%0 Journal Article
%T A Macabre Exhibit: Ugandan President MuseveniĄ¯s Public Display of the Luwero Triangle WarĄ¯s Human Remains
%A Onek C. Adyanga
%J Advances in Historical Studies
%P 389-402
%@ 2327-0446
%D 2015
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ahs.2015.45028
%X The public display of human remains has a long history in warfare. Whether for counting enemy
losses based on psychological reasoning or demonizing the perpetrators of the violence, exhibiting
human remains has potently served a variety of political, educational and propaganda aims. In
Uganda, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has exhibited human remains for political and military
purposes numerous times. Museveni has frequently displayed the Luwero Triangle WarĄ¯s
human remains to help secure his National Resistance Movement and ArmyĄ¯s (NRM/A) political
legitimacy, consolidate an ethnic-centered regime and harness the support of western governments.
He has also exploited the exhibition of the Luwero Triangle WarĄ¯s human remains to stoke
ethnic xenophobia and demonization, as well as to stymie the quest for genuine democracy, the
rule of law and constitutionalism. The persistent policy of MuseveniĄ¯s NRM/A regime to exhibit the
Luwero Triangle WarĄ¯s human remains has shocked the conscience of the people of Uganda and
scholars alike who express the need to focus on granting dignity and respect to the rights of the
dead and to bring perpetrators to justice. The repeated decision of MuseveniĄ¯s NRM/A regime to
exhibit the Luwero Triangle WarĄ¯s human remains undermines any prospects for building a united
Uganda based on genuine truth telling and reconciliation.
%K Insurgency
%K Counterinsurgency
%K Civil Wars
%K Human Remains
%K Exhibitions
%K Democracy
%K Ethnicity and Propaganda
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=62420