Riot police use tear gas on protesters (Uganda)

By Daniel Wallis

Kampala - Ugandan police used a water cannon and teargas to disperse hundreds of people protesting on Thursday in the capital Kampala against giving President Yoweri Museveni more years in power. <snip>

"We decided to go ahead because we wanted to show the country and the whole world that we are not yet free," one of the organisers, former Kampala mayor Al-Hajji Nasser Sebaggala, told reporters as he coughed on wisps of tear gas.

On the other side of the square, a large blue police truck mounted with a water cannon fired jets as it edged towards groups of singing and dancing protesters blocking the road. <snip>

Another organiser of Thursday's protest, Uganda's former spy chief David Pulkol, said "it is illegal to stop Ugandan citizens from carrying out their right to assemble freely".

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"Museveni has won praise from Western governments for privatising state enterprises, cutting government spending and urging African self-reliance"
a dictator straight out of Greg Palast