The Danish Institute for International Studies, Department for Holocaust and Genocide Studies invites you to a seminar with Eva Kolker, student, Copenhagen International School, Victims of a Neglected War: A Picture of Life in Northern UgandaMonday, 28 June 2004, 17.00-18.30 Danish Institute for International Studies Meeting room W 2.08, 1st floor Strandgade 56, 1401 Copenhagen K Ms Kolker’s presentation will include commentary by Peter Steenberg Ørnemark, research assistant at DIIS, Department for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, who recently returned from a visit to Rwanda and earlier conducted interviews with street children in Uganda. Ms Kolker’s presentation is about the conflict in northern Uganda between the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). It gives a general background and history of the war, and shows some photographs of the state of the internal displacement in the north. This includes pictures of IDP camps, medical and sanitation facilities etc. These pictures are from MSF (Medicine Sans Frontiers) employees who lives and worked in the north. There is also a portion about child soldiers. Ms Kolker interviewed a girl who was abducted by the LRA and kept in the bush for three months. She complied a short (6-minute) documentary of the interview, which she will show to the seminar. She began the research after her father, who lives and works in Uganda, visited the north. She was appalled at the situation, especially at the fact that the war is practically unknown in the international media. It is presently the longest sustained hostage situation in the world, and UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egelund has called the north of Uganda “a humanitarian situation worse than that in Iraq.” She began this project because she felt obligated to raise awareness about this virtually unknown crisis. For further information, please contact Dr Eric Markusen at eka@diis.dk or by phone at 3269 8930. |
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