{"id":34634,"date":"2021-05-30T23:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T23:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34634"},"modified":"2021-05-30T23:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T23:02:29","slug":"uganda-finding-the-truth-behind-a-killing-spree-in-kampala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34634","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Finding the truth behind a killing spree in Kampala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In November last year, more than 50 people were shot and killed during a government crackdown on the streets of the Ugandan capital, Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>Officials defended the use of live fire, saying the police and army were responding to rioters.<\/p>\n<p>But a new investigation by BBC Africa Eye shows evidence that, on November 18th, a police truck drove through the city centre and, in the space of a minute or so, shot seven unarmed people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-57286419\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November last year, more than 50 people were shot and killed during a government crackdown on the streets of the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Officials defended the use of live fire, saying the police and army were responding to rioters. But a new investigation by BBC Africa Eye shows evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/p09jz196.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}