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i. i. i. i. mean. do you have people around the globe a month just seeing you i say you gun and i just telling you what a story. story is about robot juggling the also known as bobby one known for his music but leading what they call the struggle for freedom. for the ones who don't
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know anything about uganda we are the youngest population in the whole world with of 80 percent of you can and below the age of 35 that's approximately the number of us our current president is in power but that's also why the ones age we have guns all nobody won because of his music the music that he starts producing in the late ninety's from a small dunson to in the suburbs of complete. come to. remember that all the time against such a. hard.
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hard hard. job yarmulke are on your level of. the way news says he's a good looking insert feel these really need presents to get over as but of to get a good day's ynys blood that's ways loved in the country teen challenge everyone. you know what you can be econ come from the get go and be somebody cause i'm also from the get go. this is president's your aim 7986 ugandans were happy that the war against the regime of former president all but it was of and that most eventually brought
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stability and economic growth. non 5 not to 10 but the 2 years later he won his 6th don't. know when we go back to body ones get off it might look peaceful to you kids playing around up the faces but the fucked around you're going to get to a watery people are really poor and they feel completely abundant by most of in his government. these 2 have been creaming death dead books these people us living will not what. we see when we just. decide i don't have a gun that we have that was it had everything people it would farmers who had to quit foot those who we had quit of those red shirts must be jealous do you know we have the seat we had of a struggle produces that is nowhere to be seen even as
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a city is in debt something that this way we explain to the economy looking into this is tuition we can change politics few. in the late ninety's you got his music industry was changing direction majorly because of them. coming in but it will be right who is your favorite artist i think you're going to discuss you not least ones musical beasts and competition was training at the time. a new concept to life the book you were an editing meant to give advice to raise music sung about proper sanitation and to produce the use of condoms how to deal with to get to life has been outspoken about where he comes from something that lots of ugandans would be ashamed. i'm on the boat the way
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there's nothing to hide about me i come from from the chaff and hey i'm proud of it you i mean you know i'm thinking that get when you get to it's all about you know you think it's the most looking no user thing that's what you think this way and yet make it clear get trees were coming from yeah those places are limited opportunities and they get to where we come from is where most talent ends but it's new prey all the opportunities that's where. that's you gotta get baby. don't you. think. you want to. become. free. they were telling the people your who elected you into office you need to do
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something about the key to you don't only remember us when you really need to get back into to positions it's because it's been about. justice. the preachers are preachers of unity. preachers old peace and new teachers a lot of people 3 swap stories walks educative even wrote a song. for demanded a song is going to bring trouble for you. if you want to do this song you need to be somewhere maybe you need to be a politician you need to be done to this song. and he said ok i understand i mean i do this and he didn't do that so. after 5 yes he did this.
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if i try to communicate what actually ground i expect they will turn things to appreciate that i expect will 3 things to react positively to that not by continually. not by branding. i mean say tell violins expect understanding. people up pushing him to another position you're singing for us the songs disguise he had them but they can't do nothing can you please get there on the floor and speak for us so he's like me do you know that can be a member. and it was. yes you can. subodh doing presented himself as a candidate in the by election which are going to the east that's the constituency where he states to be the member of parliament the rip isn't a test of disgusted with see.
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if it is serious going on into that infests shape of the speeds. he agreed with people then we need to send the post as. it was put in for well enough time she even made elections are not going. to go to let her fame to forward this post to every on their cars on this street sitting down restaurant. cut. was. our. chandan those people shown us love. reading love. back at.
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us was her was. we were at chang to prove this. that it's not about that treats somebody the brains are not going to suffer if you don't particularly like i'm young. or are tired. or i'm. a 34 i hate what they do no work how do you know what idea. or i. was. this is the
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song the probably one song during the presidential elections of 26 team in this song he advocates for peaceful elections on condemns the violence thing that all of a cut during the elections. yes of course you will versing with this to. so or distant establishment when you put this. that's deployed is a danger just there. and you know you of course do it in our name was a part and these games really trade 2 to do what i did just. trying to read. up. with the participants in this continent ok what i've been told to stop fighting this clinton watching but somebody like you spitting on makes 300 words and in 1810
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. while you're at it i've got one. minute it's a treaty was to be granted by us not the police because the police is ordered by the ruling government the court case with we face closed with boxes so we need virtue retake not to drive our cars the only checking every pointing station you from yes someone is yeah if i'm me or someone is there where are varying around under dale 14 there was so much tension this homing me i mean people looking at me from my dad had our city when he coming death the military. and they knew just where the bleachers these days come to him even if you remain number has become to say to an outsider cause so damn so much attention. is very rare her remains.
