Gas prices these days suck.

Police brutality and political oppression? That sucks even more.

Combine the two and you get the situation right now in Uganda.  High gas prices have pushed the cost of transporting food up, making a trip to the grocery store a painful affair.

While protesters take to the streets in the Middle East and North Africa, now opposition parties in Uganda and elsewhere are taking to to the streets to protest inflated gas prices.

Dr Kiiza Besigye, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s biggest opposer, led a march on Thursday with the Walk to Work campaign.

The police quickly came out shooting rubber bullets into the crowd, one of which hit Dr. Besigye.

There are also reports of police firing at a pregnant woman, throwing tear gas into a home and then beating the residents who run outside and shoving women and children into ditches.

Above is an amateur video of the situation in Northern Uganda. A district chairman associated with the protest was arrested there on Thursday.

Crowds followed the police, trying to get them to release the chairman. As you can see and hear, shooting and chaos has filled the town. Two people have died.

The Ugandan government has said that protests will not reduce the price of oil.

That will not stop the protests spreading to surrounding countries. A Kenyan organization is planning street demonstrations for this coming Tuesday, based on the Walk to Work protests.