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Street Children Rounded up in Kampala
“It was violent. Even the way they were handled. They grabbed them. And they were shouting at them: ‘Why are you on the street?’” said Martin Baliko, who runs Amari Uganda, a Kampala based organization that rehabilitates street-children. A newspaper also ran a photograph of a policeman and a member of a the Local Defence Unit, a paramilitary group, dragging a child away during the operation.
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According to government estimates, as many as 15,000 children live on the streets in Kampala, aged from seven up to the age of 17.