May 18, 07 ABC broke hidden story about horrors in Uganda & then censored & deleted reader comments

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/05/secret_photos_r.html


http://www.allthingspass.com/uploads/html-199NORTHERN%20UGANDA%20<3>.htm


NORTHERN UGANDA:

HIDDEN WAR, MASSIVE SUFFERING
ANOTHER WHITE PEOPLE’S WAR FOR OIL
keith harmon snow
www.allthingspass.com


On May 18, 2007, ABC news broke a hidden story about horrors in Uganda, and then they censored and deleted reader’s comments. ABC has deleted an unknown number of comments by people horrified by the atrocities who only want to bring the truth to light and help stop the horrible suffering. Some forty comments were deleted on the night of May 20 alone. What are ABC’s real motives? From Darfur to Congo to Ethiopia to Somalia to Kenya—who or what is ripping apart this region of Africa?


On May 18, 2007, ABC News “The Blotter” posted a story titled “Secret Photos Reveal New African Horrors.” The short ABC web clip describes in unusual candor—for ABC—the hidden war and horrors in Northern Uganda. The title suggests that it is a “new” conflict, and yet another “African” conflict. Is ABC sincere in their reporting? Or is this just another propaganda campaign narrowly controlled to serve private profits?


“Documentary filmmakers in Uganda were subjected to intimidation and coercion and were the victims of break-ins while attempting to film what a former U.N. official calls “Uganda’s secret genocide” in the northern part of that country,” the ABC Blotter report begins. “The filmmakers say these threats came from Ugandan officials and secret intelligence organizations there.”


The story goes on to describe how an American film crew was reportedly robbed of footage and equipment as the photographers documented the suffering of millions of people, and the role of the Ugandan People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) and Ugandan government officials in perpetrating massive atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity.


The ABC report calls it “Uganda’s Secret Genocide,” a remarkable revelation in a world attuned only to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, a place not so far away from Northern Uganda, and one involving some of the same combatants.


“The Ugandan government says it created refugee camps,” ABC reported, “for displaced people who were victims of a violent, ongoing civil conflict with a rebel group from the north called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).”


Like Somalia and eastern Congo, the wars in Darfur and Northern Uganda are prosecuted for the same reasons: petroleum, gold, land—and other natural resources. There is money to be made, indeed, and the Uganda government is depopulating the land to make it easier. But this has been going on for years. Out of sight, out of mind. But absence makes the heart grow fonder.



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AFRICOM and the U.S. Resource Wars in Africa
Interview with journalist and human rights and genocide investigator, Keith Harmon Snow. The new U.S. command, AFRICOM; the crisis in northern Uganda; the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa; military programs and covert operations; Somalia and Ethiopia; oil and mineral resources; the Darfur region of Sudan; NGOs. Visit Keith Snow's website at www.allthingspass.com.

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1. Here's the working link to the article

http://www.allthingspass.com/uploads/html-199NORTHERN%20UGANDA%20[3].htm

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2. there is a baby attached to a mom (dead).

[MedleyMisty]

3. I had to look closer to see it

Sometimes I really really hate our species. How can we do stuff like this to each other?