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Ugandan Uprising for Food and Fuel

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Ugandan opposition leaders have been arrested while peacefully walking to work to protest soaring fuel and food prices that have pushed many Ugandans to the edge of survival. Images of the first Walk to Work protest, on Monday, February 11th, looked much like those of the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, which resonated throughout the U.S.A. and sparked the African American Civil Rights Movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King. However, on Thursday, February 14th, police fired tear gas and live ammunition on demonstrators in both Kampala, Uganda's capitol, and in Gulu, a commercial center in Northern Uganda's indigenous Acholiland, where three protestors died. By the end of the Thursday, February 21st Walk to Work protests, at least 5 people had been killed, including a 2-year old baby girl killed by police gunfire, and an 18-year-old pregnant woman had been shot in the abdomen.
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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached (more...)
 

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