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The Honeymoon of the Tyrant

Author: Satish Sekar March 29, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 29th 2015) The Liberator? Ugandans had suffered bestial regimes before and since. Like Caligula before him, the late and unlamented dictator Idi Amin enjoyed a brief honeymoon period in Uganda and even elsewhere….
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Exile and Tyranny

Author: Satish Sekar March 29, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 29th 2015) Overthrow Millton Obote had sewn the seeds of his own downfall. His first reign had seen the promise of independence, achieved by Uganda on October 9th 1962, give way to one-party…
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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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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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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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“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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“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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