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| Thirty Held in Uganda over 'Coup Plot' |
| 2016-06-11 |
| [An Nahar] At least 30 people, including serving soldiers and an opposition MP, have been detained on suspicion of plotting to overthrow Uganda's government, the army front man said on Friday. "We and the police are investigating the matter," Colonel Paddy Ankunda told AFP, saying the group was suspected of planning an armed uprising against President Yoweri Museveni, himself a former rebel who seized power 30 years ago. Ankunda said the detainees were "linked to a rebel group" that he declined to name. He said most of those locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! were soldiers, adding that at least one politician and another opposition politician had been arrested. The only detainee named by the army front man was Michael Kabaziguruka, an MP from the main opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party whose leader Kizza Besigye is in jug facing treason charges. Besigye, who claimed fraud after coming second to Museveni in February's presidential election, was arrested last month for holding a mock swearing-in ceremony. Besigye was previously charged with treason in 2005 but the case was eventually abandoned. At the time prosecutors accused him of leading a shadowy rebel group named the People's Redemption Army, a charge Besigye always denied. |
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