Human rights watch report on Kasese murders
This is a brief version of how murderous this regime is and its my sincere believe that all this genocidal atrocities targeting a particular ethnicity is sanctioned by powers that be in Uganda.
Victims and witnesses interviewed by Human Rights Watch indicated that the total is likely higher as people were buried in unmarked graves and some people remain unaccounted for. Several witnesses said at least 50 of the alleged Bakonzo attackers are believed to be among the dead, though many more were probably people fleeing the violence. In one area, some Bakonzo elders compiled a list of 83 people who are missing.
“I counted 53 bodies, which we loaded on a tractor,” said one man ordered to bury people in mass graves. “We picked up the bodies from inside the barracks. Some of the bodies had no heads and hands, others had bullet wounds on the head and chest.”
“The question remains, who is buried in these mass graves and who killed them?” said Burnett. “Without timely and independent investigations, those questions remain unanswered and victims have no justice.”
Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by credible allegations that in Bundibugyo district, Bakonzo civilians were attacked, detained in private homes, mutilated, tortured, killed, and burned or buried in mass and unmarked graves. Witnesses and community leaders told Human Rights Watch that these reprisals allegedly occurred under the supervision of local leaders and members of the security services. Several photographs gathered from community members and local journalists, which Human Rights Watch believes are authentic, show dismembered and mutilated corpses. In one case, a relative identified a dismembered man in a photograph as his brother.
Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that fleeing Bakonzo were caught at roadblocks and killed and that some were buried in mass unmarked graves.
Victims in Bundibugyo said that Gombolola Internal Security Officers (GISOs), local-level members of Uganda’s Internal Security Organization, and local leaders organized vigilante groups to hunt down fleeing Bakonzo.
One witness in Kirumya sub-county said that a GISO gathered some Bakonzo in an open space near a video hall and mobilized vigilantes to hack seven Bakonzo people to death:
All those arrested were beaten and cut with machetes. They cut them in the elbow, ankle, and knee joints. Only two were spared. These two … tried to escape in the night. The youth got hold of them and cut them into pieces. The body parts were scattered all over and I saw the legs and arms of people thrown apart. Some bodies had only the head remaining.
Horrific acts of violence took place in western Uganda four months ago, and members of all the ethnicity's involved should have timely justice. The government should urgently support a serious, credible, and above all, independent investigation into the July violence in Rwenzori.
Maria Burnett, senior Africa researcher
This again demonstrates the extent that the regime murders its own citizen to resolve a genuine concerns of a tribe that feels aggrieved.
This is a brief version of how murderous this regime is and its my sincere believe that all this genocidal atrocities targeting a particular ethnicity is sanctioned by powers that be in Uganda.
Victims and witnesses interviewed by Human Rights Watch indicated that the total is likely higher as people were buried in unmarked graves and some people remain unaccounted for. Several witnesses said at least 50 of the alleged Bakonzo attackers are believed to be among the dead, though many more were probably people fleeing the violence. In one area, some Bakonzo elders compiled a list of 83 people who are missing.
“I counted 53 bodies, which we loaded on a tractor,” said one man ordered to bury people in mass graves. “We picked up the bodies from inside the barracks. Some of the bodies had no heads and hands, others had bullet wounds on the head and chest.”
“The question remains, who is buried in these mass graves and who killed them?” said Burnett. “Without timely and independent investigations, those questions remain unanswered and victims have no justice.”
Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by credible allegations that in Bundibugyo district, Bakonzo civilians were attacked, detained in private homes, mutilated, tortured, killed, and burned or buried in mass and unmarked graves. Witnesses and community leaders told Human Rights Watch that these reprisals allegedly occurred under the supervision of local leaders and members of the security services. Several photographs gathered from community members and local journalists, which Human Rights Watch believes are authentic, show dismembered and mutilated corpses. In one case, a relative identified a dismembered man in a photograph as his brother.
Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that fleeing Bakonzo were caught at roadblocks and killed and that some were buried in mass unmarked graves.
Victims in Bundibugyo said that Gombolola Internal Security Officers (GISOs), local-level members of Uganda’s Internal Security Organization, and local leaders organized vigilante groups to hunt down fleeing Bakonzo.
One witness in Kirumya sub-county said that a GISO gathered some Bakonzo in an open space near a video hall and mobilized vigilantes to hack seven Bakonzo people to death:
All those arrested were beaten and cut with machetes. They cut them in the elbow, ankle, and knee joints. Only two were spared. These two … tried to escape in the night. The youth got hold of them and cut them into pieces. The body parts were scattered all over and I saw the legs and arms of people thrown apart. Some bodies had only the head remaining.
Horrific acts of violence took place in western Uganda four months ago, and members of all the ethnicity's involved should have timely justice. The government should urgently support a serious, credible, and above all, independent investigation into the July violence in Rwenzori.
Maria Burnett, senior Africa researcher
This again demonstrates the extent that the regime murders its own citizen to resolve a genuine concerns of a tribe that feels aggrieved.
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