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**** Uganda lawmakers throw fists and chairs at each other over Museveni's power grab
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Uganda lawmakers throw fists and chairs at each other in argument over allowing Museveni to illegally remain in power after decades of being in power. (Africa News)
For the last two days, lawmakers in Uganda's parliament in the capital
city Kampala have exchanged kicks and punches, and assaults with
chairs and microphone stands. At least two female lawmakers being
carried out after collapsing.
The disagreements were over changing the constitution remove the age
limit for a presidential candidate. The change would permit Yoweri
Museveni, who has been president for more than three decades, to run
for another term, seen by many as a Museveni power grab. The
constitution has an age limit of 75 years, which would make Museveni
ineligible to run again in the next election, in 2021.
Museveni's government attempted to prevent opposition lawmakers from
even attending Wednesday's session, by sending security forces to
surround their homes to prevent them from leaving.
One MP, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, a musician turned politician,
described his experience this way:
<QUOTE>"The police surrounded my home in order to prevent me
from going to parliament today [Tuesday]. I was too smart for
them, I instead spent the night somewhere in the ghetto.
[When the police found him and tried to arrest him,] I instead
jumped onto a boda boda [motorcycle taxi]; they tried to grab me
off the boda but the riders fought them off. Then police officers
jumped onto a boda boda to chase me but the boda guys refused to
carry the police officers."<END QUOTE>
Several MPs had similar experiences and marched to parliament. Before
the fighting started, opposition lawmakers filibustered and sang the
national anthem repeatedly. One opposition lawmaker accused another
MP of carrying a gun, and that led to the brawl. The speaker ordered
that opposition MPs had to leave, and when they refused, plain-clothes
security operatives stormed parliament and dragged them out.
This was carried live on television and on the internet. The result
was that the government's Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) banned
all live broadcasts as of 8 pm on Wednesday. A statement by the UCC
said:
<QUOTE>"The Commission has noted with concern that both radio
and television broadcasting operators are relaying live broadcasts
which is inciting the public, discriminating, stirring up hatred,
promoting a culture of violence amongst viewers and are likely to
create public insecurity or violence.
The Commission reminds broadcasters that such live broadcasts are
in breach of the minimum broadcasting standards as laid down in
section 31 of UCC Act 2013."<END QUOTE>
Amnesty International issued a statement condemning the ban on live
broadcasts, saying, "Ugandans have a right to know what their elected
representatives are doing, a right the authorities must facilitate
rather than hinder." The Observer (Kampala) and The Independent (Kampala) and New Vision (Kampala) and Amnesty International
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**** Uganda follows a familiar pattern of violence for many African countries
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Uganda is following a familiar generational pattern that I've
described in many other countries, both in Africa and outside. When a
country's generational crisis war is a civil war between two ethnic
groups within the country, then in the decades following the end of
the war, especially during the next generational Awakening era, the
ethnic group that won the war and took power begins new violence,
atrocities, rapes, and arbitrary jailings and executions against the
ethnic group that lost the war.
Outside of Africa, we see this for example in Syria, where the
president Bashar al-Assad has for decades been using sociopathic forms
of torture on his enemies, and has used everything from Sarin gas to
barrel bombs containing metal and chlorine on marketplaces and
residential neighborhoods to kill and torture his political enemies.
Uganda's president is from the Hima tribe, which is closely allied
with the Tutsi tribe. For decades, and perhaps centuries, ethnic
Tutsis and ethnic Hutus have been conducting brutal wars with each
other, the most well-known of which is the Rwanda genocide of 1994,
where Hutus killed almost a million Tutsis in a period of three
months.
Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni, 73 years old, allied with the
Tutsis, took part in many of these gruesome atrocities and slaughter.
By any reasonable measure, he's just as much as a sociopathic monster
as Bashar al-Assad.
The same is true of Rwanda and Burundi, the other two countries that
were heavily involved in the 1994 Hutu-Tutsi genocide. The current
president of Rwanda is Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, while the president of
Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a Hutu.
All three leaders are using repressive measures to stay in power long
after their mandate has ended. But Nkurunziza in particular has been using torture,
rape, beatings,
arbitrary jailings and summary executions to suppress the Tutsis,
resulting in over 500,000 refugees in neighboring countries, including
Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.
