Joint Anti-Terrorist Task Force of Uganda

Joint Anti-Terrorist Task Force of Uganda

The Joint Anti-Terrorist Task Force (JATF) is a security agency of the Government of Uganda. The Museveni administration created the JATF through the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2002.

The Task Force's main focus is fighting the Lord's Resistance Army, a militant cult operating in northern Uganda which the United States government designated a terrorist organization in 2001. Along with the Internal Security Organization (ISO) and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), from which the JATF draws many of it’s members, the JATF has drawn international criticism with claims of torture and illegal detention of suspects – charges which the government has denied.

ee also

*Human rights in Uganda
*Uganda People's Defence Force

External links

* [http://hrw.org/english/docs/2003/10/03/uganda6428.htm Security Force Executions Reported (Human Rights Watch, October 3, 2003)]


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