Barlonyo

Barlonyo

Barlonyo is a village housing an Internally Displaced Person camp in northern Uganda near Lira town, where a number of IDPs from parts of the north and east of Uganda lived, as a result of an 18-year insurgency.

At the centre of this conflict is the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a rebel group based in north Uganda which was formed in 1987. The rebels have been accused of many atrocities in the area, including kidnapping children to train as soldiers or use as sex slaves. The Ugandan government blamed the LRA for a massacre of over 200 civilians at the IDP camp in Barlonyo near Lira on February 21, 2004. The camp has since been disbanded by the government.


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