Barbie Kyagulanyi Ordeal: How love is animating the struggle for meaningful democracy and good Governance – The Mail & Guardian

Barbie Kyagulanyi Ordeal: How love is animating the struggle for meaningful democracy and good Governance – The Mail & Guardian

As a creation carried in a woman’s womb for nine months, I have never felt a heavier heart than when I saw viral images of heavily armed men frog-marching, humiliating and assaulting an innocent civilian mother at gunpoint, at night, in her own home. On the night of 25 January, the world was shocked by videos and images of Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi being raided and assaulted into unconsciousness by heavily armed security officers, sparking publi…