Uganda, April 28 -- Twenty nine years ago last week, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) under the command of Vincent Otti Lagony, the deputy commander of the rebel outfit, entered Atiak Trading Centre and Atiak Camp where the populace had been forced to settle albeit for different reasons.

According to the paper, 'Remembering the Atiak Massacre - April 20, 1995', a product of the Justice and Reconciliation Project, the Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Gulu District NGO Forum, the rebels initially enjoyed lots of support among the populace.

"When the LRA came onto the scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s, its relationship with locals in Atiak was good. The LRA did not engage in forceful abduction, nor did it kill civilians. Inste...