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have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Uganda. Some of these links may lead to websites
that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No
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this page and others to see which aspects of Torture by Authorities are of
particular interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring the moral justification for inflicting pain or
inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment in order to obtain critical
information that may save countless lives, or to elicit a confession for a
criminal act, or to punish someone to teach him a lesson outside of the
courtroom. Perhaps your paper might
focus on some of the methods of torture, like fear, extreme temperatures,
starvation, thirst, sleep deprivation, suffocation, or immersion in freezing
water. On the other hand, you might
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perpetrate such cruelty. There is a
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that are available on-line. ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Uganda U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/uganda/
[accessed 11 August
2021] TORTURE AND OTHER
CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT Human rights
organizations, opposition politicians, and local media reported that security
forces tortured dissidents as punishment for their opposition to the government.
On April 24, local television stations showed images of opposition Member of
Parliament (MP) Francis Zaake receiving medical
treatment at the Iran-Uganda hospital in Naguru.
The UPF and Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF)
had arrested Zaake at his home in Mityana District on April 19, accusing him of violating
COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings when he distributed food to his
constituents. On May 6, Zaake told journalists that
upon his arrest, UPF officers under the watch of Mityana
District police commander Alex Mwine and regional
police commander Bob Kagarura beat him with sticks
and batons, kicked him on his head, and then ... On April 4, local
media reported that on the night of April 3, UPF, LDU, and UPDF officers had raided
a community in Elegu Town, driven dozens of persons
out of their houses, beaten them with sticks and iron bars, and forced them
to remove their clothes, roll in the dirt, and for some specifically to rub
the dirt on their genitals, accusing them of violating the curfew. PRISON AND DETENTION
CENTER CONDITIONS Conditions in
detention centers remained harsh and in some cases life-threatening. Serious
problems included overcrowding, physical abuse of detainees by security staff
and fellow inmates, inadequate food, and understaffing. Reports of forced
labor continued. Most prisons did not have accommodations for persons with
disabilities. The government operated unofficial detention facilities where
it detained suspects for years without charge. MP Zaake sues top security officers over torture as
opposition petitions UN Anthony Wesaka & Juliet Kigongo,
Daily monitor, 7 May 2020 [accessed 7 May
2020] In his affidavit to
support his torture claims, the youthful legislator, currently receiving
treatment at Surgical ward in Rubaga hospital,
claims his captors sprayed unknown substances into his eyes, causing him
unbearable pain. "DPC Mwiine together with RPC Kagarura
and Haruna Mulungi Nsamba,
started kicking me. I heard the RPC telling one of the officers to make sure
that I don't see. I saw him handing over two cans containing unknown
chemicals and spread them into my eyes. I felt a lot of pain, itching and I
lost my sight," Mr Zaake
contends. He continued:"
As they were putting me onto a police truck, the officers repeatedly mocked
me saying Baganda are a problem here and that 'you
think you will ever rule this country' and that they were to teach me a
lesson." He Was Distributing
Coronavirus Aid. The Police Detained And Tortured Him J. Lester Feder, BuzzFeed News, 8 May
2020 www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lesterfeder/uganda-francis-zaake-coronavirus [accessed 10 May
2020] Francis Zaake was in the shower one evening last week when the
police broke down his bedroom door. He was dragged away in handcuffs and
later suspended from his arms and legs inside a truck so that every bump on the
two-hour drive stretched his limbs to the breaking point. The officers
blinded him with a substance he thought was pepper spray. Almost three weeks
later, he still can’t open his eyes, he told BuzzFeed
News in a phone interview from Uganda. This was just the
first of 10 days of torture. Zaake’s alleged crime:
delivering food to neighbors left hungry by the coronavirus lockdown. 10 police officers
charged with torture of women at Elegu border,
remanded George Okello, PML Daily Senior Correspondent, 7 April 2020 [accessed 12 April
2020] The police officers
together with their colleagues from UPDF brutalised
a group of women at Elegu border on Thursday, April
2. The women were orounded up in a lodge owned by the chairperson of the Cross
Border Traders Cooperative, Auma Margaret. According to Auma, Police, and LDUs in Elegu
allegedly pulled out women and some men from their homes, beat, and forced
them to roll in the mud after asking them to put off their clothes. Some were
allegedly asked to rub the mud in their private parts as the officers,
laughed at them. The group were accused of flouting the presidential directives
on containing coronavirus. Curfew Enforcement:
16 Police, Army Officers Arrested over Aggravated Torture Kampala Post
Reporter, Uganda, 6 April 2020 kampalapost.com/content/curfew-enforcement-16-police-army-officers-arrested-over-aggravated-torture [accessed 6 April
2020] A total of 16
police and military officers have been arrested over alleged aggravated
torture of civilians for flouting the curfew and ban on public spaces. The 10 police and
six military officers are accused to have beat up residents of Lorokwo West in Elegu Town
Council, Amuru district on April 2 at around 8pm.
