Uganda: 'It's a very, very major crisis'

Knock, knock. Hello, is anybody there? For the past eight months, I feel as though I am the only blogger in the world posting on the Uganda crisis. The situation in Uganda is far worse than than of Darfur and yet nobody in blogland seems at all concerned (I'm not even African - where are all the Africans in blogland - why don't they seem to care enough to speak out?)

Here is a copy of a report entitled "Uganda: It's a very, very major crisis" by Marc Carnegie, UN, 11 May 2005:

The United Nations's top emergency relief official on Tuesday pressed the Security Council to take on the crisis in northern Uganda, where a brutal rebellion against the government has been raging since 1988.

About 1.4-million people have been displaced as a result of the uprising by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), said Jan Egeland, who heads the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

"We've had atrocious massacres and mutilations of civilians in the past few weeks again," Egeland told reporters before a closed-door briefing to the council that he said would call for international focus on crises in Africa.

He called the LRA "possibly the world's most brutal insurgency group" and said that, unlike Sudan's Darfur region, the issue of northern Uganda is not getting enough international attention.

"I'm inviting the council, as I'm inviting all who have influence on the parties, to clearly say that there is no alternative to a peaceful resolution of the crisis," Egeland said. "It is a very, very major crisis."

The LRA rebel movement is notorious for adding to its ranks by raiding camps for displaced people and kidnapping children, forcing the boys into combat and the girls into sexual slavery.

Egeland said there are now about 42 000 "night commuters" in the region -- children who flee their villages or camps every evening in order to find a safer place to sleep, usually in the streets of larger towns and cities.

The LRA, which operates from bases in northern Uganda and southern Sudan, has been fighting President Yoweri Museveni's secular government since 1988, ostensibly to replace it with one based on the biblical Ten Commandments.

Several attempts to sign a truce and launch formal peace talks have failed amid growing mistrust between the warring sides, and the International Crisis Group last month said the peace process is in critical condition.

Egeland's appeal came as part of a broader campaign, he said, to turn world attention to Africa.

"Of the world's greatest humanitarian challenges at the moment, I would say all are in Africa -- and they merit more of our attention and our political and financial resources.

"Africa is the challenge of our generation and we're not responding adequately," Egeland said. "More can be done to put things right."

Egeland, a familiar face on television screens across the world since heading the UN's disaster relief effort after the Asian tsunami in December, said his message is that money put toward Africa is money well spent.

"There are as many success stories as failures in Africa," he said, citing the largely successful efforts to start rebuilding Angola and Sierra Leone after years of fighting.

"There is no place where we get more out of every dollar," Egeland said. "And if we invest, there is no continent that will give as much return on the investment."

He warned in a particular about the "triple threat" in Southern Africa -- a combination of drought, bad governance and the HIV/Aids pandemic.

"I also want the Security Council to understand that in the Southern Africa region, it's actually a question of survival for many communities," he said. -- Sapa-AFP



TrekEarthMoonlight Photo by Mimi Samuel: "After a long day of viewing animals, sitting on the patio at the Mweya Safari Lodge, drinking a cold beer, and watching the moon come up over the Kazinga Channel. Doesn't get much better than this :-)"

This photo is in the title bar of this blog but it is too small to do the photo justice. I am posting it here again to show how much water is in Uganda. More photos later. Uganda is extremely lush, with lots of dense jungle and great wildlife.

It is easy to hide from rebels in Uganda - not like in the Sudan where vast swathes of flat dirt baked by hot sun provides no sanctuary. What is the attraction of living in Sudan's deserts where everyone fights over drinking water? You'd think they'd relocate to Uganda and make a go of it there with their children. Areas of Chad and Sudan seems too harsh to be habitable.

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Instapundit's review of BlogNashville Conference - Is big media on the run?

In his post at MSNBC titled "Big media on the run?" Prof Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com writes:

"Do blogs and other alternative media have traditional media organizations running scared? Some people are saying so, but I think there's more going on than fear. Still it's clear that the blogosphere is having an impact.

This past weekend I attended the BlogNashville conference at Belmont University, billed as the largest blogging conference to date. There were some representatives of Big Media organizations there, one of whom said straighforwardly "I'm here out of fear," but others of whom were looking for ways to incorporate blogs, and bloggers, into their operations."

