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The people of Uganda have been the victim of serious violations of human rights and peace right from the time of its independence. The regimes of the power hungry Milton Obote, and the "Reign of Terror" of the notorious Idi Amin have been major causes of these happenings. In Uganda, genocide has been largely destructive and has gone on for years and years without proper remedial measures.
The regime of Idi Amin caused much violence and bloodshed. His policy was one of military domination and violence. During his time, many of the tribal people were oppressed, discriminated against, and cruelly treated. Much of the violence was caused on the government's instruction, and people were forced to take an exile out of Uganda, imprisoned without trial, or slaughtered at the first hint of non alliance.
The Uganda Genocide continued even after the end of the Idi Amin regime, when the Lord's Resistance Army started to inflict violence on the members of the Acholi tribe. Their favored mode of operation is to abduct Acholi children and turn them into child soldiers. The Acholi people, for fear of losing their children, cannot start an open violent protest, and prefer negotiations with the Army. There has been much hue and cry over this continued genocide in Uganda over a very long period of time, with the media and other international powers entering the fray. The present Uganda government is still trying to contain the violent operations of the Lord's Resistance Army.
The Uganda Genocide is one of the blackest chapters of human history, and figured among the most destructive genocides ever to happen.
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