Wounded in the Iraq War, Ugandans fight for U.S. compensation
 

Wounded in the Iraq War, Ugandans fight for U.S. compensation
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They call her Mama Tara, and on the walls of her ******, next to a three-dimensional puzzle of the globe, completed and turned to Africa, is a slip of paper with a verse from the Book of Proverbs: "Do **t exploit the poor because they are poor and do **t crush the needy in court, for the Lord will take up their case."

Mama Tara is Tara Coughlin, a lawyer from the suburbs of Detroit who has taken on the task of defending Ugandans wounded on American bases in Iraq. When these Ugandans were hurt, they entered an insurance bureaucracy that seemed to fight at every point to deny them, through sheer gridlock, the compensation to which they were entitled. For Ugandans unable to make sense of a compensation system based halfway around the world, Coughlin became an unlikely and invaluable ally. Read more...

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