Muniini, It is a bitter pill to swallow, I know. But that you attempted to be on our side for once before your creater, I wish you could really address the issue rather than act imbecile and stupid. Your question is long over due. You should now ask about waht Ugandans, including you are going to do about this greatest tragedy that dictator Museveni and hi NRA/M has brought on us (Ba'Anyanya). Your question does not reflect sensitivity to the reallity in Uganda north of Kyoga and the Nile. It falls short of the seriousness it deserves Brother. We may ask you amillion questions just to try to understand why now; but as long as the strength with which you supported dictatorship in Uganda is not turned around to save those Ugandans from this amagedon, your letter is just another crocodile tear.
Bwambuga. --------------------- "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Gook > >That is very true and to the point. However there is another look we must take on Dr. >Mulera and the friends who are now trumpeting the Reform Agenda. >Mulera's style from day one has been to use classes in our nation, both in Uganda and >in Canada. His argument has all along been those people and then them selves, the >ones who are right and who can rule Uganda better, and that is exactly where and how >he gave NRM his undoubtedly full support by using the Canadian media and Uganda >forums. That is no secret to any one in these forums. Today in 2003 August, Mulera is >telling us what we all along did not know and I quote "However, I think that the >major reason for the lack of public outrage over the massacres of fellow Ugandans in >Katakwi [Teso] and Pader [Acholi] is racism. Uganda-style racism; the old north-south >divide. " So in essence Mulera is stating that classifying Ugandans is a terrible >thing that we all must never do. But in the very same article he wrote in Monitor he >states and I again quote "I have read postings on UNAANET, an Internet Discussion >group that brings together largely sober-minded and empathetic Ugandans in North >America. Silence." >The fact that Mulera's problem is not peace in Uganda but who is in the State House. >The long time he has spent in the wildness, he has not picked up anything new. For >again he goes back in his old bag and he classify the same Ugandans that he is >telling to stop those lines. So for him the Ugandans who are on UNAANET are the only >ones who are sober, the rest of the Ugandans out there, in other forums are not >sober. That is Dr. Mulera's problem. The failure to understand that all Ugandans are >equal. > >And let us be fair to those who are new to this very old adage, Dr Mulera was a full >member of Ugandanet, and he used it to the optimum to sing the NRM song >unconditionally, record must as well indicate that Mulera opposed the notion that the >killing of Northerners and Easterners is a government sponsored program. Ugandans >became tired and decided to take Mulera head on and he ran away. The same Mulera took >his testimony to fednet, a forum again where Ugandans rejected his support of who >ever is in state house, again he ran away. Mulera found refugee in UNAANET, the >question remains for how long? > >It is very sad that today he is stating that the members of UNAANET are the only ones >who are sober, so what is he going to call them after they show his lies as happened >in two separate Uganda forums? > >And I conclude, that as long as there are Mulera's out there, who decide to feed on >every chance and change which comes into Uganda, or appears to come to Uganda, the >Mulera's who decide to make now the Bakiga tribe a very important issue in Uganda >politics, that he even sets up a Bakiga conference in Toronto, thanks to the dream of >Kiiza Besigye's ambition to come to power. The onus is on Ugandans to spot these >malfunctions we have in our society and to make them public. With out that we will >have many deaths in Uganda, today the helicopter went to Pader but tomorrow it will >be in Rukungiri. > >Ugandans be ware of the Mulera's we have in society. > >Em > > The Mulindwas Communication Group >"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" > Groupe de communication Mulindwas >"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: gook makanga > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:33 AM > Subject: Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto > > > > > > > Mulindwa, > > Munini is a classical case of what he condemns in his article. As long as the NRM/A > was killing only the Acholis and other biological substances, it was alright for > him. As long as he was still "eating" at the trough of the Victors, it was ok. But > now things have come closer to home. A fellow Munyakabale has been identified, > isolated and is soon to be crushed! > > It is only this realization that has now dawned on Munini . It isthis that has > woken him from his long "sleep". > > For us who have always seen the NRA/M/M7 for what it is, we say welcome Munini to > this sad realization. Late and little as it may be, We none the less say welcome to > the nightmare that you helped usher in Uganda! > > > Gook > > "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has > his freedom."