Lakwena portrayed herself as a prophet who received messages from the Holy Spirit and expressed the belief that the Acholi could defeat the Museveni government.
She believed she was inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. Lakwena did not pick up arms against the central government her members carried sticks and stones. Therefore, by late 1987 to early 1988, a civilian resistance movement led by Alice Lakwena was formed. However, the southern-dominated army did not stop attacking civilians in the north of the country. Many of those groups made peace with Museveni. Such acts of violence led to the formation of rebel groups from the ranks of the previous Ugandan army, UNLA. Their activities included Operation Simsim, which engaged in burning, looting, and killings of locals. The victors sought vengeance against ethnic groups in the North of Uganda. In 1986, the armed rebellion led by Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA) won the Ugandan Bush War and took control of the country. Following the country's independence in 1962, Uganda's ethnic groups continued to compete with each other within the bounds of Uganda's new political system. The livestock-raising Acholi from the north of Uganda were resented for dominating the army and policing. The southern region became the centre for commercial trade development. While the agricultural Baganda people worked closely with the British, the Acholi and other northern ethnic groups supplied much of the national manual labour and came to comprise a majority of the military. The ethnic and cultural tensions within Uganda grew during the years of the following the creation of the Uganda Protectorate in 1894. Uganda's north is largely inhabited by the Nilotic-speaking Acholi, who had engaged in hunting, farming and livestock herding in the past. The south and east are largely inhabited by Bantu-speakers, such as the Baganda people, who were historically agriculturists.
Uganda's north and south are politically divided.
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