UGANDA

COMPENDIUM OF CONFLICTS IN UGANDA
As a result, the police and national army (UPDF) were involved in brutality against
innocent demonstrators, including the use of expired tear gas creating health risks,
arbitrary arrests and other human rights violations. 228 This sparked more angry reactions
from civilian protestors who fought the police, and in one encounter in Kampala, John
Ariong, the Assistant Inspector of Police, was killed.
38. Resource based conflicts with neighbouring countries (Ongoing)
Uganda is a landlocked country endowed with natural resources such as forests,
rivers, lakes and minerals, and some of these resources extend past its borders into
neighbouring countries. Thus, competition over access to resources has caused conflicts
between Uganda and neighbouring countries such as the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC), South Sudan, Sudan, and Kenya.
For example, conflicts between Uganda and Kenya over fishing rights near Migingo Island
in Lake Victoria remain unresolved today. A conflict over oil exists between Uganda and
the DRC in the Lake Albert/Bunyoro border area. Such resource-based conflicts with
neighbouring countries pose a threat to regional integration, peace and security. 229
228 Human Rights Network-Uganda. (2011) CSO letter on the handling of the Walk to Work campaign
and demonstrators. [Internet], Available from:
[Accessed 10 July, 2014]
229 Research conducted in Hoima and Mukono Districts
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