Word: acholi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...collapse of Amin's rule set off an orgy of reprisals by northern tribesmen, especially the Acholi, whom Amin's forces had been killing by the thousands for years. In one grisly incident, a captured Ugandan soldier, his arms and feet bound, was suddenly attacked by a knife-wielding Acholi woman who slashed off his genitals, stuffed them in his mouth and then slit open his stomach. Taken into custody, she explained that she had waited five years to avenge the murder of her husband by agents of Amin's dread State Research Bureau, who had killed...
Meanwhile, black refugees from Uganda seeking refuge in Kenya told harrowing new tales of Amin's murderous campaign of repression against members of the Christian Lango and Acholi tribes, whom he regards as his enemies. There were reports of house-to-house searches and sweeping arrests. Among the prominent Ugandans who "disappeared" last week were Byron Kawadwa, who had led the Uganda troupe to the recent Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Nigeria, and Tucker Lwanage, chief librarian at Makerere University. A student who fled after his uncle was seized by police said...
More specifically, according to refugees, Amin was determined to annihilate two tribes, the Acholi and the Langi, both of which are predominantly Christian. These tribes formed the power base of President Apolo Milton Obote, whom Amin ousted in a military coup in 1971, and Amin regards them as his mortal enemies...
...three sites in Kampala to which Amin's troops had herded members of the opposing tribes. One refugee who arrived in Kenya last week reported that "hundreds of soldiers and civilians" were murdered in the prison while he was there. He saw truckloads of troops, presumably Acholi and Langi, being brought into the prison and being stuffed into cells. He said that he heard no shots, and speculates that strangulation or sledgehammering was used to depopulate the cells neighboring his own. "You would hear a short cry and then sudden silence," he said. "I think they were being strangled...
...when I was being driven from Kampala to Entebbe in Mr. Bob's car. The President passed by on the other side of the road in his Range Rover, stopped, turned round and joined us as we also stopped. He ordered out of his vehicle his bodyguard, an Acholi, from the tribe that, it is alleged, is being massacred in northern Uganda. The bodyguard then traveled in Mr. Bob's car while our little British journalistic group drove with the President...