Yusra Elbagir
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And so we went to one tent where a woman was declaring results.
And it had a sense of apprehension, anticipation.
People were kind of hanging on to every word.
And then as soon as...
Two people voiced their opposition to the results that were being declared, that they were not matching up with what their agents had told them were the actual results in those voting stations.
It was so crazy to see.
How quickly kind of the state versus the people manifested in that environment.
Immediately there was this deployment of military, of police backing national resistant movement officials who were crushing any voices of dissent just in that voting tent.
And so we went from this really heated brawl in the Talley Center to the streets where people were burning tires and being hunted down, Ben.
Not just cracked, you know, we always say cracked down, but they were hunted down.
There was such an intense deployment of troops.
huge APVs, trucks, just police, military, just descending on the center of Kampala, this huge roundabout where you have to, the kind of roundabout that everyone has to pass through to get anywhere in Kampala.
And there was such an intensity to that day that it felt like a war zone.
I saw soldiers act in ways that wouldn't even be allowed in the bush, wouldn't even be allowed on the front line.
And this zero tolerance approach is what people have been dealing with in Uganda for months.
Every time they go out and protest, even just yelling slogans of support for Bobby Wine, saying people power Bobby,
immediately they're met with this.
It's just like a punch in the gut.
Like, don't even try and breathe a word against Uriah Maseveni.
Well, the number is just under 20% more.