Fred Enanga, one of the Joint Security Taskforce
Spokespersons says while on patrol, the security team targeted the area “due
to much congestion and an uncontrolled setting of makeshift structures.” “Using a heavy
handed approach to disperse the occupants, the patrollers kicked doors open
and dragged the occupants out and some fell in the muddy surfaces. Several
vulnerable women and a few men were injured in the process,” Enanga said in a statement on Monday. A total of 38
victims, including 31 females and 7 males were traced, and their statements
recorded. Freedom House
Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/uganda/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 18 May
2020] F3. IS THERE
PROTECTION FROM THE ILLEGITIMATE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE AND FREEDOM FROM WAR
AND INSURGENCIES? Rape, extrajudicial
violence, and torture and abuse of suspects and detainees by security forces
are persistent problems, and prosecutions of the perpetrators are rare. The
alleged torture of Bobi Wine and other opposition
politicians in August 2018 led to protests against police brutality. The
government said it would investigate Wine’s allegations of torture, but no
charges had been filed as of 2019. Prison conditions
are poor, as the prison system is operating at about three times its intended
capacity, with pretrial detainees constituting nearly half of the inmate
population. How Rwandan mother
endured painful pregnancy inside Uganda’s torture chambers Jean d'Amour Mbonyinshuti, The New
Times, 29 April 2019 www.newtimes.co.rw/news/rwandan-mother-painful-pregnancy-uganda [accessed 12 May
2019] Dusabimana says that while in
prison they were tortured and starved. “We were repeatedly beaten, we had to report
every morning for a parade
and whoever delayed could be beaten, women were beaten on their
own behalf and on behalf of their children,” she said. Dusabimana was subjected to
torture throughout her pregnancy period, and says that it was by God’s mercy
she did not have a miscarriage. “Because I was
pregnant, I had complications and other inmates called for police to inform
them that I was sick, I was rushed to hospital and got basic treatment, the
medics gave me medicine and I was taken back to prison,” “I endured severe
pain, lived bad life and ate badly the entire time spent in prison. When I
had signs of labour, I was taken to hospital and
delivered. I spent one day at hospital and I was brought back to prison,” she
says. She says, there are many Rwandans still detained in Ndorwa prison. Addressing Torture
in Uganda -- Five Actions Police Can Take Maria Burnett,
Director, East Africa and the Horn, Human Rights Watch HRW, 26 June 2018 www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/26/addressing-torture-uganda [accessed 26 June
2018] Uganda’s new police
leadership has expressed a willingness to address police torture and mistreatment
of suspects, a welcome commitment. Between 2012 and 2016, the Uganda Human
Rights Commission received over 1,000 allegations of police-orchestrated
torture, but the real numbers of those tortured in custody are likely much
higher. The promises of
Uganda’s police leadership to take on torture are good news. But without
learning from the past and taking robust action to address abuses, police
torture will continue unchecked. Torture looms high
in Uganda New Vision, 26 June
2018 www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1480394/torture-looms-uganda [accessed 26 June
2018] In May last year,
Ugandans were left in shock on seeing the gruesome pictures of Geoffrey Byamukama, the Kamwenge mayor,
