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Examples
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It is estimated the government lost about Shs100 million in this questionable deal alone that was sanctioned at a time when the NFA was selling similar trees in reserves such as Lendu in the new Zombo District to other buyers at Shs20,000 each.
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In 2006 he, his wife, and their three children were traveling to Bunia when they were stopped at a roadblock by militiamen under a notorious Lendu warlord, Peter Karim.
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Long-standing tension between the Lendu and Hema peoples has fueled the conflict.
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The Lendu are traditionally farmers; the better-off Hema are more likely to be cattle herders, landowners, and traders, and are resented by many for their wealth.
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In 2006 he, his wife, and their three children were traveling to Bunia when they were stopped at a roadblock by militiamen under a notorious Lendu warlord, Peter Karim.
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The ICC picked warlords in Ituri for some of its first indictments in part to demonstrate that justice for war crimes can be impartial: Thomas Lubanga was the principal leader of the Hema, but two Lendu warlords were scheduled to go on trial before the court in late November.
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The Lendu are traditionally farmers; the better-off Hema are more likely to be cattle herders, landowners, and traders, and are resented by many for their wealth.
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He comments, “Like ethnic conflicts around the globe, this is fundamentally a fight between brothers: the two tribes—the Hema and the Lendu—speak the same language, marry each other and compete for the same remote and thickly populated land.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Long-standing tension between the Lendu and Hema peoples has fueled the conflict.
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He comments, “Like ethnic conflicts around the globe, this is fundamentally a fight between brothers: the two tribes—the Hema and the Lendu—speak the same language, marry each other and compete for the same remote and thickly populated land.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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