Corporal James Omediyo and Pte Abdullah Muhammad were the last group of soldiers to be publicly put under firing squad for the murder of the aforementioned Irish priest
Daily Monitor
Wednesday June 02 2021
Human rights advocates had previously reasoned that firing squad was relevant when Uganda had insurgencies and they say its no longer useful since there is relative peace in the country. PHOTO/FILE
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Corporal James Omediyo and Pte Abdullah Muhammad were the last group of soldiers to be publicly put under firing squad for the murder of the aforementioned Irish priest.
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Uganda last carried out public firing execution of its soldiers 21 years ago.
This was after two of their own confessed to have killed an Irish Catholic Priest, Father Declan O’Toole, his driver and a passenger in an ambush as they travelled on the Moroto-Kotido road in 2002.