Mollie Sasiraabo's & Other Makerere Victims' Fund
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In Military Dictator Gen. Yoweri Museveni's Uganda where unemployment is at over 80% the youth still yearn for education--they see it as their passport to a better future. They are so desperate that some women have reportedly turned to prostitution in order to help pay for their tuition fees.
On Tuesday October 22, a courageous third year psychology student at Makerere University Siperia Mollie Sasiraabo and other students led a protest against a 15% tuition hike at the college.
As a result of the protest by the brave students many were brutally beaten by Museveni's soldiers with some suffering broken bones. Several were treated in hospitals and some were admitted. Ms. Sasiraabo lay drifting in and out of consciousness in a hospital in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. She's the victim of an assault, it's believed, by Ugandan military dictator Museveni's security agents.
Meanwhile this same week soldiers and police, in actions reminiscent of the Idi Amin dictatorship in Uganda, raided the Makerere university campuses and unleashed brutal beatings against other students who are suspected of having supported the protest against the tuition hike. There are reports that some students were raped by soldiers.
There are videos posted on social media showing soldiers with weapons, hovering over about a dozen young men who have been forced to strip naked and are then ordered to roll on the ground. This humiliating form of torture has become common during Museveni's depraved dictatorship which has now lasted for 33 years in Uganda. A report in Uganda's leading private newspaper, The Daily Monitor, says at least 43 students have been arrested. (This number was later updated to 60 as more details about the atrocities emerged. Even disabled students were assaulted. The soldiers also smashed students belongings such as computers and TVs as well as University property)
All the Makerere University students arrested must be released unconditionally and immediately.
The U.S. and the U.K. both of which have armed Gen. Museveni's military must suspend all weapons shipment to the regime and training for his army and police force.
In the meantime let's all chip in whatever we can to help all the brave students at Makerere like Siperia Mollie Sasiraabo as they all recover from their harrowing and painful ordeals.
(This appeal has been edited and updated to include all the Makerere University students who were victims of the brutal attacks by military dictator Museveni's soldiers. The initial appeal focused on Mollie whose case was the first that Ugandan media covered. Thank you)
On Tuesday October 22, a courageous third year psychology student at Makerere University Siperia Mollie Sasiraabo and other students led a protest against a 15% tuition hike at the college.
As a result of the protest by the brave students many were brutally beaten by Museveni's soldiers with some suffering broken bones. Several were treated in hospitals and some were admitted. Ms. Sasiraabo lay drifting in and out of consciousness in a hospital in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. She's the victim of an assault, it's believed, by Ugandan military dictator Museveni's security agents.
Meanwhile this same week soldiers and police, in actions reminiscent of the Idi Amin dictatorship in Uganda, raided the Makerere university campuses and unleashed brutal beatings against other students who are suspected of having supported the protest against the tuition hike. There are reports that some students were raped by soldiers.
There are videos posted on social media showing soldiers with weapons, hovering over about a dozen young men who have been forced to strip naked and are then ordered to roll on the ground. This humiliating form of torture has become common during Museveni's depraved dictatorship which has now lasted for 33 years in Uganda. A report in Uganda's leading private newspaper, The Daily Monitor, says at least 43 students have been arrested. (This number was later updated to 60 as more details about the atrocities emerged. Even disabled students were assaulted. The soldiers also smashed students belongings such as computers and TVs as well as University property)
All the Makerere University students arrested must be released unconditionally and immediately.
The U.S. and the U.K. both of which have armed Gen. Museveni's military must suspend all weapons shipment to the regime and training for his army and police force.
In the meantime let's all chip in whatever we can to help all the brave students at Makerere like Siperia Mollie Sasiraabo as they all recover from their harrowing and painful ordeals.
(This appeal has been edited and updated to include all the Makerere University students who were victims of the brutal attacks by military dictator Museveni's soldiers. The initial appeal focused on Mollie whose case was the first that Ugandan media covered. Thank you)
Organizer
Milton Allimadi
Organizer
The Bronx, NY