Ugandas regerings program til integration af 26.000 ekssoldater (hovedsageligt fra Lord’s resistance Army – LRA) er sat i bero.
KAMPALA/GULU, 18. juni, 2012 (IRIN)Dette tvinger tusinder til at leve med meget få muligheder for at tjene til dagen og vejen.
Just 5,335 out of 26,288 ex-combatants – mainly former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters – who renounced and abandoned rebellion had been reintegrated into their communities as of 14 March 2012, according to statistics from Uganda’s amnesty commission. The exercise started in July 2009.
The minister for internal affairs on 25 May 2012 pulled the plug on controversial legislation which since 2000 had granted blanket amnesty to rebels.
However, the minister extended sections of the Amnesty Act relating to reintegration and resettlement of the former combatants for the next 12 months, and extended the commission’s mandate for one year.
After receiving an amnesty certificate, each ex-combatant is given a reinsertion package of 263,000 shillings (US$120), a mattress, a blanket, a hoe, a machete, cups, plates and maize and bean seeds.
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Begynd fra: Nathan Twinomugisha, principal legal officer…
