Police apologises over cancelling Nazi film
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/721960
Sunday, 6th June, 2010
By Catherine Bekunda
THE Police have apologised for having stopped the screening of a film on the trial of prominent members of the leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany after the World War II. The film, The Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, had been scheduled to be shown at 8:00pm on Friday at Watoto Church in Kampala.
However, three Police officers from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) stormed the church and stopped the organisers from showing it.
Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said the deputy CID director, Moses Sakira, apologised to all the stakeholders.
“Yes, we have apologised to the lady who had organised it, the church and the people who had come to watch the film,” Nabakooba said in an interview.
She said the Police chief, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, had ordered the CID boss, Edward Ochom, to investigate the officers involved.
The Watoto church show would have been the first public viewing in Africa.
Nuremberg shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the Nazi’s own films and records.
The trial established the “Nuremberg principles”— the foundation for all subsequent trials for crimes against humanity. It is being shown in the context of the discussions at the International Crinimal Court (ICC) review conference at Speke Resort Munyonyo on war crimes.
