#Uganda children fall victim to #Museveni's militarization scheme

UGANDA CHILDREN FALL VICTIM TO MUSEVENI'S MILITARIZATION SCHEME

As Museveni's army and police continue marauding in a bit to suppress any form of dissent to his dictatorship, children have not been spared either. The latest victim is a 12 years old boy from Iganga who was shot dead on New Year’s Eve by the army Cpl. Oyat attached to Magamaga barracks. The 12 years old victim (pictured) was shot in the back as he was running away and he died instantly. This was during a football match scuffle that erupted where Cpl Oyat had been deployed for crowd control.

Unfortunately owing to the death of investigative journalism in Museveni's Uganda, citizens are not informed about the specific details. Being a Cpl, Oyat is a section (11 - 13) commander and it is not clear if he had been commanding his section or he was under the command of his superiors.

Whatever the case, Cpl Oyat ought to share criminal liability with his superiors in the chain of command including the Commander - In - Chief, Museveni. This argument is premised on the fact that it is the army leadership that chose to deploy armed soldiers for crowd control at a purely peaceful local sports function.

Owing to his 32 years of military dictatorship coupled by the military takeover in February 2016 after he lost at the polls, Museveni is increasingly getting paranoid. He fears that the aggrieved masses may resort to mass action by way of protests similar to the Arab Spring of North Africa. It is against this backgrounded that he issued strict orders to his army and police to ruthlessly deal with any semblance of mass action. Otherwise, what business did the armed Cpl Oyat and his colleagues have at a local football match in Iganga!!!!

Crowd control at such functions is purely the work of the police and in the early days of Museveni's coming to power, soldiers were involved in policing on the excuse that the police had not build capacity. It is now 32 years of military dictatorship when the regime has built a much stronger private police but instead, for the reasons outlined above, the catastrophic involvement of the military in civilian policing is becoming a norm. In extreme circumstances, Military police and not ordinary soldiers can be justifiably invited to reinforce the ordinary police.

Why would any government turn its guns on babies, infants and teenagers!!!!! In March 2017, a three years old baby was shot dead while its mother was seriously injured by Museveni's Flying Squad officers who had invaded a village in rural Mityana on an extortion spree. The matter was swept under the carpet.

In June 2017 soldiers and Policemen in Mbale shot and fatally injured two children who were returning from school. The security officers had responded to peaceful protests by locals against their land being taken over by the national park. The two boys were deliberately shot when they bumped into the security officers moreover from a place that is 10 kms away from the scene of protests.

In November 2017 in Ngiriam Sub county, Katakwi district soldiers who were on patrol shot dead 22 years old, George Onjik a S.3 student of Ngiriam Seed Secondary school at 8.00 p.m. a few metres from the school to their hostel.

The curtain riser had been the April 2011 shooting dead of two years old Julian Nalwanga during demonstrations in Masaka. The bullets ripped through the skull and chest of the crawling toddler thus an indication that the security officers had been aiming at shooting to kill. She was one of the seven other people shot in the area during those particular protests. The matter was swept under the carpet.

In Kasese district children were killed and their dead bodies burnt beyond recognition when the army stormed the King's palace leaving over 100 victims dead. Some of their surviving mothers were stripped naked and driven for over 400 kms to the infamous Nalufenya torture chamber in Jinja.

In January 2015 police shot and injured a S.2 teenage student of Kabale - Sanje Secondary school in Rakai during a minor scuffle amongst the students at a graduation party. The natter was swept under the carpet.

In June 2017, the Police in Rakai shot and injured three teenage students of Kacheera High School during protests. One of the victims, Hassan Nasasira was injured in the private parts by Sgt Bangirana but the matter was swept under the carpet.

In related incidents, in February 2016 soldiers shot dead a teenager at Wandegeya during a small scuffle with the leader of Opposition. In June 2016, a soldier in Makindye barracks shot dead four women and three children before shooting himself dead. In October 2017, the police shot dead 22 years old Edson Nakuru Nasasira during the age limit protests in Rukungiri.

In all the above incidents, no single security officer has ever been held criminally liable. The criminal leadership does not focus on the Ugandan child victims but are bent on propaganda machinery highlighting the 1976 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa. Not even the much-condemned security forces of the past regimes could shoot in the back of a 12 years old boy during a football match scuffle. It is Museveni’s militarization policy and campaign of terror aimed at suppressing dissent that is the driving force behind these heinous crimes.

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