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Generals versus colonels in violent land fight

The Weekly Observer "The President’s Office has been named in a bitter, violent land dispute where gun-totting soldiers are forcefully evicting ‘landlords’ from ‘their’ 300-acre swathe valued at Shs 18 billion.
President Museveni says that the contentious amendments to the Land Act 1998 which are heavily opposed by Buganda, among other interested parties, are meant to protect people from mass evictions currently sweeping across the country."

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