{"id":33701,"date":"2021-11-08T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T10:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=33701"},"modified":"2021-11-17T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T12:37:34","slug":"uganda-13-years-in-limbo-forced-evictions-of-the-benet-in-the-name-of-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/uganda-13-years-in-limbo-forced-evictions-of-the-benet-in-the-name-of-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: 13 Years in Limbo: Forced Evictions of the Benet in the Name of Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 16 February 2008, Ugandan <\/span>authorities forcibly evicted 178 Indigenous Benet families from Benet forest, <\/span>Mount Elgon, Sebei region (Bukwo and Kween districts), in eastern Uganda, rendering them homeless. Over <\/span>a decade later, when Amnesty International visited Mount Elgon, members of<\/span> the Indigenous Benet <\/span>community were still living in temporary resettlement sites and reeling from the effects of the forced <\/span>evictions. <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This report focuses on the plight of the Benet Indigenous peoples of Mount Elgon; however, this is just one of\u00a0 <\/span>many cas<\/span>es of forced evictions in Uganda. The experience of the Benet peoples speaks to the broader need\u00a0 <\/span>for the Ugandan government to prevent forced evictions for all, in both law and practice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Extract from p.11:<\/p>\n

The Constitution of Uganda lists 56 Ugandan \u201cindigenous comm<\/span>unities\u201d,<\/span> as of 1st February 1926, making <\/span>every Ugandan community indigenous. The list of 56 leaves out many smaller eth<\/span>nic communities such as <\/span>the Benet and the Basongora.<\/span> The Benet are considered a sub<\/span>–<\/span>group of one of the 56. In official <\/span>documents, such as identity cards, the Ugandan government has <\/span>categorized<\/span> the Benet as a sub<\/span>–<\/span>group of <\/span>the Sabiny people of Kapchorwa di<\/span>strict.<\/span> They however have a different culture, including forest traditions, <\/span>although they speak a different dialect of the same language. This categorization is used in government <\/span>communication, including in a report from the Office of the Prime Minister <\/span>(OPM), which noted the <\/span>Benet <\/span>\u201c<\/span>…were the indigenous and historical forest dwellers of the high mountain forests and moor<\/span>–<\/span>lands of the <\/span>Sabiny community that were the official category of persons who were removed from the Mt. Elgon National <\/span>Park and were the <\/span>true and lawful beneficiaries of the 6000 hectares of land that government had ear <\/span>marked for the resettlement exercise.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Download report: 13 Years in Limbo: Forced Evictions of the Benet in the Name of Conservation<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 16 February 2008, Ugandan authorities forcibly evicted 178 Indigenous Benet families from Benet forest, Mount Elgon, Sebei region (Bukwo and Kween districts), in eastern Uganda, rendering them homeless. Over a decade later, when Amnesty International visited Mount Elgon, members of the Indigenous Benet community were still living in temporary resettlement sites and reeling from […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-ouganda","type-ong-et-experts","type-rapports","item-year-676","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports","item-theme-discrimination-fr","item-theme-ethnique-raciale-religieuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33807,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33701\/revisions\/33807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}