Uganda

June 2007 | Ratings Update

Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leaders have declared that they have no intention of releasing child soldiers prior to the completion of peace negotiations. According to a recent report by the University of California Berkeley's Human Rights Centre and Tulane University's Centre for International Development, as many as 38,000 children and 37,000 adults have been abducted and forced to join the insurgents. The soldiers in question are most likely being kept to provide bargaining power for the LRA, which is demanding the dismissal of International Criminal Court indictments against four leading commanders of the movement. Assuming an agreement will be reached

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