Uganda police drive-by killings revealed using mobile phone footage

A solitary truck conveying eight cops was liable for a mass shooting in the focal point of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, in November a year ago in which in any event four individuals passed on and a lot more were harmed, an examination by BBC Africa Eye has found.

The shootings were essential for a crackdown on fights in Kampala following the capture of resistance pioneer Robert Kyagulanyi, a vocalist turned legislator known as Bobi Wine, who was battling as a contender for official decisions held two months after the fact.

In excess of 50 individuals were killed and hundreds hurt by security powers and police more than two days in the capital and somewhere else. President Yoweri Museveni won a 6th term in office in the surveys, which resistance legislators said were deceitful.

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Authorities at first said that any losses had been hoodlums and brutal agitators, prior to conceding that some honest individuals had kicked the bucket subsequent to being hit by “stray slugs”.

Pictures posted via web-based media showed police in Kampala shooting unpredictably at individuals in structures disregarding the fights and unidentifiable men in casually dressed, accepted to be security faculty, discharging programmed weapons. In excess of 350 individuals were captured, police said.

The BBC Africa Eye examination, delivered on Monday, recreates the killing of four individuals on Kampala Road just as the demise of a 15-year-old kid and the genuine injuring of two ladies somewhere else in the capital. The investigation of in excess of 300 video cuts from cell phones and meetings with in excess of 30 observers emphatically recommends that all were shot by police or troopers and that none were occupied with any crime or dissent.

Experts in Uganda conceded the vehicle recognized in the examination was a police watch vehicle, however said they had no data connecting it to aimless shooting.

Cell phone recordings and photos show the watch truck passing inside meters of Kamuyat Ngobi, a 28-year-old mother of four, who imploded and kicked the bucket with a solitary projectile in the head seconds after the fact. A shot is heard on chronicles as the police truck passed her.

Ngobi made money preparing and offering food to nearby organizations and had made a conveyance to a neighborhood shop minutes before she was killed. Pictures of her grisly body show crushed plates of food she was conveying to her granddad in a close by building.

“On the off chance that I at any point see the individual who shot Kamuyat I will request that they shoot me as well. What harms me more than anything else is that I won’t ever see her again,” said Zikaye Takumala, her mom.

A similar police vehicle proceeded with Kampala Road, passing a café where two individuals were shot and harmed. Subsequent to driving another 60 meters, it passed John Amera, a 31-year-old dad of two and cell phone shopworker who was shot in the chest and executed. The following casualty was 23-year-old Abbas Kalule, who was hit in the upper thigh and passed on in medical clinic four days after the fact. The police truck at that point turned north-east and passed John Kitobe, who had obtained a significant amount of wealth. The 72-year-old resigned bookkeeper was hit in the neck by a projectile and murdered.

Abbas Kalule

Abbas Kalule, who was shot on Kampala Road and kicked the bucket four days after the fact. Photo: BBC

During the moment or with the goal that the shootings kept going, there were consuming detours on the Kampala Road, however none of the casualties show up in any capacity associated with any fights.

BBC Africa Eye has likewise dissected a video that shows a “drive-by” shooting of two sisters, Shakira Nyemera and Shamim Nabirye, on Jinja Road in Kampala around the same time. The ladies are seen among a little gathering of nearby individuals shielding from the agitation in a sidestreet and watching the street. A caravan drives past, in any event one shot is heard and the two ladies breakdown. The two ladies endure yet specialists couldn’t save Nabirye’s three unborn trios. “I lost my kids and I cherished them,” she said.