🇺🇬 Uganda: Living In Fear l Africa Investigates

Many Ugandans have lived through fear over the decades - either because of the actions of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army or from the campaign of an Islamist insurgency known as the ADF. But today Ugandan Muslims face a different anxiety.
Over the past two years, unknown assailants have ambushed and killed a dozen of the country's leading Muslim clerics. Others survived and now live in fear. The attacks have occurred across the country, from the capital, Kampala, to border towns like Mbale.
The government and police say that ADF insurgents, among others, are responsible for the killings. Other's blame them on an ideological struggle within the Muslim community or a result of a fight over property and money.
Many, though, are pointing fingers at Ugandan government security forces themselves, accusing them of using violence and the ‘threat of terrorism’ to engender reasons for suppressing political opposition.
In the middle of all this is a so-called hit list with the names of Muslim clerics who have, apparently, been marked for murder. Over half of those on the list have now been killed and the rest now live under armed protection, but they remain under threat, increasing tensions between the different Muslim denominations, the public and the authorities.
Prompted by this story's mysterious claims and counter claims, reporters Sorious Samura and Ivan Okuda and producer Clive Patterson teamed up to find out who is really behind the violence that is dividing a community and the nation and to ask whether state agencies are more involved than they are letting on.
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[@ssenkubugeumar7013]

May be Muslims we're not Citizens of Our own country we,'re always discriminate since 1986 . The only big position we have is the "3rd Deputy prime minister if not the 2nd" We all have the same rights as other religious groups and as The sons and daughters.of Uganda. Our leaders have been Assassinated and no one cares at all . For God And my Country. Am proud to A Muslim and Am proud to be a Ugandan

[@sophiao5855]

You may be a Ugandan by birth but islam is a foreigners religion. There is no room for islam in Africa.

[@positivethinker2770]

May Allah heal your wound my muslim brothers n sisters

[@spike1564]

Oh God deliver us from evil

[@abuthurayya2691]

Thanks mr ssejussa

[@BarryAllen..]

Religion is like a new born baby, pure until man influences it's path with their ambition.

[@dullahabdyllah7672]

that's y we need change

[@tsepoza]

I was trying to figure out who the blockers they are talking about are until i remembered the letter R doesn't exist in Uganda lol

[@okwalingaemmanuel3055]

There are alot of powers at play Mossad and CIA can't be ruled out

[@tellingfoxtales]

I think the persecution of homosexuals ought take precedence here consider Islam condemns homosexuality too and so is part of the hate problem whilst complaining about the hate problem.

[@highfeelinggood2268]

Ekama Noieau do you accept your son as gay or your brother why the god created women and men why that prohibited in all religion because it's Un normal

[@ozl89]

This might come as a surprise for you Abubaker Abudo. But homosexuality is NOT prohibited in all religion. Surprise surprise, it is only prohibited in the newer religions. in the old religions homosexuality meant that you were more spiritual and had better contact with Gods and that you were in fact holy. So get your facts right and realise that you are living in 2016.

[@eltonthomas4166]

@@ozl89 Rubbish

[@culturemannjassey7540]

there is no sect in islam