We remember 2001 as a year of violence
I wish to react to Mr Moses Byaruhangaâs recent media claims that it is free elections and not term limits that will stop dictatorships in Uganda. Byaruhanga should know that we have not yet forgotten the brutal incidents of the 2001 presidential âfree electionsâ.
Reform Agenda supporters were crushed to death in Kireka by a known army officer. The Presidentâs own protection unit terrorised and killed people in Rukungiri. Young men were arrested and tortured in the numerous safe houses around Kampala. Are these the free elections that will prevent dictatorships in Uganda?Byaruhanga and company should know that everything has a beginning and an end. Adolf Hitler came and went.
Shaka Zulu, one of Africaâs most violent kings, also went. You will also go, and when that time comes, I urge all Ugandans that have been deprived of their rights to hunt down and bring to justice all the individuals that have mistreated and killed citizens in the name of âfree electionsâ to keep President Museveni in power.
Sadiq Lutunda,
Makerere University.
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
