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Kizza Besigye , is a Ugandan physician, politician, and former military officer. He served as the president of the Forum for Democratic Change FDC political party and was an unsuccessful candidate in Uganda 's , , , and presidential elections, losing all of them to the incumbent, Yoweri Museveni , who has been president of Uganda since 26 January The results of the elections were contested in court, and the court found massive rigging and disenfranchisement.

Besigye allowed an early internal FDC election for a successor president, which took place on 24 November The second-born in a family of 6, both his parents died before he finished primary school. His father was a policeman. Besigye enrolled at Makerere University in and graduated with a degree in human medicine in While in the bush, he became Museveni 's personal physician.

In , he became commanding officer of the mechanized regiment in Masaka , central Uganda , and in was appointed the army's chief of logistics and engineering. After graduating, Besigye briefly worked at Mulago National Hospital. He later went into exile in Kenya , where he applied to the Medical Board for registration to work as a doctor.

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After getting registered, he applied for and received a job at the Aga Khan Hospital. The document accused the NRM of becoming a sectarian kleptocracy and a one-man dictatorship. Besigye was charged before a court-martial for "airing his views at the wrong forum". He brokered a deal in in which the charges were dropped in exchange for an apology for publishing the document.