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Kizza Besigye used to be Museveni's personal doctor but he went on to become an opposition leader and has referred to leader of the east African country as a "dictator".

“The agency is more staffed up and is much more diverse than it used to be,” says Chitra Kumar, managing director of the Climate & Energy Program at UCS and former director in EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.

Claudia Mo, known affectionately in Cantonese as Auntie Mo, used to be a prominent opposition lawmaker.

“Your starting point is to take a human being and ask, what's your ancestry? What kind of human are you? That used to be called prejudice. It used to be called bigotry. It used to be called profiling and discrimination. Now you're trying to make a virtue of it. I think that's a big mistake.”

They used to be seen as not needing special attention because they often excelled.