Monthly Archives: April 2011

From Christine Acen in Kampala At least five people are feared to have been shot dead Friday by Ugandan security forces and hundreds are flowing to hospitals  here as protesters engaged the police and the military in running battles with the police. Live bullets were used by the police against the protesters as the security forces tried to disperse angry crowds around the capital and in other parts of the country. The protests were sparked when a rumor spread around the city claiming that the leader of Uganda’s opposition political parties, Dr Kizza Besigye had died in hospital following his arrest and brutal beating by the Uganda police Thursday. Angry youths … Continue reading →

 By Henry Gombya The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been accused of hiding behind the on-going ‘Walk to Work’ protests that have resulted into the beating up of the country’s opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye and the imprisonment of several leading and minor opposition figures. In a scathing attack on the American secret agency and the methods used by Uganda’s political opposition, Dr David Matsanga, a former spokesman of Ugandan rebel movement, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has written to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni pleading with him to find a way of reaching out to the opposition and not fall into a trap allegedly being set by the … Continue reading →