All three countries are in a generational Awakening era, meaning that
there is no chance at this time of anything like the huge 1994
genocide. But there will be continuing government violence, torture
and arbitrary jailings in all three countries, and these patterns will
get worse as time goes on. Guardian (London, 12-Sep)
Related Articles
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**** Thailand's Yingluck Shinawatra sentenced in absentia to five years in jail
****
On Wednesday, a court in Bangkok, Thailand, found Thailand's former
prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of graft in absentia,
and sentenced her to five years in jail.
As we reported last month, Yingluck fled to Dubai rather than face an
all-but-certain guilty verdict and jailing for alleged graft in the
rice stock sales program that she initiated. Yingluck supporters
believe that the charges are purely political.
This is worth mentioning in this article because Thailand is also in a
generational Awakening/Unraveling era, following Thailand's last
generational crisis war, Pol Pot's Cambodian Killing Fields war in the
late 1970s. Yingluck and her brother Thaksin were both extremely
popular as prime ministers, supported by majority dark-skinned
indigenous Thai-Thai "red shirts," but opposed by the minority
market-dominant light-skinned Thai-Chinese "yellow shirts."
Just like the leaders of Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and Syria described
above, the élite in Thailand, led by the army, are using violence,
army coups and dubious criminal charges to keep them out of power, and
allow the minority Thai-Chinese élite to continue in power.
Thailand's police chief announced on Wednesday that he is conducting a
manhunt for Yingluck, and is asking Interpol to find her and bring her
to justice in Thailand. Bangkok Post
Related: Thailand's former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra flees to Dubai (26-Aug-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Uganda, Kampala, Yoweri Museveni,
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, Uganda Communication Commission, UCC,
Amnesty International, Syria, Bashar al-Assad,
Hima, Tutsi, Hutu, Burundi, Rwanda, Paul Kagame, Pierre Nkurunziza,
Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra,
Thai-Thai, red shirts, Thai-Chinese, yellow shirts, Thaksin Shinawatra,
Pol Pot, Cambodia, Killing fields
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Uganda lawmakers throw fists and chairs at each other over Museveni's power grab
- Uganda follows a familiar pattern of violence for many African countries
- Thailand's Yingluck Shinawatra sentenced in absentia to five years in jail
****
**** Uganda lawmakers throw fists and chairs at each other over Museveni's power grab
****
Uganda lawmakers throw fists and chairs at each other in argument over allowing Museveni to illegally remain in power after decades of being in power. (Africa News)
For the last two days, lawmakers in Uganda's parliament in the capital
city Kampala have exchanged kicks and punches, and assaults with
chairs and microphone stands. At least two female lawmakers being
carried out after collapsing.
The disagreements were over changing the constitution remove the age
limit for a presidential candidate. The change would permit Yoweri
Museveni, who has been president for more than three decades, to run
for another term, seen by many as a Museveni power grab. The
constitution has an age limit of 75 years, which would make Museveni
ineligible to run again in the next election, in 2021.
Museveni's government attempted to prevent opposition lawmakers from
even attending Wednesday's session, by sending security forces to
surround their homes to prevent them from leaving.
One MP, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, a musician turned politician,
described his experience this way:
<QUOTE>"The police surrounded my home in order to prevent me
from going to parliament today [Tuesday]. I was too smart for
them, I instead spent the night somewhere in the ghetto.
[When the police found him and tried to arrest him,] I instead
jumped onto a boda boda [motorcycle taxi]; they tried to grab me
off the boda but the riders fought them off. Then police officers
jumped onto a boda boda to chase me but the boda guys refused to
carry the police officers."<END QUOTE>
Several MPs had similar experiences and marched to parliament. Before
the fighting started, opposition lawmakers filibustered and sang the
national anthem repeatedly. One opposition lawmaker accused another
MP of carrying a gun, and that led to the brawl. The speaker ordered
that opposition MPs had to leave, and when they refused, plain-clothes
security operatives stormed parliament and dragged them out.
This was carried live on television and on the internet. The result
was that the government's Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) banned
all live broadcasts as of 8 pm on Wednesday. A statement by the UCC
said:
<QUOTE>"The Commission has noted with concern that both radio
and television broadcasting operators are relaying live broadcasts
which is inciting the public, discriminating, stirring up hatred,
promoting a culture of violence amongst viewers and are likely to
create public insecurity or violence.
