Joseph Kony (left) responsible for creating the killer ghosts

Ghosts of Civil War Victims Possess Children in Uganda

Posted by Jon King on Feb 24, 2009

Tagged with: civil unrest, conflict, conspiracy, ghosts, possessed, primary school, supernatural, uganda

African Ghosts, Child Possession, Uganada’s Civil War

According to a story on Uganda’s premiere New Vision website, a primary school in the country’s Kitgum district has been closed after pupils ‘possessed with the spirits of murder victims’ turned violent.

In an interview with New Vision journalist, Chris Ocowun, the school’s Chairman John Ogwok said the ‘ghosts’ had strangled some pupils, and had instructed their victims to take up guns and axes against the other children.

Mr Ogwok added that the Layamo Agwata Primary School in Palabek-Gem sub-county had been closed for two weeks while prayers and rituals were carried out.

Ghosts of Civil War Victims Possess Children in Uganda

Further investigations into this grisly ghost mystery revealed that the ‘ghosts’ who possessed the children themselves shared a gruesome past.

According to the authorities they were the ghosts of people killed in the country’s recent LRA insurgency.

For the past 20 years and more, Uganda has been racked by civil unrest, largely due to a merciless guerrilla campaign waged by a group calling itself the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), who some say is CIA-funded.

The group, headed up by self-proclaimed prophet and spirit medium, Joesph Kony, says it is fighting to establish a theocracy in Uganda based on the Ten Commandments and local tradition. Critics, on the other hand, say the LRA is a fanatical religious outfit used by Mossad and the CIA as a counter force against the region’s Muslim minority.

In the long-running conflict the LRA has been accused of a string of human rights abuses, including mutilation, torture, rape, abduction, child soldiering and a number of massacres.

It was the ghosts of these massacres, the authorities say, who possessed the children of the Layamo Agwata Primary School and sent them on a killing spree.

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