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The Birth of a Tyrant

Author: Satish Sekar March 8, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 8th 2015) One Party – One Leader Uganda had been independent less than five years before its first Prime Minister, Milton Obote, overturned its fledgling democracy, but a one-party government was not enough…
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Amin, Brigadier Pierino Okoya, Gafaar Nimeiry, Geoffrey Kasule, Idi Amin, Kampala, Milton Obote, Obote, Smuts Guwedeko, the Uganda Peopleʼs Congress, Uganda

Political Machinations

Author: Satish Sekar March 8, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 7th 2015) Consolidation The defeat of the Kabaka (ruler of the Kingdom of Buganda) Mutesa II neutralised both him and also his party Kabaka Yekka. Defections from it to the Uganda Peopleʼs Congress…
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Amin, Che Guevara, Congo, Congo-Léopoldville, General Olenga, Idi Amin, Joseph Désiré Mobutu, Kabaka, Kabaka Yekka, Kabila, Kingdom of Buganda, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Milton Obote, Mobutu, Mutesa II, Nicholas Olenga, Obote, Olenga, Patrice Lumumba, Pieere Mulele, Uganda, Uganda Peopleʼs Congress

Independence

Author: Satish Sekar March 7, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 6th 2015) Independence Struggle Milton Obote died in 2005 aged 80. Even in death he polarised opinion. To colleagues he was a great man. To others he was a ruthless and unrepentant tyrant,…
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Africa, British Governor, Idi Amin, independence, Kabaka Yekka, King Freddie, Kingdom of Bunyoro, Milton Obote, Mutesa II, President, Prime Minister, Sir Andrew Cohen, the Democratic Party, the Kabaka, the Kingdom of Buganda, Uganda, Uganda Peopleʼs Congress

Flawed

Author: Satish Sekar January 20, 2015 5 Comments

by Janet Cunliffe © Janet Cunliffe (January 15th 2015) Labels Being Jordan Cunliffeʼs mum for the last seven and a half years hasnʼt been easy. Not just because I have had to become accustomed to my new title, ʻMother of…
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Articles, Unfit for Purpose

BRITISH JUSTICE, Code for Crown Prosecutors, Common, CPS, Crown Prosecution Service, Garry Newlove, hanged, Helen Newlove, Janet Cunliffe, Jimmy McGovern, Joint Enterprise, Jordan Cunliffe, Mark Thornburrow, Nathan Adams, Norman Thorne, Rolan Adams, Spilsburyism, Stephen Lawrence, THE BIRMINGHAM SIX, the Bridgewater Four, THE CARDIFF FIVE, THE COURT OF APPEAL, the Victimʼs Commissioner, victim

Beyond Doubt

Author: Satish Sekar January 16, 2015 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 11th 2012) The Suspension of Disbelief There is no longer any credible doubt that the Cardiff Five1 are innocent, but they always were. It should not have required the conviction of the real…
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Articles, Truth and Justice, Vindication

David Elfer QC, Dr Gisli Gudjonsson, EGREGIOUS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE, forensic science, JOHN ACTIE, LYNETTE WHITE, RONNIE ACTIE, STEPHEN MILLER, THE CARDIFF FIVE, the Cardiff Three, THE LYNETTE WHITE INQUIRY, TONY PARIS, vulnerable, YUSEF ABDULLAHI

“Satish is an author of ‘Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry‘ and the recently published “The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt“. He is also a journalist, academic, researcher and expert, especially for those who have suffered miscarriages of justice. Although at times, Satish is highly critical of the criminal justice system, he only challenges from a position of desiring improvement for the benefit of all, whether they be the investigator or the investigated. Members…

Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera

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“Satish is a dedicated investigative journalist who worked hard to investigate the background to the jailing of the Cardiff Three for the 1988 murder of Lynette White. The success of their appeal against their convictions is largely down to his hard work. He wrote the story of this case and his subsequent campaign to have the case reinvestigated in his book ‘Fitted In: The Cardiff Three and the Lynette White Inquiry’. I wanted to write about the forensic aspects of the case in my book Cold…

Liz Porter Sunday AgeAustralia

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