Richard M. Kavuma
5 September 2002
Kampala — Ugandans living in South Africa last Sunday staged a demonstration against President Yoweri Museveni.
A statement from the Uganda Democratic Awareness Campaign (UDAC) said some 100 of its members took part in the peaceful demo. It took place outside the Eskom Conference Centre in Midrand in which Museveni addressed South Africa-based Ugandans.
"The Ugandan High Commission did everything in its power to frustrate the demonstration two weeks prior," read the statement signed by Peter Wandwasi.
The demonstrators carried placards reading "Who is Kakooza Mutale?" and "Northern Uganda is part of Uganda."
The statement said South African Police, and one Kasheija of ESO, prevented the demonstrators from entering the centre.
Wandwasi, a member of the UDAC's Steering Committee, presented a "memorandum on democracy, peace and good governance" to High Commissioner Joseph Tomusange in place of President Museveni.
The memorandum, a copy of which was also e-mailed to The Monitor, demanded the freeing of political parties, observation of human rights by the state, and using the army to protect democracy instead of the government of the day.
Other demands included the stopping of wars and ending the 'systematic corruption in Uganda.'
"The President and Government must commit themselves to an amicable solution to the Northern Uganda War," the memorandum read.
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