Uganda: 'Give Us Back Our People' - the Ugandans Who Disappeared

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Uganda: 'Give Us Back Our People' - the Ugandans Who Disappeared
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Analysis - Senior officials claim not to know the whereabouts of individuals arrested nearly two years ago, as state abductions continue.

Senior officials claim not to know the whereabouts of individuals arrested nearly two years ago, as state abductions continue.capital Kampala, after spending over 19 months in detention without trial. His alleged"crime" was wearing a red beret, a symbol associated with supporters of the musician-cum-politician Bobi Wine. He was missing for so long that his family held a funeral service for him.

At the time, President Yoweri Museveni dismissed reports of missing people."The talk of disappearance should be ignored, because it can't happen under the [National Resistance Movement]," he said in a televised address in February 2021."We never cover up, there's nothing which we do and hide." Wangolo's wife, Florence Nabakooza, says that she sometimes hears from former detainees who say they have seen him alive. She has gone to Kitalya prison three times and to Kigo prison twice to follow up reports that he is there. Each time, the prison officers tell her they have no record of him. Meanwhile, she scrapes a living by washing clothes. The landlord is hassling her about unpaid rent. She cannot afford to send her two oldest children to school.

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