The Monitor's journalists ran live updates on the newspaper's website during the Kampala protests. This is what they saw and heard from early on Friday morning to just before 15h30 on Friday afternoon.
15:25 EAT: A deathly quiet is settling over most of Kampala. Shops remain closed. The army, presidential guard and police are out in full force, walking the largely deserted streets. At Mulago National Referral Hospital, a pall hangs over the grounds as people try to come to terms with the violence unleashed by the security forces in which scores were shot – some at point blank range – with live ammunition. Reports of sporadic skirmishes between demonstrators and police elements in some suburbs continue coming in. Around the country, there are report that the public anger over yesterday's violent arrest of opposition leader, Dr Kizza Besigye, is palpable.
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