E/CN.4/1993/26 page 115 536. In late March 1991 people found without proper papers, NRA deserters and those suspected of being rebels, who were imprisoned in a compound belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture in Gulu, were reportedly made to run a gauntlet of soldiers who clubbed them with rifle butts. 537. Between 16 and 18 April 1991, people from villages around Bucoro, Paicho sub-county, Gulu district, were beaten up after being brought to a temporary NRA camp at Bucoro primary school. In this place, soldiers were alleged to have dug a pit some two metres deep which was overlaid by soil-covered logs. Prisoners were put in the pit and a fire lit on top of the logs. Smoke from the fire was reported to have contributed to the suffocation and death of Rodento Okema from Onyama, Opwonya p'Opige from Labongoguru, Ojabo from Obyela and Ogok p'Larii from Olano. Another man placed in the pit, Justin Okumu, was reported to have escaped from the torture by claiming that there was a gun hidden at his father's house in Onyama. He was taken to the house, but a search failed to locate any weapon. He and his father, Raymondo Okwera, were alleged to have then been beaten to death. In connection with the Bucoro incident, the elderly Juliana Ayako, her daughter Margaret Abwoyo and Erumalina Amono were reported to have been raped by soldiers on 17 April. 538. It was also reported that in late June 1991, 10 men from Bunabulayi village in Bukiende sub-county, eastern Uganda, were given 30 strokes of a cane daily over a two-week period while detained at Rubongi military barracks in Tororo after they were wrongly arrested and accused of attacking an army patrol. When they were released into the custody of the police at Mbale their buttocks were covered with deep wounds, they had not received any medical attention while they were in military custody and the wounds were badly infected. 539. The Special Rapporteur also received information on torture at military barracks and other places where prisoners are held by soldiers in Kampala. According to it, prisoners have been tortured while under interrogation about political and criminal offences while being held incommunicado. The following cases, in particular, were reported: (a) Haji Abdu Mbogo, a suspect in a case of armed robbery, was subjected to a method of torture known as "balance" in Lubiri barracks in June 1990. This entails tying the victim's hands and feet together and then suspending the victim from the wall or from iron bars in a window while he or she is beaten; (b) Mande Ntananga was arrested on 22 September 1990 by NRA soldiers and severely tortured in Lubiri barracks. Medical examinations reportedly revealed injuries consistent with having been beaten and subjected to electric shocks, treatment which led to brain damage. After investigations were carried out some soldiers were allegedly arrested but it is not known whether any further action was taken to bring them to justice.