- Malcom X > > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "Mulindwa Edward" > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: , > CC: "Anne Mugisha" > Subject: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto > Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:11:07 -0400 > > Ugandans > > It is very interesting to see Dr Mulera writing this kind of statements today, but > I think he is too late to join the rest of Ugandans who have condemned daily these > kinds of killings in Northern and eastern. And we must as well remember that > Ugandans who are in those areas know full well who have supported their being > killed. For let us not kid our selves, killing Northerners was not started > yesterday, it has been going on for the last 20 years, so I will not challenge my > friend Mulera to go back into history very long ago, so I will ask him only two very > simple questions. > > 1) In the early 80's when Yoweri Museveni stated "Northerners are Biological > substances, and many of these people are not fit to live with us" Can Dr Mulera > produce where he publicly opposed that statement? > 2) When Kiiza besigye stated "Acholis and Langis should be eradicated from Uganda" > Can he produce where he opposed it? > > You see the danger is that today Northern Uganda has become a public case, and > there is no one who has done this apart from the Northerners them selves, and if > today in 2003 people like my friend and neighbour Dr Muniini Mulera can come up with > such sentiments, can you imagine if he stood for the population in Northern Uganda > from 1984 when he was the best seller of the NRM government in Canada? > > There is allot of blood that has been poured in Northern and Eastern Uganda, but we > must never delude our selves that it is Museveni alone to blame, for that will be > the greatest delusion. > > Em > > The Mulindwas Communication Group > "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" > Groupe de c ommunication Mulindwas > "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" > ----- Original Message ----- > From: gook makanga > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 6:16 PM > Subject: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto > > > Letter to A Kampala Friend > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto > > Northern killings bring out racism of Ugandans > August 4, 2003 > > Dear Tingasiga: > On July 22, 2003, a Uganda People's Defence Force [UPDF] helicopter gunship killed > nine civilians in Obalanga, Katakwi District. The victims were attending a funeral > ceremony. > Two days later, a military helicopter gunship killed 13 civilians who were tilling > their gardens in Acholi-Bur, Pader District. Many others were injured. > > While these killings were duly reported by the Kampala news media, there has been > little manifestation of our collective outrage at the se massacres of unarmed > civilians. > > I have scanned the newspapers from Kampala and around the world. The Kampala paers > have told the story. The rest of the world's scribes have been silent on the matter. > > I have read postings on UNAANET, an Internet Discussion group that brings together > largely sober-minded and empathetic Ugandans in North America. Silence. > > Save for statements by a few Ugandan MPs and Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi's > statement to parliament expressing "the government's sadness" at the news of the > Pader incident, there has been little public expression of outrage by regular > citizens. It is business as usual. > > Perhaps the explanation is simply that Ugandans have murdered each other for so > long that a few more deaths are neither here nor there. > > Perhaps we have become a nation of hardened souls, immune from the pain of losing > fellow citizens, viewing violent death as part of doing government business. > > Yet I doubt that this is the explanation. After all, weren't Ugandans rightly > outraged by the killings of innocent Iraqi citizens by US and British fighter jets > during the recent war against Saddam Hussein? > > Of course it could be that the deaths of Arabs in Mesopotamia at the hands of > Americans engendered deeper emotions than the death of Africans at the hands of > fellow Africans. Colonialism has had a deep effect on our self-image. > > However, I think that the major reason for the lack of public outrage over the > massacres of fellow Ugandans in Katakwi [Teso] and Pader [Acholi] is racism. > Uganda-style racism; the old north-south divide. > > The truth is, Tingasiga, the massacres in Katakwi and Pader happened to "them," not > to "us." > > They occurred "over there", in the land of "they" who did it to "us" in the Luwero > Triangle and elsewhere before "we" overthrew them from power in 1986. > > That the vast majority of people of Acholi and Teso had absolutely nothing to do > with the crimes committed by the pre-Museveni regimes is a truth that must not be > allowed to interfere with such prejudices. > > That the people of Acholi and Teso are our brothers, our kinsmen, fellow Africans, > bound together by a history that we cannot undo, fated to a common destiny, is a > detail that must not be accorded room in our consciousness. > > To do so would ruin the great