Uganda: 2016 Elections Leave Trail of Terror

1 February 2017

Kampala. Zeridah Kakayi, the FDC Youth League Secretary General crossed the road from Christ the King Church where she was due to attend mass on May 11, a day before President Museveni's swearing in to buy airtime from a vendor outside the gate of Kampala Casino. But before she could make the transaction, two men came from behind and surrounded her.

One had a handgun and another had what looked like a tear gas canister. They told her not to resist. If she did, one of the men told her, they would tear gas the area and in the process shoot her. She was scared.

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