date:20031125

 Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to 
us what the exit strategy is.--Candidate George W. Bush, criticizing Clinton's Kosovo 
policies, 4/9/99
By Mick Youther

Before the war, they said liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. Recently, 
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld described it as a long, hard slog, but President Bush 
says the ever-increasing number of attacks on American soldiers is a positive sign. 
Now it looks like there are so many positive signs happening in Iraq that the 
masterminds behind this war are changing their plan, while insisting the plan is the 
same. Confused? So are they.

. We want to move to sovereignty as quickly as possible, but to think 
that somehow you could, tomorrow, wake up and say, 'OK, fine, give sovereignty back to 
the Iraqi people,' before you have a constitution, before you've had elections, before 
you've had the institution of democracy put in place, is not a reasonable statement to 
make,--Sec. of State Colin Powell on NBC's Meet the Press, 9/7/03

. [Writing a constitution] could eat up a great deal of time, more time 
than we think can be allowed before we start transferring sovereignty back.--the same 
Colin Powell, five weeks later, AP, 11/13/03

. It is not an election in Iraq that most concerns the White House, of 
course. That would be the election to be held in the United States next year.--The 
Courier-Journal, 11/14/03

. When the White House abruptly summoned Bremer home from Baghdad and 
convened urgent meetings to alter its Iraq policy Tuesday, critics thought they 
detected a whiff of panic. Weeks of worsening news from Iraq had steadily weakened 
public support for Bush's policy.--USA Today, 11/12/03

. The United Nations and many European leaders have been pushing for a 
more rapid transfer of power to Iraqis, and the American refusal to speed up a 
transfer has made it more difficult for the United States to win international support 
for the rebuilding effort.--NY Times, 11/13/03 

. Nothing has changed. But what is also important is that we find ways to 
accelerate the transfer of authority to the Iraqi people.--National security adviser, 
Condoleezza Rice, NY Times, 11/13/03

. . in order to get this many Iraqis ready for action, training schedules 
have been absurdly shortened--a 12-week police training program now miraculously takes 
only 2 weeks.--The Weekly Standard, 11/17/03

. Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to 
explain to us what the exit strategy is.--Candidate George W. Bush, criticizing 
Clinton's Kosovo policies, 4/9/99

. Let me be clear. The goal is not to reduce the number of U.S. forces in 
Iraq. It's not to develop an exit strategy. Our exit strategy in Iraq is success. It's 
that simple.--Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, 11/11/03 

. The last exit strategy in Vietnam was Vietnamisation, training South 
Vietnamese soldiers to fight South Vietnamese guerrillas. Now the word is Iraqisation 
and amounts to the same thing...In Iraq, the Bush administration promises a different 
outcome-despite pursuing the same goals with the same methods.--Charles Glass, ABC 
News Mideast correspondent, 1983-1993, 11/13/03

. The goal of the enemy is not to defeat us militarily. The goal of the 
enemy is to break the will of the United States of America, to make us leave.--Gen. 
John P. Abizaid from his front-line command headquarters in Tampa, FL, NY Times, 
11/13/03

. [The war in Iraq] has thus far been a perfect example of dominating an 
enemy force but failing to win the victory. Victory means not the defeat of the 
opposing army but rather winning the follow-through operation to accomplish the aims 
and intent of the plan. Not only did the Bush Administration misunderstand the lessons 
of modern war, it made a policy blunder of historic proportions.--General Wesley K. 
Clark in Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism and the American Empire, 2003

. We are about to do something that will ignite a fuse in this region. 
[We] will rue the day we ever started.--Major Gen. Anthony Zinni, former head of U.S. 
Central Command, October 2002

Whatever the Bush plan was or is-it is not working. American soldiers are 
dying because George W. Bush does not have the character to admit he is wrong. All the 
big talk about striking back at the Iraqi fighters with Operation Iron Hammer sounds 
pretty ridiculous, considering we don't even know who we are fighting-let alone where 
they are. 

America's continued military presence in Iraq is now part of the problem. 
We must turn over control to the U.N. as quickly as possible and start bringing our 
troops home. We can only hope that Bush hasn't already waited too long.



Mick Youther is an Instructor in the Department of

ugnet_: Snake,birds disrupt court

Snake, birds disrupt courtBy John Augustine EmojongNov 25, 2003

TORORO Two uninvited birds and a snake disrupted a High Court Tribunal session here yesterday. The tribunal, chaired by Justice John Katutsi, is hearing a petition Tororo councillors filed against their LC-V chairman, Mr Nuwa Owora.
The councillors filed for a vote of no confidence against Owora, who was giving his defence yesterday when things seemed to fall apart.
The hearing was disrupted for more than five minutes following the unexpected entry of a snake, and then two birds prompting some witnesses and officials to flee for dear life.
It all started when a cobra-like snake slithered down the corridor into the courtroom as Owora defended himself against allegations of abuse of office.
Owora was about 90 minutes into his testimony when the snake appeared through the rear door of the courtroom.
It took position where the Chief Administrative Officer, Mr Sylvester Oboth, was seated only about three minutes earlier.
Police Cpl. Kassim Rajabu, who was nearest the door, fought off the snake as it tried to force its way deeper into the room. Other policemen reinforced him.
The faint-hearted in the audience fled.
But Justice Katutsi and the other members of his tribunal, Mr Anthony Kanyike and Mr Omony Ogaba, remained rooted to their seats looking on in apparent disbelief.
The snake, sporting orange and black spots, was finally killed with sticks and stones.
The reptile was quite long at an estimated 2 metres, according to a policeman.
Just when the dead snake was being carried away, two brightly coloured birds flew into the already stunned courtroom. But not for long.
They displayed their blue and red feathers, then flew out almost as fast, and as mysteriously, as they had appeared.
Justice Katutsi restored order to the courtroom but there was fright written all over many of the faces present.
The strange and unexpected courtroom visitors would remain the talk of Tororo town for the rest of the day yesterday with some superstitious folk claiming it was witchcraft. Whose witchcraft? In whose interest?
No one dared to say.
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ugnet_: Political fraud and tyranny main problem:By Dr Kizza Besigye

