[WestNileNet] OBOTE TERROR: MAKINDYE BARRACKS (WITNESS: ROLAND KAKOOZA MUTALE)
Is this where Major Kakooza Mutale learnt the lessons he would later utilize in the Kalangala Action Plan? - In 1980, Roland Kakooza Mutale would bear witness to horrific events in Makindye. There was the beating to death of one Dr. Kununka, who was lashed and thrown into a water tank. Another man, brought to Makindye in May 1980, bled to death in front of the two. They were asked to bury him and in the process a commander thirsty for the blood of the two ex- journalists asked to shoot them himself. They escaped apparently because this man asked for a silenced pistol, which did not come in time. However one Magala, was shot dead to Kakooza’s right in a line-up. Seven others died that day and Kakooza, struck with an iron bar survived in a comatose state. As the dead were loaded onto a Landrover, they were stabbed to ensure they were indeed deceased. Mrs. Kakooza later went to find the remains and check if her husband was amongst them. He wasn’t. Many horrible things happened according to the two. Kakooza said a man’s pelvis was set on fire with paraffin. He died in agony. Roland Kakooza Mutale. Witness “Throughout my period in Makindye they used to bring in people and kill them at night. When you leave the quarter-guard you go towards the sick bay, just beside there was a grave. If you try to dig there is a mass grave. I saw this, I participated in burying in darkness. There was also an underground cell, which was dark. Everyday you would hear wails and crying, a man crying for some time then the crying would cease, then you would see bodies removed from the place. Certain moments intensified the killings. The eve of Obote’s coming back spelt death because people were arrested and brought as anti-UPC or anti-Obote and they were killed. At that time, an Acholi soldier took his bayonet and I was sitting down then, he tried to pierce this bayonet into my heart. Now in response I put up my hand. So if I took off my shirt here; there is a big scar where the bayonet stopped. I put up my hand to save my heart when the man cut. And the man licked the bayonet. He just licked it imagine. These were the kind of people keeping us” Kakooza next turned to the notorious bus (cream in color with a red band) which plied the suburbs of Kampala and rounded up people, many of them to be killed in the murder centres. The bus was known by Luganda names of “Mpaawo atalikaaba” meaning “ None will escape weeping”, “Nsanga Bisibe”,- “ I find packages (tied up)”- and “Sekiriba kya ttaka”- “Skin of soil’, meaning soil surrounds a body in it, that all shall wear this last skin. The names of this bus’ drivers were Sambuna, Bukenya and Nkambwe (who called himself Sina Makosa). Kalooza said that one of the bus’ most notorious trips was when people were killed in Natete at the police station in May 1980. ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
[WestNileNet] CORRUPT TO THE CORE: Wolf Insists On Looking After Your Sheep.
Remember the OPM scandal? Yes the Prime Ministers office where billlions of funds simply vanished from state coffers to find their way into mysterious bank accounts. Since then what has happened? 1 - Geodfrey Kazinda, the accountant, is in jail. 2 - The Permanent Secretary (incidentally called Pius) has been transferred. 3 - The former Prime Minister is out and about on holiday. 4 - And the President (who protected Pius) is still the same. Note that those in the highest positions and who definitely are liable for administrative oversight and political responsibility, are walking scot-free. With at least two of them still having their hands in the money jar. Now one of them, Pius, is attempting to whitewash himself with a book that mudslings his junior Godfrey, the accountant. Thereby conveniently obscuring the fact that he was responsible for approving his juniors acts. Basically the wolf is clinging on to looking after your sheep. monitor.co.ug/News/National/Kazinda-sues-Bigirimana--wants-Shs6billion-compensation/-/688334/2550104/-/1322ncu/-/index.html -- Hussein Juruga Lumumba Amin Kampala, Uganda ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
[WestNileNet] "LIBERATION" HYSTERIA AT NILE MANSIONS: WHEN DEATH IS THE BETTER CHOICE. (Testimonies)
There are moments when those who sign-off the deaths of others in the name of the state are present. Such was the testimony of Francis M. It was a death-bed testimony. The witness, apprehended on the suspicion he was a rebel, died soon after his evidence was recorded. He told of his time at Nile Mansions, now Serena Hotel and sighting of the then de-facto head of state affairs, Paulo Mwanga. Witness: Francis M. “They came to my room..I was not allowed to dress up. Instead my pants were removed and I remained naked. I was then badly tortured including being burnt with cigarettes. When we were still at the scene of my arrest, I heard my arresters arguing in Swahili and in English the Vice President Muwanga had directed that I be taken to Kampala. I was naked up to Makindye. I was still Naked. At Nile Mansions and in between consciousness and unconsciousness I found a young brown man dressed in a doctor’s gown. He had a stethoscope in his pockets. His hands were tied and he was leaning on the wall. The soldiers were telling the doctor that he should admit he was a gureilla- the doctor refused. They brought a stool. The doctor was forced to put his chin on the stool and they brought pliers to press his lower jaw. His jaw was broken but he still denied that he was a guerilla. When he said no, a hammer was brought and his head was knocked and he died instantly. The body was removed. The place of the murder was next to Vice President Muwanga’s room. I knew it because I was next taken there. But before a small brown woman was brought and she was tortured instead of me. This was a relief to me. She was in a petticoat and pants, but no bra. She was brought into the room. Her name was Rose. They asked her whether she was a guerilla, she denied. Then a pair of scissors was brought and her breast cut. But she still refused to admit. Then a metal chair was brought then a charcoal stove was put underneath. It was being fanned electronically. She still refused. Then a bed was brought and she was laid on it. Then an iron bar was brought and pushed into her private parts. She was quiet throughout these tortures. She died and the body was put away, and they turned to me. At the time when the tortures were going on Muwanga opened the door and peeped into the room when the girl was being tortured. I had known Muwanga well. He is one of my relatives, we are from the same clan of Nyonyi Nakinsige. I was taken back to Makindye and put in a group known as guerillas. We were eleven. Our group was B.2- that was the number four room. There were dead bodies, and those dying. We found 10 bodies in the room. The live ones were living like skeletons. It is a frightening place. Faeces were on the floor. The toilet filled up, we had no water. So newcomers provided their urine for us to drink. On 28 September, 1982, Sunday at 2 pm I was released from Makindye and taken to Luzira. 36 of us were put in a bus to go to Luzira. 24 died on the way. I acquired a pair of trousers from one dead person." "Liberated" Uganda - testimonies. More soon. -- ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
