Torture 'widespread' in Uganda
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Uganda's security forces routinely torture suspects, the Human Rights Commission says in its annual report.
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To some international legal experts, Joseph Kony, commander of the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, should be turned over to the International Criminal Court, which has issued arrest warrants for him and four top commanders for war crimes during his 21-year guerrilla war.
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Iraqi authorities routinely torture  prisoners, a leading human rights group said on Tuesday, citing  examples of abuse which will sound all too familiar to those  who suffered under Saddam Hussein.
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In places like Congo and Kosovo, peacekeepers have been accused of abusing the people they're protecting.
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UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27 (IPS) - The torture of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu  Ghraib  prison outside Baghdad and the willful abuse and humiliation of   terror suspects in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay  have been  interpreted by human rights activists as violations of  the 1987 U.N.  Convention Against Torture.
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KAMPALA, Uganda  - Ugandan police stormed a  government building Wednesday and freed two women taken hostage  by armed men believed to be protesting against attempts to  extend President Yoweri Museveni's rule, officials said.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried that news reports about an aids drug may prompt some governments to ban the medication.
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KHARTOUM : The Sudanese government has acknowledged for the first time that its militia allies in Darfur have committed serious human rights abuses, including rape, and given the United Nations a list of 30 suspects, Khartoum dailies said.
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Electric shocks, cigarette burnings, beatings and other tortures are routinely carried out by Indonesian security forces against detainees suspected of supporting armed Aceh separatists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday.
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The US is listed as a country where prisoners are at risk of torture in a Canadian foreign ministry training manual.
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Uganda's government separates those fleeing from its neighbor by tribe in order to keep down simmering tensions
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Northern Uganda is the world&#39;s biggest neglected humanitarian crisis, with 20,000 kidnapped children, many of them forced to serve as combatants, the head of UN humanitarian affairs says.
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WASHINGTON: The International Committee of the Red Cross has found prisoner abuse that amounted to &quot;a form of torture&quot; at a US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, The New York Times newspaper said yesterday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chilean President Ricardo Lagos  received a chilling report on Wednesday from a government  commission that interviewed more than 30,000 victims to  chronicle for the first time the systematic use of torture  during Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship.
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MOSCOW, Nov 30 (IPS) - Three human rights organisations have said that  abductions and torture are rampant in Chechnya despite the  relative calm.
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Zimbabweans who have fled to South Africa marked the International Day Against Torture on Tuesday by recounting their experiences at the hands of President Robert Mugabe&#39;s security services.
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BARR REFUGEE CAMP, Uganda  - Walter Emodo shudders as he recalls the day Ugandan rebels attacked his village two years ago, killing his younger brother and changing his formerly peaceful childhood forever.