As a Ugandan law extending amnesty to former rebel fighters is renewed for a further two years, people in the war-torn north of the country say the conflict resolution process should be broadened to ensure compensation for victims.
Rights groups, meanwhile, are calling for changes to the law itself, to stop major war crimes perpetrators claiming amnesty and evading justice.
The Amnesty Act is designed to encourage members of rebel groups to lay down their arms, above all the feared Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, which used child soldiers to wage a brutal 20-year war.
On April 16, the Amnesty Act was extended in unchanged form for two more years.