The critics of president Museveni’s regime may wonder why the world doesn’t condemn the increasing cases of violence on civilians in Uganda.

When video footage a couple of years back showed the US marines urinating on dead Taliban soldiers, millions of people around the world came up and  condemned the act.

According to an article attributed to president Museveni in a thesis, it is alleged that the president mistreated the corpses of his enemies. The article was adopted from “The Real Museveni One Must Know.”

It is said that in 1971 paper “the Fanon’s Theory on Violence, its verification in liberated Mozambique”, President Museveni allegedly outlined many of the political beliefs and military doctrines that would shape his military career in future. The article in the thesis, focused on the violence as a political instrument.

On page 5 and 6 of the thesis, president Museveni is quoted as saying: “This is the interpretation Fanon put on the role of the revolutionary struggle, whose highest form is armed violence, in the lives of former colonial subjects. This is what I wanted to test in one Sub-Saharan area. I used Nangade district of Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique , as my experimental area. Nangade district is in North-Eastern Mozambique. The district is inhabited by a Bantu-speaking people, the Makonde. The Makonde, according to many reliable accounts, were considered fearless and brave people…But it is worth pointing out that the imperialists, and other bourgeois confusionists, hade been spreading the lie that the Makonde were ‘the brave people of Mozambique’; that the other tribes like the Nyanjas were soft people. This was a bankrupt way of looking at things. ”

Museveni is also put in this paper that he went among the Makonde people and subjected them to brutal violence in order to prove the point that the idea of bravery or cowardice is not inherent, but rather borne of conditions to which people are subjected.

But the writer of this thesis spells it out in grisly detail on page 8 when he notes: “Hence in Mozambique, it was found necessary to show the peasants there the fragments of a Portuguese soldier blown up by a mine or, better still, his head. Once the peasant sees guerrillas holding the head of the former master, the white man’s head cold in death, the white skin, flowing hair, pointed nose and blue eyes notwithstanding, he will know, or at least begin to suspect, that the picture traditionally presented to Mozambique people  of the white man’s invincibility was nothing but a scarecrow.”

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