Read full story.

Looks interesting. I'm keeping it aside to read later on. Just wanted to share it here right away. I think professional journalists have lots of reasons to fear blogland. Chewing over and pointing out rubbish in mainstream media, along with the spin, truths, half-truths, downright lies, political propaganda and character assassinations is what we bloggers, around the world, are placed to do well.
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Also today, Instapundit points out Adam Cohen's unimpressive ruminations on blog ethics in today's New York Times - and Virginia Postrel who writes in Forbes, "There's something about blogs that makes a lot of respectable journalists hyperventilate."

Heh.

P.S. Foundations can expect more scrutiny in an age of weblogs, according to this article.

Make Poverty History - Tony Blair chairs G8 summit July 6, 2005

Email just received from Patrick Kielty (pictured below):



Hello,

Over the past few months more than a quarter of a million people have sent a message to Tony Blair and asked him to make poverty history.

It's an achievable aim that has risen up the political and news agendas like never before - thanks to the actions of people like you.

But we are rapidly approaching the critical moment of this campaign - and it really is time to turn up the heat.

After last week's election result we now know for sure that it will be Mr. Blair who sits at that all-important G8 summit table in Scotland on July 6th. Last month, he said he would work "night and day" on this issue until the summit. Now he has the chance to prove it, and the responsibility to deliver.

30,000 children will continue to die needlessly every day unless he succeeds.

So please, if you are in the UK click here [outside the UK click here] and urge Tony Blair to make this his number one post-election priority.

Even if you have emailed him before, now is the time to do so again.

The countdown has begun to the biggest day ever in the fight to end poverty and we need to make sure that our message is getting through loud and clear.

Thank you,

Patrick Kielty

Oxfam urges Security Council to act on Uganda war

Crested Crane - The national symbol of Uganda. Photo by Adam Katz

May 10, 2005 by Daniel Wallis KAMPALA (Reuters):

Violence in northern Uganda has increased since government negotiations with rebels stalled in February and the U.N. Security Council must pressure Uganda to restart the talks, the British aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday.

Security Council members are due to discuss the conflict in Uganda at a session in New York on Tuesday, but its members have yet to pass a resolution on a 19-year civil war that has created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

"In the last few months we have seen a significant rise in violence," Oxfam country chief Emma Naylor said in a statement released in the Ugandan capital Kampala before the meeting.

Uganda's military says it killed 84 fighters from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) last month, while rebels have stepped up attacks on refugee camps, hacking some people to death and shooting others who run away.

"The U.N. must take a lead on ensuring the protection of civilians, including urging the government of Uganda and LRA to renew the ceasefire and recommit to negotiations towards peace," Naylor said.

She said the army had failed to stop rebels carrying out atrocities, and that new peace talks were the only way to end the bloodshed in northern Uganda, where more than 1.6 million people have been forced to flee their homes.

The fighting intensified after landmark talks, including the first face-to-face meeting between government and rebels for a decade, stalled in February with the surrender of the LRA's top negotiator.

Ugandan commentators say the government would prefer a military victory over the rebels, but its helicopter gunships have been unable to stamp out small groups of fighters moving swiftly on foot through thick forests and rolling grasslands.

At least 20 people were killed in two rebel raids on Thursday, and Oxfam said the deteriorating security situation was hindering access by aid workers.

It said there were also increasing reports of LRA attacks across the border in southern Sudan, where LRA leader and self-styled prophet Joseph Kony is believed to be hiding.

With him are some of the thousands of children kidnapped by his cult-like group to serve as fighters and "wives". His movement has not spelled out a clear list of demands.

Despite frequent statements by President Yoweri Museveni that Kony's rebels are on the verge of defeat, analysts say one of Africa's longest-running civil wars is likely to grind on unless there is more outside pressure on both sides to talk.

UK aid cut pressures Uganda

BBC news report April 29, 2005: Museveni has been seen as part of the new generation of democratic leaders in Africa.

The UK government has cancelled $10m of funding to Uganda, because it feels not enough has been done to establish fair multi-party politics.

