By Patrick Elobu Angonu
July 21, 2003
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No emergency relief - Kiyonga The LRA rebels have started renaming villages in Katakwi, Amuria MP, Mr Ben Etonu, has said. The rebel leader, Mr Joseph Kony, reportedly gave the orders. Etonu told the visiting National Political Commissar, Dr Crispus Kiyonga, at the weekend that the Lord's Resistance Army have renamed Aojakitoi, Olwa and Obalanga in Katakwi as Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, respectively. Kiyonga was holding closed-door meetings with the religious leaders and elders in Soroti on Saturday. The agenda included the LRA invasion and the closure of the local Kyoga Veritas FM radio. Etonu said that the rebels have reoccupied Aojakitoi and Olwa, where they camped when they first invaded Teso on June 15. "The LRA must be decisively dealt with because they are not only committing atrocities but they are also renaming our villages," Etonu told Kiyonga at the Soroti council chambers. The meeting also resolved that Teso should be declared a "disaster area". Kiyonga, however, said that even if Teso or the entire northern region were declared disaster zones, there would be little emergency aid to go their way. |
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