Uganda: Besigye is Committing Instant Political Suicide

Kampala — Colonel Dr. Kiizza Besigye, Reform Agenda (RA) chairman, has said he will not contest in the 2006 general elections until concrete reforms that he proposed to the Government in a Reform Charter are implemented.

Besigye has also urged the RA not to participate in the up-coming elections, saying this would "legitimise a fraudulent regime" and "harmfully detract from the main struggle for reforms."

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