Posted by Oneka Richard, Attiak, Uganda

We are all living in a Global Village but did you know that within the Global Village there is a ghot village called Attiak? Attiak  is located at the extreme North of Amuru District, Northern Uganda in East Africa, covering an estimated area of 1,052 square km and has a population of twenty four thousand, seven hundred and ten (24,710), according to the Uganda National Housing and Population Census 2002. The Sub-county is bordered by the Sudan in the North; Kitgum and Adjumani Districts in the North-East, respectively. The Sub-county has reasonable road network linking it neighbouring Districts, Sub-counties as well as the Sudan in the North. Before the Northern Uganda insurgency,  Attiak was productive with agriculture being the main economic activity  of the population.

How Attiak became a Ghost Village within a Global Village? Since 1986 Lord’s Resistance Army (rebel group) have abducted, killed, and maimed thousands of civilians and destroyed a lot of property in the region  and Attiak being at Uganda-Sudan border suffered most from the cross border atrocious activities of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).  At the start of the war in 1986, rebels burried a man alive  in Pacilo and also killed another man in Okidi  in Attiak for unknown reason. The same year in December, 32 people were killed at Pabbo Center, 31 of whom were people from Attiak. In 1987, rebels abducted 13 people  of  Parwaca in Attiak and killed 8 of the abductees. 1n 1988, the rebels abducted and  killed 17 people in Pupwonya, and 9 people  at their garden at Awer in Attiak. In 1993, rebels lead by Vincent Otti killed 32 people across Pacilo  in Attiak. On 20^th April 2005, the LRA killed over 250 people in Attiak in a single night massacre. Again a week ofter this deadly massacred, about 20 people were killed  at Palabel still in Attiak. Apart from those mentioned, many other killing and atrocities that took place in Attiak were unaccounted for,  and hundreds of people abducted where about are not known. These massacres and other subsequent killings, and atrocities by the rebels have devastated Attiak and has retarded all development effort in the area and above all, made Attiak a Ghost village within the Global Village! This explain why Caleb’s Hope have come up to rebuild the war ravaged Attiak with a mission of turning Attiak in to an Ideal Village within the Global Village.

Down on the ground in Attiak, on my own behalf, and on behalf of our beneficaries and the entier commmunity of Attiak, we thank Caleb’s Hope for coming up to rebuild our community and we ask you to support the organization programme