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Uganda: Sudanese Torture Citizens - Leaders
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New Vision (Kampala)
21 July 2008
Posted to the web 22 July 2008
Kampala
AMURU district leaders have urged the UPDF to beef up security at the Uganda-Sudan border to ensure that the Sudanese are disarmed before crossing to Uganda.
They said armed Sudanese men torture and harass Ugandans. The LC3 chairman of Pabbo sub-county, Christopher Ojera, said Sudanese cattle traders last week kidnapped a special Police constable and abandoned him at Bibia parish near the Sudan border.
The Police constable, Ojera said, was accused of blocking them from crossing the border at night.
"They jumped out of their truck, put him at gun-point, tied his hands and dumped him on their truck, which was ferrying cattle at night," he said.
Ojera, who is also the Amuru district NRM chairman, said another Sudanese national also put a pedal cyclist at gun-point because he splashed water on his car.
"The Sudanese hit the pedal cyclist's head with a pistol."
He wondered why armed Sudanese move freely in Uganda yet Ugandans are not allowed to cross their border with guns. "The Government should come up and protect the citizens from being harassed by the Sudanese," the Amuru NRM boss said.
"These Sudanese think that our Government values them more than us. That is why they are big-headed and don't respect the security institutions in place. They are abusing the hospitality we have accorded them."
Uganda has been hosting over 300,000 Sudanese.
Nearly 290,000 South Sudanese refugees have gone home since the UNHCR launched the repatriation operation three years ago.
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The acceleration in repatriation this year was partly spurred by the refugees' desire to take part in the April census, as well as the growing confidence in the peace agreement that ended Sudan's 21-year-long civil war.
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