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Senile Museveni forget Acholi is part of Uganda
Senile Museveni forget Acholi is part of Uganda
The Acholi sub-region is drowning in poverty and despair, yet the aging despot Museveni seems oblivious to the suffering of these Ugandan citizens. With 60% of the population in Acholi living in absolute poverty and education levels disastrously low, the glossy faรงade of Gulu City is nothing but a cruel illusion. Venture beyond its borders to places like Koch Lii village, and the harsh reality of Museveni’s neglect becomes painfully clear.
Since 1986, when Museveni clawed his way to power through violence in an election he didn’t win, Acholi has been ravaged by war and abandoned by those in power. Under his watch, both the LRA and his NRA/UPDF forces unleashed unspeakable horrors on the peopleโmassacres, rapes, mass displacements, and the plundering of livestock. Decades later, Museveni’s regime has done nothing to compensate those who endured these atrocities. Instead, it continues to sow distrust by allegedly eliminating prominent Acholi leaders like General Lokech, Colonel Ochola, and the late Rt. Hon. Jacob Oulanyah.
Moreover, while the region cries out for basic needsโhospitals with doctors and equipment, schools that actually educate, and protection from armed herdsmen trampling their landsโMuseveni’s regime has the audacity to spend UGX 5 billion on parliamentary extravagance in Gulu. This grotesque display of corruption only underscores how out of touch the regime is with the real, dire needs of the people.
Forests are being destroyed for charcoal, young girls are being forced into marriages by poverty-stricken families, and armed Balalo herdsmen, seemingly supported by the regime, are displacing communities and grazing cattle on land that belongs to the struggling wanainchi. The challenges facing Acholi are immense, yet Museveni’s government continues to treat them as an afterthought.
It’s high time the regime acknowledges the plight of the Acholi and takes real action to address the decades of neglect and abuse. Northern Uganda has suffered long enough under the weight of Museveni’s indifference and corruption. The people of Acholi deserve more than empty promises and flashy displaysโthey deserve justice, dignity, and the chance to rebuild their lives.
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OPEN LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Act against Museveni’s repression in Uganda
Dear International Leaders and Human Rights Organisations,
We demand immediate, coordinated action against the systematic repression under dictator Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
For four decades, despot Museveni has held power while presenting Uganda as stable. But stability built on fear, military intimidation and political imprisonment is not democracy.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other credible sources document a sustained pattern of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, extra-judicial killings, torture, attacks on journalists and members of opposition parties.
Urgent cases:
โข Dr Kizza Besigye: opposition leader, in custody since his abduction in Nairobi in November 2024
โข Haji Obeid Lutale Kamulegeya: Besigye’s aide, abducted alongside him
โข Eron Kiiza: human-rights lawyer sentenced by a military court after representing Besigye and Lutale
โข Eddie Ssebuufu (Eddie Mutwe): bodyguard of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, reportedly abducted and brought to court showing signs of torture
โข Sam Mugumya: opposition youth leader, whereabouts undisclosed despite a High Court order to produce him
Amnesty reported more than 400 National Unity Platform supporters detained at opposition rallies. Human Rights Watch reports at least 44 civilians were imprisoned through military proceedings after the 2021 elections.
This is not a normal political dispute. It is a human-rights crisis.
WE CALL FOR:
1. Immediate Release of all Ugandans detained solely for peacefully exercising their political rights
2. Disclose the whereabouts of all forcibly disappeared people, including Sam Mugumya
3. Guarantee medical care and legal access for Kizza Besigye, including family, doctors and lawyers, or release him if no credible charges exist
4. End military trials of civilians and release or lawfully retry those convicted unfairly
5. Support independent investigations into torture, abduction, disappearance and unlawful killings
6. Impose targeted sanctions and travel bans on implicated officials
7. Suspend or condition military assistance until unlawful detentions end
8. Deploy international observers to trials, detention facilities and opposition events
9. Refer Uganda’s abuses to the UN Working Groups and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
10. Protect journalists, lawyers and human-rights defenders facing retaliation
The international community must stop rewarding Museveni’s government with diplomatic praise while treating repression as an internal matter. You cannot support democracy while cooperating with a regime that imprisons its opponents.
A dictator who has ruled for over four decades should not fear a rally, a lawyer, a journalist or a citizen’s criticism. That is not strength. It is authoritarian fear backed by state violence.
Move beyond expressions of concern. Issue public demands. Send observers, Investigate, Sanction, Make security cooperation conditional on human rights.
Release Uganda’s political prisoners.
End enforced disappearances.
Stop torture and military trials of civilians.
Hold perpetrators accountable.
Stand with the people of Uganda, not with the machinery of repression.