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because. the guy you've been several. floors up there just a number work. for taboo in the. rockies think. this is not my victory this is the people's victory it is the exultation of the voice of the common people now the divisions of elections are over and it is time for us to work together to bring the positive change that people so badly need by spending so much like you neva seen julie should we have people to be v.p. . as it were but he's an addiction and yet we should hear he hasn't even been here for some would win an election 98 percent when he told me all even the structures over in our name does not show just movement to put in power what to
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do for the doing the one thing that the defendant committed that you can have some of them yes and no i don't they do think that when you. get the good you just. there's something called stereotype yeah. follow there's been that stereotype by probably the quite good racist people like me to prove such a negative perceptions are wrong people use them to take him serious. well when he got into to fully tax yeah this thing is really did he had some sense yeah you know they say looking for the songs that he'd sung before but i don't think we're on to being the narrow band of.
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the one. that are way. back up. you bought. the stock. at my follow. up. on probable cause. from the. doctor.
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but he's a loss what to the machine to make a fuss to parliament i just like today is that. you can count on me i've walked into parliament i've only say to folks that if i let me i don't come to they get to they get to will come to the parliament so i want you to know it till i come to the parliament of uganda i want to want to believe about what you want to change we're going to change it together my role is to give people confidence and to make them believe in democracy which they believe did. the whole country had been watching these elections it felt bigger than a general election while this was just a by election for china and east one of the 104 to 6 constituencies but there was also a big dot in the buckle people's mind is it going to deliver easy capable does it not just for the faint. it had mixed feelings you know. politics. and i think
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example here and i was trying to show him that there is a way things have been going on in uganda and when you look you wouldn't wish it on your friend people are captured beaten up all sorts of things and that's what we're heading into you know wolf. that's been bought out represent every did he leave his jet from the ghetto might. be one was not even a week old serving in parliament when a huge challenge came to his path they wanted to remove the presidential x. limit of 75 from the constitution and if this bill passes president most of any can
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again rule for another time in 2021. while doing another and when he heard all that he asked himself should i sing a song that he got an idea and decided to go to the studio and he recorded a voice message voice not my name is joe when you sentamu also known as will be one . the story of the day of september 2017 is a very sad day indeed leadership of our country they passed a resolution to remove presidential age limits from the constitution of uganda so the president of 70 can become life president. they did this at a time when our nation has been bleeding for the last happy one yes our country's former glory is all gone hold up generates i mean some of the student bodies that gets washed and women that dying when giving back your elected members of parliament think the best response to these crises is to move a genius well my message to them is these you are crazy to us you have betrayed
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your country you have sold your courses for cheap history will judge you very harshly the last shots that we could see from bobby when he was in custody at the police station but we all knew that he had an interview on n.b.c.'s uganda biggest news channel so we were waiting to see if he would continue serving our late schema monet to save us i say you need to let me see today because you know so i had to do the same for you but if the police judge gave up to envious and recently in this movie and i'm sitting there then the police not to it for us. to have a child and i think the moment. i was charged for inciting violence by the name or the idea that i recorded. so sending a message to the people to tell them that it's actually their constitutional right
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to call 3 subsection 4 of the constitution that every gun has a right i actually has the duty to protect the constitution and the right. not to sit down rise up and defend the constitution before the constitution is too weak to defend us. to our plan was proposed to him he's. had a plan go to sleep at our places. plant where it starts. to be implemented together with my fellow m.p.'s to stop. disappears from even being presented i know i'm heading by let me unless i end up i meant still have to meet at a concert actually. but it looks.
