The World : New Uganda Terror Told
Thousands of Ugandans have been arrested, tortured and killed since 1981 when President Milton Obote returned to power in the wake of the overthrow of the brutal dictator Idi Amin, Amnesty International reported. The London-based organization said its research was corroborated by a surgeon and a forensic pathologist, who examined 16 former Ugandan prisoners now living in a neighboring African country and found medical evidence of rape, beatings, burnings, bayoneting and castration.
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