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Makerere University students beat policemen

Gerald Businge — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:13:24 +0000

Violet groups of Makerere University students on Monday staged a fight with the police and in the process four police men were injured and dozens of students arrested.

The police had gone to Makerere University to curb the students strike at the university’s main campus. The students were protesting against a new internship policy.

The Police used tear gas, batons and rubber bullets to disperse the students who had started destroying university property.

The students staged the fourth strike in a period of less than two weeks after the university Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs), Prof. Lillian Tibatemwa failed to address the students about the new policy.

The students attempted to burn the university’s main building. This is when the police swung into action and fired tear gas and rubber bullets. The students responded to the police brutality by throwing stones and in the process some policemen were injured.

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Professor Mamadan urges Ugandans to demonstrate

Gerald Businge — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:45:03 +0000

Uganda’s leading and renowned scholar professor Mohmood Mamdani has said Ugandan opposition is too weak and it cannot takeover poor from the ruling government. The scholar says that for any meaningful change of government to take place inUgandathe people need to be willing to go on the streets in large numbers on a daily basis and demonstrate.

The professor however says this cannot happen because most Ugandans are after making money. He says that Ugandans, especially the middle class cannot leave their businesses and demonstrate on daily basis.

Mamdani also says thatUganda’s opposition cannot use protests to take over power because the sitting government doesn’t respect the right of people to protest and it is not resorting to dialogue.

Ugandapolice and other security organs many times use live bullets, tear gas and torture to break down protests. In the process many unarmed protesters have been shot dead and scores of others wounded.

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Residents of Rubaga in Kampala demonstrate

Gerald Businge — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:45:46 +0000

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It looks demonstrations inKampala and Uganda in general is part of the daily menu. Every day there must be a story about people killed in demonstration, or the people police have arrested while demonstrating along the road and on streets. Most of the demonstrations inUgandatake place inUganda’s capital cityKampala.

Most of the demonstrations inUgandaare sparked off over load shedding, corruption, torture of civilians, politically motivated arrests, land grabbing, tribal conflicts and others are a result of differences in political ideology.

Today for instance, the residents of Wankulukuku, aKampalasuburb have today morning demonstrated over road shedding. They threw big stones and tree branches to the police. They sang anti government songs and in the process the police arrested dozens of them. The violent demonstration lasted for not less than two hours.

The demonstrators said that the prolonged load shedding has made them to incur heavy loses in their businesses. The business community closed their premises and places of work as the police fired bullets and tear gas into the demonstrators.

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