The Commission reminds broadcasters that such live broadcasts are
in breach of the minimum broadcasting standards as laid down in
section 31 of UCC Act 2013."<END QUOTE>
Amnesty International issued a statement condemning the ban on live
broadcasts, saying, "Ugandans have a right to know what their elected
representatives are doing, a right the authorities must facilitate
rather than hinder." The Observer (Kampala) and The Independent (Kampala) and New Vision (Kampala) and Amnesty International
****
**** Uganda follows a familiar pattern of violence for many African countries
****
Uganda is following a familiar generational pattern that I've
described in many other countries, both in Africa and outside. When a
country's generational crisis war is a civil war between two ethnic
groups within the country, then in the decades following the end of
the war, especially during the next generational Awakening era, the
ethnic group that won the war and took power begins new violence,
atrocities, rapes, and arbitrary jailings and executions against the
ethnic group that lost the war.
Outside of Africa, we see this for example in Syria, where the
president Bashar al-Assad has for decades been using sociopathic forms
of torture on his enemies, and has used everything from Sarin gas to
barrel bombs containing metal and chlorine on marketplaces and
residential neighborhoods to kill and torture his political enemies.
Uganda's president is from the Hima tribe, which is closely allied
with the Tutsi tribe. For decades, and perhaps centuries, ethnic
Tutsis and ethnic Hutus have been conducting brutal wars with each
other, the most well-known of which is the Rwanda genocide of 1994,
where Hutus killed almost a million Tutsis in a period of three
months.
Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni, 73 years old, allied with the
Tutsis, took part in many of these gruesome atrocities and slaughter.
By any reasonable measure, he's just as much as a sociopathic monster
as Bashar al-Assad.
The same is true of Rwanda and Burundi, the other two countries that
were heavily involved in the 1994 Hutu-Tutsi genocide. The current
president of Rwanda is Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, while the president of
Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a Hutu.
All three leaders are using repressive measures to stay in power long
after their mandate has ended. But Nkurunziza in particular has been using torture,
rape, beatings,
arbitrary jailings and summary executions to suppress the Tutsis,
resulting in over 500,000 refugees in neighboring countries, including
Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.
All three countries are in a generational Awakening era, meaning that
there is no chance at this time of anything like the huge 1994
genocide. But there will be continuing government violence, torture
and arbitrary jailings in all three countries, and these patterns will
get worse as time goes on. Guardian (London, 12-Sep)
Related Articles
- UN: Burundi's Hutu government attacks on Tutsis are crimes against humanity (07-Sep-2017)
- Burundi's Pierre Nkurunziza follows Syria's Bashar al-Assad on path to genocide (13-Oct-2016)
- Rwanda's president Kagame becomes another leader refusing to leave office (19-Nov-2015)
- 20,000 refugees flee violence in Burundi, fearing Hutu-Tutsi war (30-Apr-2015)
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**** Thailand's Yingluck Shinawatra sentenced in absentia to five years in jail
****
On Wednesday, a court in Bangkok, Thailand, found Thailand's former
prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of graft in absentia,
and sentenced her to five years in jail.
As we reported last month, Yingluck fled to Dubai rather than face an
all-but-certain guilty verdict and jailing for alleged graft in the
rice stock sales program that she initiated. Yingluck supporters
believe that the charges are purely political.
This is worth mentioning in this article because Thailand is also in a
generational Awakening/Unraveling era, following Thailand's last
generational crisis war, Pol Pot's Cambodian Killing Fields war in the
late 1970s. Yingluck and her brother Thaksin were both extremely
popular as prime ministers, supported by majority dark-skinned
indigenous Thai-Thai "red shirts," but opposed by the minority
market-dominant light-skinned Thai-Chinese "yellow shirts."
Just like the leaders of Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and Syria described
above, the élite in Thailand, led by the army, are using violence,
army coups and dubious criminal charges to keep them out of power, and
allow the minority Thai-Chinese élite to continue in power.
Thailand's police chief announced on Wednesday that he is conducting a
manhunt for Yingluck, and is asking Interpol to find her and bring her
to justice in Thailand. Bangkok Post
Related: Thailand's former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra flees to Dubai (26-Aug-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Uganda, Kampala, Yoweri Museveni,
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, Uganda Communication Commission, UCC,
Amnesty International, Syria, Bashar al-Assad,
Hima, Tutsi, Hutu, Burundi, Rwanda, Paul Kagame, Pierre Nkurunziza,
Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra,
Thai-Thai, red shirts, Thai-Chinese, yellow shirts, Thaksin Shinawatra,
Pol Pot, Cambodia, Killing fields
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