British military training Ugandan army regulars in counterinsurgency techniques
On the Ugandan army’s counterinsurgency against the rural population (claiming it’s to rid Acholiland of the Lord’s Resistance Army) Sverker Finnström writes:
It was after about ten years of war that the Ugandan government decided to forcefully resettle a large number of the population into camps…threats and violence [by the Ugandan army] were common. Those who first refused to move were sometimes beaten until they did move…In some cases, the Ugandan army shelled villages whose inhabitants refused to leave. The Ugandan president officially announced the policy of moving the rural people to camps on September 27, 1996, but the army had evidently forced people to the camps earlier than that…Concentrating large numbers of civilians in camps has been an intrinsic part of the Ugandan army’s counterinsurgency warfare. When people try to go back to their home villages they are occasionally beaten by the army (141).
Finnström, Sverker. 2008. Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda. Durham, USA: Duke University Press.
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