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. _______________________________________________
