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Outrage Over Kidnapping of East African Pipeline Opponent (e360.yale.edu)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Ugandan military playing security guards for a China-controlled oil project... I think explaining human rights over there will have to start from zero - and may have to be backed with "or else" statements - if there exists an institution in a suitable position to issue them. :o

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's not that bad actually. Uganda has a very progressive refugee policy (likely because the President once was a refugee himself). But yeah, anything that could be seen as a threat to his decades long presidency is clamped down hard on.