Fact about the July 11, 2010 bomb blasts

Exactly 3 years ago, the Somali-based al-Shabaab militants, who have close links with the world’s leading terror group, Al Qaeda, attacked Uganda, killing 76 people who were watching the final of the FIFA World Cup.

·     The bombs went off almost simultaneously at the Kyaddondo Rugby Grounds at Lugogo and the Ethiopian Village in Kabalagala, Kampala. al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the bombings.

·     The Somali-based al-Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the explosions, saying it was avenging the presence of Ugandan peace-keepers in the war-torn Horn of African country.

 
·     Seventeen suspects, the majority being foreigners, are still on trial over the tragedy. The suspects face three counts of terrorism, 76 counts of murder and 10 of attempted murder.

 

·     The East African Court of Appeal Justice ruled that seven of the 14 suspects are legally detained in Uganda.

 

·     The suspects had asked the region’s Court of the First Instance Division to release them on the ground that their extradition to Uganda did not follow due process of extradition – ‘having been abducted, forcibly removed from Kenya and handed over to Uganda where they are illegally detained’.

 

·     Hardly 24 hours after the 3 bomb blasts that killed about 76 in Kampala, police detonated another bomb at Makindye House.

 

·     The Government announced 7 days of mourning following the July 11th, bomb blasts that claimed 76 lives including 14 Foreigners. Flags flew at half mask for a week.

 

·     A survivor was presumed dead and dumped in a mortuary and was discovered after spending 2 days among the dead. Junior Ssemujju, a carpenter and stage organizer with Silk Events sustained a cracked skull and was put under intensive care after he was discovered alive in the mortuary. He is alive today.

 

 

July 11 terror suspects

·     Hussein Hassan

·     Agad alias Hussein Agade

·     Mohammed Adan Abdow

·     Idris Magondu alias Christopher Magondu

·     Mohammad Hamid Suleiman

·     Yahya Suleiman Mbuthia

·     Habib Suleiman Njoroge

·     Omar Awadh Omar

·     Ismail Abubaker

·     Al Amin Kimathi

·     Khalifa Mohammad Abdu

·     Dr. Ismail Kalule

·     Abubakari Batemayo

·     Hijar Suleiman Nyamandondo

·     Mohammed AliMohammed

 

The Ugandan suspects are;

·     Isa Ahammed Luyima

·     Edris Nsubuga

·     Hassan Haruna Luyima

·     Abubakari Batemyetto,

·     Muhamoud Mugisha

·     Muzafar Luyima.

 
 

Bomb Blasts In Uganda Since 1997

1.     August 1, 1997: Nateete attack injures 2.

2.     August 1, 1997: A girl injured in Nakulabye.

3.     August 10, 1997: Kawempe woman killed in a bomb blast.

4.     September 9, 1997: A child is killed in Kawempe.

5.     October 30, 1997: Two injured in a Kafumbe Mukasa road explosion.

6.     January 1, 1998: Five die at Kikubamutwe blast in Kibuli.

7.     April 1, 1998: Woman killed at Speke Hotel and another blast at Uganda House injures 10, among them 3 Burundians and a swede.

8.     August 8, 1998: A world cup viewer at Issabella pub in Makindye is killed in a blast.

9.     October 23, 1998: A suspected terrorist in Najankumbi as he assembled a bomb.

10.     November 2, 1998: Former state Minister and MP for Palisa County; Muhammed Mayanja is injured in a blast.

11.     February 15, 1999: 4 people Killed on Valentine in Kabalagala.

12.     April 15, 1999: Three die in a blast behind Nakivubo stadium on Kafumbe Mukasa road.

13.     January 29, 2001: Three bomb blasts wound six in Kampala.

14.     March 16, 2001: Two die from two bomb blasts along Kampala road and Mitala Maria on Masaka road.

 15.     March 17, 2001: Pedestrians killed by a bomb blast along Kafumbe Mukasa road. Among them was a woman.

16.     March 29, 2001: Police detonate a bomb found at Owino Market.

17.     June 5, 2001: Fifteen people injured by blasts in two taxis at Maganjo and the new taxi park.

18.     July 8, 2001: Three bombs explode in Jinja, injuring six people.

19.     July 11, 2010: Three bomb blasts that went off at the Ethiopian Village and Kyadondo rugby grounds kill 76 and wounds over 50.