illusion of being different from "them" who are from > "over there." It would make it hard for us to say, with a smile, that "they" deserve > it. > > Whether it is the Kanungu massacre or the violence in Bunyoro, the violent > cattle-rustling in Karamoja and Teso or the abduction of girls from Lango and > Acholi, many Ugandans see these crimes as purely local matters, of concern to > members of the relevant "tribes." It is "their" problem, not "ours." > > This is the same attitude that has been shown by many people from the southern > parts of Uganda, especially from Buganda and the Western Region, in response to the > long nightmare that has gripped the Acholi people for nearly two decades. > > While few would openly admit to such racist attitudes, many have expressed in > private conversations that the nearly one million Acholi in concentration camps > deserve the dehumanizing fate that has been theirs for more than a decade. > > This is the attitude that almost certainly informs the reaction of many people from > south of Lake Kyoga to the recent massacres in Katakwi and Pader. > It is "them," not "us." > > Another possible explanation for this reaction is that these killings were > perpetrated by a UPDF gunship which was presumably hunting for anti-government > rebels. > > Ours is a society where we ration condemnation of injustice and crime. > > Opponents of President Yoweri Museveni's government find it hard to condemn > criminal acts by the regime's armed opponents. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." > > Some even celebrate the brutality of crazed fellows who butcher fellow citizens in > the name of the Lord. > > On the other hand, supporters of President Yoweri Museveni and his government feel > duty-bound to remain silent in the face of the most indefensible crimes of the state > against the citizens of Uganda. Citizens massacred and terrorised by the state in > Acholi, in Teso, in Rukungiri, in Kinkizi. Silence from supporters of the regime. > Solidarity even in crime. > > That is why the latest high profile son of Teso, Minister of State for Health Mike > Mukula, is unlikely to condemn the actions of the UPDF which killed "his people." > > Mukula, who has taken to playing an army officer complete with military fatigues > and a bayonet, may even appoint himself chief defender of the UPDF, in the mistaken > belief that to do otherwise would be unpatriotic. > > How one wishes that that other son of Teso, the highly principled Cuthbert > Obwangor, was still active in politics! Not for him the antics of the Muk ulas of > this world. > > The question for Mukula and other good Movement cadres is whether mass murder by > the state is any less horrifying and less reprehensible than mass murder by, say, Mr > Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army [LRA.] > > Is mass murder by the UPDF somehow more tolerable than that which was committed by > the "rogue armies of the buffoon regimes" which governed Uganda before 1986? > > Does this murder by the state, albeit unintended, not warrant the same degree of > anger and moral outrage that similar incidents would generate if they occurred in, > say, Buganda, Ankole or Busoga? > > God forbid, but if similar bombings occurred in Kyazanga, Masaka or Rushere, > Nyabushozi, I bet you Tingasiga, all of you folks from south of Lake Kyoga, would > react swiftly and angrily. > > There would be very loud voices of protest and demands for the immediate > resignation of the army commander and the minister[s] responsible. > > People would demand the arres t of the trigger-happy pilots of the bird-of-death? > > Yet when these massacres occur in Acholi, Teso or Lango the citizens from the > southern half of the country carry on with their business as if the country has not > suffered terrible loss of lives. > > Likewise, one is not surprised that there has not been a word of condemnation > emanating from Ottawa, London or Washington D.C. > > Had the massacres occurred in President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, the condemnations > from these major western capitals would have been very swift and hard-hitting. > > It would have been Mugabe killing his people. > > But this is Uganda. Museveni's Uganda, temporary darling of London and Washington > D.C. The dead civilian citizens are victims of friendly fire. Mere collateral damage > in a fight against "terrorism." > > One is also not surprised that the church leaders in Kampala, the same spiritual > leaders who were quick to oppose Museveni's "third term" project, have been si lent > on the latest massacres of the peasants in Teso and Acholi. > > I think we should all hang our heads in shame. > > Our collective silence and the remarkable ease with which our business has > continued as usual, even before the blood of Ugandans has dried in the killing > fields of Katakwi and Pader, speaks volumes. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > © 2003 The Monitor Publications > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > Gook > > "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has > his freedom."- Malcom X > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. 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