Authoritarian regimes maintain power through systematic repression including internet shutdowns, mass arrests, torture, and violence against opposition leaders and their supporters, as exemplified by Uganda's 2026 elections where President Museveni's regime employed these tactics to rig the election and suppress democratic change.
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JB money money money JB money talk show created the interview Yeah, his Excellency Chigulani actually Okay Africa was planning out the entire a planet Africa uh and I am Uganda if you I get a massager and so on and watch we need a non-fiction social economic and political change as soon as yesterday so conversation Aljazeera Uganda anyway that's okay who interviewed his Excellency Chigulani then later on there it is Hi. I'm Bobi Wine, a freedom fighter from Uganda, and I'm glad to be here at Okay Africa. Well, we are beginning from the 15th of January, but the story carries even way from way back. We had the most brutal experience. So many people killed, but a few days before the election on the 15th of January, the internet was switched off. So, we had a presidential election in January on the 15th of January with a blacked-out internet completely switched off. My entire campaign team abducted, many missing, and others in prison.
And as soon as my wife and I cast our ballot, we were placed in house arrest.
Um a day later, our house was raided by the military. I was able to escape and disappeared and remained in hiding for another week until again my house was raided and my wife was assaulted, beaten up by the military, stripped naked and filmed. Her pictures were later to be tweeted by General Muhoozi, who is the chief of defense forces and son of the president of Uganda claiming that he was teaching me a lesson.
Meanwhile, he was issuing orders publicly tweeting that I should be found and castrated and he gave orders to deliver me to him dead or alive. It took me more than a month, a month and a half of hiding until I was able to make it out of the country. And here I am.
Meanwhile, uh my team remains in prison, others remain in hiding, and the abductions continue. But we refuse to give up because we know ultimately our country's going to be free. Absolutely every Uh of course, uh HRW during, before, and even after moving money to see but we were gamba and now we can you need you need to do you want to go home?
Is Isaac since I'm Muhoozi? Do you believe there are Ugandans who see Museveni as a good leader?
And he always uh Okay, listen to what do you What is the response of His Excellency Three.
Dictator from Hitler to Mussolini to Stalin to Mugabe, they all had supporters, those that feed from their hands, those that benefit from the misrule. Definitely, there are those their family members and their close team.
There are definitely those that benefit from the suffering of the people. Right from the days of slavery, there were black people that were benefiting from the slavery. Colonialism, there were Africans that were benefiting from colonialism. So, definitely, there are those that benefit from the dictatorship in Uganda and therefore they support the dictator.
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I'm going to go Google Google >> Every now and then Maybe Africa Maybe if later on I get something longer than this, I'll still come back and share Uganda's your ready Human Rights Watch accused Ugandan authorities of intensified attacks on the national inter-platform opposition and its supporters after the election reporting mass arrests and the disappearances of two senior leaders.
During Wine's campaign, his rallies were repeatedly interrupted by security forces once with the supporters arrested and at least one killed.
Following the election, Wine said he had escaped the police and the army raided on his house and that his wife and other family members were under house arrest. Several people were also killed in an attack at the local opposition leader Lumeka's home in the town of Utambala, the opposition said.
10 people were killed by police while the authorities said seven were killed after people with machetes attacked the police station.
Sad.
Since taking office 1986, Museveni has twice changed the constitution to remove term limits, term and age limits. The former rebel leader once said Africa's problem was the leaders who overstayed their welcome.
Now, uh But at the Al Jazeera Mhm, uh post you know Uganda's Yoweri Museveni is running in for the seventh time as president.
They take a union in the number one DK.
Mhm, comment in The same post it is similar to this year called by BBC.
Museveni come on nominating uh during the nominations.
Name Pandi Coloured comment in the news Al Jazeera BBC I'm blocking.
Al Jazeera I'm blocking uh Cuba this is 19 hours ago.
Uh BBC Al Jazeera BBC I'm blocking it out.
Then I'll get up BBC which I'll be criticizing not to them.
Museveni is a dictator.
They say we're going Not naturally lighting up in the new comment tell you with the figures of the money received uh from US, from Europe, from United Kingdom, from regardless of Museveni vehicle.
I said I'm blocking up BBC.
Yeah.
