600 Ugandans reportedly face abuse while working with US forces in Iraq

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/12/content_4539235.htm

A senior U.S. officer has been working to restore the morale of some 600 Ugandan guards, most of them serving abroad for the first time, following the allegations that they were sexually abused while working with the U.S. forces in Iraq.

Some of the Ugandan recruits at Alasad Airbase, northwest of Iraq, one of the biggest U.S. fortresses, were allegedly sodomized by foreign soldiers and admitted at the Gettysburg health facility inside the fortress, according to a report of Daily Monitor on Thursday.

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Ugandans would have gone on strike to protest the beatings of Bashaija and Kawuka, if it has not been intervened by Fred Lynch, the retired Commanding Officer of the US army at the airbase and Paul Hegue, the executive officer of SOC-SMG, a private security management firm that manages the airbase, according to the report.

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