who had been tortured by the Police over allegations that he had had a hand
in the murder of slain former Assistant Inspector General of Police Andrew
Felix Kaweesi. In the days that followed, more
pictures of tortured inmates at the dreaded Nalufenya
detention facility trended on social media. Ironically, many of them were
later freed by courts due to inadequate evidence to pin the suspects. The
facility was recently closed by the new IGP Ochola Okoth. However, Byamukama and
others were not the fi rst and may not be the last,
for torture remains the most recorded human rights violation in Uganda, with
the Police accounting for a majority of the incidents. According to a Uganda
Human Rights Commission (UHRC) report released last year, a total of 1,658
torture cases were registered between 2012 and 2016. Closing Nalufenya will not end torture in the country Maria Burnett, Daily
Monitor, 9 April 2018 [accessed 10 April
2018] Closing Nalufenya may be a good idea, but it will not address the
many cases of torture of detainees, just as disbanding RRU did nothing for Ssekanjako’s family. More than a decade, hundreds of
torture victims have told me of sickly similar treatment during
interrogations by police officers at various notorious detention facilities.
Detainees were beaten for days while in stress positions with their hands
cuffed under their legs. Police would beat detainees with batons, sticks,
glass bottles, bats, metal pipes, padlocks, table legs, and other objects,
often to force a confession By relying on
torture and false confessions, police may well be putting innocent people
behind bars for a long time – especially likely given Uganda’s very prolonged
remand times – while guilty parties roam the streets. Police officer
accuses boss, five others of torture, theft Joseph Kato, Daily
Monitor, 18 February 2018 www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/police-officer-torture-theft/688334-4308862-8b2gdjz/index.html [accessed 27
February 2018] A junior police
officer has dragged the commandant of Police Canine Unit and five others to Makindye Magistrate’s court, accusing them of torturing
him, fracturing his backbone and stealing his money. Constable Robert Obeti said Mr Martin Mugume, the Commissioner of Police, ordered his juniors
led by Assistant Inspector of Police, Mr Alvelino Ngabirano, to arrest
him on Christmas Day, accusing him of dodging duty yet he had explained he
was unwell. Mr Obeti alleges that he was beaten, slapped, kicked and his
private parts squeezed by his tormentors and his backbone and joints
fractured, costing him more than Shs2m in medical bills. Uganda Deports 5
More Rwandans After Extreme Torture Dan Ngabonziza, KT Press, 29 December 2017 ktpress.rw/2017/12/uganda-deports-5-more-rwandans-after-extreme-torture/ [accessed 30
December 2017] The deportees who looked
very tired and weak narrated to media how relieved they feel after surviving
death from torture while held incommunicado for weeks in undisclosed
detention centres in Uganda. “For two weeks, I was beaten up, fed maize
flour and tortured while being asked whether I work with Rwandan
authorities,” Turatsinze said. For Dinah Kamikazi, who was arrested along her niece, Vanessa Agasaro, “it was a hell of torture.
At one point, I was undressed, soaked in water and threatened with electric
shocks. I was told to mention a number of Rwandan officials I work with. All
this was done while blindfolded.” Muslim Clerics
Murder Suspects to Sue Kayihura Over Torture URN, The Observer,
Kampala, 14 August 2016 www.observer.ug/news-headlines/45906-muslim-clerics-murder-suspects-to-sue-kayihura-over-torture [accessed 15 August
