Please pass on our thanks to your husband, Hon Stephen Lewis , who is now visiting my country of origin, Uganda, to see for himself how we have coped with AIDS.
It is unfortunate though that the the regime of Lt General Yoweri Museveni is restricting him to only places in the Southern half of the country.
This is a regime that has brutalised Uganda's northern half for the last 17 years. ( See mail below).
That Lt General Yoweri Museveni can boast of an army that overuns the whole of Congo (the size of Western Europe) but fail to subdue rebels composed of child soldiers is baffling.
Just before the visit of US President Bush to Uganda, Lt General Yoweri Museveni personally guided and restricted the filming of flora and fauna , by Discovery Channel, again to areas other than Uganda's Northern half.
A human tragedy is being covered up.
The least we can do as Canadians is to demand an end to this military junta.
The surest way to make sure there are no armed rebels, in any country, is to organise free and fair elections.
Thank you.
Mitayo Potosi
Toronto ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NOCīLADUMAS GEORGES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Situation in Uganda... Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:12:06 +0300
To all,
I would like to introduce to you a very compelling human situation of the Acholi people in northern Uganda.
Many of you probably have heard about President Bush's glorification of the HIV/AIDs success in Uganda. This is could be true in one way but false on the other.
Today, there are over 800,000 Acholi people forced by the government of Yoweri Museveni to live in concentration camps in the northern part of the country. This is ostensibly to save them from attacks by rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army, LRA. But instead, the government troops have turned against the civilians by raping the women, girls and men thus infecting them with the HIV virus. As for today, the HIV rate in that part of the country is over 30%. Sadly, this was intentionally left out of the Bush visit.
Other than that, since 1986 when Museveni became president of Uganda, over 300,000 Acholi have been killed, thousands maimed and amputated and over 20,000 children ubducted by the rebels.
I will be showing vidoes and pictures on the conditions starting September 2003. To see what I am talking about, please visit;
http://www.acholitoday.worldbreak.com
See for yourself and please, pass this link along to all your friends, colleagues and those you can reach.
Thank you very much,
ATG. http://www.acholitoday.worldbreak.com
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