Uganda, March 22 -- On the night of June 6, 2009, a car pulled up to the gate of Mengo Hospital and a young man was dumped from it. He was writhing in pain and bleeding heavily from what looked like gunshot wounds. Tom Julunga. A renowned Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) youth winger.

Julunga was a prominent voice on Bimeeza public debate circuits that aired on Kampala's radio stations before they were banned by the government. He was a firebrand and at the center of whatever fracas his party got involved in with the Police. And those days, there were many. At the FDC, his ire and energies were particularly saved for a certain Beti Kamya, whose troublesome supporters he often physically battled with.

He would die later that night. It i...