No-one should claim there is genocide in northern Uganda - paper.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of editorial entitled "War in the north is not 'genocide'" published by Ugandan newspaper The New Vision website on 23 June

The recent General Convention of the Episcopalian Church in the USA made global headlines on women and gay clergy but it also heard a controversial presentation from the retired Bishop of Kitgum Macleod Ochola.

He told the convention, the American part of the Anglican communion to which the Church of Uganda belongs, that there had been genocide in northern Uganda for the last 20 years. Ochola said that both the UPDF [Uganda People's Defence Forces] and the LRA [Lord's Resistance …