bbc africa eye has now uncovered new evidence to support that claim. this video, which began live streaming on facebook at 2:23 p:m., was filmed from the back of a motorbike riding out of kampala and along ginger road. it begins here, just 90 metres from where the sisters were standing and just half an hour before the first report of the shooting. a kilometre to the east, the bike meets a convoy of cars blocking the road. we see a man in military uniform carrying a rifle, as well as two vehicles immediately identified as government motorcars. the car on the right looks like the same make and model as the vehicle in the convoy. the car on the left, a land cruiser, is identical to the second vehicle seen in the drive by shooting.
the ugandan government. in the meantime, bbc africa eye has conducted its own investigation into the killings of november 18th and 19th. we ve now analysed some 400 videos shot over those two days and spoken with more than 30 eyewitnesses to these events. using this evidence, we can bring you a more complete story about some of the people who were killed in kampala, and we can answer, at least in part, the question posed by general tumwine who shot them and under what circumstances? november 2020. with the general election approaching, president yoweri museveni is facing the most serious political challenge of his 35 years in power. bobi wine, who was raised in the city slums and
so, can the full facts about this drive by media shooting be verified? 500 metres from this corner, the convoy would have passed a bank of security cameras watching the ginger road, part of a government operated surveillance that includes 83 high tech monitoring centres and covers much of kampala. these cameras were used to identify some of the protesters who turned violent on november 18 and 19th. including this man, who was jailed for attacking a policewoman with a hammer. but if the government can identify the vehicles involved in the shooting, but named the men who were riding in them, it has not made that information public. more than six months after this incident, shamim and shakira have received nothing. no apology from the government, no compensation for the injuries, no recognition of their loss.
18th, bobi wine is arrested extensively for holding election rallies that breach uganda s covid 19 rules on mass gatherings. the arrest, his supporters say, is politically motivated. within the hour, young men are gathering on the streets of kampala. almost immediately, the police and the army are deployed in force. tear gas is fired. by two o clock, people have been shot. one of them is kamuyat, in the red dress. it marks the start of a killing spree in kampala. her name is kamuyat. she was 28 years old and
now on bbc news, an investigation by the bbc s africa eye into the police crackdown on protesters in uganda last november, with evidence of security forces shooting a number of unarmed people. a warning this programme contains images some viewers may find upsetting. these are some of the ugandan citizens who, in november last year, were shot on the streets of kampala. gunshot. ..not by terrorists or criminals, but by the security forces of their own government. the killings took place in the run up to uganda s elections, as the police and the army scrambled to suppress violent protests protests sparked by the arrest of bobi wine, the young opposition leader who is challenging president