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SHOT FROM THE BACK
Witnesses said they saw college and high school students shot dead in the streets.
Journalist Jocylynne Nakibuule, who works at local Spark TV station, said she had helped a 15-year-old boy get shot in the back on Thursday.
“I am a mother. When I saw the child, my maternal instinct was activated. I completely forgot about the riots,” Nakibuule said, adding that she took him to the hospital in a motorcycle taxi.
“He was bleeding constantly,” Nakibuule said, sobbing. “I kept calling him by name, Amos, Amos, please fight to save your mother’s pain.”
The boy’s mother told him that soldiers had shot at them as they were leaving a store, he said.
Nakibuule again covered the protests. On Friday morning, the hospital told him the boy had died.
Fred Mpanga said his 21-year-old nephew, Yusuf Kimuli, was also killed after going to buy milk.
“The armed men who were not in uniform and were in a private car moving around shooting at people, they shot them in the back,” Mpanga said.
Kimuli lay on the street for more than an hour bleeding to death because people were afraid to help him, Mpanga said, citing eyewitness accounts who spoke with the family.
“All the light has gone out in my life.”
It is unclear who was responsible for the bloodshed. During the protests, a witness told Reuters that men in plain clothes were walking with assault rifles.
Several opposition parties have previously accused the government of using non-uniformed security personnel to quell unrest. The government has denied those accusations.
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