Uduks refused to adhere to Sharia, a code requiring amputation for stealing and cheating and other prohibitive practices as well. They refused to send their children to the Koranic schools rather than the Christian schools they had been attending, setting up a confrontation with the government's forces in 1986. The signs of their defeat punctuate the landscape today. Government tank rounds have destroyed roofs across the former SIM compound. The school building is rubble.
Houses are hard to find or impossible to visit because of landmines.
The church is a roofless maze of destruction. One solid wall of it remains, the one with a stone cross, punctured by bullet holes. Government soldiers took the bombed church apart piece by piece. They ripped Bibles, page by page, from their bindings, and used the pages of Scripture to roll cigarettes. Other pages showed up later as food wrappers in local markets.