Uganda: CMI, ISO Forced Police to Own Up to Torture

Suspects in custody at Nalufenya police station over the alleged killing of the late Assistant Inspector General of Police Andrew Felix Kaweesi, have a shocking habit of turning up in public with grisly torture marks and wounds.

And police and other security agencies have hitherto had difficulty explaining away the torture accusations leveled by the suspects against them. Late last week, after the testimony and pictures of a tortured Geoffrey Byamukama, the LC III chairperson for Kamwenge town council, came into public view, police spokesman Asan Kasingye tried to fend off the pressure by claiming the alleged torture could have happened at the hands of operatives from other security agencies.

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