Museveni warns security forces. Internet photo

President Museveni yesterday released a statement condemning in the strongest terms the shooting and beating of civilians by the Police.

The president questioned as to why police fired tear gas and live bullets during the Monday demonstrations that saw the rioters, section of the public, and journalists brutally beaten and arrested.

“Youth groups of Monday were more of a nuisance and psychological warfare than a menace, unless I get new facts. Why then, shoot at them, why fire tear-gas, why fire bullets?” he wondered advising the Police to use other means.

“Those mobile, tyre burning groups, who are not attacking anybody, should simply be chased on foot, identified from light helicopters (206- Agusto type) or UAUs, arrested and be charged with appropriate offences,” he continued.

In the same statement, Museveni condemned beating up of journalists and advised the police to rather arrest and charge them lawfully in case of disobedience. He informed the security forces that they don’t have the power to beat up people.

“I condemn, again, in the strongest terms the beating of journalists by elements of the security forces. It is true that the journalists working for foreign interests or for our own local parasites tell lies, they do not do balanced reporting,”

Soldiers beating a journalist as he covered the protests over the detention of Opposition MPs in Kampala on Monday. NTV PHOTO

“On account of that you can block them because sometimes they interfere with the scene of crime. If they refuse, you arrest them and charge them with disobeying lawful command

“Beating is wrong because the Security forces do not have that power. People should not be beaten even as a punishment. They can be imprisoned, fined, or hanged according to the law,” he advised.

This follows the recent riots and wave of demonstrations that have arisen from the brutal arrest of four MPs and over 30 other civilians on the eve of the ARUA municipality by-election. The MPs include MP Robert Kyagulanyi commonly known as Bobi Wine, Kasiano Wadri who won the by-election, Gerald Karuhanga and Francis Zaake whose where abouts have been unknown until of recent when he was “dumped” at Rubaga hospital where he is currently undergoing treatment.

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Minister of Defense Dr. Chrispus Kiyonga

The Minister of Defense Dr. Chrispus Kiyonga has warned government on creation of new districts in Kasese region to avert tension and killings in this region. This was during a meeting with the parliamentary committee on defense and Internal Affairs were he said that creation of new districts is one of the causes of chaos in the region. He noted that districts have created divisions especially whereby  a district was awarded on basis of tribalism.  He says this has brought tension among other tribes that haven’t been given districts saying they are marginalized thus attacking others whom they think have contributed to the blockage of giving them a district.

Kiyonga also blamed government for allowing Kingdom structures in Kasese to recruit and train their own security guards, saying that  these royal guards at any time can rebel and attack other Kingdom in case of misunderstandings.
He said that government should revise this policy and only allow the state security organs to provide security to cultural leaders like the way it is in other Kingdoms.

The minister also dismissed accusations that he is behind the killings in Kasese region. Kiyonga attributed the killings to opposition leaders who took kingship as ground of campaigning and also causing divisionism amongst people so that they can successfully gain political will. He says only when leaders in Kasese stop fusing traditional and political ideologies will peace prevail in Kasese.

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The Ugandan representative at the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) Bernard Mulengan says that the opposition talk about violence is their political game to put the public in fear. This as the army, police and religious leaders have warned against the looming political violence in 2016 general elections.
Mulengan says that Ugandans should be calm because no one will cause violence since the police and army is on alert. He says that the public should know that the opposition has never accepted presidential elections since 1996. He says that the sitting president will hand over power peaceful if he is defeated in the 2016 presidential elections.

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This is closely followed by sexual abuse, child neglect and emotional abuse which is cross cutting.

According to Peter Bahemuka of Raising Voices, if a child is molested or subjected to any other form of abuse, emotionally they are injured and may remain emotionally scarred for life.

He also cites cases of economic violence where children are deliberately denied resources or are made to engage in certain economic activities with little regard to their wellbeing.

A number of stakeholders and policy makers say Child abuse in Uganda is one of the most shocking occurrences that happens to children every day both at home and at school.

Bahemuka says there is great need to engage the various stakeholders and members of the public through sensitization campaigns in order to curb cases of violence against children.

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The speaker while launching the translated version of the Domestic Violence Act, in Kampala said, many women have had their rights violated but have chosen to remain quiet.

The center for domestic violence prevention translated the Domestic violence Act in Eight local Languages which includes Runyoro Rutoro, Acholi, Rukiga Ateso,Runyankole, Karamanjong and Luganda .

She says the translation of the act will help to improve the awareness against domestic violence.

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The arrested are supporters of FDC who were carrying black flags and allegedly mourning as the country marks her golden jubilee.

The group had paraded at different spots in Mbarara town
Among the arrested is the FDC District Chairperson Stanley Katembeya and Mobilizer Timbyetaho John.

Police says that investigations are complete and the suspects will be charged with inciting violence and assaulting an officer on duty.

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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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A source in the deceased’s family told us that the deceased loved President Museveni so much and he would sometimes sob whenever something wrong would happen to the president’s life.

The family member alleges that recently Lumago advised Museveni to look into the demands of A4C and opposition in general but the president declined to listen to him.

So the source alleges that from that time Lumago developed High Blood pressure. He died at Arua regional referral hospital today where he was admitted in the intensive care.

The doctors at Arua regional hospital also confirmed that Lumago succumbed to high blood pressure. According to statehouse sources, Lumago will be buried amidst full military honours and gun salute.

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It seems police violence and brutality on members of opposition parties has caught the international eye. This is because the United Kingdom (UK) minister in charge of Africa Henry Bellingham has asked president Museveni to curb the police violence on civilians. Bellingham is in Uganda’s capital city Kampala on an official visit.

He jetted into Uganda on Monday and today he has held talks with Ugandan president Museveni. On Wednesday Bellingham will visit Singo military school to see by himself whether the funds UK has been channeling to Uganda for military developed has been used properly.

A source that over heard the details of the meeting Bellingham held with President Museveni, intimated to us that the UK minister asked president Museveni why there is too much demonstrations, police brutality, corruption, lawlessness, land grabbing and reported cases of vote rigging in Uganda.

Bellingham reportedly asked Museveni to control acts of violence his soldiers and police commit on civilians because such acts one day might force the International Court of Justice to probe the leaders of Uganda.

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