The Monitor, a Uganda daily:
Senior UPDF officers could be arrested and tried in the United States for recruiting child soldiers under a new law passed by the Bush administration.
The Child Soldiers’ Accountability Act of 2008, which was signed into law by President Bush on Friday, covers all countries whose armies are known to have used child soldiers in hostilities between 2004 and 2007. According to reports by the UN and Human Rights Watch, the countries include Uganda, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Somalia and Sudan.
Also affected by the new law are senior commanders of the Lords Resistance Army, an outfit already blacklisted by the US government as a terrorist group, and whose senior commanders have been indicted by the International Criminal Court for a host of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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