About half of Uganda's entire budget comes from donor funding.

Political parties have for years been severely restricted and some opposition groups have urged donors to cut aid.

Multi-party elections are expected to return next year, but some say the government is not doing enough to ensure a smooth transition.

Although the British have handed over almost 90% of the proposed funding for the year, the BBC's Will Ross in Kampala says this action is intended to send out a message: "The British government will work with you and support you but only if the political process is fair."

Since President Yoweri Museveni came to power 18 years ago, Uganda has operated a unique political system which severely restricted political parties but the political landscape is set to change.

The Ugandan government and opposition parties have said they all support a return to multi-party politics ahead of elections in a year's time.

The political temperature in Uganda has been increasing in recent months - partly because of attempts to amend the constitution and allow President Museveni to run for office again.

As the British-led Commission for Africa is calling for more aid to the continent, other donor countries share the British concern over the current political transition in Uganda.

At the launch of the commission, rock star turned anti-poverty campaigner Sir Bob Geldof said that his admiration for Mr Museveni's fight against poverty and Aids had now been lost due to the moves to let Uganda's leader remain in office.

"Get a grip Museveni. Your time is up, go away," he said.

This cut in funding is a reminder that Uganda stands to lose a great deal more if donor countries are not seeing good governance and a level playing field ahead of next year's elections, our correspondent says.

Ugandan rebel LRA drives thousands out of South Sudan

April 30th, 2005 By Kitty McKinsey - PALORINYA, Uganda, April 29 (UNHCR):

More than two decades of civil war in his native South Sudan never managed to drive Yusuf Taban out of his home.

These recent arrivals from the Nimule area of South Sudan are now living in shelters made of dried palm fronds in Palorinya. (UNHCR).

But two months after a peace agreement was signed, incursions by the notorious Lord's Resistance Army from northern Uganda finally turned 28-year-old Yusuf, his wife and their four children into refugees.

"We had no choice but to flee here," Yusuf said in a squalid makeshift refugee reception centre in northern Uganda. "On that dreadful night (of March 14), the women in my village were cooking and the rebels came with pangas (long knives). They snatched what they could carry and set our tukuls (traditional dome-shaped shelters) on fire." He feels lucky to be alive: "They came with the intention of completely killing us."

Yusuf is speaking his native Madi language, but no interpreter is needed for his hand gestures. Without any prompting, he graphically illustrates the horrific tale of what he saw - vicious knife blows to the back of the head, the forehead, neck, across the eyes, slicing off the ears of his neighbours. He says he saw 12 people hacked to death and some of their bodies burned.

The UN refugee agency has expressed concern that LRA attacks have contributed to the displacement of more than 4,000 South Sudanese from their country since the beginning of this year, just as the agency is preparing to help hundreds of thousands of their compatriots end their exile abroad and go home following the January peace accord.

The new refugees - who come from areas like Nimule, Juba and Torit - have been arriving in Palorinya in northern Uganda over recent weeks after a journey of 10 to 15 days by boat and on foot.

Most are in bad health when they arrive; several women have suffered miscarriages as the result of their arduous journey, and some small children have died upon reaching Palorinya. UNHCR and its partners give them food and medical treatment in the reception centre. The refugee agency is working with the Ugandan government to find land on which the recent arrivals can set up homes and begin farming.

It is tragic that these people, who managed to stay in their own country all through 21 years of civil war in South Sudan, are now being forced to flee.

In Palorinya, Yusuf has heard - and can repeat - the standard argument that now that peace has been signed between the Sudanese government in Khartoum and former Sudanese rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Sudanese refugees should go home from neighbouring countries.

"But if you regard the Kony issue, there is no peace," he says, referring to Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a force that says it seeks to overthrow the Ugandan government and install a regime based on the biblical Ten Commandments. Yet its trademark methods are kidnapping children to press them into service as soldiers and sex slaves.

They have forced 1.6 million Ugandans from their homes, and over the years frequently attacked settlements of Sudanese refugees inside Uganda. Their incursions into the Nimule area of South Sudan are increasing in frequency and brutality.

