'FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE'!
Can the country be rescued and tradition and cultures streamlined lifestyles
again after this "fundamental change" era?
Ocii
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Ugandan man hacks six children, wife to death Kampala,
Uganda 18 August 2007 10:25
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An enraged man in a western Ugandan district took a machete and hacked to
death his wife and six children before hanging himself, the government press
reported on Saturday.
Abdallah Byekwaso cut his children aged two to 13 beyond recognition and
beheaded one of his sons. Only one of his children, a girl who stay with a
relative in a nearby village, survived, the New Vision newspaper reported. His
wife was only identified as Namu.
The motive for the killings, which happened in Kagadi township in Kibale
district, about 280km from the capital, Kampala, could not readily be
established.
Telephone lines for police officials -- including the force spokesperson and
his deputy -- were switched off on Saturday morning. The New Vision, however,
quoted witnesses from the area as saying that there was a fight between
Byekwaso and his wife before the murders.
The paper's sister daily, Bukedde, a vernacular tabloid, carried gory pictures
of the bodies lying side by side with deep cuts in its Saturday edition.
According to the New Vision, the children and wife's bodies were lying outside
the house while Byekwaso's body was found hanging by a cotton cloth in the
middle of his two-room mud and wattle house.
His body had bruises that made residents believe that there had been a fight
with his wife.
There is an apparent increase in incidences of domestic violence in Uganda,
mostly preceded by feuds over extramarital relations by the spouses. Kampala's
tabloids carry almost daily stories and grisly pictures of the dead and injured
victims of family fights. -- Sapa-dpa
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