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Ugandan capital calm after 14 killed in riots
Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:38am EDT
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By Njuwa Maina
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Calm returned to the center of Uganda's capital Saturday after two days of riots that killed 14 people, including a policeman, and injured nearly 100.
The violence that erupted Thursday was triggered by land and power disputes between the government and leaders of Buganda -- one of the east African country's four ancient kingdoms.
Saturday shops remained closed in the center of Kampala and residents walked cautiously past police with their hands in the air to try and avoid beatings, sometimes unsuccessfully.
Some youths tried to erect barricades in the outlying Kuburi and Kalelwe districts but security forces fired in the air and used tear gas to disperse them. A torrential downpour in the afternoon cleared the streets.
"We carried out our investigation and found that 14 people, including one policeman who was coming from leave and was ambushed by these hoodlums, have been killed since the beginning of the riots," said police chief Major General Kale Kayihura.
The police said in a statement 82 people and 13 police officers had sustained varying degrees of injuries during the unrest and that 550 suspects had been arrested.
Thursday, the security forces stopped a senior official from Buganda from going to the town of Kayunga to prepare for a visit by the king Saturday, sparking the clashes in the capital.
The king, or Kabaka, called off his trip to the town east of Kampala late Friday night to avoid an escalation of violence.
"We think we have neutralized all the groups which have been causing disturbances for the last two days. The city and suburbs are calm now," police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba told Reuters.
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East Africa's third biggest economy has been hailed for its political and economic stability over the last two decades following years of civil war during the 1970s and 80s.
Museveni has been widely admired for his fiscal reforms and poverty alleviation programs. But critics, including some Western donors, accuse him of rights abuses and repression.
A fight with Buganda only adds to the pressure on him after the opposition said major reforms were essential if the next election in 2011 was to be free and fair.
Uganda's former leader Milton Obote abolished the historical kingdoms in 1966. In the early 1990s, Museveni restored the traditional leaders, who are widely revered by their subjects, but he has since been accused of trying to undermine them.
Political commentator Gawaya Tegulle said the turmoil showed the leaders on both sides had learned nothing from their nation's blood-soaked past. Continued...
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