A Ugandan soldier has been senteced to death and another sentenced to 39 years for the murder of civilians in Somalia. The Ugandan courts martial found the two officers guilty of killing civilians in Gobweyn in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region in September.
Local farmers in the region had accused AMISOM of killing their relatives and a while after the African Union Mission in Somalia admitted killing civilians during a military operation against Alshabab fighters.
The proceedings had been running from October 5 at the Halane base camp where the UN and Amisom headquarters in Somalia are based. Seven witnesses had testified against six suspected Ugandan soldiers.
The Ugandan martial court has in the past tried its soldiers who are serving under AMISOM in Somalia. Ugandan soldiers are based in the capital Mogadishu and the Lower Shabelle region
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