Luke Twesigye Behweera

Advocate for Human Rights, Dignity, Freedom, and Social Justice for All.

[Asiimwe Anthony @AsiimweAnthony2]

When we demanded for mama miria's production, we never said she shd be sent to prison....from police to prison pipeline to basement to prison pipeline ably aided by ODPP and Judiciary is such a shame on these institutions..
#ResistLawlessness
#Demilitarisation

[Tabz @NinyeTabz]

This muganda from Mbogo clan is saying something!

[SSEKABIRA PATRICK @PSSEKABIR]

This is the spirit that will never be broken ✊🏾

[Straight Talk Foundation @STFUganda]

Happy New Month

Welcome to the second half of the year. A fresh opportunity to learn, grow, and create lasting impact. Let us continue empowering young people with the knowledge and support they need to build healthier, brighter futures.

#HappyNewMonth

[Luke Twesigye Behweera @behweera]

@SarahBireete @miriamatembe We shall overcome. Someday 🙏

[The Alternative Government @LoP_Uganda]

LOP @JoelSsenyonyi joins other leaders at Luzira Magistrate’s Court for the bail application of Hon Miria Matembe

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Duncan, while this might be understood from the angle of fear and avoidance of danger to self, I don’t think it takes away moral responsibility. In ethics, we usually don’t make moral attribution where an actor lacks freedom or knowledge. But, from a consequentialist perspective, if we say there is no freedom in the magistrate’s act and therefore no moral responsibility, the wider moral implications are absurd. A person who steals out of fear of poverty is also morally cleared. Another who eliminates a colleague who is likely to take their job is also not culpable. The list goes on. Sometimes giving a semblance of lack of freedom is simply a pronouncement that ‘between my benefit and harming an innocent person, I choose my benefit’. It is a false dilemma projected in defence of weak consciences. Presenting facilitators of violence as helpless victims simply serves to motivate more into such performance.

[Luke Twesigye Behweera @behweera]

@STFUganda @walakirag @DavidTalima @Rcomara1 @UNFPAUganda Love seeing youth voices centered in Kaabong & Karenga. But will the findings challenge adults who block CSE in schools? If learners say “we need condoms, or contraceptives,” will head teachers listen? Let’s talk. #SRHR #TransformingLives

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

A NEW DEMOCRACY VERSION OF THE AFRICAN TALE OF THE GAZELLE AND LION:
Every morning in Africa an investigative journalist wakes up. They know they must type faster than the Cybercrime Unit can track their IP address, or they will be "invited for questioning" before lunch.
Every morning, a Minister of Information/ICT wakes up. He knows he must draft a press release denouncing "foreign interference" faster than the journalist can post a thread on X, or the President will reassign his wife’s lucrative airport catering contract to a rival faction.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a journalist or a Minister: when the sun comes up, you’d better have a VPN.

THE ORIGINAL:
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

[Norman Tumuhimbise @NormanTumuhimb2]

𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐈 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐧 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡.𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬! 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐭!

[Uganda Law Students Association @LawStudentsUg]

We will speak!!

[Agather Atuhaire @AAgather]

6 of us at @AgoraCFR have so far been interrogated by the CID. We have confirmed that @PoliceUg can treat Ugandans with dignity and summon them and that Ugandans will respond as the law abiding citizens they are so it is not necessary to violently abduct and disappear Ugandans for days, weeks and months. I also came out safe and free this evening to find very heartbreaking images and videos of Miria Matembe. The level of lunacy and insecurity one must have to subject a 73 year old woman to that level of inhumane treatment is astounding!

[Luke Twesigye Behweera @behweera]

https://t.co/ev90fWbCZx

[The Alternative Government @LoP_Uganda]

LOP @JoelSsenyonyi : Let us safeguard the independence of Parliament. The authority of this institution does not rest in its buildings, its procedures or even its traditions. It rests in the confidence that Ugandans have that their representatives can deliberate and decide freely, guided only by the Constitution, the law and their conscience.
#KeepingTheGovtInCheck

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Memorable quotes from the sharp-penned Ugandan journalist, commentator, and photographer Timothy Kalyegira .@TimKalyegira who went missing for four days before he was charged on Monday, June 29:
-"In this day and age, ruling people for 40 years is a mark of shame, not genius."
-Ultimately we all die poor. Nobody takes their six-bedroom house to the grave."
-On Uganda's economy: "Primitive accumulation of primitive wealth, by primitive people, for primitive reasons."
-"The only profitable economic activity left is praising the First Family, praising government projects, praising Big Men, [or] running for MP."
-"The people with money don't have brains and the people with brains don't have money."

[Luke Twesigye Behweera @behweera]

@DrBerlinerMD @norbertmao @AAgather @AgoraCFR @Pliam_ @SarahBireete @DoreenNyanjura @KakwenzaRukira @IsaacSsemakadde What is happening today has been going on since he joined the regime! He could be one of the architects of it all.

[Luke Twesigye Behweera @behweera]

@GodberTumushabe What is happening now has been ongoing since he joined the regime!

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

First They Came: A Lament Under the Shadow of the Crocodile
In the red dust of our ancestral soil,
where the ancient oak once whispered freedom
and the drums carried the heartbeat of the people,
a great darkness fell.
First they came for the Northerners,
and I did not speak out
because I was an Easterner.
Then they came for the Opposition,
and I did not speak because I was a ruling party stalwart, clutching my party card like a charm,
my belly full while my conscience starved.
Then they went for the students, extinguishing their dreams with batons and bullets.
And I did not speak
because I was no longer young,
my books were closed.
Then they went after the gay people,
and I did not speak – because their love was not mine.
Then they came for the civil society activists,
and I did not speak out – because I was not an activist;
I had a family to feed.
Then they came for the journalists,
and I did not speak out –
because I was not a journalist.
Then they came for me.
In the dead of night, boots on the veranda,
a knock like thunder from an angry sky.
My children hid under the bed,
trembling like leaves in the kaskazi wind.
And there was no one left to speak for me.
The neighbours drew their curtains.
The market women lowered their voices.
My friend turned off his phone.
The whole land cowered in silence – a nation of bowed heads, too terrified even to whisper a prayer.
The drums fell quiet.
Only the wind carried our shame across the savannah.
The Crocodile had won.
(Thanks for the inspiration, Martin Niemöller.
May we find the courage before the darkness takes us all.)

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

The mad, cruel, and tyrannical Roman emperor Caligula, who mused about appointing his horse a consul, was so furious at the crowd for cheering the “wrong” faction during a game in the arena, he famously exclaimed that he wished the Roman people “had but one neck so he could behead them all in one blow”. Remarkable. Looking around the world, 1,985 years later Caligula’s spirit is very much alive.

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

Law Society suspends physical operations at headquarters over security concerns.

All physical administrative activities at ULS House are suspended until further notice #MonitorUpdates https://t.co/ocli6SsjgZ