2016] Eight persons
accused of masterminding the shooting of Muslim clerics last year, have
instructed their lawyers to file a torture case against the Inspector General
of Police (IGP) Gen Kale Kayihura. Human
Rights Watch World Report 2015 - Events of 2014 Human Rights Watch,
29 January 2015 www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/...
or
www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/wr2015_web.pdf [accessed 18 March
2015] UGANDA LACK OF
ACCOUNTABILITY
- The government failed to credibly investigate violence in which at least
100 people were killed in the western Rwenzori region. Numerous reports
suggest that after a July 5 attack on a military barracks and some police
posts, civilians were mutilated, tortured, and killed, some buried in mass
and unmarked graves, and that government forces may have been involved in
reprisals against members of the ethnic group believed to be responsible for
the initial attacks. Despite numerous
promises to investigate, no police or military personnel have been held
accountable and there have been no credible investigations into killings
during protests in 2009 and 2011. In December 2011, police disbanded the
Rapid Response Unit but there have been no investigations into the killings
or torture by the unit, and one case involving a suspect tortured to death
during an interrogation did not advance in the courts. Similarly, no
inquiries have been made into cases of people who were tortured or died in
the custody of the Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force. The government has
also failed to protect street children and investigate abuses against them.
Despite a strong legal child protection framework, homeless children face
violence, beatings, unlawful detention, and forced labor at the hands of police,
including cleaning detention cells and police quarters. Government officials
and police also carry out targeted mass roundups of homeless children. On the streets,
homeless adults and older children harass, beat, sexually abuse, force drugs
upon, and exploit street children, often with impunity as police neglect to
investigate crimes against them. Police commander
sued over torture Derrick Kiyonga, The Observer, 7 January 2014 www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29504:police-commander-sued-over-torture&catid=34:news&Itemid=114 [accessed 17
November 2014] www.observer.ug/news-headlines/29504-police-commander-sued-over-torture [accessed 3 January
2018] Natukunda, 32, alleges that
as the congregation marched peacefully and unarmed with the petition in hand,
police commanded by Ruhunde, violently broke up the
procession using tear gas and batons. In his plaint, he explains that in the
melee, the police arrested him and continued assaulting him even when he was
subdued. “The police took
the plaintiff [Natukunda] into the custody of Rukungiri police station and continued to beat him and
directly sprayed tear gas in the plaintiff’s mouth and eyes,” Natukunda says, adding that as a result of the battering,
he ended up in Nyakibale hospital in Rukungiri municipality. Natukunda says the medical
officers in Nyakibale found he had suffered grave
injuries and transferred him to Nsambya hospital. “In Nsambya [hospital], the medical report of the 24 May 2013
indicated that as a result of police battering, Natukunda
suffered from multiple blunt trauma in the lumbo-sacral
region, blunt chest trauma, limbs trauma and acute urinary retention and [he]
now uses a trans- urethral catheterization and suffers from post- traumatic
disorder for which psychiatric attention is needed,” reads a medical note
from the Uganda Human Rights Commission, which has been attached to the suit. Lawyer sues seven
policemen over torture Siraje Lubwama,
The Observer, 13 August 2014 www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33281:lawyer-sues-seven-policemen-over-torture&catid=34:news&Itemid=114 [accessed 14 August
2014] www.observer.ug/news-headlines/33281-lawyer-sues-seven-policemen-over-torture [accessed 3 January
2018] The Attorney General
and seven policemen, including a regional police commander, have been sued by
a lawyer who was beaten up at City Hall last November. Kiwanuka claims that the
defendants – directly and vicariously – battered him on November 25, 2013, as
he headed to City Hall to deliver an interim order stopping a meeting meant
to impeach Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago.
The meeting had been called by Presidency and KCCA Minister Frank Tumwebaze. He says that Ruhweza, then a division police commander, boxed him on
the head and in the stomach, slapped and kicked him. After the fracas, Kiwanuka was later bundled onto a police pickup truck and
driven to Kampala Central police station and later Mulago
hospital’s Casualty ward, where he received “unsupervised and suspicious
injections in disguise of first aid”. The number of
torture victims is on the rise Gilbert Kidimu, New
Vision, 28 Aug 2013 www.newvision.co.ug/news/646605-the-number-of-torture-victims-is-on-the-rise.html [accessed 28 Aug
2013] David a refugee living
in Uganda is a victim of torture having been through one of the worst ordeals
imaginable. “One evening at home, we were visited by state supported militia
who interrogated me about the reason for giving a bad name to the Government.
