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WESTERN CONFLICTS<br />

infections are prevalent in the Batwa community. Coupled<br />

with exclusion from social services and<br />

environmental adaptation<br />

difficulties, this<br />

accounts for the near extinction of<br />

the Batwa ethnic group in Bundibugyo.<br />

94. Struggle by the Bakonzo and Baamba for their own district (1961<br />

-1974)<br />

The continued subjugation of the Baamba and Bakonzo communities led to the<br />

formation of the Rwenzururu Movement in 1961. During the period of an interim<br />

self-rule government, led by Ben Kiwanuka, the Bakonzo and Baamba wrote the first<br />

Rwenzururu Memorandum, demanding the creation of Rwenzururu district (in what are<br />

now Kasese, Bundibugyo and Ntoroko districts).<br />

They began by summarizing the findings that the Bakonzo Life History Research Society<br />

had generated. “From time immemorial,” they wrote, “[Bakonzo people] were the true<br />

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