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like. it's numerous by the time we got into the main road everyone around could tell it was war he moved on. let. me let. it but it's a prob was blocked traffic on the other side that's when bobby wind got out of the car when he got out he just jumped onto a motor taxi davey came running after him while he was on a motor taxi on the go go go. could be nudged out and you get well police i told bobby the police were following
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you know them go home come back you know many people coming to drive and replied the police can't catch up if he's out of the meeting you had a good hard look at all but another 100 we took short cuts little funny things. stuck. ringback out for us who you know what you're going to feel because but i mean 2 was under siege it was surrounded by over each other forces. everybody played get out of the house. nothing was to get out of the house we should have been is that he was going out of his house. mystical is no sort of indifference or proceeding. on literally will you when you're dead she was given the morsi 6000000000 shootings . showered daintree does drugs is what
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a mint. shout out. was for educational m.p.'s sure that's true a sure. way i personally turned to see if history was a strip you blew whatever you can in 7 to question 70 country and we come to discern. the truth by samir into just stretching. the truth. of the one. who some days a little bluff sleeps. all day.
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long to do scenes with some numbers abundantly. and this was planned. by a. the wine was taken to the police station where the big board was receiving this news. after this fight the whole country was suddenly interested in national politics something was going on. all of us at
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university and i was the best in the school so i was brought up to come to be taking aim at drama so he was also brought from m.t.v. i came here so we got to meet on the stage ok was distinct was different he had read he walked differently he was full of himself he rarely talks to us he came late left. but was very very very good on stage so one day will be pushes me to form then you'd have to have some muscle to fight for it so he would fight for my feet then this day he fought for my seat then beat the conductor said you can't get out of this that fear in the city to say ok come and sit here so you brought me all the way home so when he came. this boy. do you know what we always do and i'm like where do you mean to. and i'm like what do you mean this is going to be one of them called and i'm like
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what good is that. of course it felt like there was betray on my side i needed to have known least from this that. he took me some time and he just think you know if he's defending you i think the stabbing is that you're sorry lives yes you just this checks go who does not know the town he's not a thief. he's known. what king had and i mean money to his family. but then i don't know wait ended and then we went back to that. we read in the newspapers that 3 explosives were thrown at their homes the place where bobby bobby wine and their 4 children states so it was directly related to
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the fact that were doing was trying to stop the edge limit bill from being passed but not allowed could be detected because if it's buses they would be outnumbered. he started a campaign with other opposition members to stop the spill the campaign color was red so everybody was running grid even members of the ruling party were joining the company they named to complain to quite a call meaning don't touch the constitution what was the much good. going to do when it was started to build things who could. i was here one night. and the robot called me that day i dropped grenades at his house. i think that we're mourning his place. and i was there. 7 members part of it came to show him welcome to him. down then they get to people are beginning to
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get this real hope they. they believe things can change and indeed things can change so we just can't give up it's usually when you know that what we're doing is right if you come from asserting any company from. 6 to 6 feet just some of them are crying you're right it will be a wedding to leave these people alone but when you look at the promise you give people when you look at their conviction we have in our hearts. you realize that you know. we're a god we know this struggle only guy right. down over the animal to a number he drove back to his studio without telling anybody and the next morning
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he took me to the studio to listen to his new project with dan magic and when i heard the song freedom freedom. to shoot the video so fast because u.s. kid that d. to be stopped. we released it the moment where on the plane. they would never receive him. bucknor you do even named it the freedom tor because you release a song and by the time we got to south africa everyone knew the song thank . god this song scribbling away. even if you did not get played so much on t.v. and foot if you tv's it played on the one. note plate it's not the 1st time the buying him the dumb plays music on t.v.
