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| | Uganda's "Benevolent" Dictatorship |
 | | Museveni has long been a supporter of his old college friend John Garang, whose Sudan Peoples Liberation Army is fighting an interminable civil war against the fundamentalist government of Sudan. |
 | | Uganda today recalls the images of the early days of African independence, when the "founding fathers," such as Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, and Jomo Kenyatta, enjoyed a legitimacy derived from their participation in the struggle for liberation from colonial hegemony. |
 | | The turmoil in Uganda in the 1970s and 1980s yielded human rights violations on a scale nearly unmatched in postcolonial Africa: moreover, civil war and social strife left orphans and widows in their wake, and economic dislocation removed essentials like sugar, soap, and wheat flour from the market stalls. |
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