Continued Oppositional Rallies and Riots in Kampala

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BY MARK SCHENKEL, 22 FEBRUARY 2012

Kampala — Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye received only slight injuries yesterday when Ugandan security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a protesting crowd. Today he visited a wounded aide in the hospital before continuing his rallying. Currently there are reports that a new riot has broken out.

« The more violently the Ugandan government tries to stop us, the more determined we become in our peaceful struggle to remove President Yoweri Museveni from power, » says Francis Mwijukye.

Mwijukye, an aide to oppositional leader Kizza Besigye, is one of around ten protesters who were injured yesterday after police used teargas and rubber bullets to prevent an anti-government rally from taking place in capital Kampala. The 29-year-old Mwijukye was rushed to Case Medical Centre where fragments of a rubber bullet where surgically removed from his right thigh. More news…

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~ par Alain Bertho sur 24 février 2012.

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