About Regression of democracy in Uganda:
Since the 17th century, elections have represented a necessary condition for the legitimate functioning of representative democracies. Nonetheless, if the criteria of freedom and fairness are not properly respected, the mere presence of the popular vote will not prevent a country from experiencing democratic regression.
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni brought an end to two tyrannies; in 1979 his militia helped to oust IDI Amin’s famously bloody regime; and in the 1980s his army won a 5 year guerrilla campaign against the brutal government of Milton Obote.
When his men marched into Kampala in 1986, Museveni became the first leader of a popular insurrection to oust a sitting African government. Since then, an 81 year old president doesn’t show any signs of backing down!
The light that we were all observed shining bright from Western Uganda where his roots are traced is now blurred to total darkness. Despite “Western world countries” claims that he brought peace to Uganda after years of violence under his predecessors, his regime has been bloody from start.
Despite the growing cries of autocracy against Museveni, Washington DC and other western countries mostly Colonialist Britain has backed him as a strong man who has turned Uganda into a bulwark of stability in Africa’s troubled great lakes region.
The book explore Uganda’s democratic regression Road, “Regression of Democracy in Uganda: Left with Dashed Hopes and Thwarted Dreams” is a Third book In Blurred Light from West Series that traces some incidents, atrocities, extrajudicial killings, electoral process, events of violence and human rights violation between 2000-2017 that greatly reveal the state of democracy president Museveni disguised to have brought to Uganda.
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Author Bio:
Lukonge Achilees is four time published author of Creative Nonfiction autobiography Memoirs, Historical True-crime series and Parenting Books.