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Uganda says security forces killed over 100 in palace assault last year

Ugandan soldiers patrol a street in Kampala, Uganda February 20, 2016. (Photo: Reuters)

Uganda acknowledged on Wednesday that its security forces killed more than 100 people in an assault on a tribal leader's palace last year, revising the death toll upwards by dozens, but denied a rights group's accusation that children were among the dead.

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