CEGUN was formed in April 2006 by San Diego, California citizens concerned about the crisis in Northern Uganda. Our mission is to advocate to end the Genocide in Northern Uganda through a campaign to create awareness and mobilize support of advocacy and awareness.
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Mr. Olara Otunnu, former UN Under-Secretary-General Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, recently described the situation in this region of Africa as a slow GENOCIDE planned and executed in the last 20 years by President Museveni's government under the very nose of the international community with the help of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA); a rebel group that has been fighting the Museveni government since 1992 [choose this link to read The Sydney Peace Prize Public Lecture given by Dr. Otunnu about this subject]. Mr. Museveni's genocidal program is reported to have started in 1986, 8 years before the LRA came into existence.
At this moment, close to 1.5 million innocent civilians are incarcerated in concentration camps against their wishes, living in deplorable, inhuman conditions. One thousand people are reported by Uganda's Ministry of Health to be dying per week in these concentration camps.
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Until recently, this human catastrophe had been carefully concealed from the international community through systematic denials and misinformation by the government of Uganda and its external supporters; denials and misinformation that have led to and is perpetuating, the sustenance of this disaster.
In the words of Jan Egeland, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator:
"Why isn't the world listening to the most neglected humanitarian crisis in the world today? Where else in the world have there been 20,000 kidnapped children?"
"Where else in the world have tens of thousands of children trekked into villages and hospitals every evening to sleep on the dirt for the night, to go back without being fed to their villages - and they do this because they are scared for their lives?"