 During the same period, the Ugandan security organs were accused of the creation and maintenance of "safe houses", where arrested suspects were detained incommunicado beyond the 48-hour limit prescribed by law, without any charges being brought in court.It was under Brigadier Noble Mayombo's reign as Director of Military Intelligence, that the People's Redemption Army (PRA) under Colonel (Retired) Doctor Kiiza Besigye was first brought to the light of Ugandans.Besigye was later to deny this and other accusations linking him to Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda.