Uganda: Naked Force Meets Naked Resistance in Northern Uganda Land Conflict

Nov 24, 2017 | Liam Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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When a government minister visited a remote part of northern Uganda earlier this year, she was greeted with a sit-down protest, indignant politicians and topless women. Betty Amongi, the minister of lands, was in Amuru district, where fertile soils stretch down to the Nile river, to launch a survey of 10,000 hectares (100 square kilometres) of land for a sugarcane plantation and factory. Angry locals accused the government of taking their land by force, with some women baring their breasts in a symbolic display of defiance.