Kizza Besigye promises more Uganda protests

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Kizza Besigye promises more Uganda protests

Source: The Guardian

Uganda's top opposition leader has said he believes his life is in danger but vowed to continue protests against the country's president.

Kizza Besigye is receiving medical treatment after police smashed into his car during a demonstration, squirted pepper spray into his eyes and tossed him into a pick-up truck.

The incident sparked a violent backlash in Kampala last Friday with two people killed and 90 injured in the biggest anti-government protest in sub-Saharan Africa this year.

Besigye, who has flown to a hospital in Nairobi, told a Kenyan television station: "I know that my life is in danger, without any doubt."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/kizza-besigye-more-uganda-protests

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