Helen, a young mother of four girls, was astonished to see women soldiers in camouflage uniforms among the rebels who attacked her village in the Pageri area, north of Nimule. Cuddling her own four-month-old daughter, Janet, as she talked, Helen said she saw three small children shot to death in the raid on her village.

The LRA rebels, she said, "took our food and our clothes, everything. They left us with nothing. They need to kill us."

Helen speaks surprisingly good English, learned on her own because, as she said, "the rebels did not let us go to school, so I just learned little English."

Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lopu, one of Helen's former neighbours, says the rebels are starving in the bush. "If we have some food, they will come and take it. They are very hungry." Then he adds: "Also, they like to kill people."

The recent arrival of so many Sudanese into Palorinya, in far northern Uganda, is distressing for UNHCR staff and other aid workers there who have been preparing for the return to Sudan of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Now the hangars that were prepared for the send-off of hopeful people returning to Sudan are welcoming the traumatized newcomers from there.

"We cannot close the door," said Mawa Bashir, Deputy Settlement Commandant of Uganda's Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in Moyo. OPM is the UN refugee agency's government counterpart in caring for refugees in Uganda.

"We have to receive them, listen to them and do what we can," Bashir says, adding pessimistically: "To me this will defeat the course of repatriation (to South Sudan)."

Certainly the recent arrivals at Palorinya have no intention of returning to Sudan any time soon. "After what I have seen, I will not go back as long as Kony's people are there," Yusuf says firmly.

Adds another recent refugee forlornly: "For us it's more terrible. We had a smell of peace and then the rebels came and it was gone."

UGANDA: Ex-rebels begin farming; first step to rehabilitation

Here is some encouraging news. Copy of a news report 26 April 2005, courtesy IRIN:

KAMPALA, 26 April (IRIN) - Thousands of former fighters of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have started farming in war-torn northern Uganda in an effort to adjust to civilian life, the minister for northern rehabilitation, Grace Akello, told IRIN on Tuesday.

"The government has provided them with the land in Gulu, and they have since ploughed over 500 acres and planted their own food," Akello said. "The land is free to all former rebels and we have over 20,000 who have returned."

Many of the former fighters have recently given themselves up to the government or been captured during battle. Others were former child soldiers rescued from the LRA, which is notorious for abducting children.

The LRA has waged a 19-year war against the government of President Yoweri Museveni, and is estimated to have abducted more than 20,000 children to serve as fighters, porters and sex slaves during that time.

Akello said the government wanted to change the people's perception of the former rebels being rehabilitated.

"When the former rebels return to the villages, fingers point at them as the people who killed, who stole and who perpetuated mayhem in the region," Akello said. "We want to change that by giving them a chance to adapt to their new life."

The Ugandan army spokesman, Maj Shaban Bantariza, told IRIN in January that the army had recruited more than 800 former rebels into its ranks. He said these soldiers now made up a new brigade, one of those charged with defeating the LRA.

The government has offered a blanket amnesty to any rebels who surrender to its forces, and has pledged to help in their disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration.

America Doubts Military Option to End LRA Rebellion

Copy of a report at The Monitor (Kampala) April 27, 2005 - Badru D. Mulumba, Kampala - via AllAfrica:

The United States justified increased military aid to Uganda, but cast doubt on the military option to end the 19-year-old rebellion in the north.

The US non-lethal military assistance to buy vehicles, spare parts and radios for the Ugandan military was $4.9 million in the 2004/5 budget up from $1.7 million in the 2002/3 budget, the State Department says.

But the officials say the military pressure through the issuance of non-lethal US military assistance has helped to reduce the crisis.

Mr Donald Yamamoto, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of state for African affairs, made the remarks as he appeared before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on northern Uganda's 19-year old crisis.

Yamamoto's testimony was given to Congress on April 14, according to the April 22 issue of the State Department publication, The Washington File.

"There cannot be a military solution to this issue," he warned.

"It has to be a comprehensive approach" that includes the reconciliation between the government of Uganda and the Acholi people of northern Uganda.

Yamamoto said President Museveni and the Ugandan government should "initiate reconciliation with the Acholi people as a top priority.

While the Acholi fear Kony, they equally distrust the Ugandan government."

