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State Repression and Democratic Dispensation in Uganda 1996-2016

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posted on 2021-05-05, 18:15 authored by Sultan Juma Kakuba
State repression covers several and many aspects such as wrongful detention, harassment, intimidation, torture, beating, and killings, etc. within state boundaries. This study adopted a desk survey qualitative research design to document state repression acts during five presidential elections. Secondary and primary data were gathered from Uganda Electoral Commission presidential elections results, African Elections Database, and Inter-Parliamentary Parline database. This was augmented by interviews carried out with purposively selected political activists from different political shades and members of civil society organisations. The data collected from documentary review and interviews were thematically analyzed using the content analysis method. The findings were that successive presidential elections won by National Resistance Movement (NRM) were characterised by state repression acts amounting to human rights abuse such as torture, denial of political gatherings, wrongful arrest and detention, intimidation and killings etc. drawing from the study finding, the conclusion is that NRM’s effort to shield its regime and to lure mass support to remain in power through democratic dispensation, is inseparable from state political repression.

The data used in this paper is majorly qualitative.

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Declaration of conflicts of interest

I declare that this paper deeply reflects my views, interpretation, and discussions and that the ideas of other authors whose ideas have been duly acknowledged. I do not have any competing interests that in any way influenced the research.

Corresponding author email

ksultanjuma@gmail.com

Lead author country

  • Uganda

Lead author job role

  • Higher Education Lecturer

Lead author institution

Kyambogo University

Human Participants

  • Yes

Ethics statement

The key Informants were contacted and sought their consent to which they agreed to participate in the study.

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