Museveni a No - Show as Protesters Swamp Boston
Ugandans in USA demonstrate aganist their Government outside the Marriot Copley Hotel in Boston where the Ugandan president, His Excellencey Yoweri Museveni had been scheduled to address a dinner party hosted by the members of the ruling NRM party in the USA . H/Maina/Ajabu |
By Eva Mukasa Nabawanuka, Ajabu Africa News
BOSTON, Mass., OCTOMBER 4_ The interim chairman of Gwanga Mujje Boston Mr. John Mayanja has said that the struggle to remove president Museveni from power has started from the USA .
Mayanja said this last Saturday (Sep 26) while addressing hundreds of Ugandan demonstrators in Boston .
He said that President Museveni was a coward. "The way this man is running the country leaves a lot to be desired. He is ordering members of the armed forces to arrest innocent people including politicians for no reason at all. Just recently he ordered for the arrest of Betty Nambooze, the Democratic Party spokeswoman and a member of the Kabaka's land sensitization committee".
Ugandans living in the Diaspora marched from Boston Commons to the Marriot hotel in down town Boston where a handful of NRM supporters had gathered to meet president Museveni. The president however did not show up for unknown reasons.
Mayanja said since president Museveni did not turn up for the NRM gala, it meant that he feared to be embarrassed by the crowd that was demonstrating outside the hotel.
He warned that, ”We know that among us here are Museveni spies and we know who you are, but you go and tell him that we are coming to Uganda and that nothing will stop us from fighting for our cause. The struggle that has started today marks a historical struggle.”
Demonstrators who were singing the Buganda anthem and dancing traditional dances with drums and whistles displayed placards, saying that Museveni should go, Museveni should re-open CBS and other radios, should stop killing innocent Ugandans, while others warned of a possible genocide like one which was in Rwanda.
An injured person during the recent violence by soldiers aganist demonstrators in Uganda |
They came from different states including New Jersey , New York , Minnesota, Connecticut, Rhode Island, California among others.
Mayanja said that what had just happened in Uganda a few weeks ago when more than 26 people were killed by the armed forces, over 100 injured and 600 arrested and detained in safe houses, does not only affect Baganda but the whole nation.
Mayanja later announced the global Buganda emergency conference to take place on October 17th 2009 at Water Town, Mass. He said the agenda of the conference is to plan the way forward and to deliberate on Buganda issues.
Earlier on in the week, while Museveni was attending the UN conference in New York, Ugandan demonstrated at the United Nations headquarters. President Museveni was whisked in car 100 metres away while the Uganda's Pernament Representative to the UN, Dr. Ruhana Rugunda,
the PPS to the President Emilia Kyambadde and Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Ambassador J. Mugumya had a shock of their lives when they bumped into the demonstrators at the conference building.
Ugandan Demonstrators outside the venue of the recent UN General Assembly in New York.
pic by Ronald Magembe/Ajabu
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About 200 Ugandans from different walks of life gathered in New York to demonstrate against the Museveni's regime record of continued abuse of Human rights and maintaining a dictatorial culture in Uganda. Carrying placards and banners leveling accusations on Uganda's president, Gen. Yoweri Museveni,
ranging from Genocide to infanticide and ethnic cleansing, the group spend most
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