{"id":182208,"date":"2022-08-25T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182208"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:57:57","slug":"ugandas-former-security-minister-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/ugandas-former-security-minister-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s former security minister died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182209\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022825637969983839876495.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022825637969983839876495.jpeg 555w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022825637969983839876495-300x298.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022825637969983839876495-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022825637969983839876495-422x420.jpeg 422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Uganda\u2019s former Security Minister General Elly Tumwiine has died in neighbouring Kenya at the age of 68 following a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>He was airlifted to a hospital in Kenya\u2019s capital, Nairobi, two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Tumwiine was one of the founder members of the National Resistance Army (NRA), which fought a five-year war that brought President Yoweri Museveni to power.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-ad\">\n<div id=\"hiiraan_incontent_3\" align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__300x250 __336x280\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is believed that Gen Tumwiine fired the first shot as the then rebel group attacked a military barracks and launched its uprising in central Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>He was the commander of the rebel army from 1984, and continued to hold that position until 1987, after they had taken over government.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Tumwiine held several positions in government over the last couple of decades, including being a security minister, a deputy defence minister, and was a long-term member of parliament representing the army.<\/p>\n<p>Following the November 2020 election campaign protests when security forces killed at least 50 protesters, speaking as the security minister, he told the public that \u201cthe police have a right to shoot you and kill you, if you reach a certain level of violence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He was dropped from cabinet in 2020 and retired from the army in May this year.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet ministers have tweeted their condolences:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda\u2019s former Security Minister General Elly Tumwiine has died in neighbouring Kenya at the age of 68 following a long illness. He was airlifted to a hospital in Kenya\u2019s capital, Nairobi, two weeks ago. Gen Tumwiine was one of the founder members of the National Resistance Army (NRA), which fought a five-year war that brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182210,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182208\/revisions\/182210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}