Uganda: Government to Compensate Over 2,000 Landmine Victims

21 December 2012

ALL people who were affected by mines during insurgencies are to be rehabilitated and compensated by Government to change their livelihoods.

The state minister for relief, disaster preparedness and refugees, Musa Ecweru noted that about 2,000 land mine victims and others maimed by the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have already been registered for rehabilitation and assistance to change their lives.

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