Human Rights A Day

International criminal court investigates Ugandan atrocities. The Republic of Uganda in east Africa has been affected by the violence of military dictatorships of one kind or another since its independence from Britain in 1962. The most infamous of all is Idi Amin Dada who came to power during a military coup in 1971. His reign of terror involved wide-spread murder, horrible abuses of human rights and the expulsion of tens of thousands of Asian residents. During a period of three months, Canada took in more than 4,400 who held British passports. After Amin fled in 1979, leading to further coups and leadership changes, President Yoweri Museveni came to power in Uganda in 1986. Although Museveni introduced democratic reforms and improved the country's human rights record, he has been unable to stop the war in northern Uganda, run by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels. The LRA’s leader, Joseph Kony, believes himself to be semi-divine. During LRA’s reign of terror, soldiers have slaughtered tens of thousands of p