserved to be made into slaves."

...Read the complete article on the STNews.org

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Monday, August 07, 2006
UN boss sorry for neglecting war in north

"We have been guilty of conspiracy of silence to the pleas, cries, and suffering of the people of northern Uganda," said the head of the United Nations Development Fund for Women on Tuesday, after her visit to the Opit and Barr internally peoples displaced camps in Gulu and Lira...Read the article on the Monitor Online

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