Formally the farm was organized as a community based project and was not meant to have any formal hierarchical structure. Initial concerns in the international community about the farm were focused on the fact that, since it was run by a former general in the LRA and staffed entirely by former LRA members, the farm did in fact display a hierarchical structure similar to the command structure the members experience while rebels. This led to such groups as the Rights Working Group (VRWG) to express concerns over the fact that the “senior amnestied LRA commanders are in charge Labora Farms and exploit the very women and girls whom they abducted, raped and held in captivity”. The national Ugandan newspapers published a number of attacks against the farm, most with quotes exclusively from NGOs. The local response though was quite different.