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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Government functionaries this past week found themselves in a defensive crouch after Stella Nyanzi and Kakwenza Rukirabashaija repeated claims of experiencing torture at the hand of state actors.<\/p>\n

Both satirical writers\u2014who are on a writers-in-exile programme run by PEN Germany\u2014spoke candidly from their Munich abode about torture in Uganda to Al Jazeera\u2019s The Stream.<\/p>\n

They shared fears in forecasting that the future for President Museveni\u2019s critics is more precarious than ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cYoweri Museveni has created a facade of freedom of expression for those who will toe the line of respectability and diplomacy and will hail his regime,\u201d Nyanzi, 47, said.<\/p>\n

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She added: \u201c Those of us who undress him with our words and speeches, those of us who show the limits he has put Ugandans to, those of us who highlight the plight that Ugandans have to endure are silenced\u2026penalised, criminalised and pathologised.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Museveni was also roundly condemned by Mr Rukirabashaija who said in no uncertain terms that state capture ensured he wouldn\u2019t get a fair shake in Ugandan courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fled the country because I wanted to live,\u201d Mr Rukirabashaija said.<\/p>\n

The incivility of Mr Rukirabashaija and Nyanzi has on varying occasions seen them have a brush with the law in Uganda.<\/p>\n

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Nyanzi was jailed in 2017 after calling Mr Museveni \u201ca pair of buttocks\u201d and in 2018 for writing poetically about the president being strangled by his mother\u2019s vagina.<\/p>\n

On his part, Mr Rukirabashaija called Mr Museveni\u2019s son, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, \u201cobese.\u201d Both offered no apologies on The Stream.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must learn how to use English words,\u201d Mr Rukirabashaija said. \u201cIf someone is a fool, we must tell them they are a fool\u2026why should we be gagged in the name of vulgarities?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nyanzi said the roots of episodes of torture in Uganda can be traced back to the \u201corder from above\u201d euphemism.<\/p>\n

She concluded: You can be sure that\u2014upon investigation\u2014every order from above in the security services\u2026even among paramilitary pseudo security outfits in Uganda originates from either Yoweri Museveni, his wife Janet Kataha or his son Muhoozi.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Museveni recently told Voice of America that while \u201cit\u2019s true that some of the people have been tortured\u201d the acts of terror from security forces \u201cstill being built\u201d could be unintended consequences from \u201ctraditional ideas or imported ideas from the former colonialists.\u201d<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Uganda<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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