Father Clement Kiggundu, the editor of the Catholic newspaper Munno in
Kampala, Uganda decided to travel to Masaka, and told his driver to wait for him
in his office.  When he did not arrive the driver called the priest’s house in Kisubi, 14 miles away along the Kampala-Entebbe road.  Another priest answered
that Kiggundu was not in the house and that he had not come back the night
before.  Very much concerned, his colleagues began to telephone around.  They
also telephoned the archbishop of Rubaga, but in vain.  About 3 p.m., the
telephone rang in the newspaper office.  An unfamiliar voice said that a red
Peugeot, similar to the one used by the priest had been found in the
Namanve forest. 

   
All the members of the editorial staff rushed to the spot and found the car
burnt to a shell.  About 15 yards from the vehicle there was a body, a
horrifying sight.  Although it was half-burnt, they succeeded in identifying the
priest from a piece of a clerical white collar and the shoes he was wearing.
They took Kiggundu to Mulago Hospital where the autopsy revealed that before
setting fire to the car his murderers had strangled him. A bullet was found
lodged in his chest.  The day before his death Kiggundu had visited the parish
priest of Lueza and told him: "I feel that they are pursuing me; now, they are
about to take me.”

   
Why was the Editor of Munno killed so savagely?"  The common explanation
is that when President Idi Amin decided to expel all the Indians from the
country, Kiggundu had the courage to write in the newspaper that it was an
unjust decision and against some individuals with Ugandan citizenship.  Among
them there were not only businessmen, but also children, elderly people and the
sick.  The newspaper wrote: "It is like in South Africa."

    
A former minister in Amin’s Cabinet declared later on that Kiggundu was killed
and burnt in his car by killers hired by Amin because he had had the courage to
publish in his newspaper the complaints and the protests of the women whose
husbands had mysteriously disappeared or had been publicly tortured.  These
women had organized a conference in Kampala in November, 1972 at which they had
criticized the government for the repeated episodes of violence that were
perpetrated and remained unpunished.  They had also demanded that an explanation
should be given for the disappearance of so many innocent people. 
Munno had given voice to these protests.  From the office of the President,
Fr. Clement Kiggundu was told to stop writing.  But the fearless priest carried
on regardless.