Mengo 1966 Massacre
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On the 24th of May 1966, innocent blood was spilled. It was spilled by those who had a lust for power. Close to one thousand people were killed inside the thirty acres Mengo palace. Those killed included women and children. Most of the victims’ bodies were secretly buried in state mass graves in the fields of a national prison. The numbers were confirmed by the mass grave diggers and the Red Cross. The families never recovered their bodies to date, and no befitting memorial has ever been erected in their memory over forty years since.

And so the widows, children, grandchildren, relatives and friends of the butchered innocents have brought you this website. The site is made to honour name by name the gallant sons and daughters of our beloved kingdom who perished that day. Read More...

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