Since there was a blog about war in Uganda, I decided to post Questions and Answers page from bbcnews.co.uk about Northern Ugandan war. This is the war that many young children were kidnapped and being trained to fight for LRA aka Lord's Resistance Army which was founded by Joseph Kony. He is like Bin Laden; no one really knows where he actually is. People and LRA are still believe that he is alive. This war from what I know has taken away many children and families apart. There are about 1 million children (if I'm not mistaken) are internally displaced. They are scattered around the country. I strongly recommended you what you should check out this documentary call "The Invisible Children" Here is the site you can check it out: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/ Let me warn you this, this documentary is gruesome so be prepared to cry your lungs out!
Ok I don't want to waste you time anymore. so here is the Questions and Answers on Northern Ugandan War from BBC news.
Link: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3514473.stm
The attack which left more than 200 people dead in northern Uganda has been blamed on the brutal Lord's Resistance Army, which has been trying to overthrow the government for 18 years.Some one million people have fled their homes in what the UN's head of humanitarian affairs, Jan Egeland, has described as the most neglected humanitarian crisis in the world.
Who are the Lord's Resistance Army?
The rebels are led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, who was part of a previous rebel force in northern Uganda.
He has said that he wants to rule Uganda according to the Biblical Ten Commandments.
But the rebel practice of abducting schoolchildren, forcing the girls to be sex slaves and the boys to be brutal killers flies in the face of Christian teachings.
He also says he is fighting for the rights of the region's Acholi people, against perceived discrimination by the government.
However, Acholis bear the brunt of the fighting and many LRA fighters are forced to bear arms.
The LRA does not have much popular support, although many northerners do agree that they are being ignored.
Why can't the army defeat them?
Guerrilla armies are notoriously difficult to completely wipe out - as even the powerful United States military has found.
Hopes were high that the LRA might be defeated in 2002, when Sudan allowed the Ugandan army to pursue the LRA across the border, where the rebels had their rear bases.
But the fighters responded by increasing their attacks in Uganda.
Uganda has recently renewed its accusations that the rebels are being armed by Sudan.
President Museveni also blames donor countries for insisting that defence spending be kept low.
Uganda depends on donor aid but Mr Museveni says he should have told them to "go to hell".
MPs in the north say army leaders have become corrupt and are using the war to get rich.
Recently there has been a big scandal of "ghost soldiers" where large sums of money were reportedly claimed for soldiers who were no longer on the army pay-roll and an investigation has been opened.
Correspondents say foot soldiers have become demoralised and have lost the stomach to fight.
Local self-defence militias have been formed but they are not well armed and there were just 30 of them when 200 rebels attacked at the weekend.
How much of Uganda is affected?
At first, the LRA confined its attacks to the north but last year, they spread to parts of the east as well.
More than one million people have fled their homes and every night, many thousands abandon their villages in rural villages for the relative safety of big towns.
What is the international community doing to help?
Aid agencies are delivering relief supplies to the displaced but the camps where they work are increasingly becoming targeted by the LRA.
Last year, UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland said the humanitarian situation in northern Uganda was worse than anywhere else in the world.
The government continues to insist that the army can defeat the rebels.
Is anyone trying to find a peaceful solution?
Some northern Ugandan religious leaders are trying to mediate between the rebels and the government, which has offered an amnesty to fighters to lay down their arms.
But so far, neither the carrot of the amnesty nor the army stick has managed to end the misery of those living in the area.
Appeals for international help have borne some fruit though. In January, after talks with the government, the International Criminal Court in the Hague announced plans to investigate the LRA for war crimes.
My personal friend, Miguel came from Uganda where he was trained as a child solider for his country. He lived a hard, hard life and I wish I could help more people out like him.
I still remember Rwanda, let's not have it happen again.