“Not In Our Name”: A Munyankore’s Open Letter Condemns Museveni’s Regime

With a powerful video message from Idi Amin’s son accusing Museveni of tribal manipulation and state-sponsored killings

📍 Rukungiri | By LilSatoshi13 | May 29, 2025

Editor’s Note:

This open letter, authored by a young Munyankore activist writing under the name LilSatoshi13, has ignited urgent national reflection on complicity, silence, and the tribalization of Ugandan politics under the NRM regime. Published alongside a new, searing video message by the son of former President Idi Amin, this piece delivers a sobering wake-up call to the Banyankore community—and to all Ugandans—on the dangers of aligning identity with impunity.

🎥 Watch the Video: “A Son of Idi Amin Breaks Silence on Museveni’s Divide-and-Rule Strategy and State Killings”
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“Idi Amin’s Son Speaks: Museveni Is Fueling Tribal Hatred to Divide Uganda”

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🔴 OPINION: A Call to My People — The Banyankore

To the sons and daughters of Ankole and Mpororo,

I write not to accuse, but to awaken.

We sit in silence while blood is shed in Buganda, Karamoja, the North—and yes, here at home.

This letter is not about tribalism. It is about truth.

🧩 The Contradiction of Identity

I was raised in this land. I speak its language. I breathe its history.
But I refuse to be quiet while our identity is weaponized by a regime that hides behind our accent and silences our conscience.

They say we are united.
But what they truly mean is: “We are in control.”

And in our name, others bleed.

💰 The Elite Who Wear Our Skin

The elite, the comprador class, are not our kin. They are collaborators.

They wear our Runyankore like a costume, all while they sell the nation in boardrooms and foreign embassies.

They didn’t build Uganda.
They’re dismantling it—for profit.

⚰️ Exporting Our Pain: Uganda’s Labour Shame

What they call “labour export,” we call slavery.

Our sisters are trafficked to the Gulf, abused, and returned in coffins.
Middlemen—many tied to regime officials—profit from the suffering.

They call it remittances.
We call it national disgrace.

📜 When Law Becomes a Leash

The regime hides behind the Constitution when it suits them—amending it in 2005 and again in 2017 to entrench one man’s rule.

The Computer Misuse Act is not about safety.
It is about silencing thought.
Like the slave codes of old, it punishes the act of knowing—and worse, of speaking.

This is not law. It is a leash.

🧨 To My Fellow Banyankore: What Are We Waiting For?

Some of you still believe the regime protects us. It does not. It uses us.

It uses our silence as cover. Our fear as fuel. Our name as a shield.

But when the fire comes—it will not ask who you voted for.
It will ask who stayed silent.

In an emotionally raw statement, the son of Uganda’s former President Idi Amin condemns President Museveni’s use of tribal politics, drawing disturbing parallels between Amin-era state killings and Museveni’s modern machinery of fear.

🗣️ Final Words: This Is My Noise. What’s Yours?

To those who say, “But we didn’t do it”—true.

But we also didn’t stop it.

When the regime falls—and it will—where will you be?
Silent? Safe? Or complicit?

I wrote this not for applause, but because I had to.

This is my noise. What’s yours? 

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