The report by Uganda Human Rights Commmission (UHRC) also accuses government forces of torturing civilians in the war-ravaged region, using methods that included suspending weights on genitals for extracting information or instilling discipline.
The war is waged by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) guerillas who have displaced over 1.5 million people and abducted nearly 30,000 children and youth whom they have forced into their army. The LRA has also forced abducted girls into sex slavery.
Many of the children had come back home after escaping from the LRA or being rescued by government forces but according to UHRC, 'by the end of 2004, out of the 26,000 children abducted by the LRA, 4,000 were still unaccounted for in northern Uganda.''
UHRC says the military establishment tortured suspected civilians and soldiers in the northern region and other parts of Uganda to extract information or force a confession from them.
'In one complaint, a wife of a soldier who was around 7 months pregnant was subjected to corporal punishment because she had a quarrel in the barracks with a wife of another soldier. Five army men held the woman down while another enforced corporal punishment,'' the report said."
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