{UAH} KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE ACCUSING MUSEVENI OF.

The Serious Crimes & Accusations In The ICC Petition.

Being a document that might define his legacy, here are the serious crimes and accusations verbatim as contained in the ongoing petition to the International Criminal Court (By the way some of these heinous violations of human rights of the people of Uganda have resulted in US sanctions being slapped on certain regime officials earlier this year already):

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1. Suppression, torture and extra-judicial killing of Ugandans.

As a means of holding onto the illegitimately and illegally assumed power, General Museveni and his accomplices have continuously unleashed violence and terror against the citizens of Uganda to keep them muzzled and subdued. Additionally, Gen. Museveni's regime has, at the altar of consolidation of a personal rule, committed gross human rights violations and atrocities, including but not limited to torture, suppression, repression, incarcerations and elimination or killing of people opposed, or perceived to be opposed, to the sitting regime.

This has been systematically done countrywide and state-orchestrated massacres have been carried out in various parts of the country and the most recent one being the infamous Kaseese massacre that took place in the aftermath of the 2016 General elections, when security forces under the command of General Museveni and his Accomplices raided the palace of King Charles Wesley Mumbere, a cultural leader of the Bakonzo people, in Kasese District and massacred hundreds of people in the most savage manner one can imagine of. To date, no report and/or accountability has ever been given by the regime or any other local or International organization or agency.

Similar massacres have been carried with impunity in Acholi Sub Region, Teso, Lango, West Nile, the killing of many people by security personnel during the 2009 Buganda Central Government stand-off over Bugerere county and 2011 walk – to – work civil protests and none of the masterminds and perpetrators of the same has been brought to book.

2. Invasion of Parliament and desecration or abrogation of the National Constitution.

On 27th October 2017, during the debate of a Constitutional (Amendment) Bill which aimed at the removal of all constitutional safeguards against General Museveni's life Presidency plan, one of General Museveni's militia groups – Special Forces Command (SFC), members of the Uganda Defense Forces and other security operatives invaded the chambers Parliament of Uganda, brutally harangued, beat up and dragged out several Members of Parliament, transported them in police vans and confined them in ungazetted places. Resultantly, a constitutional provision which had rendered Gen. Museveni ineligible in the forthcoming presidential elections, on account of advanced age, was violently deleted. This was done in blatant disregard of Art. 3 of our National Constitution which makes treasonable for any person to abrogate or amend the constitution using violent means.

The Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Rebecca Kadaga is on record writing to General Museveni thus;

"… I am seeking an explanation as to the identity, mission and purpose of the unsolicited forces. I am also seeking an explanation about why they assaulted the MPs."

To date, Gen. Museveni has flagrantly refused to respond to the said letter.

3. Use of the state security apparatus and a plethora of Militia Groups to persecute, dehumanize and humiliate political opponents, members of civil society organizations and the citizenry.

Gen. Museveni has over the years personalized the entire security apparatus which has systemically and systematically morphed into a terror machine. The institution of the Uganda People's Defense Forces, the Police force and other state security agencies are currently used as the most lethal political tools to persecute Gen. Museveni"s political opponents, civil society and the citizenry and to also clamp down on the lawful and legitimate activities and programs of the Country's political dissent and civic action. Opposition political parties, civil society organizations and ordinary Ugandans have been barred from holding assemblies and/or rallies

for purposes of disseminating and/or advancing their party platforms, programs and legitimate development agenda and any attempt to organize the same is met with brutal force and violence.

Additionally, the regime has established a number of illegal paramilitary groups, hit squads and militia to wit; Special Forces Command, Commandos, Crime preventers, Kiboko squad, Boda Boda 2010, Wembly, Local Defense Unit, and Flying Squad etc. These terror outfits have wreaked havoc in Kampala and other parts of the country and have immensely terrorized the Citizens and curtailed their participation in the governance of the Country.

4. Enforced disappearances and curtailment of Civil Liberties.

Uganda is currently engulfed in horrendous fear and tension as many political leaders, clerics and ordinary citizens disappear or get killed in cold blood under very mysterious circumstances. Kidnaps, abductions, illegal arrests and enforced disappearances are a commonplace occurrence today. Many Ugandans are violently and mysteriously whisked away by members of the aforesaid terror machine and security agencies and held incommunicado in secret detention facilities commonly known as "safe houses", tortured and some eliminated incognito for the sole purpose of entrenching Gen. Museveni's rule. A number of such dungeons and torture chambers like the notorious Nalufenya special detention facility, situate across River Nile in the Eastern part of the country, have been established various parts of the country and a score of Ugandans have been tortured, dehumanized, maimed and killed from such facilities and may are still languishing there, with little or no hope of securing a remedy or regaining their liberties and freedom.

Prayer for intervention.

Thanks to the pervasive impunity reigning supreme in the country, the individual perpetrators of these heinous crimes cannot be brought to justice. The independence and efficacy of both the legislative and judicial arms of the state and government have been systemically whittled and eroded by the Gen. Museveni's "Iron fist Rule".

The domestic criminal justice system has been terribly debilitated and emasculated that it cannot reasonably atone for and/or address these systemic and endemic transgressions and violations. The intervention of the ICC is not only desirable but inevitable if only we are to stave off a catastrophe of grave magnitude that awaits the Pearl of Africa.

WHEREFORE YOUR PETITIONERS pray for the following;

a) That the egregious violations of the fundamental and other rights of the Petitioners and other Ugandans by Mr Yoweri Museveni and his Accomplices tantamount to crimes against humanity within the meaning of Article 7 of the Rome Statute and that the same reasonably warrant investigations, Indictment and trial by the ICC.

b) That the Prosecutor of the ICC be pleased to initiate prosecution of General Museveni and his Accomplices before the ICC and further cause for the investigation to be conducted in regard to his illegal and gross human rights violations meted out on the People of Uganda.

We have compiled cogent and overwhelming evidence to support indictment on the aforesaid crimes against humanity, which includes damning reports of different local and international human rights organizations and humanitarian agencies, individual accounts and testimonies of victims of state-inspired violence and torture, dossiers by whistleblowers and good Samaritans within the security agencies as well as graphic, visual and audio recordings.

Full petition here: www.change.org/p/uganda-people-s-petition-to-the-international-criminal-court-icc

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