July 11 will always be remembered as one of the darkest dates in the history of our country, Uganda
It stands as a testament to this foreign power-greedy despot Yoseri Tibuhaburwa Kagutema Museveni’s cruelty and wickedness especially when it comes to clinging to power.
On that fateful day in 1989, just three years after Western imperialists aided and abetted him in capturing power at gunpoint, he ordered his NRA soldiers from the 106th Battalion to brutally and mercilessly kill more than a hundred men, mainly from Kumi District, at Okungulo Railway Station.
The victims (RIP) were all men from the surrounding Teso villages, and Museveni, without a single shred of evidence, accused them of collaborating with local rebels who opposed his brutal junta.
Criminal Museveni bundled the victims into a single unventilated steel goods wagon, locked them inside, and burned it, causing them all to die of asphyxiation.
Thirty-seven years down the road, families and relatives still have heavy and bleeding hearts as they continue to seek justice, while the architect of this organized crime against humanity, Museveni himself, still roams scot-free.
As if all that were not enough, despot Museveni subsequently opted to treat the entire Teso sub-region as though it were not part of Uganda by deliberately depriving the area of basic infrastructure while also impoverishing its residents.
The Teso sub-region has equally been sidelined in the sharing of the national cake with regard to political representation, as Museveni has consistently dismissed the region and its people as being “misled” by the opposition.
Besides this horrific atrocity, unremorseful murderous criminal Museveni has, over the last 40 years, subjected all of us as Ugandans to all sorts of grave crimes, which explains his sustained commitment to cling to power due to fear of being held accountable for his crimes.