Al-Shabaab Terror scare used by Uganda and Burundi Regimes to Silence Democracy

Both Uganda and Burundi have peace keeping troops in Somalia thus they have enjoyed military and economic support from the West and the USA in particular. For Museveni, the Somali Peace Mission was a God sent opportunity to blackmail the West against any queries over his dictatorship. Whenever he is faced with an intense internal political dissent, he invokes the Al-Shabaab terror scare to curtail freedom of assembly, speech, and association. Being a master of deceit, he has repeatedly stage-managed and fabricated terror threats that on many occasions have turned out to be a hoax but after he has achieved his intended goal.