Political fraud and tyranny main problem By Dr Kizza Besigye Nov 24, 2003




The debate on the need for presidential term limits and on the transition to democracy has been raging for some time now and the efforts by President Yoweri Museveni, and "Movement" leaders to remove the focus of the country from this debate have failed. 
The impression one gets is that "Movement" leaders underestimated the understanding and strong concerns of the people they lead. Many Ugandans are disturbed and alienated from the "Movement" because of the political fraud and tyranny which have been perpetuated by its leadership. The population has a vast experience with these harmful practices because they have been at the centre of the tragedy that our country has witnessed over the last four decades. Moreover, the people know that these practices have always been motivated by the leaders' insatiable greed for power.
It is the extent to which leaders in Uganda have engaged in political fraud and tyranny to retain power that was responsible, to a large measure, for the introduction of presidential term limits in the Constitution. In the case of the Movement government, and their leader Museveni; the people's overriding concerns are two, namely: 
- The legitimacy of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and the Movement Political System (MPS) and;
- The ability of the NRM/MPS to organise and hold free and fair elections and referenda.
Before and after the coming into force of the 1995 Constitution, the NRM and the MPS were supposed to be broad-based and non-partisan with individual merit as the basis for election to political offices. The practice however, has been that all the 1994, 1996/7, and 2001/2 elections were conducted on a partisan basis, and that the principle of individual merit was grossly flouted. The NRM/MPS has acted in a progressively partisan and exclusive manner culminating in its current double existence as the NRM-O and the MPS.
The Movement Political System as envisaged in Article 70 of the Constitution has, de facto, not existed since the Constitution was promulgated on September 22, 1995. The Constitutional Court has already ruled to that effect by stating that in all material respects, the MPS is a political party. This means therefore, that the "Referendum and Other Provisions Act, 2003" is fundamentally misconceived, since it seeks to provide for a mechanism of changing a non-existent system. Article 74 of the Constitution, which deals with the changing of political systems, has been superseded by events, and therefore rendered inapplicable to the transition process.
What would help the transition process, and deal with the apprehension and despondency in the country is for the NRM/MPS to publicly concede and declare that the MPS as provided for in Article 70 of the Constitution does not exist, and that the NRM-O and MPS are one and the same. Alternatively, concerned Ugandans should move the Constitutional Court to make that declaration; with the logical consequence that Article 74 has been superseded by events. It is for this, and related reasons that the democratic forces in Uganda have been demanding for a national conference to chart out an agreeable road-map to a democratic dispensation.
Besides the diverse experiences of people across the country, the government's transgressions in organising and holding elections have now been extensively recorded by the courts of law. In the petition that followed the 2001 presidential elections, the Supreme Court of Uganda ruled that:The provisions of the Presidential Elections Act were not complied with, particularly Section 28 and Section 32(5) of the Act.
That the said election was conducted partially in accordance with the principles laid down in the said Act, and specifically; in some areas of the country, the principle of free and fair election was compromised; in the special polling stations for soldiers, the principle of transparency was not applied;there was evidence that in a significant number of polling stations there was cheating.
Similar and stronger findings have been made by many judges of the High Court in various election petitions since. Furthermore, the NGO Election Monitoring Group (NEMGROUP) report of April 16, 2002 stated that: "There needs to be a concerted effort on the part of government, the Electoral Commission and the general citizenry to redeem the marred image of elections in Rukungiri and Uganda as a whole". 
Parliament also investigated the notorious election violence in the country, and reported that: "Close examination of the evidence available to the committee shows that the institutions most abused during elections are the Uganda People's Defence Forces, Internal Security Organisation and the Resident District Commissioners and their assistants and cadres". In Presidential Election Petition No. 1 of 2001 the Supreme Court found that although the official reason advanced for deploying the army in Rukungiri, Kabale, Kanungu,

ugnet_: Let us join in this Idd party

Let us join in this Idd partyEditorialNov 25, 2003

The Muslim community is ending the month-long period of fasting. It will be a big party as usual. Lots of food and drink will be consumed in celebration of this religious rite that is a culmination of Ramathan.
When you have gone through even a single day of fasting it is then that one can appreciate the amount of self-control it takes to deny oneself of sustenance. But that is not the point here.
Rather, it is that the purpose of Ramathan is to afford Muslims the opportunity to renew their commitment to the key values of honesty, love for each other, and help to the under privileged that are central to the faith.
But there is an even more important reason to celebrate.
It has been a tough year for traditional Muslim countries where anti-western sentiments came to a boil following the US-led war against Iraq.
Even now there is continuing spilling of Muslim blood in Iraq while the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is going through a particularly violent phase. More than ever before the faith is threatened as some countries increasingly get suspicious of Muslims.
In the middle of this many people, Muslims inclusive, have forgotten that the religion is supposed to be one of peace. But there, however, is light at the end of the tunnel.
First, the world has not squandered any opportunity to explain the distorted understanding of Islam. We have seen the West, including US President George W. Bush, go out of its way to tell the world that Islam is in fact a religion of peace, contrary to centuries-old misconceptions.
Second, Muslims anger at the general global politics has focussed attention on the urgent need to resolve the Palestinian issue as a necessary step on the road towards world peace. However bad things seem, there is generally a ray of hope.
For this, we can sing and clap.
We join the Muslims in celebrating the end of Ramathan and hope that the fast has not been in vain. Idd Mubarak.
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ugnet_: Zip those lips lest a lie slips through

