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Panic as Ugandan police threaten to start using human waste, farts to disperse riots

Police disperse a crowd                                                         Photo:Courtesy

The hardest job to do right now is to be an officer of the Uganda Police Force. It gets trickier everyday. The police is everybody’s punching bag, but it has the physical instruments of punching, so when it punches back, nobody likes it. Where do I even start?

Last year? Many years ago? As long as I can remember, human rights activists have always accused the Ugandan police of abusing human rights. Then accountability activists accuse the police of corruption.

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