{UAH} Ugandans purposely made to suffer so horrendously in prison, safe houses, barracks,etc....

Uganda has gone far beyond abnormal levels in tolerance and in the respect of human rights for citizens especially the much impoverished and marginalized youths. All this is the cowardly stand the NRM regime is now posting to show its disgust and open hatred towards the population on a whole for the humiliation the masses displayed to the oppressive regime in the recently concluded polls whose results Museveni and his NRM falsified in order to steal an open people's victory!

The youth are now the culprits whose very intelligent mastery in social media campaigns virtually put arrogant NRM and its ailing bosses to full rout! Before, during, and after the elections very many youths, mostly Bobi Wine Kyagulanyi's National Unity Platform (NUP) supporters, have been systematically rounded up, kidnapped, and driven to unknown destinations for torture, and murder! Most of these youths are rotting in Kitalya Prison ( for men ), in Kigo Prison (for women), in army barracks, in safe houses, and in other centres of torture includong police posts, all whose environment is just akin to that of a concentration camp. Indeed it's pure genocide against Ugandans carried out by a regime which has shown no remorse to the suffering population now very strongly subjected to high levels of corruption, oppression, and very abusive side effects of a terrible deep spying which now consumes very big chunks of money almost to the total neglect of all essential service delivery sectors! This very terrible ill-treatment of Ugandans is naturally reflected in the quasi-Nazi treatment exerted on our youths in the numerous detention torture centres spread all over the country. Inmates are denied food, water, medical treatment, visitors, possibility for bathing / washing, etc..The very unkind staff in those centres has maimed, castrated and blinded many youths. Reports speak of a youth in Kitalya Prison whose eye was pierced and left to flow until it became totally blind, and without any appeal for medical attention! There is also the psychological torture these youths are experiencing. For example, many of them have families to look after and old parents to cater for, and have rent to pay in order to keep their property and accommodation safe.Very many risk losing everything they have ever worked for! And they haven't been presented to justice in order to know exactly the motive behind their arrest and torture! Most of them are blamed for wearing a red beret, a people Power red uniform, or even for swinging Kyagulanyi's portrait! And it's just those very flimsy accusations that are subjecting them to inhuman ill-treatment in those cells where they live packed like animals and in an overpowering stench of rot! Some cells designed to accommodate 4 persons are holding up to twenty inmates and there is no possibility for them to sleep!!! And all these inmates are regularly beaten with lashes or given heavy blows by the irresponsible politically-oriented warders, policemen or military men!

As a person who once suffered a long detention in Luzira Upper Prison in the mid-sixties, I just have to say that what our youths are now undergoing fifty years after is something to equate to any unheard of ill-treatment perhaps in the early pre-stone age era! In Luzira we had a more decent life to share amongst ourselves. We had four meals (breakfast, lunch, tea, and supper); each one had a bed; we could wash as much as we liked; we could play football and other games such as the board game, chess, ludo, etc; we had a film every Wednesday; we could have a priest or a pastor / reverend on Sundays; we used to undergo a medical check-up once every month; we could receive visitors as often as possible; and every three months a detain could be presented to a tribunal to protest against his / her detention before a High Court judge with two assessors and would seize that opportunity to decry anything judged improper to the

life of a detainee; and there was that right of receiving a lawyer! And the prisons authorities were all very nice towards the detainees! That was under the Obote regime! And I remember on the day Idi Amin released detainees in a ceremony at Kololo Airstrip a BBC reporter asked the Great Benedicto Kiwanuka, who at that time was Obote's arch-political opponent, on how he was treated in detention. And the legendary politician had this to say:

                     " I was very well-treated as far as prison conditions could allow!"

Yes, well-treated under the Obote regime! Parliament was also there and MPs could regularly inquire into the conditions of detainees. And now how many people can stand up and condemn the abductions, kidnappings, killings and murders in detention centres, and the overall ill-treatment of those young Ugandans? 

Anyway, Providence has never abandoned the suffering and one day will come to their rescue in a manner which will surprise all citizens!

Hats off with a big "THANK  YOU" to all those who have shown a good heart to the suffering youths and sincere appreciation to the very few askaris who have shown some degree of sympathy to our fellow citizens now in their hands!

G.H.K.

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