Human Rights Watch : Uganda: No Justice for 2016 Kasese Massacre by Security Forces

FEATURE
- Length 02:20
  File Size 127.93 MB
- Download VIDEO WITHOUT TITLES VIDEO
  GET EMBED CODE

Uganda: No Justice for 2016 Kasese Massacre by Security Forces

Ongoing Tensions; Many Civilians Still Detained

Wednesday 10 October 2018

(Nairobi, October 10, 2018) – Ugandan authorities have failed to investigate the police and military responsible for killing more than 100 people in western Uganda in 2016, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing a video featuring interviews with victims’ families. Those killed on November 26 and 27, 2016 in Kasese, home of the Rwenzururu kingdom, included at least 15 children. “Ugandan officials won’t even ask why overwhelming lethal force was used that day and why children died, which shows a terrifying disdain for human life,” said Maria Burnett, East Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Security forces shoot, kill, arrest, detain and torture civilians, charge them with serious crimes, such as treason, and yet the government only investigates the civilians, while giving the security forces a free pass to abuse again.”