I was brutally beaten all over my body and later forced to watch as they took
turns raping my two sisters. When they were
done, they inflicted burns on them. I was afterwards forced to have anal sex
with the whole group of men and then left for dead. Somehow the sisters nursed
and helped me recover enough to flee to Uganda. Unfortunately the two girls
were both found pregnant and obviously the fathers of their children are
unknown. BESIDES THE
REFUGEES, WHO ARE THE MOST TORTURE VICTIMS IN UGANDA? - Suspected
criminals and vulnerable groups are the most victims. The brutal manner in
which criminal suspects are arrested, detained, and treated is deplorable.
The police beat up and torture suspects to make them confess to the crime.
The vulnerable group is people who cannot afford treatment. WHO ARE THE LEADING
PERPETRATORS OF TORTURE? - The Ugandan Police has been ranking high over the
years as the leading perpetuator. It has always been number one in the
reports and it still is. Hope returns for
victim of child torture Kathy Sundstrom, The
Reporter, 16 Jun 2013 www.thereporter.com.au/news/hope-returns-for-victim-of-child-torture/1908898/ [accessed 16 June
2013] www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/hope-returns-for-victim-of-child-torture/1908898/ [accessed 8 August
2017] The Kyampisi Childcare Ministries website says Hope was
reportedly kidnapped by witchdoctors from her home in Uganda when she was
only a baby. For nearly two years, she is believed to have been kept lying at
an altar with her arms and legs tied. Her blood and parts
of her body were said to have been used for sacrifices and she allegedly was
given just enough food and water to keep her alive. She has had the tip
of her tongue and the tip of her right big toe removed, teeth snapped off and
nine incisions on her stomach. She cannot walk or
talk and her bones and marrow are unmineralised from a lack of exercise,
nutrition and simple use. Hope was found wrapped in a sack and lying in a
cattle yard. She spent two months in a hospital in Kampala, Uganda's capital,
where she received numerous treatments and was given the name
"Hope". Police found her
parents, but when they saw her condition, they abandoned her. Human Rights in
Uganda Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/node/105619 [accessed 15
February 2013] After 26 years of
President Yoweri Museveni’s rule, ongoing threats to freedom of expression, assembly,
and association continue to raise serious concerns. Security forces largely
enjoy impunity for torture, extrajudicial killings, and the deaths of at
least 49 people during protests in 2009 and 2011. The government banned a political pressure
group calling for peaceful change, obstructed opposition rallies, and
harassed and intimidated journalists and civil society activists working on
corruption, oil, land, and sexual rights. The notorious Anti-Homosexuality
Bill, still proposing the death penalty for some consensual same-sex
activity, looms in parliament. The law criminalizing torture went into force,
though challenges to prosecutions persist. Conclusions and
recommendations of the Committee against Torture U.N. Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment -- Doc. CAT/C/CR/34/UGA
(2005) www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cat/observations/uganda2005.html [accessed 12 March
2013] 6. The Committee
is further concerned about: (a) the length of
pre-trial detention, including detention beyond 48 hours as stipulated by
article 23, clause 4 of the Constitution and the possibility of detaining
treason and terrorism suspects for 360 days without bail; (b) the reported
limited effect tiveness and accessibility of habeas corpus; (c) the continued
allegations of torture and ill-treatment committed in a widespread manner by
the State’s security forces and agencies together with the apparent impunity
enjoyed by its perpetrators; (d) the wide array
of security forces and agencies in Uganda with the power to arrest, detain
and investigate; (e) the lack of
proportion between the high number of reports of torture and ill-treatment
and the very small number of convictions for such offences, as well as the
unjustifiable delays in the investigation of cases of torture, all of which
contributes to the prevailing impunity in this area; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL From an old article -- URL not available Article was
published sometime prior to 2015 TORTURE AND OTHER
ILL-TREATMENT
- The Anti-Torture Act, which came into force in 2012, prohibits,
criminalizes and holds individuals responsible for acts of torture. It
expands the definition of torture to include non-state actors and makes
