"We were beaten and pushed down the stairs, we "were badly humiliated; they kept beating us to get out," said Ruhama MP, Augustine Ruzindana, who is also Pafo chairman."
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Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:57 PM
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"If 50 MPs can't be allowed to talk; if MPs can't speak, who will speak? We are in real trouble, serious trouble," he added. Ruzindana warned that the days of tolerance could be over and the public should brace itself for the worst.
"The time when different views could be heard and tolerated is over; what is coming to all of us started in Jinja. You either tow the official line or you suffer," Ruzindana warned.
"What you have seen is not the last, it's the beginning, a lot more is coming," he said.
I wonder why it takes some people over two decades to wake up.
When they waged wars on innocent Ugandans and when they came out of the bush they kept on praising "movement" system as all inclusive.
Was that really different views being heard and tolerated then?
It is not about the 50 MPs who should freedom of speech!
Even if all the hundreds of MPs were all allowed to speak freely, that would still not be enough.
What about the million Ugandans still on the york?
Why can Mr Ruzindana reject the whole idea of movement system instead of pretending the system was a god given system to Ugandans while he was/(is) still in bed with it instead of just saying he is seeing that he is for the first time seeing the beginning of the worst side of movement system now?
Mr Ruzindana, it began over two decades ago when you were part and parcel of the system then. I agree with you it will only get worst now if you do not wake up fast.
Mr Ruzindana should be help by those who saw this over two decades ago. He needs to come out of day dreaming. Late as he is, he is gradually learning the truth but nothing the truth about the so called movement all inclusive system. That is something. Join the club and get the feeling and the treatment that has been felt all along by those who have not been toying the official movement system for now over two decades. Welcome Mr movement ex-IGG!
Charles Eliba
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Subject: We were beaten - Ruzindana
From The MONITOR, March 10, 2004
We were beaten by State House - Ruzindana
By Emmanuel N. Mugarura & Elias Biryabarema
March 10, 2004
PARLIAMENT - The Parliamentary Advocacy Forum, Pafo, has accused State House of engineering the chaos in Jinja last Friday.
"We got information that certain State House operatives had been sent to Jinja to beat us," said Rukiga County MP, Jack Sabiiti, a member of the group.
He accuses a senior member of Cabinet of co-ordinating the "thuggery" in Jinja.
He said this yesterday during a Pafo press conference at Parliament after a mob of pro-government youths disrupted a workshop they had organised in Jinja.
Mr Ruzindana
Some Pafo members, which group mainly comprises Members of Parliament opposed to a third term for President Museveni, were assaulted in the scuffle.
"We were beaten and pushed down the stairs, we were badly humiliated; they kept beating us to get out," said Ruhama MP, Augustine Ruzindana, who is also Pafo chairman.
Ruzindana accused government of failure to protect people and MPs. "Where we have reached now, the democratisation process has stalled; everything is going back to zero," he said.
"If 50 MPs can't be allowed to talk; if MPs can't speak, who will speak? We are in real trouble, serious trouble," he added. Ruzindana warned that the days of tolerance could be over and the public should brace itself for the worst.
"The time when different views could be heard and tolerated is over; what is coming to all of us started in Jinja. You either tow the official line or you suffer," Ruzindana warned.
"What you have seen is not the last, it's the beginning, a lot more is coming," he said.
Pafo also accused government of trying to humiliate Mr Eriya Kategaya in Jinja.
"We got information that they wanted to beat and embarrass Kategaya, they mistook me for him and I was beaten," Ruzindana alleged.
Pafo used the same conference to dismiss President Museveni's reference to the opposition as empty tins. "We are not empty tins. We would like to assure the public that empty tins do not attract attention of people, why then should the president bother?" asked Ruzindana.
"Our methods are peaceful and we shall continue to show superior moral virtues," Ruzindana said. "That is the usual Museveni language, we shall not comment," he said.
Fifteen MPs, including Maj. Gen Mugisha Muntu, of the East African Legislative Council, attended the press conference.
However, the acting Presidential Press Secretary, Onapito Ekomoloit dismissed the claims as "diversionary."
"Pafo is now very aware that their message is not selling and they are just trying to get at the President using all fictitious arguments," he said. "Not everyone who supports the President and NRM works in State House. It is like saying like that all Catholics are being sent by the Vatican," he argued.
© 2004 The Monitor Publications
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