Uganda, Sept. 11 -- For some years now, the best we have seen of our political actors have been running battles between the Opposition and the security forces. There were the bi-elections in Arua and Bugiri where hot exchanges took place and lives were lost.
Our default position was to take these matters for granted - that it was simply the usual case of the State trying to constrict the playing field in favour of a certain group. However, last week was something else in our never ending political saga.
The National Resistance Movement (NRM), which is also the ruling party, held its primaries to select candidates for the forthcoming national elections. For us who are armchair activists, we could never have anticipated the drama that foll...