UPDF Denies ‘Monitor’ Rape Report

THE UPDF fourth division spokesman, Lt. Paddy Ankunda, has said no woman was raped by UPDF soldiers in the displaced camps of Koch Goma, Kilak and Alero as reported in The Monitor newspaper of July 9, writes Dennis Ojwee.He said the women whom the paper claimed were raped denied the report. He did not name the women.Ankunda said five members of the Uganda Young Democrats went to the villages of Alero and Koch Goma persuading the women to claim they were raped so that they (women) could benefit from government compensations.“We confirmed that the women were not taken to Lacor Hospital for medical check up or admission the way The Monitor newspaper reported it,” Ankunda said. Ends