OLD MANS CORNER

By F.D.R. Gureme Zip those lips lest a lie slips throughNov 25, 2003

Recent events brought to mind the legendary story of Warugwe (Mr Leopard) and his shrewd friend Wakami (Mr Hare). The two jointly plant some beans. Through a series of pretexts Wakami escapes all chores; promising to do the harvesting. And harvesting he really does.
Notwithstanding the foregoing; the hub of the story is on Wakamis peculiar attitude towards the truth. Before the beans are ripe for harvest Wakami stealthily nibbles them. Since the process became routine rather than occasional grazing, the damage was soon noticed.
The two partners discussed several strategies of stopping or catching the thief, but discarded them as impracticable. They did nocturnal vigils in turn. The not so dim-witted Warugwe presently noticed no thefts during his vigil; but that his friends were ineffectual. Without informing him, he set a trap.
Towards dawn, next day, Wakami gets ensnared, and is swinging in a wide arc. He is saved by the chance passing of Mr Kakunga the jackal, stopping by, and coveting the swinging rollicks.
Immediately Wakami chants, Ogu muzaano owanyu muguzaana? or this romp, do you people enjoy it? Of course not! Do you wish to try? Oh, certainly! O.K. concedes Wakami. Undo the rope, then take my place and swing.
As soon as he is free, and poor Jackal is uncomfortably swinging, Wakami raises the alarm, Thief, thiefthief! Presently Warugwe arrives with a wand and lashes at the thief.
But it was Wakami who Jackal attempts to explain. Wakami interrupts him, urging Warugwe, Teera obunyindo burukwenda kubeiha! or Hit out at the mouth about to tell a foul lie. Warugwe does exactly that; so that by the 50th stroke poor Kakungas mouth is so messed up that his pleas are totally incoherent.
The fate of Kakunga, Wakami, Warugwe or indeed the harvest is of no significance to this discourse. Significant is Wakamis efforts to suppress the truth.
The past few days have been dominated by the leakage of Constitutional Review Commissions (CRC) conclusions: now fact; so that, given CRCs rectitude, essentially nothing much will change, however long publication is held.
Remember that both the NRMs National Council, and the National Executive (NEC) mooted the idea of deleting Article of 105 (2): peddled with the decoy of unfettering political parties.
Since it became clear that, at any rate, the majority of the elite thought that enough was enough, we have lived in a mad house culminating in The Monitor acquiring the entire draft report of the CRC, and government frantically winning a staying court order.
I shall say no more lest I fall foul of the law.
But like I said last Sunday, unlike the lifting of political restrictions, there was no pressure, forget justification, for tampering with Article 105 (2) except for fear of a Chiluba, against retiring President Museveni. Is that all?
Not on your life! As I argued then, Musevenis balance sheet has a favourable surplus. He certainly is pardonable provided he adopts a meek rather than bellicose stance. It is the abasaakiriza, the spongers, leagued by mutual guilt, who would delete 105 (2) to ensure that Museveni persists in office, as their shield against prosecution.
I would add though, that let no one imagine that; the Movement will warm-heartedly lift party restrictions. If the process is Parliamentary, it must be by secret ballot.
The Movements lifeline is a decision of the people (through the extravaganza of the illegitimate referendum, massively boycotted in 2001), who, apart from the Movements brainwashing gospel, have heard no other points of view. But Articles 69-74 and 269-271, contravening the fundamental Article 29 (e), are, in my view, unconstitutional.
Be this as it may, I think we have never had such an erudite Parliament or Cabinet as we now have. We shall be the laughing stock of the world and the shame of posterity if we do not make the best of the CRCs recommendations, to establish a durable constitution.
And our future peace and stability will depend on a dialogue guided by a spirit of give and take than of legalism. It is now or never!
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ugnet_: Make sex work legal,says don.

Make sex work legal, says don By Evelyn Lirri Nov 24, 2003

KAMPALA - Nude shows, popularly called ebimansulo are okay, Dr Sylvia Tamale has said.
"I see no problem with nudity. As long as it does not harm anyone it's okay by me,'' says Tamale, a senior lecturer in the faculty of law at Makerere University.

Dr Sylvia TamaleNude shows are normally staged at night in bars around town. Police have threatened to close the bars and arrest the strippers.

Tamale voiced her support for the shows while presenting a paper on political independence and affirmative action for women at the Makerere University Senate Building.
Tamale said nude dancing is adult entertainment and leisure, which is cherished by many people.
"Sex work should be legalised, this is how some women earn a living. Why should the law come in? Women are exercising their freedom, it is a right.''
She said some women earn peanuts at their places work, "so there would be no problem with them selling their bodies if they can earn more to sustain themselves."
"It is her sexuality and her body, as long as they [sex workers] do not harm any body there is no problem with that," she said.
The don said the law is unjust. "It targets only women, yet the business (prostitution) involves two parties (men and women).
"All sides should be penalised, it should not only be the women,'' Tamale said. She said if people feel they are offended by the presence of sex workers, government should gazette areas for them.
Tamale also maintained her previous stand that homosexuality is okay. "It involves two consenting adults who are aware of what they are doing.'' She said that as long as gays do not infringe on any one's freedom, they could do anything they want.
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ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Miss Uganda

