Meet Agnes van Ardenne, the no nonsense Minister for Development of the #Netherlands who stood up to dictator @KagutaMuseveni in 2005 and called on dictator @KagutaMuseveni to step down, not to seek third term and warned that interference with the #constitution will backfire on the dictator. 

The warning by the Dutch Minister for Development echoed a statement made by the formidable former United States Ambassador Deborah Malac, who upon retirement and departure from #Uganda, warned of "terrible end to Museveni rule". 

In 2005 Uganda's legislators were bribed to remove presidential term limits, followed in 2018 by the scrapping of the age limit of 75, allowing dictator @KagutaMuseveni, now 80 to cling to power for life through use of violent and organising fraudulent elections.

Since Van Ardenne and Deborah Malac's warning, Uganda has faced deepening crisis under the @NRMOnline dictatorship, poor economy, high levels of foreign and domestic debt, poor infrastructure, gross violations of human rights, suppression of fundamental freedoms, attacks against opposition and civil society members, trial of political opponents by the military courts, arbitrary detention of political prisoners, abductions, enforced disappearances and widespread protests including by Uganda's diaspora.

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#FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersInUganda
#FreeKizzaBesigye
#FreeKiizaEron
#StopAbductions
#StopTrialofCiviliansInMilitaryCourts
#netherlands
#Netherlands #constitution