Kampala — THE Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) is stuck with a backlog of unresolved cases of abuse committed during the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in the north.

Some of the cases were reported in 2000 but have not yet been disposed of, said the UHRC northern region officer, Melody Ginamia.

She explained that the cases were not concluded due to the insurgency that hindered the rights officials from accessing some areas.

Ginamia made the disclosure on Friday while addressing journalists at Lira Hotel at the closure of a two-day training for 100 UPDF officers.

Dorah Kabuye, the UHRC director of research and documentation, said the delay was made worse by the inadequate number of judges mandated to preside over the cases.

She said the commission has only six judges who handle the cases countrywide. Most of the complaints were from residents whose land was used to establish displaced persons camps and temporary army bases to fight the LRA.

However, Capt. Ronald Kakurungu, the UPDF 4th Division spokesperson, said residents who gave out their land to establish temporary barracks would be compensated and their land returned to them.

He said the military land board was surveying the land that was occupied by the army during the insurgency.

Kakurungu added that the army would negotiate with the locals to buy the land that it still occupies.