2003-11-25 Thread NOC´LADUMAS GEORGES

Ed,
Just being curious; the name seems Islamic to me. Do they alsofancy this kind of show?!
joyficate
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Ayisha Nassanga  Miss Uganda. They wanted to deny her the title sying 
that she has a Senegalese dad. I dont care what they say, shes 
agreeably drop-dead cute 

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ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Army Knew of Ngetta attack - Col. Mugume

2003-11-25 Thread NOC´LADUMAS GEORGES





Shiit!
This is the same negligence as that previously displayed at Lacor /Lukwiyakare in Gulu. I know Ngetta a little bit from my short time at Comboni. This is a location only five (5!!) miles from Lira Town. I recall the road there was also terraced.It should take a willing army only five minutes to get there, poooh!!
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:22:31 +0100 

 

Army knew of Ngetta attack - Col. Mugume 

By Emma Mutaizibwa  Joe Wacha 

Nov 24, 2003 

 

 LIRA - Fifth Division commander Col. John Mugume has said the army knew about the attack on Ngetta in which 12 civilians were killed. 

 

 "We were informed about the attack on Ngetta," Mugume told an angry President Museveni at the weekend. 

 

 Museveni expressed his anger at the killing in Ngetta on Friday while meeting Lango cultural leaders at Lira Hotel. 

 

 The cultural leaders accused the army of failing to beat off the attack despite receiving prior information. 

 

 Museveni summoned Col. Mugume and the Operation Iron Fist Intelligence Officer Lt. Col. Otema Awany to the meeting to respond the accusations. Mugume admitted the army received warning reports about the attack. 

 

 Mugume said the army deployed at Ngetta. "The army was a distance away from the home where the massacre occurred," he lamented. 

 

 He conceded however, that the army has been slow in responding to rebel attacks. 

 

 "We get information but our response is not timely," he said. 

 

 Museveni asked Mugume to coordinate with local leaders when deploying in anticipation of rebel attacks. "It's not enough to deploy and not to inform the local leaders. You should have asked the local leaders to pinpoint the area where the LRA would use to infiltrate the area," Museveni said. 

 

 The President gave Shs 3.6 million to the bereaved families. Meanwhile, one rebel involved in the massacre was captured. 

 

 The child soldier told a gathering on Thursday that he was ordered by his commander Lamola to kill two civilians. 

 

 The divisional army spokesperson Lt. Chris Magezi yesterday confirmed the child soldier was captured. 

 

 "The rebels who attacked Ngetta were ordered to kill two people each," he said. 

 

 Magezi said that four rebels were captured in last week's fighting. "One of them we captured is Vincent Otti's wife Aryemo Alice," Magezi said. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities (.) No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream". (Martin Luther King, 1964 Nobel Peace prize laureate, assassinated for his struggle) 


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November 24, 2003 
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When Arlene Aguirre arrived in New York from the 
Philippines in September for an extraordinary round of 
surgery - the separation of her 18-month-old twins, who are 
conjoined at the tops of their heads - she hardly knew a 
soul in this country. 

But at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, a group of 
Filipino-American women brought her pancit (a noodle dish) 
and adobo (a garlicky chicken or pork dish) and took her 
shopping at a nearby grocery that carries Filipino products 
like SkyFlakes crackers. They gave her a phone card to call 
relatives in the Philippines, took her clothes home to 
launder, and prayed with her at the bedside of the twins, 
Carl and Clarence. 

It was entirely fitting that this coming together of 
Filipinos in a faraway land took place in a hospital. All 
of the women, including Mrs. Aguirre, are nurses - as are a 
startling number of their compatriots in this country, and 
particularly in New York. 

Filipinos in New York City are practically defined by that 
single occupation, and they are the largest ethnic group 
among nurses at many hospitals in the region. Thirty 
percent of the 173,000 Filipinos in the city and its 
suburbs work as nurses or other health practitioners - four 
times the rate for the entire city population, according to 
the 2000 census. And many of the rest are their spouses, 
children or aging parents. 

"If you meet a Filipino girl and say, `You're a nurse,' 
you're probably right," said Clemencia S. Wong, a pediatric 
instructor at Montefiore. 

"And if you meet a Filipino man he'll probably say, `My 
wife is a nurse,' " said Pio Paunon, a Filipino man who is 
the nurse manager at Montefiore and the president-elect of 
the Philippine Nurses Association of New York. 

For more than three decades, American hospitals, 
periodically short of skilled nurses, have aggressively 
recruited nurses from the Philippines, sometimes enticing 
them with bonuses of thousands of dollars. They prize 
Filipino nurses for their English-language skills and their 
education in public and professional schools that are 
modeled on American counterparts. (The Philippines was an 
American colony or commonwealth from 1898 to 1946, except 
for four years during World War II.) 

The hospitals also value the nurses for their work ethic, 
their loyalty to employers and a tenderness that seems to 
stem from a culture where people insist on caring for their 
own aging or sick relatives. Nursing homes are uncommon in 
the Philippines. 

"They're extremely respectful of patients and their family 
members," said Diane Aroh, Montefiore's chief nurse 
executive. "And they're very flexible, willing to take new 
assignments on the spur of the moment, willing to work 
extra-long hours." 

United States immigration authorities have cooperated with 
hospitals by making it easier for nurses to obtain work 
visas and green cards giving them permanent resident 
status. A 2001 national survey by the Commission on 
Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools found that 41 percent 
of the 789 respondents had received their nursing education 
in the Philippines. 

Partly because of their strong ties to one line of work, 
Filipinos have no single Little Manila in the city, but 
there are concentrations of Filipinos in neighborhoods with 
large hospitals, like Elmhurst in Queens, the Norwood 
section of the Bronx and Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan. 
Jersey City, with 15,860 Filipinos, has the closest thing 
to an enclave, along Manila Avenue near the Holland Tunnel. 