He said, "Only through greater confidence and support ... will there be better cooperation in the ongoing peace efforts with the Acholi people."

The US blue print for peace in northern Uganda unveiled before the House of Representatives, encompasses diplomatic and political will, military pressure and humanitarian efforts linked to Uganda's search for peace.

The US is backing this combination to end the 'insanity', restore peace, and rebuild the lives torn by the conflict and bring reconciliation between the government and the Acholi.

No one element of this approach can be successful, Yamamoto reportedly said. "A comprehensive effort must be mounted."

He pointed to the abduction of 25,000 children, brutal murders of 12,000 civilians - many of them children - and the displacement of more than 1.8 million people in the region.

Yamamoto said they were familiar with the grim facts of the rebellion.

But the US is optimistic that the recent peace agreement in the Sudan would weaken the rebellion.

"We are hopeful the recent peace agreements between the SPLM (Sudan People's Liberation Movement) and the Sudanese government will encourage the government to actively deny Kony refuge in Sudan," he said.

Yamamoto appreciated Ms Betty Bigombe's relentless efforts to bring peace to northern Uganda.

Bigombe is the chief government negotiator with the LRA.

"Her efforts have yielded some results, and towards this end, we encourage and support these efforts," he said.

The USAID Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, Mr Leonard Rogers accompanied Yamamoto. According to Rogers, there are plans to do at least as much in 2005.

Sudan helps Uganda establish computer centers

Copy of April 24, 2005 report KAMPALA, Apr 23, 2005 (Xinhua):

Sudan's ruling party, the National Congress (NC) has teamed up with Uganda's ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) to establish computer centers for NRM youth leagues across the country, reported local press on Saturday.

NRM national youth league coordinator Nusura Tiperu was quoted as saying that the NC had donated 70 computers which would be installed in 14 centers on a regional basis.

"This is a sign of improved relations and we thank the two presidents (of the two countries) for initiating the peace talks and showing the whole world that everybody's desire is peace," Tiperu said.

He said the centers would be used for training NRM youth in computer science and capacity building.

Both Sudan and Uganda accused each other for supporting rebel groups. However, the two neighboring countries improved their relations since 1999 and they re-established ambassador's relationship in 2002.

In 2002, the Sudanese government also allowed the Ugandan army to enter southern Sudan to pursue Lord's Resistance Army rebels, and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni initiated peace talks between President Omar Al Bashir and the head of the Sudan People' s Liberation Movement/Army, John Garang. The talks culminated in a historic peace agreement ending 21 years of war in southern Sudan.

FINAL PUSH: President Museveni meets field commanders

Copy of online news report by Ali Mao In Lira published 18 April, 2005:


FINAL PUSH: President Museveni addressing district leaders in Lira on Friday.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni on Saturday met northern army field commanders at the State Lodge in Barlegi in Okwang subcounty, Lira, to discuss the final push against the LRA rebels.

Museveni travelled to Lira on Friday and addressed Lira district councillors and security chiefs at the district chambers.

He was earlier expected to visit Gulu and Kitgum on Saturday but did not show up. “What we are left with is only to track down the remnants and sweep the compound ready for the people to go back to their villages. We want to finish the problem of LRA rebellion once and for all,” Museveni told the leaders.

He assured Lango of peace after the UPDF deals with the five remnants groups now starving. He said two LRA groups were in southern Sudan where Kony, Odhiambo and Vincent Otti are hiding. Three groups are in Kilak and another group in Lapul and Lapal game reserve. “These are very small groups of about 20 or less,” Museveni said.

He said the LRA remnants could no longer attack camps, UPDF positions, abduct civilians or ambush vehicles.

“I came here to meet my commanders and thank them for dino kal (threshing millet) which has made the millet soft but the challenge is to ensure that the compound is swept,” Museveni said.

He said the UPDF was committed to punishing “Kony’s terrorists” so that in future nobody should try to seize power through the gun. “If somebody wants to go to State House, he should ask for your votes,” he added.

He said, “We asked Kony whom some people called ladit (sir) to come out, but if we pamper him he will change his mind because he has killed thousands.

