Document #1204255
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
A Ugandan teacher named Gregory Byaruhanga
was arrested in
the Town of Kisii on March 13, 1987, following an attack on a bus
in central Kenya. He died ten days later in a hospital where he was
taken by the police. [ Keesing's Record of World Events,
(London, Longman Publishing Group), October 1987, pp. 35431-35432.]
This incident reportedly strained relations between Uganda and
Kenya, leading to the deportation of more than six hundred Ugandans
from Kenyan territory later the same month. Economic and trade
disputes between both
countries which were precipitated by these
events, continued through June
of 1987. [ Ibid, p. 35432.]
Although no recent reports of violence specifically directed
against Kenyan residents of Ugandan origin could be found among the
sources presently available at the IRBDC, Ottawa, relations between
the countries are tense. Kenya has repeatedly accused Uganda and
Libya of collaborating in the support of Kenyan rebels. [ Africa
Confidential, 28 April 1989, p. 3.] During the first months of
1989, Uganda and Kenya have
been engaged in an almost daily exchange of accusations and
denials of each country's involvement in troop mobilizations,
incursions into the other's territory and collaboration with
rebel groups. [ Sub-Saharan Africa Daily Report,
(Washington,
Foreign Broadcast Information Service), issues of March and April,
1989.]
In Kenya, reports indicate Ugandan wives of prominent
Kenyan figures have become the target of widespread suspicion,
although measures taken against them and other individuals of
Ugandan origin are not reported in the sources available to the
IRBDC at the present time. [ Africa Confidential, 28
April
1989, p. 3.] However, an uprising of Ugandan refugees from a UNHCR
camp in Thika, near Nairobi, Kenya, on 20 March 1989, resulted in
the escape of a Ugandan rebel leader (Alice Lakwena) and other
people, rioting in a nearby town, and the intervention of Kenyan
security forces to control the unrest. [ Sub-Saharan Africa
Daily Report, (Washington, Foreign Broadcast Information
Service): 22 March 1989, p. 4; 23 March 1989, p. 8.]