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Kizza Besigye
Kizza Besigye is a Ugandan physician and politician who served as Yoweri Museveni's personal doctor during the Bush War and rose to colonel in the National Resistance Army. After breaking with Museveni he challenged him in four presidential elections, in 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016, losing each amid allegations of fraud, and was repeatedly arrested. He led the Forum for Democratic Change, the main opposition party, for much of that period.
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