LETTER TO GOVERNMENT OF
UNITED STATES
REQUEST FOR SUPPORT TO YOUTH & PEOPLE OF
UGANDA IN RECLAIMING OUR VICTORY OF 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS THAT WERE
RIGGED BY NRM REGIME IN POWER
4th March 2016
TO: President of United States of America;
THRU: Her Excellency, Ambassador of US to Uganda;
FROM THE YOUTH OF UGANDA
Dear Mr. President,
We, the youth of Uganda, write to express our deep concerns about
the affairs of our country Uganda.
Aware that US government is a key development partner to Uganda and a
protector of human freedoms, rights, democracy and good governance;
Aware that Ugandans need
development, democracy, respect of freedoms and liberties;
Aware that our 2016 presidential
elections were massively rigged and obscenely fraudulent;
Aware that we that the future of our
country lies in the hands of the youth;
Aware that the current state of
affairs in Uganda
is dictatorial and despotic;
Aware that people in Uganda are
being persecuted, tortured, arrested, tormented, intimidated, murdered, denied
their civil liberties by killer police and state organs;
Aware that we the youth and people
of Uganda
shall continue to fight for our freedoms and liberties;
We the youth of Uganda in fraternity with Uganda Youth Platform
(UYP) urgently call for your support in whatever useful means it may be from
the Government of United States of America towards our endeavors to achieve
good governance and democracy in Uganda. We have thirty (30) reasons
why we urgently need your intervention:
1.
The February 18th
presidential elections were massively fraudulent and excessively rigged by
regime in power.
2.
Killer police turned into military force
that is excessively partisan, no longer a national but personal force that we
the youth have no trust at all.
3.
Our leaders Rtd. Col. Kiiza Besigye,
Gen. Sejusa David, leader of opposition,
opposition MPs, cultural leaders, religious leaders, opinion leaders, youth
leaders are inhumanly arrested, denied justice & fairness, intimidated.
4.
There is heavy military deployment
all over the country as if Uganda
is a war zone, with hidden agenda of unleashing terror upon unarmed civilians.
5.
Our rights are violated. We cannot
enjoy our freedoms.
6.
The regime in power harbors the most
heinous and sinister motives of denying Ugandan citizens their constitutional
rights. The regimes continues to quash any possibility of people power.
7.
Regime in power is dictatorial and
does not respect any views from all segments of society be it elders, children,
women, men, farmers, youth, retirees, to mention but a few.
8.
The regime in power has destroyed
our generation. We the youth form the biggest fraction of the population, and
suffer the most with no jobs and uncaring government that exploits youth for
their sinister motives of keeping in power.
9.
The regime keeps on to forcefully
close operations of NGOs. These NGOs give us food in refugee camps. They pay
for our tuition. They pay for orphan’s school dues.
10.
Wide-spread corruption, cronyism,
repression and other anti-constitutional vices which now lie at the very core
of its misrule.
11.
Mr. Museveni is not a democrat, but
rather a heartless power-hungry dictator, who will do anything to hang to power
12.
There is no press and media freedom
13.
Right of assembly are suppressed
14.
No right to protest peacefully against
government malpractices and illegalities
15.
Suppression of our rights to hold
corrupt or errant leaders and public officials to account
16.
Elections are never free and fair and shall
never be unless we get a new government
17.
Millions of youth are suffering. The
regime does not care. We are desperate for our lives. There are million cries
of people irrespective of status, gender.
18.
Our generation is being destroyed
deliberately, through use of tribalism, sectarianism, corruption.
19.
Even service men (active and
retired) are suffering. There million cries of service men (army, police and
security officers). The regime does not care. They die for nothing is
unjustified wars. Their bodies rot. They are our brothers and sisters but
cannot bury them. Their pension is nowhere to be seen. It’s very clear that the
regime does not care about the welfare of citizens. Our neighbor (Kenya and Tanzania) are far beyond.
20. Mr.
Museveni claims that the oil resources are owned by one individual. Uganda’s oil is
a personal property. We were reminded that ‘THAT IS MY OIL’.
21. Health
system is dead, no hospitals, poor pay and harassment of health personnel who
demand for good governance
22. Education
is dead, no schools, disrespect of teachers, poor pay
23. Suffocation
of agricultural development, manipulation of farmers’ effort to develop
themselves through empty promises.
24. Poor
infrastructure such as impassable roads, embezzlement of public funds
25. Harassment
of women and manipulation of women emotions for personal gain to hold onto
power.
26. Destruction
of environmental resources through underhand methods to grab land, swamps,
marshlands, forests, plains, all for benefit of a clique in power.
27. Continuous
climate change negative effects to our generation amidst uncaring government
which is making our future existence insecure.
28. Excessive
impunity, arrogance, extreme luxury and extravagance amidst hunger killing
people in karamonja and northern Uganda.
29. The
judiciary is highly partisan and all current judges are supporters of Mr.
Museveni and his family. We refer to them as ‘Cadre Judges’. Mr. Museveni and
family identified them, appointed them, they report to him and they cannot rule
against him or his schemes to hold onto power. So we don’t trust the judiciary
to preside over any election petition or matter against vote rigging.
30. We
have no one to run to in this scenario we are in. we run to the people of
United States of America to come and help us your brothers and sisters, to
overcome suppression from a dictatorial regime, that is horrendous -
incorrigibly a monstrous one-man rule that has brought an entire nation of
millions to the precipice, destruction.
Mr. President, there are endless
concerns that we can no longer tolerate or continue to live with. We expressed
our wishes and choice in February 2016 elections, but our voice is being
suppressed. Our hope now is in you and your great nation, the United States of America, and other countries
like Britain,
and others in the European Union and the wider international community.
We request you to take our appeal to
loving men and women in your great nation. Let them listen to us. Let them give
us a hand. Let them join us in our struggle for democracy, freedom and liberty.
Let them support us in our fight against the dictatorial trinity of the father,
the family and the clan of people in power.
We request you for hand. Understand
our situation, like you understand situations of other people in similar
conditions. Base on your country’s experience of overcoming slavery, bad
governance, dictatorships in Africa and beyond
and redeem us. Please support us. Do not let us down. Lift our spirits from
slumber.
WAY FORWARD
We call upon the intervention of US
government, Great Britain, European Union and international community to
arbitrate over election fraud of February 2016 elections.
Mr. President, we are eagerly
waiting for the intervention of US
government.
From the
Youth of Uganda
Under the
fraternity of
Uganda Youth Platform
Email: uypnews@gmail.com
FOR GOD
AND OUR COUNTRY
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