Is the “crisis” in northern Uganda a deliberate, systematic program of genocide?
IDP camps held up to 2 million people, even though: – there was an excess death rate of 1000 residents per week (the excess death rate is the number over the normally-expected rate) – WHO (World Health Organization) in 2004 called for dismantling camps, citing congested, unsanitary conditions – malaria, HIV/AIDS, violence, dysentery were leading death causes in 2004 starvation, malnutrition, tuberculosis, suicide are also current factors Insufficient food and water – distribution of World Food Program donated supplies is controlled by government (President Museveni’s daughter heads internal agency charged with responsibility for distribution ), – camp residents are forced to line up for period of days to receive meager quantities of water, ungrounded grain – by government order, people are not allowed outside the camps to search for water, vegetation, other food even though the quantity and quality supplied to them is seriously inadequate. Residents have been warned they will be shot i
