Life in NRM/A rebel-controlled western Uganda

According to residents of western Uganda at the time, the NRA was rather disciplined in their day-to-day dealings with civilians and paid for everything they engaged in.

Many schools have been forced to close and most young girls and boys are redundant. The young man feared for his fellow students who he said on joining the NRA, are given a crash session that lasts a week or two,” the newspaper reported.

“The next time, they find themselves at the war front, he lamented and added that many have died in the crossfires. The boy who said he had for a few weeks joined the NRA said many others wished to leave what he called the ‘gun-trolling business’ but are no longer able to do so.

He said, however, that except those who have died in this process and those selected for assassination because they are called enemies of the people, killing by the NRA is very minimal. Reports from other personalities who have escaped to Nairobi have indicated that the NRA is also composed of mercenaries, Rwandans and Tanzanians and a training team from Mozambique where Mr Museveni served as a guerrilla for quite some time,” it added.

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