Uh I can no longer interact with the their platform using my official account of JB Muwonge. Now, I really just didn't have anything to say so on in is a very polite way of describing what just happened in Uganda.
The truth is that dictator Yoweri Museveni has sworn himself in for 7th term after rigging the 2026 elections through fear, military intimidation, internet shutdowns, mass arrests, torture, censorship, abductions, and the open state violence.
This was never an election. This was never the will of the people. This was a military operation disguised as an election.
For those outside Uganda who may not understand what is happening, Museveni captured power in 1986 claiming he was fighting against dictatorship and the election rigging. Nearly 40 years later, he has become the exact thing he claimed to fight against and only worse.
Every election under Museveni has been soaked in blood, fear, intimidation, and fraud. But the 2026 elections exposed the regime completely. Opposition rallies were blocked by thousands of police and soldiers. Journalists were hunted and beaten. Opposition supporters were hunted down. Many young people were abducted in numberless cars commonly known as drones and taken to ungazetted detention centers where they undergo severe torture. Some never returned at all. Families are still looking for their sons up to today. The internet was shut down to stop Ugandans from exposing the fraud. Security forces flooded the streets like Uganda was at war with its own citizens. Soldiers surrounded every town and streets.
People voted under extreme fear.
Others never voted at all because the environment was already militarized beyond recognition.
And up to now, honestly knows where Museveni got those so-called victory figures from.
The Electoral Commission simply announced him winner and moved on.
No transparency, no accountability, no proper publication of results.
Even their own systems and websites cannot fully explain the figures they announced because the truth is simple.
The election was stolen. When you visit Uganda Electoral Oh, that was the one they used to call the electorate. When you visit the Uganda Electoral Commission website to verify Museveni's victory results, you will not find any.
Actually, it shows we last had an election in 2021. Simply because they don't have the figures. It was an announcement born out of nowhere.
Millions of Ugandans know who the real winner was.
And that is why the regime responded with a terror before, during, and immediately after the election.
Because dictators fear the people when the people finally wake up. Meanwhile, hundreds of supporters of His Excellency Bobi Wine are still rotting in prison cells. Many were jailed without trial, others disappeared completely. Their only crime was demanding change, supporting democracy, and believing Uganda belonged to all Ugandans, not to one man and his family.
Bobi Wine's bodyguards were also abducted and jailed simply for protecting him. Imagine being imprisoned not for committing a crime, but for standing beside an opposition leader.
That's the Uganda Museveni has created.
As we speak, Bobi Wine himself had to flee the country to save his life. He has repeatedly faced assassination attempts, violent raids, arrests, and military attacks on his home.
His family has been harassed, wife assaulted by men in uniform, his supporters tortured. The regime treats anyone who speaks about change as an enemy of the state.
And after nearly four decades in power, what exactly has Museveni delivered to ordinary Ugandans apart from fear and suffering. Youth unemployment is destroying an entire generation.
Corruption has become a national anthem.
Public hospitals are collapsing. Schools are underfunded. Land grabbing has left many families homeless on their own ancestral land.
State officials steal billions while ordinary Ugandans struggle to survive.
The cost of living keeps rising while the regime keeps expanding one of the most bloated governments in Africa just to reward the loyalists and keep people silent.
Uganda is ruled at gunpoint. Everybody knows it. Speak too loudly and risk arrest. Organize politically and you are labeled an enemy. Scrutinize the regime and you become a target. And the hypocrisy from the West is honestly disgusting.
America, Europe, and other Western governments continue funding and legitimizing this regime while preaching democracy, human rights, and rule of law everywhere else.
They shake a hands with dictatorship as long as their strategic interests are protected. So, no, this is not a proud democratic moment for Uganda. It is another painful reminder that one man has held an entire country hostage for almost 40 years through fear, military force, and state violence. But despite everything, the arrests, the torture, the killings, the propaganda, the intimidation, millions of Ugandans are no longer afraid. We want freedom.
People want change and no amount of guns or staged swearing-in ceremonies will bury that truth forever.
We remain fully committed to the cause of structuring a non-fictional socio-economic and political change because giving up is not in our DNA. That was my comment on Al Jazeera and of course it has a few engagements. If you want to engage with it, copy it and share it with your friends. You just go to Al Jazeera English, you'll find a very lengthy comment.
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