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.
All the evidence indicates that someone riding in this land cruiser shot shamim and shakira. we know this because if we replay the video, we hear the gunshot just of this vehicle passes the crowd. immediately, shamim and shakira fall to the ground. we cannot see the face of the man who shot them, but we can see that the windows on that side of the car are down. the ugandan government has not denied that its forces shot these women. it has even used the video as part of a press briefing in which the president pledged to compensate any innocent victims.
One of these groups. they are looking west. their attention is drawn by a fast approaching convoy. as it slips past, shots are fired and two women fall to the ground. the cars don t stop. this photo, taken moments later, shows us the faces of the women who were shot. they are sisters shakira, the mother of a newborn baby and shamim, pregnant with triplets. this is shakira. at the time of the shooting, her baby was just two weeks old.
Her sister shamim also survived. creepy at least 15 people saw the drive by shooting that killed shamim s unborn children. we ve now spoken to three of these eyewitnesses, and all of them told us the same thing the sisters were shot by ugandan security forces riding in a government convoy.
But according to the evidence we ve gathered, kamuyat and the other people shot by police truck 17 on kampala road, were not destroying property. the sisters, shamim and shakira, were not armed or dangerous. the boy, amos, had not reached a certain level of violence. these people were mothers and fathers, workers and pensioners, locals and passersby, children and unborn babies shot and killed by the same security forces whose job is to protect the citizens of uganda.