The prevalence of nurses has also helped give Filipinos 
here a distinctive demographic profile: 57 percent of the 
city's Filipinos are female; 49.7 percent have college 
degrees; and the median income of full-time workers is 
$41,000, compared with $34,000 for all New Yorkers. 

The lure for the nurses is irresistible. With enough 
overtime and experience, they can earn $80,000 a year, more 
than 20 times what they would make in the Philippines. That 
money allows them to buy homes in suburbs like Bergenfield, 
N.J., where 3,133 Filipinos live in a community of 26,247 
and where Robert C. Rivas claims to be the only Filipino 
mayor in the Northeast. It also allows them to send money 
back home to pay for better schools for their brothers and 
sisters. 

"We came from a Third World country, and I think this is 
our passport to earn a good living," said Maria Dolores 
Egasan, an intensive-care nurse who will

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ugnet_: Snake causes stir in Uganda court - BBC





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Locals believe snakes can bring bad luckA large snake created panic when it appeared in an eastern Uganda court. 
Two armed men guarding the front door said they did not notice anything slipping past them into the room. 
But when the snake was spotted everyone in court rushed for the exit, bar the judge who reportedly remained in his chair whilst keeping a wary eye on it. 
The snake then also slid out of the front door of the Chief Magistrate's Court in Tororo. It was later stoned to death by locals. 
Proceedings then resumed in the court, only to be halted shortly afterwards by two wild rare birds squawking loudly on the window next to where the judge was sitting. 
They were chased off by people throwing small stones at them. 
The BBC's Abraham Odeke in Tororo says locals associate snakes and rare birds with superstition or witchcraft. 
He says the incidents have left people convinced that somebody sent the creatures to try to influence the outcome of the court hearings. 
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ugnet_: Army Knew of Ngetta attack - Col. Mugume

2003-11-25 Thread Chris Opoka-Okumu




We hope Col. Mugume too will be courtmartialled 
like they did toCorporal (Pimundu?) and sentenced to death..Or will 
he?.

COO


Army knew 
of Ngetta attack - Col. Mugume By Emma Mutaizibwa  Joe Wacha Nov 24, 2003

  
  

  LIRA 
  - Fifth Division commander Col. John Mugume has said the army 
  knew about the attack on Ngetta in which 12 civilians were killed. 
  
  "We were 
  informed about the attack on Ngetta," Mugume told an angry President 
  Museveni at the weekend.
  Museveni 
  expressed his anger at the killing in Ngetta on Friday while meeting Lango 
  cultural leaders at Lira Hotel.
  The cultural 
  leaders accused the army of failing to beat off the attack despite 
  receiving prior information.
  Museveni 
  summoned Col. Mugume and the Operation Iron Fist Intelligence Officer Lt. 
  Col. Otema Awany to the meeting to respond the accusations. Mugume 
  admitted the army received warning reports about the attack.
  Mugume said 
  the army deployed at Ngetta. "The army was a distance away from the home 
  where the massacre occurred," he lamented. 
  He conceded 
  however, that the army has been slow in responding to rebel 
  attacks.
  "We get 
  information but our response is not timely," he said.
  Museveni 
  asked Mugume to coordinate with local leaders when deploying in 
  anticipation of rebel attacks. "It's not enough to deploy and not to 
  inform the local leaders. You should have asked the local leaders to 
  pinpoint the area where the LRA would use to infiltrate the area," 
  Museveni said.
  The President 
  gave Shs 3.6 million to the bereaved families. Meanwhile, one rebel 
  involved in the massacre was captured.
  The child 
  soldier told a gathering on Thursday that he was ordered by his commander 
  Lamola to kill two civilians.
  The 
  divisional army spokesperson Lt. Chris Magezi yesterday confirmed the 
  child soldier was captured.
  "The rebels 
  who attacked Ngetta were ordered to kill two people each," he 
  said.
  Magezi said 
  that four rebels were captured in last week's fighting. "One of them we 
  captured is Vincent Otti's wife Aryemo Alice," Magezi said. 
  



"And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we 
shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the 
devotees of civil rights, When will you be satisfied? We can never be 
satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain 
lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities () No, no, 
we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like 
waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. (Martin Luther King, 1964 Nobel 
Peace prize laureate, assassinated for his 
struggle)

ugnet_: Museveni's Movement in the grip of fiction- Muniini K. Mulera - Toronto.

Letter to A Kampala Friend

By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Museveni's Movt in the grip of fiction Nov 24, 2003 - Monitor

