The Northern Uganda crisis affects regional security – Interview with Dennis McNamara
Director of the Inter-Agency Internal Displacement Division You have just come back from Uganda. What really is the problem there? The problem is that Uganda has a huge population of nearly 2 million internally displaced persons, the result of twenty years of war with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA is a fanatical fundamentalist movement with no political agenda except to terrorize the population. For instance, 25,000 children have been abducted. The problem is huge: 2 million people…
