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IWPR: Government pledging to help victims, often shunned by friends, families and employers
By Gloria Laker Aciro in Gulu
20 November 2008 (AR No. 193)
Irene Laker said she’d had a restless night because her village near Gulu had just been attacked by members of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA.
In the morning, she walked out the back of her house. “As I moved, [there was] a big bang. I [...]
The Monitor: Gulu Landmine Survivors Find Fresh Spring in Their Step
The Daily Monitor, 28 October 2008
By Joseph Mazige
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It is a little over two years since the guns fell silent in northern Uganda following the start of peace talks between the government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in the Southern Sudan capital, Juba. But the scars are still fresh for many [...]
IRIN News: Landmine victims struggle to reintegrate in Uganda
GULU, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - The return of peace to northern Uganda has prompted many formerly displaced people to return home, but resettling into the villages has proved tough for landmine survivors.
“I never imagined that I would become disabled until I was hit by a mine planted by LRA [Lord's Resistance Army] rebels in [...]
IRIN News: Landmine survivors welcome ban on cluster bombs
IRIN News, 4 June 2008
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Landmine survivors and campaigners in Uganda have welcomed the approval of a new comprehensive treaty to ban cluster bombs.
“As people who have been [...]
NTV: Campaigners call for ban on cluster bombs, Uganda yet to destroy its stockpiles
Kampala, NTV Uganda
By Rosebell KAGUMIRE
19 May 2008
Civil society representatives and cluster bomb survivors from around the world have called on governments to support a comprehensive ban on cluster bombs.
“We are confident that governments will make the right decision and adopt a ban with no exceptions, no loopholes and no delays. This is what is needed [...]
VOA News: Ugandan Landmine Survivor Helps Others Injured by the Weapons
By Joe De Capua
30 November 2005
In Zagreb, Croatia, the sixth meeting of states party to the international landmine treaty continues. The treaty was signed in 1997 to ban the use, acquisition, production, transfer and stockpiling of landmines.
While much progress has been made, each year it’s estimated between 15 and 20 thousand people are killed or [...]
IRIN News: Laying Landmines to Rest? Humanitarian Mine Action
UGANDA: Interview with Margaret Arach Orech, Ugandan landmine survivor
Margaret Arach Orech is a single mother with five children. She lost her right leg when a bus she was travelling on hit a landmine. In the immediate aftermath, she was robbed and only just managed to crawl away from the bus before the fuel tank exploded. [...]
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