Update July 16, 2009: President Museveni called Sudanese President Al-Bashir to apologize for remarks in the Ugandan press which implied that Bashir would be arrested upon arrival in Uganda. The two leaders reportedly agreed that Bashir would cancel his trip to Uganda.
Bashir, Quadaffi and Museveni
Commonly overlooked, but widely documented, the Ugandan government’s use of child soldiers has been reported by the UN for years. The Ugandan government also uses captured soldiers to hunt for the Lord’s Resistance Army. The 105th battallion in the Ugandan army is composed of ex-LRA combatants who are often sent after the LRA. (more…)
By Milton Allimadi
The Bush Administration provided torture training for Ugandan security agents even though U.S. law bars training for countries whose agents engage in torture, according to a major report.
A UPDF Spokesperson has responded to claims that the ICC has been “compromised and biased” in failing to investigate crimes that the UPDF has committed in Northern Uganda. In 2005, the International Court of Justice found Uganda liable for $10 Billion for looting Congo, and war crimes.
This Has Happened Before: UN Report Blocked in 2007
A report on Karamoja detailing UPDF’s extensive human rights violations upon Ugandan citizens was prevented from being presented at the UN last year.
By 1991, the NRM government through Betty Bigombe and former RDC for Kitgum, JB Ochaya (RIP), were directed to recruit youths – the most significant aspect of the scorch-earth policy of Operation North, led by Maj Gen David Tinyefunza – in the entire Acholi sub-region to protect their own people as “the NRA/UPDF were busy with the security of the country”, they were called Atero Boys / Brigade. (more…)
