Four
Muslim clerics in the Ugandan capital,
Kampala, have gone missing after being picked up by unidentified men, a
community leader says. The
head of Uganda's Muslim Tabliq sect said they were
"kidnapped" from their homes or places of work. Continue..
The
police have yet to investigate as they had not been officially reported
missing, It is
not clear if the disappearances are linked to the shooting of two Muslim
clerics in December.
One was
the head of Uganda's Shia community, who was gunned down in eastern Uganda by
people on motorbikes on 25 December, the other was a Tabliq leader shot in his
car on 28 December in Kampala.
Police
blamed those killings on the remnants of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a
Ugandan Muslim rebel group based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
The
group is headed by Jamil Mukulu, who before starting the movement, was a
radical leader within the Tabliq sect in the 1990s.
The
BBC's Patience Atuhaire in Kampala says there have also been leadership
wrangles within the Tabliq community.
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