Uganda: After Years of Conflict, Uganda Has Opportunity to Compensate Victims

The government of Uganda should work to institute comprehensive reparations for victims of the war against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). So states a report to be released tomorrow in Kampala by the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and the Justice and Reconciliation Project (JRP).

The report, Unredressed Legacy: Possible Policy Options and Approaches to Fulfilling Reparations in Uganda, looks at ways that the Ugandan government could provide redress and acknowledge victims of the war, and other past conflicts in Uganda, as part of a national reparations plan.

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