Kizza Besigye
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Warren Kizza Besigye (born 22 April 1956) is a Ugandan physician, politician, and former military officer in the Uganda People's Defence Force. He was also known as Colonel (in reference to his military rank before he left the army) and Ssenyondo ("Big Hammer").
He served as the president of Uganda's 2001, 2005, 2011, and 2016 presidential elections, losing all of them to incumbent Yoweri Museveni, who has been President of Uganda since 1996.
The 2006 results of the general election were contested in court, where the court found massive rigging and disenfranchisement.
He approved a late internal FDC election for a new president, which took place on November 24, 2012.
He ruled that the successor president should be in office earlier than expected to allow the new president enough time to prepare the party for the next cycle of general elections.
Early life and family
Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe was born in Rwakengo, Rukungiri Municipality, Rukungiri District, southwestern Uganda, on April 22, 1956. Both his parents died before he completed primary school, and the second was born in a family of six children. His father was a policeman. For his Primary school education, he attended Kinyasano Primary School and Mbarara Junior School. He later attended Kitante High School in Kampala for his Ordinary Levels and later Kigezi High School in Kabale District for his Advanced Level training.
Besigye earned a degree in human medicine at Makerere University in 1975 and 1980. He became Yoweri Museveni's personal physician while in the bush. He was appointed as the National Resistance Movement and Army (NRM/A) came to power in January 1986 and was 28 years old, Minister of State for Internal Affairs. He then served as Minister of State in the President's office and National Political Commissar. He was appointed as the army's chief of logistics and engineering in 1991, 1991, and again in 1993.
Besigye married Winnie Byanyima, a Ugandan Member of Parliament, in Nsambya, Kampala, on July 7, 1999.
Political life
Besigye wrote "An Insider's Account of How the NRM Lost the Broad Base" in 1999, a government study. The NRM has been accused of descending to sectarian kleptocracy and a one-man dictatorship, according to the paper. Besigye was fined by a court arraignment for "airing his views in the wrong forum." He later broke a deal in 2000 in which the charges were dropped in exchange for an apology for releasing the paper.
Besigye declared in October 2000 that he would run against Museveni in the 2001 elections. He retired from the Uganda People's Defence Forces in 2001 after having attained the rank of colonel. Besigye, Museveni's top critic, suspected widespread abuse and called for an end to Museveni's "Movement" system, which he said had served its role as a tool in Uganda's political transition to multiparty democracy during his campaign.
He lost the election, which was marred by allegations of widespread voter manipulation, violence, and coercion of voters. Besigye petitioned the Supreme Court in March 2001 to nullify the election results. Five judges voted 5–0 that there had been bribes but that the jury had ruled not to annul the results.
Besigye was briefly arrested and arrested by the police in June 2001 over treason allegations. The government suspected him of being behind a shadowy rebel group named People's Redemption Army (PRA), which is reportedly headquartered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to Besigye's allies, the government fabricated the insurgents' existence in order to damage his image in Ugandans and the international community.
Besigye left the country in August 2001, citing the state's persecution. He was worried about his death. He lived in South Africa for four years, during which he continued to criticize Museveni's government. Besigye returned to Uganda on October 26, 2005, just in time to register as a voter in the 2006 elections. He was welcomed by thousands and took the campaign trail almost immediately, speaking to throngs of supporters around the country. William Lacy Swing, the United Nations special envoy to the Great Lakes, reported the existence of the PRA in November 2005, naming it as one of the eastern DRC's foreign-armed factions.
On November 14, Besigye's career came to a halt when he was arrested on suspicion of treason and rape. The treason charges linked to his suspected ties to the PRA and the 20-year-old northern Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebellion. The rape charge was charged with a 1997 murder of a deceased friend's daughter. Demonstrators in Kampala and around the region riot after his detention. Museveni has been accused of trumping up charges against his main rival in an attempt to discredit Besigye or even ban him from running in the election. Both the local and international community came out strongly against Museveni's government, urging it to release Besigye on bail. Besigye's trial was delayed by the government's ban on all public rallies, marches, congress, or seminars related to the trial. The court discouraged the media from reporting the case, threatening media companies with the revocation of their licenses if they refuse to comply with the ban.
Besigye was released on Monday by the Ugandan high court on November 25, but he was immediately sent back to prison on suspicion of terrorism and unlawful possession of arms. Besigye denied the charges against him and has argued that as a veteran of the armed forces, he should no longer be subjected to an army court-martial. He was released on bail by the high court on January 6th. Despite the fact that the allegations against him stand, Besigye's aspiration to become Uganda's next president remains.
Career
Besigye spent a short time at Mulago National Hospital after graduating. He then went into exile in Kenya's neighbor. While there, he applied for admission to practice as a doctor with the Medical Board. After being registered, he began working at the Aga Khan Hospital, which he was given, and later at Kenyatta National Hospital, both in Nairobi, Kenya, before joining Museveni's rebel National Resistance Movement/Army in 1982.