UPDF Discovers Mass Graves

Aug 18, 2002

THE army has said it discovered two mass graves yesterday at Awich, Aswa county in Gulu near the battle scene where Vincent Oti was reportedly shot and injured.

By Emmy Allio THE army has said it discovered two mass graves yesterday at Awich, Aswa county in Gulu near the battle scene where Vincent Oti was reportedly shot and injured.Oti is deputy to Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels.Sources said the mass graves will be opened this week to find out whether Oti was killed and buried there or was still in hiding.“Since we have not seen his body, we cannot go on record to say he is dead. But the information we gather is that Kony and his commanders are mum on his whereabouts,” a security source said yesterday. The source said Kony sneaked back into Sudan last Tuesday, hours after the Awich battle.On Thursday, Kony appointed Charles Tabuley as his deputy. Tabuley ordered the July 24 Mucwini massacre and the Achol-Pii raid where over 100 people were killed.Sources said Oti, the author of the massacre of 250 people in his home village in Atiak in April 1995, was reportedly shot on his way from Kilak to Pader district to meet Kony.Ends

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