Dear Tingasiga:
A predictable aftermath of September 11, 2001 was that the world's anti-democrats would take advantage of the US-led international war against terrorism to settle political scores with legitimate political opponents.
Those who had home-grown terrorists did not even have to assign their political opponents to the ranks of Osama bin Ladin's worldwide network of Al Qaeda.
For example, Ugandan rulers made good use of the wicked Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a despicable local terrorist outfit that has wrought death and suffering for well over a decade.
With an eye fixed on winning favours from Washington D.C. and other Western capitals, President Yoweri Museveni and his courtiers promptly announced that they were ready to lead the African front against the scourge of terrorism.
Keen students of Museveni and his regime knew right away that Kampala was less concerned about fighting international terrorism than they were about exploiting terrorism to criminalise serious political opposition.
However, we thought that their focus would be on those with the skills and potential to organise an armed rebellion similar to that which had brought Museveni to power in 1986.
We were therefore not surprised when the Museveni team announced that they had "found" evidence linking Dr Kizza Besigye with the LRA.
Dr Besigye, it should be recalled, is the gentleman who almost brought Museveni's reign to an abrupt end when he mounted a very formidable run for the presidency in 2001.
Most serious people laughed off the attempt to link Besigye to the LRA. It was one of those outlandish allegations that never caught on.
Though the President and his people had good reason to worry about the agendas of exiled army officers, they had justifiable confidence that they could contain any armed rebellion.
Indeed Lt. Gen. Museveni's forces seem to have stopped, or at least slowed down, the recent rebellion that was launched from the Congo Free State.
What the Museveni team has felt less confident about is the appropriate response to the intellectual 'war' that has been waged through the mass media.
The ranks of the President's once formidable cast of intellectual colleagues have grown very thin.
Most of those who have stayed with him have remained silent. Those who have soldiered on have failed to advance convincing arguments in favour of keeping their man in power beyond 2006.
So what do you do when you are bereft of ideas and sound arguments? You criminalise even your mildest critics whose only weapons have been a fidelity to the truth and the courage to state publicly what many others would rather whisper behind closed doors.
To be sure, we did not think they would resort to outright libel and defamation. But that is exactly what they have done in recent weeks.
Writing in the Sunday Vision of September 28, Mr Moses Byaruhanga, Presidential Assistant for Political Affairs, accused me, Muniini wa Mulera wa Misango na Mabindi ga Kangabo ka Byamarembo, of being a terrorist in cahoots with the LRA.
The fabrication was picked up by Mr Ofwono Opondo, the ruling party's chief propagandist, during an appearance on Capital Gang on November 8. The Sunday Vision of the next day quoted Opondo as saying that I was aiding terrorism.
For a moment I thought the two court jesters had succumbed to a sick sense of humour. To accuse me of terrorism was akin to accusing Museveni of drunk driving.
Part of me would have preferred to treat these gentlemen's defamatory allegations with contemptuous silence.
However, after very many readers from all over the world wrote to me to express their outrage at these false allegations, I handed the matter to my lawyers in Kampala.
The legal process of seeking redress from Byaruhanga, Opondo and the New Vision newspaper has already begun.
I categorically state here that I have never been, I am not and shall never be a member of any terrorist group. Furthermore, I am not part of any armed rebellion.
What I plead guilty to is life membership in the community of intellectuals who fearlessly exercise their freedom of thought and _expression_.
One feels sorry for Museveni if he depends for his decision-making from these types of assistants.
The danger is that he may soon believe their fabrications, which may lead him to go after imaginary enemies while his real armed opponents, and even terrorists, steal from behind. Could this be the reason why the LRA rebellion has been so difficult to contain?
When the law against terrorism was enacted by the Obote II regime, it was aimed at Museveni and the National Resistance Army (NRA), then known as bandits.
Today, Museveni has expanded the law to include people living abroad in order to stop expatriate Ugandans from engaging in politics back home. Soon we may hear that Obote is a bandit wanted on charges of terrorism.

ugnet_: Museveni now a US puppet-Byanyima

Museveni now a US puppet - ByanyimaBy Felix Basiime Nov 24, 2003




MBARARA - Mzee Boniface Byanyima has said President Museveni has become an American puppet. "Colonialists used Obote, Amin, Binaisa as puppetsto serve their interests here, so now Museveni has joined them as an American puppet," Byanyima said on November 21 from his office at Ruti.
Byanyima is the national chairman of the Democratic Party. "Look, Congo was peaceful under Mobutu (RIP) but the US used Museveni to destabilize it," Byanyima said in an interview with The Monitor.
"Had you ever heard of such looting in Congo during Mobutu's time?" he said.Byanyima said that before Museveni came to power, there was no trouble in Rwanda and DRC.
"The Hema and Lendu were in Congo before, they were living together peacefully but UPDF went there to side with the Hema. They are now killing each other," he said.
Byanyima also criticised Museveni for backing the US-led war in Iraq, which toppled president Saddam Hussein.
"After supporting the US against Iraq, Museveni is now begging the US to help him fight Kony [rebel leader for LRA]. He wants to internationalise the war," he said.
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2003-11-25 Thread Lugemwa FN

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ugnet_: Legalise Nude Shows (Ebimansulo) Sex Work - Dr. Sylvia Tamale

Make sex work legal, says don By Evelyn Lirri Nov 24, 2003 - Monitor

Dr Sylvia TamaleNude shows are normally staged at night in bars around town. Police have threatened to close the bars and arrest the strippers.

ugnet_: Army knew of Ngetta Attack - Col. Mugume

Army knew of Ngetta attack - Col. Mugume By Emma Mutaizibwa Joe Wacha Nov 24, 2003 - Monitor

LIRA - Fifth Division commander Col. John Mugume has said the army knew about the attack on Ngetta in which 12 civilians were killed.
"We were informed about the attack on Ngetta," Mugume told an angry President Museveni at the weekend.
Museveni expressed his anger at the killing in Ngetta on Friday while meeting Lango cultural leaders at Lira Hotel.
The cultural leaders accused the army of failing to beat off the attack despite receiving prior information.
Museveni summoned Col. Mugume and the Operation Iron Fist Intelligence Officer Lt. Col. Otema Awany to the meeting to respond the accusations. Mugume admitted the army received warning reports about the attack.
Mugume said the army deployed at Ngetta. "The army was a distance away from the home where the massacre occurred," he lamented.
He conceded however, that the army has been slow in responding to rebel attacks.
"We get information but our response is not timely," he said.
Museveni asked Mugume to coordinate with local leaders when deploying in anticipation of rebel attacks. "It's not enough to deploy and not to inform the local leaders. You should have asked the local leaders to pinpoint the area where the LRA would use to infiltrate the area," Museveni said.
The President gave Shs 3.6 million to the bereaved families. Meanwhile, one rebel involved in the massacre was captured.
The child soldier told a gathering on Thursday that he was ordered by his commander Lamola to kill two civilians.
The divisional army spokesperson Lt. Chris Magezi yesterday confirmed the child soldier was captured.
"The rebels who attacked Ngetta were ordered to kill two people each," he said.
Magezi said that four rebels were captured in last week's fighting. "One of them we captured is Vincent Otti's wife Aryemo Alice," Magezi said.
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Ed Kironde,
What's the latest --has Major Kainerugaba Muhoozi kicked the bucket?
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Sneaker net or what? I think this has been refuted and celebrations 
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Importance: High 

