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Tuesday 24 Mar 2015 - 13:12 Makkah mean time-4-6-1436  AFP/Image Kampala (IINA) – Ugandan authorities have shut down five Islamic schools over accusations of training students to become extremists, a Ugandan police official said Monday.
The Islamic schools targeted for closure have been training children to become fighters in a rebel group opposed to Uganda's government, Patrick Onyango, a spokesman for police in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, told The Associated Press.
"They are brainwashing the children, training them to become recruits in a rebel group," he said. "The plan is that when they reach the right age, they will be taken to become rebels."
He said three of the schools ordered shut are located in Uganda's central region while two of them are in the east.
Ugandan authorities have been warning of the growing threat of home-grown extremism that stems in part from Uganda's military involvement in Somalia, where Ugandan forces are part of an African Union force fighting al-Shabaab extremist group.
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