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Acholi leaders want peace
By Chris Ocowun
Ugandans working in Southern Sudan are increasingly being killed. This has compelled a team of Acholi cultural leaders, women and youths to travel to Nimule in Southern Sudan to meet their counterparts.
The delegation, led by Rwot Edward Picho Oywelo of Anaka, Amuru District, left on Thursday.
Oywelo said that the meeting, the third of its kind, is meant to restore the relationship between northern Uganda and Southern Sudan.
“We want to strengthen the relationship between the Acholi cultural leaders and our counterparts in Southern Sudan.
Many children from Southern Sudan are studying in our schools in Acholi and so there is no need for killing each other,” Oywelo told journalists at Ker Kwaro Acholi’s palace.
“We shall meet the cultural leaders and the community to discuss how to stop the killings of our children in Sudan. Our children are helping them with food and other things, yet they are killing them,” Oywelo explained.
He said they would also share ideas on how to reintegrate former rebels.
Rwot Poppy Paul Arop of Pgen in Kitgum District said their trip was sponsored by Conciliation Resources, an UK-based organisation.
Margaret Acayo, a woman leader from Kitgum, said women and children normally suffer more than any group of people during insurgencies. She said the team would discuss how to rehabilitate vulnerable groups after war.
Published on: Saturday, 25th October, 2008
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