UGANDA

NATIONAL CONFLICTS
Mutebi II’s planned visit to his own community in Kayunga, within the Buganda Kingdom,
sparked mass protest and riots from the Baganda. Violent encounters in Kampala and
other urban centres in Buganda between police and army and civilian rioters left over
40 people dead. 204
Participants
from Buganda described
these events as an attack on their Kingdom, which the
Museveni Government claims to have revived after Obote’s abolition of Kingdoms in
1967. Participants further asserted that the attack on their Kabaka was politically
influenced because the Government used the Banyala, a so-called marginalised ethnic
group in Kayunga, to break away from Buganda Kingdom and become independent. 205
204 Sserunjogi, E.M. (2011) Two years after Buganda Riots. The Independent [Internet], 10 September.
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205 Research conducted in Mubende and Mukono Districts
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