Uganda continues to run dismally in regard to human rights violation well as some perpetrators of human rights’ abuses were brought to book, many others skipped punishment. The Executive Director of Human Rights Watchdog Chapter Four Uganda Nicholas Opiyo introduced a blazing online tracker which would monitor human rights violation between 1986 to date. “But there is also need for a historical account of what has happened to this country over time. I think that there is a short memory for many people because these things happened in Kasese when people were killed. Things happened in Northern Uganda when people were killed, a person in the other part of the country has no idea of what has happened. So, we want to bring to the Ugandan people events that violet the human rights across the country so that they know what is happening.” Said, Nicholas Opiyo – Executive Director, Chapter Four. The online tracker will be updated on a website. “If you want to understand what that violation was; you simply drop your cursor on that red dot; it will pull up a page in which it will show you the incident being reported and once you click on that incident it should be able to provide for you the date, the time, the location, the nature of violation, the name where we can get it to the perpetrators and the nature and the names of the victims.”

Opiyo said this was aimed at bringing the perpetrators of the human rights abuses to book. “We also think this tracker can be a basis for redress, for mitigation by victims to be able to claim their right and claim reparations.” Unresolved murders like the Mukula massacres in Teso and Kibwetere mass killings in Kanungu will be revisited with a team of researchers and investigators. However, the Uganda Media Center Deputy Director Col. Shaban Bantariza said it appears there was a hidden motive in the online tracker. “We will try our level best to revisit those cases to try and identify the perpetrators and bring them to book.” “That one to me is going to open up unnecessary wounds because the Kibwetere fell in Kanungu; Kibwetere up to now is not known where he is, and he is the sole committer of that crime. How are you going to give redress to the families of the thousands that disappeared or were burnt in Kanungu.” Bantariza also cautioned Chapter Four’s decision for selectively choosing to probe human rights abuses on commencing 1986. “But to the best of my knowledge, human rights violation under independent Uganda started in 1964 and they have not stopped. When we had our first military mutiny where the Minister of Defense Hon. Felix Onama was arrested, put on quarter guard by soldiers, and that was the beginning.” Your pains in the country today need reconciliation. “Let’s have a turning point, a starting point where we can all work as a nation, as a country, as a government and bravely and move forward.”