By Ben Musanje
14th Aug 2023
Security teams in Karamoja Sub region have embarked on conducting peace talks with the Karachunas with the aim of reducing armed attacks and insecurities within the region.
Karamoja Sub region has always been characterized with insecurities informed by cattle rustling and periodic armed attacks which forced the security agencies to launch the disarmament operations years ago.
The Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga says that since the start of this month the heads of security teams in Karamoja have been meeting with the Karamojong groups in peace to see that they withdraw from the acts of carrying out attacks that are promoting insecurity in the region.
Enanga says that they have hope that the new initiatives of peace talks will promote peace within the region.
At least 100 people have so far been killed by armed Karamojong cattle rustlers in various parts of Agago District in the last five years, statistics from the district have revealed.
The data compiled by local leaders in Agago District indicates that at least 11 sub-counties out of 26 have been frequently targeted between 2018 and 2023 by the rustlers from the neighboring Karamoja region.
During the same period, 1,632 cattle, and 2,685 goats from the various sub counties were looted.
The rustlers are suspected to be Jie warriors who inhabit the Kotido district that borders Agago to the North East.
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