Atiak massacre

Atiak massacre

The Atiak massacre (April 17, 1995) led by a group of three hundred LRA soldiers they entered the Northern Ugandan trading center and town of Atiak, in the Gulu District. [cite book
last = Briggs
first = Jimmie
title = Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War
publisher = Basic Books
date = 2005
pages = 116
isbn =0465007988 ] It was the largest single massacre by the Lord's Resistance Army. Over 200 were killed in Atiak in April 1995. After routing the Homeguard, the LRA announced, "you Acholi have refused to support us. We shall now teach you a lesson." [cite journal
title = Kony rebels massacre 82
journal = New Vision
date = 1995-04-22] [cite journal
title = Kony toll rises
journal = New Vision
date = 1995-04-24] [cite journal
title = Atiak’s longest day of the bullet
journal = Sunday Vision
date = 1995-04-30]

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