UPDF Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala told MPs on the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs that UPDF will continue demanding for compensation through both legal and diplomatic means.
Katumba told MPs that it is extremely demoralizing for UN to refuse to compensate the UPDF "yet a small country like Uganda is sacrificing a lot for the mission." The UPDF is claiming for compensation for two choppers that crashed on the way to Mogadishu and a number of other army equipment that had been damaged over time during the peace mission.
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