Agency
The International Crimes Division of the High Court (ICD) has registered a total of 5,400 victims of convicted former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel commander in Amuru district eligible for reparation.
This comes nearly two months after the court in December last year ordered the government to compensate the victims of Kwoyelo for the harm they suffered during attacks carried out between 1993 and 2005.
The court at the time of the ruling added 365 days for the registration of new eligible victims from the villages of Abera and Bira Obaa in Parubanga Parish, Pabbo Sub-county, and Pagak Parish in Lamogi Sub-county.
Juliet Harty Hatanga, the Deputy Registrar of the ICD said Monday that the registration of new victims commenced in January following the court order.
In the landmark order delivered by the four-member panel of judges of the ICD in December, the court made an award in damages of 10 million shillings for each of the deceased victims of Kwoyelo while for those who suffered bodily injury the court awarded each 4 million shillings.
The court also made reparation award of 3.5 million shillings for property loss per household for the victims and 5 million shillings each to direct victims of sexual and gender-based violence crimes.
Meanwhile an award of 3 million shillings was made for exhumation and decent reburial of victims whose remains were buried in the former Internally Displaced people’s camps in Amuru district.
