Early Wednesday morning fire as usual burnt down the Park Yard Market which is adjacent to Owino Market.

Still as usual, as it happened when the Kasubi tombs were burnt to ashes in 2009, Police and Military showed brutality on people whose merchandise had been destroyed in the inferno.

Police took over the market, beat, shot bullets into the crowds of market vendors who were crying for their burnt items and of course teargased them!

No trader was allowed to access his or her stalls to at least to save some of the items.  Many people were beaten and teargased. Some of the market vendors at burnt Pak Yard market told us that they have always refused to join/participate in opposition politics during civil disobedience thinking that it will save them from police brutality!
However, our investigations have found out that a building being built inside Nakivubo Stadium facing Park Yard when completed, the wall separating the market and the stadium was to be broken and therefore Park Yard had to be the access route to this new Arcade.

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