The armed conflicts that Uganda has gone through over the years have taken a severe toll on civilian populations. In the case of Northern Uganda, civilians lost property like houses, livestock or in some countries has come to be known as ‘collateral damage.’
How should these losses be addressed? That is one of the biggest questions that President Museveni’s administration is faced with. Besides that, who should be compensated for what and how?
This Article edition of the National Perspective takes the listener to one of the heated debates in Parliament when MPS debated a report from the Committee on government Assurances. An MP tells how cows paid to her parents as bride price were rustled on the very day they were given to her parents, MPS from Karamoja, West Nile, Sebei and elsewhere demand inclusion and why Uganda needs a policy on war compensations.