Political crime

CHRONICLES OF A THIRD SAD TERM: Arbitrary Arrests, Imprisonment, Torture and Death By Andrew Karamagi Once hailed as the dawn of the end of a tumultuous post-independence period in which opportunity and dignity would be for every Ugandan regardless of political shade, ethnicity, religious persuasion or gender, an era in which extra-judicial killings, institutional corruption and pervasive poverty would be a tale of the past, the ascent to power of the Yoweri Museveni-led National Resistance Movement (now National Resistance Movement-Organisation) was hailed across Africa and major Western capitals and editorials in global news magazines as "one of the new breed of African leaders" who would transform their respective countries into productive, self-sustaining constitutional democracies. For less than a decade, the euphoria seemed justified; the few telltale signs (financial indiscretion, gross human rights abuses in Northern Uganda and a messy