Kidnapped NUP supporters fed on rotting food
February 16, 2021 Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba Masaka Municipality MP with the two youths
On top of the excruciating beatings, recently released opposition National Unity Platform supporters have said that they were fed on rotting food during detention.
The political contest ahead of the January 2021 general election was preceded by reports of covert security operations in which scores of people from different parts of the country went missing after they were reportedly abducted by armed groups driving in numberless vehicles.
President Yoweri Museveni last week said the arrests were carried out by military commandos who were going after elements he called terrorists planning anarchy in the country. A number of them who have since returned home, describing their detention as a nightmare crafted in both physical and emotional torture.
Scores of people went missing in pre-election violence, covert security operations in East African country Hamza Kyeyune | 16.02.2021
KAMPALA, Uganda
Ugandan opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, Monday released a list of at least 243 people he claims were abducted by the government.
On Twitter, Wine said his team has hundreds of other names that are still being verified before they can be published.
The runup to the disputed January 2021 general election was marked by a crackdown on government critics and reports of covert security operations, in which scores of people went missing after armed groups reportedly picked them up.