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Soldiers story 'A Killing in the Sun' launched

In 2002, two Ugandan soldiers were executed after a military tribunal found them guilty of killing an Irish priest. Ugandan writer Dilman Dila composed a fictional story around that.

The story depicts a soldier who faces a firing squad relishes his Sunday school lesson and memories of his childhood and eventually turns his execution into horror.

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