Uganda: Jailed King Mumbere Speaks Out

29 November 2016

Kampala/Kasese — The embattled Rwenzururu king Charles Wesley Mumbere has refused police-provided meals as he spent a second night in custody at the Nalufenya Police Station following his brutal arrest on Sunday.

Internal Affairs minister, Gen Jeje Odongo, said security forces were on the weekend left with no option but to storm the Buhikira palace, in Kasese town's Muyenga suburb, after the king declined to disarm, disband and surrender the royal guards as demanded by government.

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