Views: Visits 10 Extreme violence in Northern Uganda was the first case taken by the International Criminal Court. The only accused tried in The Hague is yet to be sentenced. But the Trust Fund for Victims has funded a three-year assistance programme in the Gulu region (in Northern Uganda region). It appears to have helped with medical care and limb replacement. But critics call it a public relations move. In the rural hamlet of Amilobo, Palema parish, Lamogi, about 20km from Northern Uganda’s regional capital city of Gulu, lives Lilly Oyella, 42, her husband Samuel Akera, a peasant farmer, with their seven children in an oval mud and wattle grass thatched house. Oyella’s tiny compound is surrounded by small gardens of yams, sweet potatoes, cassava, simsim, beans, bananas and varieties of other green vegetables – all delicacies in this part of the country -, alongside goats and chicken reared on small pieces of land. This is in the middle of a lush green expansive savanna countryside, astride the main Juba road linking Uganda to its Northern neighbor, South Sudan.