This video shows Al-Shabaab insurgents“inhumanly” executing a Ugandan soldier whom they captured in August 2015.
In the video, Pte Masasa speaking Swahili, the military language of Uganda makes a statement saying Ugandan soldiers went to Somalia “just for the money” before he was shot twice in the head.
The video titled ‘’So they may take heed; the final message from Ugandan prisoner of war [POW]’’ shows Pte Masasa being shot twice in the head. He was captured by the insurgents when they attacked a UPDF base in Janaale in South west of Mogadishu and killed 19 soldiers.
This is the third video the insurgents are releasing after his capture. The first two videos were released last year when he made an emotional appeal to President Museveni to rescue him and also sent greetings to his wife he called Eva Achan and children. Despite his plea, the government has not come out to issue any statement on the soldier’s fate.
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Former army spokesperson, Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, said al-Shabaab had violated the international law which protects prisoners of war from being killed by the belligerent forces.
“We have watched the video and it’s obviously unacceptable,” Lt Col Ankunda said. “The al-Shabaab is breaking international law, they will answer for their criminality.”
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