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StGiNU (acronym for Stop the Genocide in Northern Uganda) is an advocacy group formed in the beginning of 2005 by Ugandans living in the United Kingdom. At that time, the situation in the concentration camps in Northern Uganda was claiming lives more than cross fire casualties. In the same year 2005, the Ugandan World Health Organization reported that there were 5000 excess deaths per week due to camp conditions alone. Jan Egeland UN's Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs stated that the Northern Uganda situation was worse than Iraq. Another UN representative Olara Otunnu said the situation in Northern Uganda was a secret genocide. StGiNU group carried out their main public demonstration on the 16 April 2005 in Downing Street, and handed a petition to UK PM Tony Blair. Copies of the petition documents were later on sent to several governments including the United Nations office. The documents can be accessed here.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Petition, Item in KAA )〕 == History == Concentration camps in Northern Uganda started on a small scale when Yoweri Museveni took over power from the Ugandan president Tito Okello Lutwa in 1986. All civilians in the Acoli areas of Anaka, Agung, Purongo, Olwiyo etc. were rounded up by Museveni's soldiers then known as National Resistance Army, many civilians were murdered, the survivors were forcefully removed from their lands, put in army trucks and dumped in Karuma region. By that time there were no any rebel movements in the North, but the Ugandan army kept on uprooting people starting from March 1986. They looted livestock, burned food crops, carried rapes and shot to death anyone found living in the village.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 A detailed atrocities caused in the Acholi sub-region )〕 In 1996 the Museveni's government ordered all civilians in Acoli sub-region to relocate into concentration camps. Their homes or properties were burned through helicopter gunships. The people were told that this was to 'protect' them against the LRA rebels Lord's Resistance Army.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Wars, concentration camps and strange nodding disease striking Northern Uganda )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= A Genocide in Northern Uganda? 'The Protected Camps' )〕 In 2002 some areas of Lira in Lango sub-region relocated into concentration camps. In 2003 some parts of Teso sub-region relocated into camps. By this time there were already various international NGOs Non-governmental organization working in Uganda. Museveni had refused to declare the North a disaster area but allowed NGOs to work on strict conditions that they must write against the LRA rebels, this helped to propagate the government's side of the story rather than the actual facts on the ground. It also explains why the Ugandan army now known as UPDF Uganda People's Defence Force caused prolonged brutality on the civilian population, including recruitment of children, forceful displacements under the disguise of fighting LRA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Uganda interview with Radhika Coomaraswamy )〕 The LRA were also to blame for causing brutality on civilians but they were few and could not out-number the UPDF. The LRA Lord's Resistance Army carried out attacks in the North once in a while, and were based in neighbouring country South Sudan, they were not based in Uganda. It took much campaigning and international pressure asking Museveni to close the concentration camps and to reach agreements with the LRA rebels. On the 26 October 2006 the Museveni's government granted permission that civilians in the North of the country should return to their former villages after years of staying in concentration camps. This marked the beginning of reconstruction of homes, roads, schools and so on.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Uganda, need to focus on returnees and remaining IDPs )〕 As a result most civilians in the North have now returned to their former villages. However, too many people had died during the forceful encampments. And many civilians contracted diseases such as nodding disease, HIV etc. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「StGiNU」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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