Alonyo Janet, Uganda "I do not agree that the LRA are finished. They can reach here in no time"

My name is Alonyo Janet. I am 38, and I have seven children, aged three months to 12 years. I have lived in a camp since 1997, but we moved here [Madi Kiloc satellite village, north of Kitgum town] last week. Some of my children go to school in Padide, a larger camp a few kilometres from here where have been living.

I went to Padibe camp after the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army] killed my relatives - two of them - and abducted another two. I do not know where those who were abducted are up to this day. Maybe they are dead; maybe they are still in the bush.

Unlike the camp, here we can get some little land to cultivate some vegetables. My own village is Opoti, 4 km away, but I cannot go there. We are scared of the rebels because we don't know where they are. Recently we heard they were coming back. That scares us.

I do not agree that the LRA are finished. They are in Agoro [northern Kitgum] as well as in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. They can reach here in no time.

Services in the camp are not good. There is one borehole for all of us, and health is not good. But at least here in this place, the soldiers come and guard us in the evening. They encourage people to be together so that we can be secure.