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Total Population Evicted: 35000. Size of the Land: 10000 hactares

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Kiryandongo District

Source: Witness Radio

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Total land in Ha (Complete Eviction)

1,698,365

Total land in Ha (Pending Eviction)

311,049.5

Total Land in Ha (Fully Compensated)

33,055

Total Land in Ha (Partially Compensated)

63,571.4

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The families in their interviews with @witness_Radio said were evicted without court orders, prior consultation, and consent to give away their land.
#HumanRightsViolations
#LandGrabbingInUganda
Read more: https://t.co/FUmsToTPj8 https://t.co/D4H5tlLP81

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The @NFAUG is responsible for causing loss of properties and committing #humanrightsviolations/abuses against local and indigenous #communities as land belonging to them is leased out to investors to plant trees for carbon offsets without following due processes. https://t.co/3qSJ6SkOp5

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Close to a thousand poor families have been displaced by @NFAUG . Since 2015, over 700 families have been rendered homeless...
#HumanRightsViolations
#LandGrabbingInUganda
Read more: https://t.co/FUmsToTPj8 https://t.co/iqEjddFPNt

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Gov’t body evicts hundreds, orders the remaining families on the land to de-molish their houses…
#LandEvictionsInUganda
@WorldRainforest @ministry_lands @GovUganda @NFAUG
Read more: https://t.co/FUmsToTPj8 https://t.co/h11M7dLMbv

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Court heard from applicants’ lawyers led by @KMA_Attorneys that all the former @PoliceUg commanders of #Kiryandongodistrict both respondents in Masc. Cause No. 11 of 2020 and 007 of 2020 could not be traced and get served since the duo had been transferred to other districts https://t.co/5ILfASs5Gv

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Communities in Kiryandongo accuse multinationals of forced evictions and committing gross human rights violations and abuses that deprived them of their rights to dignity, property, food, education and a good living.
#LandGrabbingInKiryandongo
Read more: https://t.co/R38d9gQ3EU https://t.co/bqcuGQgcx2

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