UHRC should be impartial
Sep 19, 2009
HUMAN Rights activists have launched a scathing attack on the Government for the method it used to quell the violence we witnessed last week. I am dismayed by the bad-mouthing to portray the Government as ‘the bad guy’.
HUMAN Rights activists have launched a scathing attack on the Government for the method it used to quell the violence we witnessed last week. I am dismayed by the bad-mouthing to portray the Government as ‘the bad guy’.
For starters, the radio stations that were closed literally mooted hatred and fanned brutality in men and women of unbecoming behaviour to visit violence on innocent citizens.
This is proved by Radio Sapientia’s apology which attests to the unprofessional conduct of their staff.
While the Uganda Human Rights Commission chairman, Medi Kaggwa, is right to call for "expeditious trial of the suspected rioters......", he should use the same breath to call for the same kind of trial for many other suspects who we know are rotting in jail due to delayed justice.
They are just as human as the riot suspects. Does freedom of speech mean inciting violence?
Radio Mille Colline of Rwanda used this kind ‘freedom’ in 1994 and a million lives perished. Thereafter, Human Rights Watch became the vanguard for the genocidaires’ defence!
Benjamin Mayanja, Kabale
For starters, the radio stations that were closed literally mooted hatred and fanned brutality in men and women of unbecoming behaviour to visit violence on innocent citizens.
This is proved by Radio Sapientia’s apology which attests to the unprofessional conduct of their staff.
While the Uganda Human Rights Commission chairman, Medi Kaggwa, is right to call for "expeditious trial of the suspected rioters......", he should use the same breath to call for the same kind of trial for many other suspects who we know are rotting in jail due to delayed justice.
They are just as human as the riot suspects. Does freedom of speech mean inciting violence?
Radio Mille Colline of Rwanda used this kind ‘freedom’ in 1994 and a million lives perished. Thereafter, Human Rights Watch became the vanguard for the genocidaires’ defence!
Benjamin Mayanja, Kabale