KAMPALA, Aug 25 (AFP) - A team from the International Criminal Court (ICC) is in Uganda to investigate alleged atrocities committed in the war between government troops and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the north of the country, UN officials said Wednesday.
"A team of nine ICC people is in Uganda," Andrew Timpson, who works for UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told AFP by telephone from the northern town of Gulu.
"They have started soliciting for interpreters for the local Luo language and Swahili and have also met human rights groups and non-governmental organisations," Timpson added.
"The real investigations will start after logistics have been put in place," Timpson said, but could not confirm when the investigators arrived and for how long they would be in the east African nation.
In July, the ICC said it had launched an investigation into atrocities in Uganda from July 1, 2002, including the February slaughter of more than 200 internally displaced people in a camp in northern Uganda.
The massacre was blamed on the LRA, which has been fighting to oust the government of President Yoweri Museveni since 1988 to replace it with one based on the biblical Ten Commandments.