Clergy Appeal On North
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New Vision (Kampala)March 9, 2004
Posted to the web March 9, 2004
Kampala
NINETEEN religious leaders from Teso, Acholi and Lango have asked the Government to declares northern Uganda a disaster area, reports Dennis Ocwich."In light of the recent Parliament's declaration, we appeal to the Government of Uganda to declare the north a disaster zone and to ask the international community to intervene to end the war," they said in a statement.
The statement, issued after a meeting in Kampala last week, reaffirms the clerics' stand that the Government must consider talking peace with the LRA rebels.They condemned the killings in the north, stating that: "To end this cycle of violence we still favour the use of peaceful dialogue, with a third party mediation."
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
