UGANDA

CENTRAL CONFLICTS
that while the NRA guerrilla war was won in 1986, it left many areas impoverished, not
only the Luwero Triangle, but throughout the country. Participants from central Uganda
commented that as a result, survival became increasingly contingent on handouts,
begging, and in some cases prostitution, 497 thievery and witchcraft. Previously the sole
providers, men became unable to provide for their families. This resulted in increased
violence against women, suicide, fighting and verbal assault, and confrontations
between married men, their wives and their children. In this patriarchal society where
women are expected to be subordinate to men, the emancipation and equality that
was promoted by the NRM Government led to further confrontations between men
and women, as the men considered their masculinity to be under threat. In Central
Uganda, as in other parts of the country, the misinterpretation of women rights and
the resultant failure of some women to meet or execute their roles and responsibilities
as housewives in homes often results in quarrels, fights, child neglect, separation and
divorce.
124. Conflict between the youth and older people (2006 – present)
Conflict between the youth and older people has emerged due to continued support
for the NRM Government by older people, dating back to the NRA bush war. To date,
according to the youth, the Government has done very little to address the consequences
of the war that caused such devastation to the country. Youth in turn blame older
people for supporting a regime that has turned a deaf ear to the their problems
497 The term ‘prostitution’ used here was used by participants to describe post-Bush War dynamics
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