An amendment in this posting: 

The sentence "Reliable sources are informing The Communication Group 
that President Yoweri Museveni's son, Major Kainerugaba Muhoozi was shot 
in an ambush in Soroti towards the end of the week." Should have read 
"Reliable sources are informing The Communication Group that President 
Yoweri Museveni's son, Major Kainerugaba Muhoozi was shot in an ambush 
in Soroti." 

Please amend accordingly. 

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Reliable sources are informing The Communication Group that President 
Yoweri Museveni's son, Major Kainerugaba Muhoozi was shot in an ambush 
in Soroti towards the end of the week. The source continue to state that 
President Museveni has been of late shuttling between Soroti Gulu and 
Kibaale, in his fights of ever continuing wars in Uganda. Major Muhoozi 
Kainerugaba was in a convoy with Lieutenant General Tinyefunza and Major 
General Salim Saleh who is President Museveni's brother. 

In the process of attacking this convoy, Major Kainerugaba, got the most 
injuries. 

The sources are informing The Mulindwas Communication group that due to 
the seriousness of the injuries, Major Muhoozi Kainerugaba was 
immediately whisked to a Germany hospital, where he is today fighting 
for his life. The source as well indicate that the life of the 
President's son is still classified as in danger, the source continue 
that if Major Muhoozi kainerugaba survives, he may never serve in Uganda 
People's Defence Force due to the injuries, sustained. 

We are following the reports. 

Edward Mulindwa 
Toronto 

 The Mulindwas Communication Group 
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" 
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2003-11-25 Thread gook makanga

Should govt give money to Tri-Star or Mukwano?By Andrew M. MwendaNov 23 - 29, 2003




Since workers at the Apparel Tri-Star plant in Bugolobi went on strike, there has been a lot of public debate on the subsidies and debt guarantees extended to the company by the government worth Shs 17 billion. 
It is important to problematise the relationship between Tri-Star and the government of Uganda, and the implications of this on the countrys overall strategy of private sector-driven export-led growth.
Ugandas industrial policy regime, greatly influenced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is against extension of subsidies and debt guarantees to private companies by the government. 
The bank and fund, supported by bureaucrats at the Ministry of Finance, argue that subsidies encourage incompetence and undermine dynamism. Examples abound of subsidies reproducing highly uncompetitive firms  both public and private.
The official view of the World Bank and IMF is that government should only provide an enabling environment for the private sector. An enabling environment means that government should put in place; the right fiscal and monetary policies, provide a stable and predictable property rights regime, enforce voluntarily negotiated private contracts, and build infrastructure  roads, electricity, telephones, health and education, and leave the allocation of resources to the market.
However President Yoweri Museveni believes, and correctly so, that government should be more involved in the economy - including supporting private enterprise with cheap loans, subsidies and debt guarantees, although his views are not properly crystallized. 
This possibly explains support extended to Tri-Star. 
I want to argue that both Museveni, on the one hand, and the World Bank and IMF, on the other, are right in their arguments: the president theoretically, the bank and fund empirically, given Ugandas specific context.
The way forward is not to choose a side and defend an entrenched position, but to use both perspectives to reach a creative synthesis. 
By blending the theoretical justification for government support of the private sector through loan guarantees and subsidies, with the empirical failure of such attempts before, we will be able to map the way forward. The beginning point of this project should be a comparative look at the successful and failed examples of these efforts elsewhere.
The newly industrialised countries of east Asia, especially Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, succeeded because of the kinds of support  subsidies, loan guarantees, tariff protection  etc that they extended to the private sector. 
Yet the same policies produced incompetence, lack of dynamism and sometimes utter failure (except in a few cases) in countries like Brazil, Argentina, India and Nigeria. 
What explains success in East Asia, but failure in Latin America, South Asia and Africa? The answer lies in the specific forms that such interventions took in these countries, the quality of institutions and the ties that shaped the relations between private enterprises benefiting from state patronage and policy makers.
In South Korea, for example, industrial policy was mainly based on subsidies, while Japan on cheap loans. In both cases, government provided these benefits so as to direct investments towards sectors identified by state institutions as strategic for growth and transformation. 
By providing cheap credit, loan guarantees and subsidies to private enterprises, the state in Japan and South Korea (not the market) used policy to decide what, where, when and in what amounts to produce. 
However, there is an important caveat. 
Every firm benefiting from state support was given a performance target; failure to meet these targets meant government would remove the support. 
In South Korea, for example, private sector actors benefiting from such support would be jailed if they misused the subsidies and fell below the expected performance targets. 
By providing financial and other incentives, while at the same time enforcing sanctions in case of deviations from set goals or failure to meet set targets, the governments of Japan and South Korea were able to ensure industrial rationalisation and hence industrial success.
Secondly these countries built strong institutions  the ministry of International Trade and Investments (MITI) in Japan and the Economic Planning Board (EPB) in South Korea being the examples. 
Recruitment into these institutions was rigorous; the governments would get the best graduates from the best universities to sit an entry exam, and in both the cases of MITI and the EPB, only two to three percent of those who sat the exam in every year passed. 
Staff in these institutions, were given long-term career rewards, enjoyed prestige and autonomy from particularistic pressures.
The scenario in Nigeria, Brazil and Argentina was quite different. 
Subsidies and other forms of support were given

