Africa Investigates: Living in Fear

Over the past two years, unknown assailants have killed a dozen of Uganda's Muslim clerics. Others survived similar attacks and now live in fear. The government blames an Islamist rebel group called the ADF. Others point to a a power struggle within the Muslim community. Some accuse security forces of the Ugandan government.

So who is killing Uganda's Muslim clerics? Scroll down for the data behind our investigation or explore the video clips here.

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Table of Contents

• 1Locations of the murders mapped
• 2The Victims
• 3The Suspects
• 4Suspicions of the government's role
• 5The Investigators
• 6Watch the full documentary

Locations of the murders mapped

The Victims

Video

Hassan Ibrahim Kiirya

Cause of deathShot

Date2015/06/30

Specifics LocationBweyogerere, eastern Kampala

FactionKibuli

SectSunni Tabliq

Abdul Rashid Wafula

Cause of deathShot

Date2015/05/21

Specifics LocationInside his car, outside his home in Nakaloke town, Mbale district

FactionOld Kampala

SectSunni Tabliq

Ismael Mawazi Ssebugwawo

Cause of deathBeaten

Date2015/01/06

Specifics LocationKayunga, near Wakiso town

FactionN/A

SectSunni

Mustafa Bahiga

Cause of deathShot

Date2014/12/28

Specifics LocationBwebajja, along Entebbe road (outskirts of Kampala)

FactionKibuli

SectSunni Tabliq

Abdul Kadhir Muwaya

Cause of deathShot

Date2014/12/24

Specifics LocationAt his home in Buyemba village, Mayuge district

FactionN/A

SectShia

Abdul Ssebagala

Cause of deathShot

Date2014/05/22

Specifics LocationNear his home in Lungujja, suburb of Kampala

FactionOld Kampala

SectSunni

Abdul Jawad Ssentunga

Cause of deathShot

Date2012/09/16

Specifics LocationNamayenga Trading Centre, Bugiri district

FactionN/A

SectSunni Tabliq

Muhammad Maganda

Cause of deathShot

Date2012/08/18

Specifics Locationoutside Masjid Umar Mosque, Bugiri town

FactionN/A

SectSunni Tabliq

Yunus Abubaker Mudungu

Cause of deathShot

Date2012/08/18

Specifics Locationoutside Masjid Umar Mosque, Bugiri town

FactionN/A

SectSunni Tabliq

Abdul Hakim Sekimpi

Cause of deathSuspected poisoning

Date2012/07/20

Specifics LocationKibuli Muslim Hospital, Kampala

FactionKibuli

SectSunni Tabliq

Abasi Abubaker Kiweewa

Cause of deathShot

Date2012/06/22

Specifics LocationOutside his supermarket in Kyanja, a Kampala suburb

FactionKibuli

SectSunni

Abdul Karim Ssentamu

Cause of deathShot

Date2012/04/20

Specifics LocationIn his car on William Street, Kampala

FactionKibuli

SectSunni Tabliq

Location mapped, colored by the sect each victim belonged to 

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Shia

Sunni

Sunni Tabliq

Victims by Cause of death

Victims by Sect

Victims by Faction

Victims by Year

The Suspects

According to the Ugandan Police

Jamil Mukulu

Recently arrested leader of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan Islamist terror group accused by the Ugandan government of orchestrating the killings. The vast majority of our interviewees did not believe the ADF were behind the murders. Jamil Mukulu has remained silent over the allegations.

Aggrey Kiyingi

Ugandan heart surgeon and Christian philanthropist based in Australia - accused by the Ugandan government of funding the ADF and arranging some of the killings. He had been planning to stand as an independent candidate in Uganda's presidential election next year and has dismissed the allegations as "ridiculous and absurd". His lawyer says the charges are politically motivated.

Yunus Kamoga

Leader of the Tabliq sect who was arrested in January and charged with the murder of two clerics - Mustafa Bahiga and Abdul Kadir Muwaya. It has been claimed by Bahiga’s widow that Bahiga’s dying words implicated Kamoga but he denies the charges and believes he is being framed. He believes that it is the enemies of Muslims who are doing this to divide their community.

Suspicions of the government's role

Interview with Haruna Kanabi - journalist and leader of the Independent Media Council

Video

Interview with General David Sejusa - former intelligence chief and advisor to the President

Video

The Investigators

Sorious Samura -- Insight TWI

Sorious Samura is one of the world's most widely respected African film and television journalists. Since his debut on the international stage with Insight's Emmy-winning “Cry Freetown" (2000), Sorious - a native of Sierra Leone - has produced and presented more than a dozen powerful and innovative documentaries for major international broadcasters.

Ivan Okuda -- The Daily Monitor

Ivan Okuda is one of East Africa’s most talented and promising young journalists. Only 22 years of age, Ivan has been working for Uganda’s most respected newspaper ‘The Daily Monitor’ since the age of 16 and is also a student of law. ‘Uganda: Living in Fear' is his first television report.

Video

Watch the full documentary

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