According to police preliminary findings, the victim, was reportedly starved for days, beaten whenever she complained to her father, and even allegedly burnt.
The presence of investors in the mining sector in the region is providing local development benefits commonly associated with large-scale businesses like creating employment, growth of Infrastructures, widening the tax base, and social transformation among others.
However, some of the mining operations have increased the vulnerability of communities as opposed to increasing their livelihoods by exacerbating child labor, sexual violence, labor exploitation, and degradation of the environment.
The allegations first emerged when activist and cartoonist Jim Spire Ssentongo shared a post on X (formerly Twitter), claiming that some protesters who had been released reported being sodomized and physically assaulted by police officers during their detention last week.
Charles Donaldson Ogira, the Coordinator for Karamoja Human Rights Network noted that there are several cases of land grabbing and extrajudicial killings which are not brought to the attention of the public in the region.
Grace Pelly, the UN Human Deputy Country Director said that the major cases recorded include torture, arbitrary arrest during the cordon, and search operations against illegal guns.
Titled "Wakiso District Huma Rights Situation Report" under the theme ‘Promoting human rights, advancing freedoms for communities in Wakiso', the report notes existing gaps in the realization and enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms within local communities in the district.
The cases included the violation of rights to personal liberty for persons detained beyond 48 hours, violation of the right to freedom from torture, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and punishment and violation of the right to life.
The UHRC condemned the actions of the officers who were seen beating up journalists and other people when NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu went to deliver his petition to the UN agency, over alleged violations of human rights. The commission expresses exceptional concern over the recent media reports showing a blatant violation of the rights of journalists and other people by some errant security officers", says a statement.
The previous chairperson of the commission Med Sozzi Kaggwa died in November last year. However, he has never been replaced close to eight months down the road. It’s on the basis of this that the committee pointed to the gross underperformance of the commission in the absence of a fully constituted team.
Fredrick Bombo, the Executive Director of Kalamba Community Development Organization notes that the underlying legal knowledge gap among the purported Human Rights Defenders is affecting the way they execute their mandate.
Stephen Ocan Apila, the Parabongo LC 3 Chairperson disclosed that the minor’s left limb and arm, eyes and private parts were missing when the body was found. In January, residents also found the body of a young girl slit-open in neighboring Lukole sub-county still in Agago district.