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but people have it on their phones people have it on their radios people have it on their computer was. your. own doing. god i don't understand why it was good for you right you do what you want to do you . should be discreet to do this and didn't want to be. free and we came back to uganda and continued with concerts everyone thought that they were divorced him but the employed there would be so much attention that was his protection. i didn't know about let me. go as i was too i was in uganda the central to the east and to the west and to his next days has been his school course it was the the cute young people. been pushing his message and pushed him this way this
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trade for stopping. the real. good. you cannot bear to do tonight under the current year. and will do in the frist a if i can watch some of the on to stump for. many different shows that's why i stopped because they thought and they knew that when people get to realize the truth. to be a tag. team never ever on your. feet. on your knees are not going to see you not even on your knees or down a whole body on. december monday i'm having
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a murderous i can run you think you can resign if your mind to think different our future if. you think. so they start stopping his concerts was out there but you do think i'm with just a bible for some constructive scene we have went to court. if. i was subsequently charged with inciting bad news i did my own interpretation that judging me for opening the eyes of the people especially the youth that judging me was showing people that they had been enslaved for so long may give us some truths you shouldn't talk about and you shouldn't talk about politics. seeing
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you'd have to stitch. just doesn't have to put going people came to watch. her when he got it how hard you're going to get that big a good son put it that's who can hear you. say i need to see this he's moving. to nice and good to see chinese. fight to go free. go down to the been there 1000 feet long you do not know for sure he preferred you was down a path i got me that must be 50 feet is very good power no bob pretty high speed or something. but. respect the shark if my great great shot.
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to pieces. if you. say you need. to come see. me out by the pool. in. the park and if i decide. who. was. sitting right on the beach. to us. was. pretty to do you just reach because even if you use it for full full permission from the police to do what. you. think somebody on my hip got.
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to my liking to help me. out of some kind of tough constitutional california see how you gonna get before he's appointing you all for the. peace. you see we have me. from issues. that i. am a little how what you don't keep. going . cause. you. know nothing to myself. i. just if you make you you make.
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the country good reasons. to make up muslim a good thing i do not have the money was the was. was. did he faced that us place blitz. we went downhill a few days. after. the. people we had sure didn't get us sunday ready to do everything in.
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well. there there when did i not then we've got your spot forced i mean it was i mean i thought what about i may i need to hear you say. the whole country was watching to see the lawsuit in parliament about the presidential edge limit is this edge limit bill going to pass we were very curious to see how the last words are right m.p.'s our representatives before the last decision was going to be met.
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but nothing was done a lot of what a world of. a we were at her and now you're looking at a leave a room murder that they are going to find her a roof was evening her and her nanny. nanny.
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yes film. yeah if you can what's inside the lens would be great ok. yeah. to the government. the president of course and the entire executive i want you to know that this is not a war we don't hate you we say this because we love our country i do love our generation and want to be in a bit of a uganda you promised us lots of things but we have been disappointed constanta the only we're looking for is the opportunity to do things ourselves in our home when you we are our age you did not accept these kinds of injustices there's no reason why you should expect us to accept that you know an age that so we want to believe that. constitutionally and peacefully and for the betterment of our country.
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to all of you ugandans it's important for you to know that this is your country this is where you are born and this is where you are going to be buried. it's important not to expect everything from the police decisions from the government so getting blowed believe much us t.v. . going to teach and the low get involved that most importantly to know it. because if she is the only live by area between us and the country we want to live in one day we shall be reminding ourselves of the struggle and that is when we are on the other side of freedom so highly and right there are so i mean right there we get believe very sure that we deserve.
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from this moment one challenge attorney other was coming his way he demonstrated against new laws that were brought in by most of it. he started the people for movement opposition leaders together and he went to support opposition candidates in other parts of uganda in order to create a more equally biased parliament but the more he started mobilizing ugandans the more his name was made difficult by the government and the more his popularity amongst ugandans was growing the more he was getting into the dangerous. until the 13th of august. body was put to a position kind of hit in the northern part of your gun well things got out of control. body one was captured tortured and brought to the military prison he's traveled and saw that in the driver's seat of his car where he was seated one
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minute you're. going with servicing death and needed medical help. from abroad well if might have been held in any case that this is the moment that the wallet was sticking it to the strips that they are stuck with was. and me. i was demonstrating and understood and it really doesn't matter who i own but i am one of the many ugandans who has been following the story and that still follows it because this is a very important part of the story of uganda the story from get to to parliament.
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