Two Ugandan soldiers were shot dead by firing squad...

Two Ugandan soldiers were shot dead by firing squad for murdering an Irish Catholic priest and two other men in the country's first public execution in a decade, an army spokesman said.
An Irish aid agency and a colleague of the murdered priest condemned the executions which took place before hundreds of spectators at an army barracks in the evening.
The soldiers, corporal James Omedio and private Abdallah Mohammed, dressed in plain green fatigues, were lashed to trees a few metres (yards) from the gate of the Kotido army barracks in northeastern Uganda. They were shot by 10 masked soldiers.
The pair were hooded, barefoot and had their hands tied behind their backs. Their bodies twitched as each bullet struck home as the soldiers shot at them for about two minutes. The executioners were ordered to stop firing after the men's heads slumped to their chests.
A medical officer who checked the soldiers after the firing said Mohammed was not dead. An officer drew his pistol and shot the private once in the head. The bodies were then taken away for burial.
Father Declan O'Toole, 31, his driver and another passenger were shot dead on March 21 about 350 km (220 miles) from the capital Kampala as they travelled by road in the volatile Karamoja region.
Army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza said: "It is a kind of a sacrifice. We are showing the people that we do not tolerate such acts of indiscipline.
"This is the first time in the last 10 years that we have executed someone in public," he said.Irish aid agency Goal said the execution highlighted the brutal nature of President Yoweri Museveni's government. It described the former guerrilla leader's 16-year rule as one of the most repressive regimes in Africa.
"The fact that these men were taken out and put up against a tree and shot dead stinks," Goal Chief Executive John O'Shea said in a statement. "It is a case of dead men tell no stories."Father Joseph Jones, a Dublin-based colleague of O'Toole, said senior officers may have been to blame for the killings.
"If the army was involved then they are the ones that should be punished and not those two poor fellows who were executed, because if they did fire the shots then they were only acting on orders from senior officers," Jones, a member of St. Joseph's Society for Foreign Missions, told Irish radio.
Jones said O'Toole had been beaten by army officers two weeks ago after appealing to them to tone down their violence against locals.
The soldiers, who were arrested on March 22, were convicted on March 25 in a four-hour court martial held under a tree in the centre of the army post, a collection of grass-thatched huts.