Youth to raise funds for North

Dec 19, 2002

THE Global Pan Afrikan Youth Movement (PAYM) has launched a campaign to raise relief funds for the traumatised people in war-ravaged northern Uganda

By Muhammad Tamale

THE Global Pan Afrikan Youth Movement (PAYM) has launched a campaign to raise relief funds for the traumatised people in war-ravaged northern Uganda.

During the launching function at Kampala International University on Saturday, the Pan Afrikans, led by their chairman, Tusiime Kanyogonya, condemned Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army’s (LRA) atrocities on fellow countrymen.

Kanyogonya cited the girls abducted, whom she said Kony had offered to his generals as wives, defiled, and raped them, turning them into child-mothers.

She also cited the youth “who would have been working for the country’s development” being forced to join the LRA rebel group.

She warned the students against being lured into rebel activity.

She said although the displaced people in the north had been resettled in protected camps, “the best way was to have them somewhere else where rebels could not invade them.”

She said, “If any family here is willing to adopt another, we can bring them.” Rugigana appealed to the lands minister, Baguma Isoke, to consider the northern people for part of the land being distributed to the Bakiga.

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