information obtained through torture inadmissible in court. If enforced, the
Anti-Torture Act would address impunity, enable justice for the victims and
reduce torture. However, torture
and other ill-treatment by police remained widespread. Despite investigations
by the Uganda Human Rights Commission, no action was taken to hold law
enforcement officials responsible for human rights violations to account, or
to grant victims and their families an effective remedy. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/uganda [accessed 15
February 2013] LONG
URL ç 2009 Country Reports begin on Page 21 [accessed 13 May
2020] The numbers of
internally displaced persons (IDPs) has diminished in recent years due to
reduced tensions in the northern part of the country and a government policy
to phase out IDP camps. Concerns remain, however, about serious human rights
violations related to the unresolved conflict between LRA rebels and the
military. In addition to the more widespread LRA abuses, torture by security
forces, especially at the local level, occurred despite the government’s
assurance that it is not condoned on an institutional level. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61598.htm [accessed 15
February 2013] 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61598.htm [accessed 7 July
2019] TORTURE AND OTHER
CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT – The law
prohibits such practices; however, there were credible reports that security
forces tortured and beat suspects. Many of these incidents occurred in
unregistered detention facilities and were intended to force confessions. The
UHRC received approximately 58 complaints of torture during the year, which
was less than half the number of complaints received in 2004. The UHRC
conducted human rights training for the police and military throughout the
year. On April 21, UPDF
Private William Bisogo allegedly tied up Opiyo Ajonga in a painful and
unauthorized manner. In May authorities arrested Bisogo
for torture; there was no further information available at year's end. On May 4, John Barigye Bakirahi and Peter Agom, UPDF soldiers charged with spying for the Rwandan government,
claimed they were tortured throughout their detention in CMI custody. The
suspects were admitted to Mbuya military hospital
to treat injuries apparently sustained as a result of torture. On September
6, their lawyer stated in a court martial that the suspects' testicles were
tied to big stones to extract confessions. In May the UN
Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) reviewed the country's compliance with the
UN Convention Against Torture. The UNCAT noted its concern of continued
allegations of torture and the apparent impunity of its perpetrators. On May
10, Human Rights Watch and the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative
released a joint report citing examples of torture such as caning, severe
beating, and inflicting pain to the genitals carried out by security forces
in the last two years. The government response noted that action was taken
against 13 police officers over torture allegations since 2003. Security
units involved in torture included the police, the UPDF, the CMI, and the
Violent Crimes Crack Unit (VCCU); on occasion, such torture resulted in death
(see section 1.a.). On June 25, the
UHRC revealed that the government owed approximately $425,000 (790 million
shillings) awarded by the tribunal to approximately 60 persons. The UHRC
Tribunal confirmed approximately 22 torture complaints and ordered the
government to compensate the victims. However, many complainants had not
received compensation by year's end. On January 19, the
UHRC awarded approximately $8,175 (15 million shillings) to Idrisi Kasekedde for torture
suffered while in prison in 1998. On February 25, the UHRC awarded
approximately $545 (1 million shillings) to Wilson Kimuli
for being tortured while in prison in 2000. On April 5, the UHRC awarded
approximately $1,090 (2 million shillings) to Gregory Babukika
for being tortured by prison wardens in 2001. No action was taken
during the year against security organizations that reportedly tortured
prisoners in Kigo Prison or CMI personnel who were
illegally arresting and torturing persons to force them to pay their
financial debts; in July 2003, the UHRC testified of such incidents before
the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee. No action was taken against
VCCU officers responsible for the 2003 torture of Bumali
Mubiri and Sam Okiring. There were no
developments in the December 2004 torture of Sam Aniga
or the 2003 torture of prisoners at Makindye
military barracks. All
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