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As some of us struggle but so hard to raise the violence of Acholi to public, there are very many reports as well being posted about The Nuer in South Sudan. Now let us not forget that Acholi are the cousins of The Nuer in South Sudan. And to be put straight, Nuer are the Acholi in South Sudan. Now it is important as well for me to state off the but that I did not write this report but it was written by AFP just yesterday, Friday. Ugandans read this report and question yourself if we do not need to stand up to Acholi violence but very immediately. This is an AFP report about The Neurs the Acholi cousins. One of the most frustrating questions that Barigye has ever asked regarding the series was Is this happening today? Well Barigye this is a last Friday article. Now are Acholi in Kitgum still cooking their children today and eating them? You and I simply do not know so we do no have an answer to that pertinent question. Ugandans we need to discuss Acholi violence but candidly. UN says S. Sudan children raped, castrated, thrown into fires <http://www.afp.com/> June 19, 2015 7:02 AM <http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/508WkmpBmLU6Pw5qjJelTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7 Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTM3NztpbD1wbGFuZTtweG9mZj01MDtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz02NzA-/http:/m edia.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/bce6b962c8828fdd1acbed1cbc2c8d4b0328698f.j pg> . Juba (AFP) - Warring forces in South Sudan have carried out horrific crimes against children, including castration, rape and tying them together before slitting their throats, the UN has said. "Survivors report that boys have been castrated and left to bleed to death... girls as young as eight have been gang raped and murdered," UN children's agency chief Anthony Lake said in a statement released earlier this week. "Children have been tied together before their attackers slit their throats... others have been thrown into burning buildings." Tens of thousands are believed to have been killed in the 18-month war, although there is no clear toll. At least 129 children were killed in May in the northern state of Unity, scene of some of heaviest fighting in the civil war, Unicef added. Civil war began in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings across the country that has split the poverty-stricken, landlocked country along ethnic lines. It has been characterised by ethnic massacres, rape and the use of child soldiers. View gallery <http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/_K95ErSQGBcSLgEJWZ4CnQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7 Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE4MDtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http:/media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/26 f17e49d494142f9dd13ce2af87d0aa1e644bba.jpg> Children rush to a field demarcated for food-drops on February 24, 2015 at the village in Nyal in So "The violence against children in South Sudan has reached a new level of brutality," Lake added. Thousands of children have also been abducted to fight. "Children are also being aggressively recruited into armed groups of both sides on an alarming scale an estimated 13,000 children forced to participate in a conflict not of their making," Lake added. "Imagine the psychological and physical effects on these children not only of the violence inflicted on them but also the violence they are forced to inflict on others." A quarter of a million children face starvation , while two-thirds of the country's 12 million people need aid, with 4.5 million people facing severe food insecurity, according to the UN. "In the name of humanity and common decency this violence against the innocent must stop," he said. Stay in the forum for Series two hundred and fifty seven is on the way ------> EM On the 49th Parallel Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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