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Ugandan leader of shadowy rebel group in court over mass murder charges.
	
The Ugandan leader of a shadowy rebel group operating in the DR Congo has appeared in Court on charges of mass murder and crimes against humanity. 

Jamil Mukulu, leader of the Allied Democratic Forces, ADF, has been in detention since he was arrested in Tanzania in April 2015 and extradited to Uganda later that year.  
The ADF is a Ugandan Muslim rebel group whose basic motives and ideology remain unclear, but regional governments have alleged links to international jihadist movements.  
This is the first time Mukulu has appeared in court since he was charged in July 2015. 

He denied the charges and blamed the Ugandan government for a series of murders of prominent Muslims that authorities have pinned on the ADF. 

He appeared along with 34 other people, handcuffed and shackled who all alleged through their lawyers, that they had been tortured while in detention.  

The hearing marks the start of a convoluted judicial process at the Ugandan High Court's International Crimes Division - which was specially set up a decade ago to try crimes allegedly committed by the Lord's Resistance Army, another rebel group.

SOURCE: NEWS24
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