Legal Draftsman, Constitutional Lawyer and Transitional Justice practitioner
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Essential for lasting #peace: an effective and trusted police protecting people’s rights. Starting this month @GermanyDiplo funds a police advisor to support security sector reforms and strengthen the peace process. MoU b/w @RJMECsouthsudan and @GIZ_SouthSudan signed today. #SSOT
ALT Group photo of RJMEC Chair a. i. Maj. Gen. (ret.) Charles Tai Gituai, German Ambassador Tobias Eichner and GIZ Country Director Maik Schwarz together with Police Advisor Shaun Van Caues together with additional representatives of RJMEC, the German Embassy in Juba and GIZ South Sudan.
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Most pregnant question asked at the “50th Anniversary of the Asian Expulsion” public lecture 19/8/22 by .@mm1124: Since [historically all] humans are migrants, at what point do they become natives/[indigenous]? It wasn’t answered. The answer is scary.
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Look out for our next thread on the commentaries to this public lecture #AsianExpulsionUgat50
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10/10 The challenge for Ugandans is to delink our notion of citizenship from race and biology and ground it in politics and history. The challenge is to decolonize our notion of citizenship. #AsianExpulsionUgat50
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8/10 The Asian leaders were an economic elite, not a political elite. They never aspired to power. Their political instinct was never to usurp power but to nestle close to those in power, to look up to them for a road map. They aimed to control the market, not the state.
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7/10 There was one common loss among those who left Uganda - the loss of home. A sense of belonging develops over generations. The generation that was expelled lived as ‘strangers’, wherever they landed, as if always ready to pack their bags and leave at short notice.
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6/10 About 10000 Asian residents became stateless . They were without a right to work in the country. At first, they lived in places of worship. With an increase of numbers, they crowded into one room tenements. Some celebrated the expulsion coz it opened for them British doors.
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5/10 Asians were not good at reflecting their experiences critically. It is the children of refugees – second generation – who attempted to address this deficit. But theirs are handme-down stories, gradually homogenized into victim narratives. #AsianExpulsionUgat50
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4/10 During the Asian expulsion, the British cabinet came up with a new language to make this same racialized distinction: ‘belongers’ vs United Kingdom Passport Holders. The Ugandan situation & that in UK disadvantaged those expelled from Uganda #AsianExpulsionUgat50
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3/10 The clause on ‘citizenship’ in the independence constitution of 🇺🇬 distinguished ‘indigenous’ from ‘non-indigenous’ residents. Indigeneity meant having at least one grandparent born in 🇺🇬 This ruled out 90% of Asian residents of Uganda from a birth right to citizenship.
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🧵1/10 Yesterday @mm1124 gave a Public Lecture on #AsianExpulsionUgat50 @Makerere The event was organized by @refugeelawproj and Amani Institute. The lecture centered on what we have learnt over half a century from this expulsion. We bring you some highlights from the lecture 👇
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On 4 August 1972, President Idi Amin announced that British Asians were to leave 🇺🇬. In the end, all persons of Asian descent (numbering about 80000) were required or forced to go as Amin declared an 'Economic war'. @MakerereLaw @Makerere @uculawsociety @Parliament_Ug
Thanks Prof. Looking forward to it
I'll be following this one live on YouTube - great speaker, commentators and host!
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Heads of State & Government, H.E. Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Burhan. In his brief, Amb. Gituai among other pertinent issues, highlighted key challenges affecting the implementation of the R-ARCSS, requested Gen. Burhan in his capacity as Chair of IGAD to rally....
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As the implementation of the South Sudan peace agreement enters a critical phase, RJMEC Chairperson H.E. Amb. @MajGenGituai on Tuesday in Khartoum met and gave a detailed status update to the Chairman of the Sovereign Council of Sudan and Chairperson of IGAD Assembly of..
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....well as they start their work as stipulated in the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution fo the Conflict of the Republic of South Sudan. He assured the Committee leadership of RJMEC full support where possible.
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RJMEC Interim Chairperson, H.E. Amb. @MajGenGituai held a meeting with the Chairperson of the recently inaugurated South Sudan Ad-Hoc Judicial Reforms Committee (JRC), Hon. Justice James Ogoola & his Deputy, Hon. Lady Justice Joyce Alouch.
Amb. Gituai wished the Committee...1/2
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The JRC is chaired by Justice James Ogoola (Uganda), duputised by Justice Joyce Alouch (Kenya).
