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Marking 150 years of Red Cross humanitarian work

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has maintained a strong operational presence in Africa, with activities focused on protecting and assisting people directly affected by armed conflict or other forms of violence. In Uganda, the [ … ]

 

Mistaken identity

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Stephen Olupot had been drinking local brew and was heading home at about 10 pm in Abarilela Sub-County, Soroti district. On the same night, December 18, 2002, security personnel led by the Gombolola Internal Security Officer (GISO) were searching the Sub-County for a robber popularly knows as Okw [ … ]

 

Return of the iron bars

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A wave of mysterious murders took Uganda by surprise at the beginning of this year. It began in the town of Mukono, 20km east of Kampala. Apparently, iron bars were being used by criminal groups in to commit murder in what looked like a return of the 1980s where Jinja residents were terrorized [ … ]

 

Soldiers shatter boy’s shin bones

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Alfred Ojera, a resident of Layibi Central B Ward, Pece division, Gulu municipality, had been planning an outing for a long time. On the afternoon of July 5, 2003, Basil Ojera, his 77 year-old grandfather, gave him Shs 5,000 for him to use as he pleased. Alfred was ecstatic. He hadn’t ha [ … ]

 

Prison officer canes inmate with slasher

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In January 2001, Ronald Twinomugisha, a resident of Kasara village, Kagongo Parish in Ibanda district was sentenced by a Mbarara Court to 12 months in prison for battering his wife. He protested his arrest and sentencing. According to him, it was his right to beat his wife when she went ast [ … ]

 

Gulu boy tortured over firearms

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Augustine Kibwota and his family had lived in an Internally Displaced Peoples camp (IDP) of Koci Goma in northern Uganda for more than eight years. This was at a time when the Lords Resistance Army rebels (LRA) had for more than a decade waged war on the government of Uganda, which displaced [ … ]

 

Victim Becomes Accused

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In November 2007, a 70 year old businessman and father of 15 children Fred Bekunda lodged a complaint at the Human Rights Commission offices in Mbabara. Bekunda claimed that on May 15, 2005 at 5.45am, while he was sleeping in his house in Ntungamo, law enforcement officers from Ntungamo town [ … ]

 

Minister Ecweru’s murder case

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Victim Obwangor was shot at point blank

George Pius Obwangor and his wife Betty had been together for close to five years. Pius loved Betty and tried to provide for their needs as best as he could. He was poor. Betty however, was having a secret affair with a man called Amorut.

Amorut had [ … ]

 

Minister Ecweru’s murder case

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Victim Obwangor was shot at point blank

George Pius Obwangor and his wife Betty had been together for close to five years. Pius loved Betty and tried to provide for their needs as best as he could. He was poor. Betty however, was having a secret affair with a man called Amorut.

Amorut had [ … ]

 
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