Kampala — Baganda youth was on Thursday pelted stones at Uganda People's Congress new president chasing him from the burnt down royal burial site.

Mr Olara Otunnu, who led the UPC delegation to Kasubi tombs, had gone to show sympathy with Buganda following the Tuesday night inferno that reduced the burial ground for the Kabakas into ashes.

But the already charged youth could not allow the former UN diplomat to express his sentiments.

"Sing Kitibwa Kya Buganda to prove that you belong to us," shouted the enraged youth.

The UPC officials that accompanied Mr Otunnu bailed him out on this, chorusing the renowned Buganda anthem.

No sooner had the UPC leader completed his first assignment than the youth demanded that he addresses them in Luganda. This was the turning point in the erstwhile cool tempers among the youth.

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Mr Otunnu, who could not speak Luganda, sought help of a translator, a gesture that infuriated the youth.

"We are not Europeans. You must address us in Luganda," the enraged youth shouted in Luganda, "We don't want you here. You are the people who killed Mutesa and now you pretend that you have changed. This is a cultural affair not political."

The youth started throwing stones and other objects that they could come by, forcing Mr Otunnu and his delegation to retreat hastily for their safety. But they pursued them throwing stones, and the rear windscreen of the Toyota Land Cruiser that Mr Otunnu used to escape from the scene was smashed.

The anger of the Baganda youth against Mr Otunnu is understood to stem from the demise of Kabaka Frederick William Mutesa Walugembe in Britain three years after the 1966 attack on Lubiri by late President Milton Obote's army, an issue pundits argue Baganda have never forgiven Obote's party, UPC.