April 29, 2011
Act to Avert Worsening Human Rights Situation in Uganda
International Center for Policy and Conflict (ICPC) express grave concern with the miserable human rights situation in Uganda. President Yoweri Museveni is proofing profoundly repressive and despotic. He is extremely intolerant to criticism however constructive. The current events unfolding of heavy-handed rule by President Yoweri Museveni are rabid, appalling and tragic. There is no freedom in Uganda. There are serious violations of freedom of expression and assembly.
The consequences of these dictatorial edicts if not urgently reversed are likely to have adverse effect on the wider East Africa Community.
We are calling upon the Presidents of Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi, and Rwanda to decisively act and ensure that situation is urgently reversed. It is against the Principles enshrined in the East Africa Community Treaty on democratic tents and human rights. East Africans cannot afford to sit back while their colleagues across the border are being brutalized. Further the African Commission Human and Peoples Rights and United Nations Human Rights Council should take appropriate action.
The East Africans should stand firm against corrosive and dehumanizing President Museveni’s tyranny. The People of Uganda deserve better. The human rights violations going in Uganda deserve more attention than they have so far received.
Human rights conditions have deteriorated markedly over the last few weeks. The government seems determined to execute a repression policy and the harassment of opposition party members by state institutions and supporters of the ruling party. The direct involvement of ranking government officials and state security forces marks a new and worrisome trend.
Not only have the police and military and police forces failed to protect people from human rights abuses but they are now carrying out abuses themselves. Peaceful protests on high cost of living, declined economic and political conditions are being dismantled violently by state security forces.
The government must end the culture of impunity before human rights conditions deteriorate further with likelihood of turning into a new conflict. We are calling on President Museveni and his government to re-establish the rule of law and respect human rights of the people of Uganda.
Signed by
Ndung’u Wainaina
Executive Director
International Center for Policy and Conflict
P.O.Box 44564-00100,Nairobi, KENYA
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Tel: +254 020 221 97 57
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