Essay On Political Inequalities In Uganda

• Civil war and political inequality in Uganda
Uganda is a country that has experienced a long history of civil war. For the last forty years, Uganda experienced different side of civil war. According to BBC News, 1970s and 1980s suffered from violence. In 1970s under the Amin1s regime and in 1980s under the power Milton Obote. His regime was fighting with Museveni’s resistance movement. (BBC News). In addition, this Country has experienced different dimension of horizontal inequalities that caused these civil wars. Most of part in Uganda are poorer than center and south; they are the majority but they can only attain power “with odd alliances and violence and election ringing facilities by northern domination of the army which was a colonial culture"(Stewart).

"Greatly oversimplifying the situation, one can say that divisions between the center and south together and the more peripheral areas, especially the north, have been at the heart of most conflicts, though, of course, specific events and personalities have been responsible for particular developments”( Stewart).

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Here we can see Political inequalities, Socio- economical inequalities and has a long history of existent from the east to the north of that country but the region under the control of President Félix Houphouët have several decades of peace. When he died in 1993, many factors like exclusion of northern from politics, exclusion of northern for the rights of citizens such as voting leaded the country to civil war. The rebels declared their grievance from economic of northern (Stawert). It means here, many aspect of causes came together and lead the country to civil war. This countries with several factor of civil war, usually have a long history of difficulties because of this inequalities and finally they look for a solution so may they find the war against the government the only way to take their