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Captured Ugandan rebel leader charged with multiple murders

Xinhua, July 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

A court in Uganda on Wednesday charged the leader and two other members of rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) with multiple murders.

The rebel leader, Jamil Mukulu, alongside Mohammad Matovu and Omar Abdallah Mutuka, appeared in the Jinja Magistrate court in eastern Uganda amid tight security.

They were charged with murders of several people, including three chairpersons of a local council and two policemen.

The three have appeared for plea and Mukulu will still face other charges, Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, told Xinhua.

Mukulu will face charges over attacks including the 1998 Kichwamba Technical Institute massacre in the western district of Kabarole, in which about 80 students were killed, and charges of murdering top Muslim leaders in the capital, Kampala, the official revealed.

Mukulu, 51, has evaded arrest for the last 20 years, for whom the International Police issued a red notice.

The ADF was formed in the 1990s in Uganda, and has been active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) in recent years. It has been accused of killing, kidnapping and recruitment of child soldiers in Uganda and DR Congo.

Mukulu was arrested in Tanzania in March where he was applying for a travel document for his child. He was extradited to Uganda in June. Enditem