In a message dated 1/12/03 6:49:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Teso arrests linked to Kyakabale Some politicians in Teso were arrested last weekend over colonels Samson Mande and Anthony Kyakabale's plan to launch war in eastern region, security sources said yesterday, reports Emmy Allio. The security agencies are looking for guns allegedly delivered from Goma in the DR Congo to Soroti, Kumi and Amuria contacts. Reform Agenda coordinators Francis Ogwang Olebe and Dr. Peter Eriaku were arrested by the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) operatives who confiscated their passports and diskettes, the source said. The arrests followed the capture on Wednesday of four people entering Uganda from DR Congo's northeastern region of Ituri which is controlled by pro-Rwandan Congolese rebel group, Union for Patriotic Congolese (UPC), led by Thomas Lubanga. The four were not named. Sources said the men revealed the names of the people they were to link with to start war against the government. Sources said 18 other politicians and former soldiers countrywide had gone into hiding since last Friday. The sources said the arrested men had large quantities of fake Uganda currency. Last week Lubanga signed a "military, political and economic agreement" with RCD-Goma which is backed by Kigali authorities. Last week, Jean Bosco Barihima, the leader of a hitherto unknown Congolese rebel group, the Patriotic Movement for the Liberation of Eastern Congo, told the Rwanda press that Uganda was training Hutu militia to attack Rwanda. Uganda denied the allegation. Ugandan security recently accused Lubanga of receiving arms from Goma and that planes now land in two newly-built airfields in Fataki, about 100km from the Ugandan border town of Paidha, West Nile. Security said Mande and Kyakabale's People's Redemption Army (PRA)and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are training in Ituri. Lubanga has denied allegations of hosting PRA and ADF, and instead accused Mbusa Nyamwisi of RCD-ML of fabricating allegations against him. Published on: Monday, 13th January, 2003 >>
