Uganda: Women in Iraq Claim Their Body Parts Were Sold

13 February 2013

The horror story that is the alleged humiliation and oppression that Ugandan women who were taken to Iraq by a labor exporting firm endured, took another twist yesterday with allegations that some of them had their body parts forcefully harvested and sold by their employers.

These girls are part of the over 120 taken to Iraq by Col. Chris Mudoola's Uganda Veterans Development Ltd (UVDL) before its license was revoked in 2009 by ministry of gender following numerous complaints about maltreatment of Ugandan workers in Iraq.

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