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Why Uganda's latest abductions revive memories of Amin-era atrocities

Activists Nicholas Oyoo and Bob Njagi were in Uganda to attend the campaign rally of opposition leader Bobi Wine when they were abducted. [File, Standard]

The abduction and disappearance of two Kenyan activists, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, in Kampala early this month mirror similar human rights violations committed against Kenyans in the 1970s by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada.

The whereabouts of freedom fighter Kung’u Karumba and Makerere University student Esther Chesire have never been traced since they were abducted by Ugandan security forces in the mid-seventies.

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