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Uganda: Amnesty Commission Prepares Reception Centre for LRA Fighters
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The Monitor (Kampala)
29 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008
James Eriku
The Amnesty Commission is in final stages of opening up a resettlement centre for rebels of the LRA to help accommodate them after signing the peace agreement before finally reintegrating them into the community.
A team of officials from the commission who are on tour of Eastern, Northern and West Nile regions to assess the capabilities of people to receive the rebels upon their return home revealed on Sunday.
They said the centre would also serve as the first transit location to rehabilitate the combatants before reintegrating them with their relatives.
Ms Christine Amongin Aporu, a member of the commission said the transit centre for the LRA returnees would first open in Gulu.
She said the idea to have the returnees at a reception centre after demobilisation is to help the commission document and give resettlement packages to enable them live normal lives in their villages.
"Upon rehabilitating the rebel returnees at the centre for three months, those with interests to join the UPDF would be integrated into the regular army, " said Ms Aporu. " While those who would wish to return home would be resettled with their relatives after receiving packages".
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She said after the first reception at the disabled those infected with HIV would be handled from other locations later.
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