African Insights Newsletter Blog
October 12, 2009
Joseph Kony's Mother's Dying Wish
Nora Anek Oting wanted peace for her people, the Acholis, for her Country, Uganda.
August 10th, 2009 at 11:50 pm Nora Anek Oting closed her eyes for the
last time. The hopes she had for
peace still on her lips as she uttered to her nurse Betty Akello "Tell
Joseph Kony to make Peace." Even as she died of Lung Cancer and
cardiac problem her son was upon her heart, his actions of a brutal war
where ever before her. Her dying wish was that Joseph Kony lay
down his weapons of war.
Nora Anek Oting was 86 years old, hailed from the Acholi region near the town of Gulu where she had lived with her husband, raised a family that included one of the most infamous people every to have been born in Uganda who poured wrath and war upon his own Acholi people for over 20 years, but since 1996 has been outside of Uganda in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan.
The
irony is that Nora Anek Oting has been cared for by the very government
that Joseph Kony has wanted to overthrow. President Museveni had a
house built for Kony's mother in Mukono, just outside of Kampala and has
provided medical care as she suffered from Diabetes and then the illness
that took her life.
African Grace, is something that is rarely understood by Westerners, how can you take care of the mother who gave her birth of the arch enemy of your government? Joseph Kony had abandoned his mother and his father before his death, abandoned his family. President Museveni actually shamed Kony for abandoning his mother.
In 2006, though quite ill, Nora Anek Oting joined a group of Acholi Elders and Church leaders to meet with Joseph Kony in Garamba National park in the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to restart the stalled peace talks in Juba, South Sudan. Joseph Kony had requested to meet his mother. President Museveni sent along a doctor to assist her since she was already quite ill. For the first time in 17 years Joseph Kony and his mother met.
Joseph Kony and his mother spent 12 days together in the jungle of Garamba National Park. She appealed to Kony's heart to sign the peace agreement. She reminded Kony, that it was his perceived enemy, President Museveni who had taken of Kony's parents since the son was not able to do so. It is reported that she even scolded him saying, “Your father died and Museveni buried him. Do you want him to bury me too in your absence?” She had come in peace, with a group of peace makers, reminding Kony that his own people, the Acholis wanted peace, that Uganda wanted peace.
Joseph Kony who was thankful to President Museveni for sending his mother, assured her that he wanted peace also. Norah Anek Oting returned to Uganda and the peace treaty went unsigned in Juba, South Sudan.
Nora Anek Oting is reported to have been a woman of faith in God who believed that her son needed to released from the demonic spirits that had taken hold of his mind and heart.
She went into eternity without seeing with her eyes what her heart so dearly wanted....Peace in the region. In her life she questioned as to how she could birth to such a man, may in her death that man, Kony begin on the path he promised his mother, the path of peace.
President Museveni is once again burying one of the parents of Joseph Kony, just as he buried his father. Kony's younger brother has asked that Kony to come to the burial of his mother and to follow through on the promise he had made to Uganda...we are waiting ... from Kampala...jon
More Information on Joseph Kony, the LRA, and Northern Uganda
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is Joseph Kony? Villain,
Christian, Muslim, Mystic, Patriot, Madman. but who really is he?
Who is this madman? Whose only goal is maim, rob & destroy. |
 Uganda's
Child Soldiers (Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army):
What took place for over 20 years in Northern
Uganda. |
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 Richard
Akena:
Captures by the LRA several times, from child to killer, now heading an
orphanage in Northern Uganda. His Story. |
 Where are the children of the LRA?
Where are the abducted children of Uganda? What has happened to them? |
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The Night Commuters of Northern Uganda: Fortunately this no longer exists but it is a look back to when it did. |
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 Uganda 2009 and Joseph Kony LRA:
This is a look at the problems with the LRA in 2009 in the DRC. |
 Joseph Kony LRA News
Updates: regular updates to
activities of the LRA, presently in neighboring countries of Uganda. |
 It is still not Christmas in Northern Uganda:
a look back to Christmas of 2006 in Northern Uganda |
 It
does not feel like Christmas-Joseph Kony-Christmas 2008:
Operation Lightning Thunder began against the LRA on December
14, 2008.
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 Uganda is more than Idi Amin, Joseph Kony and the LRA:
The images that westerners have of Uganda is amazing. Rarely do those
images reflect the reality of Uganda. |
 Living in a Warzone - Uganda:
Many people across the globe think that Uganda
is a warzone, it is a warzone of wrong
information about Uganda. |
 Northern
Uganda - Peace - Give it a Chance:
It is time to put aside the wrong information and help to
rebuild Northern Uganda in any way possible. |
 Joseph Kony's Mother's
dying Wish.
Before she died she had a wish for her son Joseph Kony. |
 Volunteers needed to help rebuild northern
Uganda, two weeks working with a former Child Soldier at his
orphanage - weeks that will change your life forever.
Two weeks in Kitgum, Northern Uganda that will remain with you
for a long time. |
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Joseph Kony's Mother dying Wish
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