By Tolit Ivan & Agency
Security personnel have imposed a temporary curfew in parts of disputed Apaa, over fresh clashes that have left two dead, and two others injured in separate attacks.
Fresh clashes in the area resumed late last month after a 50-year-old man, only identified as Mwesigw, was murdered by unknown assailants on February 27 in Offu village in Ukusijoni Sub-county, Adjumani District.
The latest attack was recorded on Thursday from the same area after unknown armed assailants killed a local farmer identified as Mohamad Adui in a suspected revenge attack.
Maj Gen Felix Busizoori, the 4th Infantry Division Commander, told journalists Thursday at a press briefing that following the resurgence of violence, a four-day total curfew in two hot spot villages of Offu and Acholi Ber has been imposed.
According to local leaders in Acholi Ber Parish, more than 200 people had by March 26 been displaced by the latest attacks and were currently camping within the main trading center without shelter and were afraid to go to their homes due to fears.
Violence in the disputed boundary between Amuru and Adjumani erupted sometime in 2012 following forceful evictions of locals by Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) from Apaa on claims that the land is a gazetted East Madi Wildlife Reserve. More than 20 people have so far been killed in tribal confrontations over the land, dozens injured and hundreds displaced over the years.
