Reuters South Africa reports that the Uganda's army said on Thursday it had arrested two soldiers over the shooting deaths of seven protesters and wounding of 16 other people outside of a barracks near a northern refugee camp. The shooting took place on Monday at the army barracks near the Lalogi camp, a temporary settlement in the north of the country housing people fleeing persecution from the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

Today's New Vision reports that Ugandan Security Minister Betty Akech has stated that any soldiers convicted of wrongdoing in the deaths of IDPs killed during a protest on Monday will be executed. Between four and seven civilians were killed by UPDF soldiers in the northern Ugandan IDP camp of Lalogi as they protested the death of a teenage boy who was killed Christmas night by UPDF soldiers who mistook him for a rebel.

Reuters AlertNet reports that Ugandan soldiers shot dead seven people and wounded 16 others who were protesting the killing of a teenaged boy by troops in the north, the army said on Tuesday. The army said it is investigating the shootings on Monday which happened outside an army barracks at the Lalogi Camp, a temporary settlement in the north of the country housing people fleeing persecution from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The army has been criticised for committing human rights abuses against civilians in the north.