UGANDA: Post-traumatic stress rife in the north

GULU Thursday, October 23, 2008 (IRIN) - Sleepless nights, flashbacks and hallucinations have become normal for Michael Ocira, a former soldier in the rebel Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which has waged a civil war in the north for more than two decades. “When I imagine the days in the bush, I lose my senses and thoughts, only to be told later that I acted violently, grabbing hold of anything to [use to] beat anyone near me," Ocira told IRIN on 22 October in Gulu town, one of the areas...