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A Human Rights Watch Report entitled "Abducted and Abused": renewed conflict in Northern Uganda dated July 2003.
I do not find the latter part of the appellant's account on which she based her fear of the authorities to be credible. The cumulative effect of inconsistencies, implausible claims and unreliable documents completely undermined her claim to fear the police and the authorities. As for her claim to have been abducted, ill-treated and abused by the LRA my initial reservations have been allayed by the medical report and the consistency of her account with the objective evidence.
The section on the 'Latest LRA attacks' in the CIPU Assessment ends in March 2003 (6.137/8). I note the July 2003 Human Rights Watch report which refers to attacks by the LRA in May 2003 among others. I also note news reports of LRA attacks in September, October and November 2003. In the latter report it was alleged that more than 60 people were killed in villages and schools in Lira district. I have no reason to doubt the substance of these reports even if the figures for fatalities are not accurate.
Having observed the appellant give evidence I am not persuaded that her concentration is defective to any significant degree. I do not accept that the scale of inconsistencies displayed in her different accounts were likely to have been attributable to lack of concentration. Whilst it may be that a number of the above criticisms might not on their own give rise to an adverse credibility finding, the cumulative effect, in my view, is fatal to the appellant's credibility in respect of her claimed fear of the authorities.
6.65 The constitution prohibits discrimination based on factors of ethnicity; however, the government did not enforce the law effectively in matters of locally or culturally accepted discrimination against certain ethnic groups. Race was not a factor in national politics. The continued instability in the north led to violations of the rights of some Acholi, an ethnic group, which comprises a significant part of the population. Most violations of Acholi rights resulted from LRA actions.
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