Friday, May 6, 2011

Peace

Friday 29th, April 2011 while the rest of the world (At least 2 billion viewers) were watching the British royal wedding back home, Kampala was in a state of lock down, life seemed to have stopped for a while and the streets were littered with debris, burnt tires and were akin to those on the  war front.

Peace for us all
But If you had been following the events on the news over the last couple of weeks over the #walktowork protests, the arrest of Dr. KB, the governments' response to all that was happening then this would not be surprising at all.

Given the brutal action movie like arrest of #Besigye and his aides for the oba what time.
Ugandans of all walks of life took to the streets to protest this, remember in physics, we learnt that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, the police forgot this and went ahead and brutally used tear gas, sprayed pepper, fired at fellow Ugandans in the name of dispersing the rioters!

The police was joined by the army and military police and the clashes were horrible, however what was most noticeable was how these police chaps were really trained to spank fellow Ugandans!!

Because the Ugandan media had no balls to broadcast what was going on in their country but instead opted for the Royal wedding, twitter today became my companion from the different tweets I was able to know what was happening around me! And since today I couldn't do much or influence any of the happenings which I wish I could, all I can do is rant here and hope that people can know that the only constant is life is change!

Good night...

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