Kitgum, Uganda-Fred Bokilo can almost see home from the edge of the squalid camp where he has lived for three years. Swollen-bellied children run past him. There's cholera in the water, and malaria in the huts. Two miles away, his fields lie untilled, and that's how they'll stay. "Of course I can't go back," he says, warning of the armed bands roaming freely outside town. "They will kill you.... They take your boys. They take your girls." Constant fear of marauders who murder, rape, pillage, and enslave. Legions sweeping into camps. Sexual violence as a weapon of war. Thinking of Darfur? Think again. Northern Uganda, home to a festering, cultlike insurgency, is the worst disaster you've never heard of. As many as 200,000 people have died by violence and disease since 2000. Some 1.6 million—95 percent of the northern population—are afraid to leave crowded camps for their homes and fields.
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