Uganda's regime just arrest the main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, he was about to start a protest march in Kampala, Uganda's capital, against the rising cost of living. Eyewitnesses told the Reuters news agency, Besigye was handcuffed and put in a police car. Just before disappearing, the leading critical voice against the regime of Museveni condemned the "flagrant abuse of human rights and the use of violence against innocent people." "He has been arrested after blocking a street.
Police tried to stop it, but it has resisted, "reported this morning the police spokeswoman, Judith Nabakooba, told Agence France Presse, referring to the arrest of Ugandan opposition known. "They have used tear gas to disperse a hostile group throwing stones," added the police spokesman, without elaborating on whether there have been further arrests.
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), a coalition of opposition groups headed by Besigye, immediately condemned the "excessive use" of the police force, while recalled that the Ugandan state "can not prevent citizens from ordinary Ugandans to walk in the street. " The opposition and several civilians had been scheduled for Monday the protest march "Walk to Work" to denounce the rise in basic food and fuel, partly due to Libya crisis, an ally and supplier of oil to Uganda.
On Friday, Besigye urged Ugandans to join the protest, a call that alerted police, who warned against demonstrations "illegal." "We are not intimidated. People are right to want to demonstrate peacefully. Do not get deterred, "he said then Besigye, a former personal physician of President Museveni, in power since 1986.
Besigye has faced at the polls to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, on three occasions. The latter, in the presidential Feb. 18, in which Museveni was made by an overwhelming majority in the first round, which allowed remain in power another term, until he turned 30 in office. Besigye, who barely won in February 26% of the vote, denounced electoral fraud.
With his victory in February, Museveni became the oldest president in East Africa. Autocratic tendencies of marked and known for its abuses against the homosexual minority in the country, the Ugandan regime is an important ally of the West in its struggle against radical Islam in Somalia.
Uganda is the mainstay of the African Union mission in support of the Transitional Federal Government, support has obscured the repressive domestic policy Museveni. 
Police tried to stop it, but it has resisted, "reported this morning the police spokeswoman, Judith Nabakooba, told Agence France Presse, referring to the arrest of Ugandan opposition known. "They have used tear gas to disperse a hostile group throwing stones," added the police spokesman, without elaborating on whether there have been further arrests.
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), a coalition of opposition groups headed by Besigye, immediately condemned the "excessive use" of the police force, while recalled that the Ugandan state "can not prevent citizens from ordinary Ugandans to walk in the street. " The opposition and several civilians had been scheduled for Monday the protest march "Walk to Work" to denounce the rise in basic food and fuel, partly due to Libya crisis, an ally and supplier of oil to Uganda.
On Friday, Besigye urged Ugandans to join the protest, a call that alerted police, who warned against demonstrations "illegal." "We are not intimidated. People are right to want to demonstrate peacefully. Do not get deterred, "he said then Besigye, a former personal physician of President Museveni, in power since 1986.
Besigye has faced at the polls to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, on three occasions. The latter, in the presidential Feb. 18, in which Museveni was made by an overwhelming majority in the first round, which allowed remain in power another term, until he turned 30 in office. Besigye, who barely won in February 26% of the vote, denounced electoral fraud.
With his victory in February, Museveni became the oldest president in East Africa. Autocratic tendencies of marked and known for its abuses against the homosexual minority in the country, the Ugandan regime is an important ally of the West in its struggle against radical Islam in Somalia.
Uganda is the mainstay of the African Union mission in support of the Transitional Federal Government, support has obscured the repressive domestic policy Museveni.
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