“Tomorrow another person will kill many people and expect to be paid. We want to do away with such people,” Museveni said.
Published on: Monday, 18th April, 2005

Uganda, Sudan Forces in Joint Kony Offensive

April 16, 2005 AllAfrica report by Frank Nyakairu & Grace Matsiko Kampala

For the first time Ugandan and Sudanese forces are in a landmark move to start joint operations against the rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in southern Sudan.

The Army spokesman, Maj. Shaban Bantariza, said yesterday the move would boost the offensive on LRA leader Joseph Kony.

"Sudan People's Armed Forces, (SPAF) are joining us in Nisitu and we will soon fight Kony together. He either fights or he talks peace," said Bantariza.

He said Kony and his rebels, who were headed towards the Ethiopian border, have been blocked.

In the past the UPDF has fought bloody battles with SPAF in southern Sudan.

But relations between the two countries have steadily improved especially after Sudan allowed Ugandan forces to pursue Kony, a man once Khartoum backed-inside Sudan.

A week ago SPAF, attacked Kony's group, which was reportedly headed towards the Ethiopian border.

In March 2002, Khartoum and Kampala signed an agreement allowing 10,000 UPDF troops to pursue Kony in Sudan in the move dubbed Operation Iron Fist.

Re-opening of diplomatic missions in both countries and an air link have subsequently followed signifying warmer ties between the former archrivals.

As the military pursues the LRA, the rebel group and the government are engaged in a wobbly peace process mediated by former Minister Betty Bigombe.

In 2003, President Yoweri Museveni referred the LRA to the International Criminal Court for a possible war crimes trial. The investigation has picked pace.

The LRA has been fighting government forces since 1988, to replace President Yoweri Museveni's government with one based on the biblical Ten Commandments.

But the rebel force is best known for its brutality against the civilian population.

Over, 1.6 million people have been displaced, thousands of children abducted for forciful recruitment as fighters or sex slaves.

The international relief group said the attacks were denying help to people who lacked even the most basic necessities. The attacks had been carried out against a number of aid agencies and had not targetted the ICRC itself, a spokesman said.

"These attacks against humanitarian convoys are hampering the humanitarian activities that are taking place in Darfur," said ICRC spokesman Marco Jimenez, without giving further details of the attacks. Robbery rather than politics seemed to be the main motive, he added.

[via SEPNet with thanks]

US officials want more pressure on Uganda rebels

Note from this report that Kony is believed to be hiding in the Sudan.

WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - More pressure from the international community is needed to end Northern Uganda's cult-like insurgency, which brutalizes and kidnaps children to serve as soldiers, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

State Department Africa expert Donald Yamamoto called for a comprehensive approach, and took aim at problems swirling around rebel leader Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army.

"On good days, he talks to God and on other days he thinks he is God," Yamamoto said when asked by U.S. lawmakers at a congressional human rights caucus meeting whether he thought Kony was a rational leader.

He urged stronger diplomatic, military and humanitarian efforts, particularly from the United States, the European Union and the African Union. "There is no military solution to this," he said. "We need a comprehensive approach."

Kony's rebels are notorious for targeting civilians and kidnapping more than 20,000 children as fighters, porters and sex slaves.

Yamamoto demanded more pressure on Sudan to stop giving the rebels a safe haven.

Hopes for a settlement were raised last year when Betty Bigombe, a former Ugandan government minister, organized talks between the rebels and the government. But these stalled and Kony is believed to be hiding in Sudan.

Leonard Rogers, a senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development, called the situation in northern Uganda, a "humanitarian and human rights disaster" where children were the main victim.

Aid organizations gave chilling descriptions of the fate of children in northern Uganda and Rory Anderson, senior policy advisor for World Vision, described it as "hell on earth".

Anderson recalled an 11-year-old boy she met who was forced by the rebels to kill five people.

"The first time he killed someone, he, along with other children, were forced to bite to death one child who had attempted to escape," said Anderson.

She criticized the United States and other nations for not doing enough. "The Bush administration has all but ignored this crisis. It remains a forgotten war," said Anderson. "High-level engagement by Congress and the administration would make a difference," she added.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVIU-6BGEGZ?OpenDocument