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The Movement System and Political Repression in Uganda
I. SUMMARY
Legal Restrictions
on Civil and Political Rights
The Movement System:
Towards a One-Party State in Uganda?
Violations of the
Rights to Freedom of Association and Assembly
Restrictions on Civil
Society and the Media
Abuse of Treason
Charges
The Role of the International
Community
II. RECOMMENDATIONS
To the Ugandan Government
To the Uganda Human
Rights Commission
To the International
Community
To the Commonwealth
and its Member States
IV. UGANDA'S OBLIGATIONS
UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
Freedom of Association
Freedom of Assembly
Political Rights:
Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Standards
and the Regulation of Political Organizations
Democracy and Civil
and Political Rights
V. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The Colonial Period
Uganda's Independence
and the First Obote Government
Idi Amin's Reign
of Terror
The Second Obote
Government and the "Bush War"
The Early NRM Period:
Administrative Bans and Military Control
The Odoki Commission
The Constituent
Assembly and the Making of the Constitution
VI. THE MOVEMENT
SYSTEM AND POLITICAL FREEDOMS IN UGANDA
Towards a Human
Rights Culture in Uganda
Commission of Inquiry into Human Rights Violations
Uganda Human Rights Commission (HRC)
The Role of Parliament
The Decentralization Process
Museveni's Theory
of the No-Party State
The Constitutional
Restrictions on Political Rights
The Movement Act:
A State-Sponsored Political Party in Disguise
The Local Council System
The Movement Structures
Chaka-mchaka: Political
Education for Social Control?
Violations of the
Right to Freedom of Association
Violations of the
Right to Freedom of Assembly
President Clinton's March 1998 Visit
May 1998 Arrests of Members of Parliament
Seminars broken up in June and July 1998
Seminars Disrupted in July and August 1998
Opposition Politician Chapaa Arrested
Member of Parliament Wasswa Lule Arrested
Arrest of FAD Officials in Moyo
Harassment of NDF Activist
Local Official Harassed after FAD Seminar
Detention and Questioning of NDF Member
The Ban on Party
Conferences and Freedom of Association and Assembly
The Proposed Political
Organizations Bill
The Exclusion of the NRM "Movement" Structures from Regulation
Onerous Restrictions on the Establishment of Political Parties
The Exclusion of Certain Groups from Political Activities
Continuing Restrictions on the Activities of Political Parties
The Referendum
on Political Parties in the Year 2000
The Adoption of the Referendum Act
Continuing Restrictions during the Referendum Period
The Rejection of the Referendum by the Opposition
The Referendum and International Standards
VI. CIVIL SOCIETY
AND THE MEDIA IN UGANDA
Restrictions on
NGO Activities
Refusal to Register Uganda National NGO Forum
Revocation of UHEDOC Registration
Delay in Registration of NOCEM
NRM Efforts to Organize Civil Society
Restrictions on Press Freedom
VII. THE MOVEMENT
SYSTEM AND THE CONFLICTS IN WESTERN AND NORTHERN UGANDA
The Movement System
and Conflict
VIII. ARBITRARY
PRE-TRIAL DETENTION: THE ABUSE OF TREASON AND OTHER PUBLIC ORDER CHARGES
Torture, Coerced
Confessions, and Treason Charges
Abuse of Treason
Charges as a Method of Political Control
Use of Treason
Charges Against Children
IX. THE ROLE OF
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Old Wine in New
Bottles: The Shortcomings of the "New Leaders" Model
Flawed Engagement
and Conspicuous Silence
The United States
The European Union
and its Member States
A Star Pupil, Sheltered
by the Word Bank?
The Impact of the
International Community's Lack of Resolve
APPENDIX I: SELECTED ARTICLES FROM UGANDA'S CONSTITUTION (1995)