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ugnet_: Museveni Now a US Puppet - Mzee Byanyima

Museveni now a US puppet - ByanyimaBy Felix Basiime Nov 24, 2003 - Monitor




MBARARA - Mzee Boniface Byanyima has said President Museveni has become an American puppet. "Colonialists used Obote, Amin, Binaisa as puppetsto serve their interests here, so now Museveni has joined them as an American puppet," Byanyima said on November 21 from his office at Ruti.
Byanyima is the national chairman of the Democratic Party. "Look, Congo was peaceful under Mobutu (RIP) but the US used Museveni to destabilize it," Byanyima said in an interview with The Monitor.
"Had you ever heard of such looting in Congo during Mobutu's time?" he said.Byanyima said that before Museveni came to power, there was no trouble in Rwanda and DRC.
"The Hema and Lendu were in Congo before, they were living together peacefully but UPDF went there to side with the Hema. They are now killing each other," he said.
Byanyima also criticised Museveni for backing the US-led war in Iraq, which toppled president Saddam Hussein.
"After supporting the US against Iraq, Museveni is now begging the US to help him fight Kony [rebel leader for LRA]. He wants to internationalise the war," he said.
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Netters 

Reliable sources are informing The Communication Group that President Yoweri Museveni's son, Major Kainerugaba Muhoozi was shot in an ambush in Soroti towards the end of the week. The source continue to state that President Museveni has been of late shuttling between Soroti Gulu and Kibaale, in his fights of ever continuing wars in Uganda. Major Muhoozi Kainerugaba was in a convoy with Lieutenant General Tinyefunza and Major General Salim Saleh who is President Museveni's brother. 

In the process of attacking this convoy, Major Kainerugaba, got the most injuries. 

The sources are informing The Mulindwas Communication group that due to the seriousness of the injuries, Major Muhoozi Kainerugaba was immediately whisked to a Germany hospital, where he is today fighting for his life. The source as well indicate that the life of the President's son is still classified as in danger, the source continue that if Major Muhoozi kainerugaba survives, he may never serve in Uganda People's Defence Force due to the injuries, sustained. 

We are following the reports. 

Edward Mulindwa 
Toronto 

 The Mulindwas Communication Group 
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ugnet_: Weapons of Mass Hysteria

Weapons of Mass Hysteria  By Paul Edwards  t r u t h o u t | Perspective 
 Tuesday 25 November 2003 
 President Bush, as the world and many Americans have long known, is a fraud and a liar. Sadly, that's no big surprise. American presidents have a long tradition of mendacity that has ranged from the quirky and trivial to the unpardonable and even treasonous. 
 Some Presidential lies have been simply personally disgraceful and ridiculous, as was Clinton's brazen denial of sex at the office; others have been of such monstrous gravity that they have shaken the presidency and jeopardized the nation. 
 Nixon's lies in the Watergate crime were of that profoundly damaging kind. He authorized a burglary of political opponents' offices, his thugs were caught, and he used the full power of his Presidency to attempt to hide his guilt. These were the brazen tactics of a power-addled dictator. Legally thwarted and exposed, he resigned to avoid certain impeachment. 
 The Reagan-Bush Iran/Contra crime was comparable. Reagan knowingly broke the law in arming Contra mercenaries in Nicaragua and was exposed by Ollie North's blundering attempt at bribing hostile Iran. Reagan stonewalled and let underlings take the fall, and a cowardly, corrupt Congress preferred to let our constitution sustain a massive insult rather than to punish a simple-minded, dangerous, and criminal President. 
 We Americans are now confronted with the monstrous lies of George W. Bush and we must decide what has to be done about them. It is not as if there had been only one. The Bush presidency has been built and sustained on a basis of outrageous falsehoods and cynical deceptions in every area of public policy. 
 He lied to the nation about his fiscally insane Tax Cuts For Tycoons. Struggling working families get chump change as the top 1% of the super-wealthy reaps huge windfalls. 
 He lied in affecting support for working people when his labor policy is calculated to emasculate unions and to abuse, exploit and impoverish the working middle class. 
 He lied in claiming energy independence must come from raping our last wild lands for gas and oil, spurning solid viable technologies that could end fossil fuel addiction now. 
 He lied about supporting our soldiers, crafting an $87 billion boondoggle for his giant corporate backers to "rebuild" the Iraq he ordered our troops to fight and die to destroy. 
 He lied about fires in his Stealthy Forest Act, exploiting public fear to promote high-grading of our last old growth rather than protecting the urban-wildland interface. 
 He lied about supporting fairness and equity on the Federal courts while he has fought fiercely to pack them with ignorant, blatant racists and rabid, sexist zealots. 
 He lied about domestic security to pass the egregious Patriot Act that has blasted our Bill of Rights, eroded civil freedoms, invaded our privacy, and made us all potential suspects. 
 So many lies... but the lie that was far the most cynical, most despicable, most criminal of all, is the lie that caused America to break two hundred years of honorable tradition to invade, without provocation or cause, a small, weak, devastated and tyrannized country. 
 Bush told us Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction and was threatening to attack America. This was the paramount, indeed, the single solid justification for his war. 
 While the world implored him to give U.N. inspectors time to find the WMDs he swore were there, Bush refused on the grounds that an attack by Saddam on America was not only likely, but imminent. He implied, and led Americans to believe, that Saddam and Osama bin Laden were allies when they were, and always had been, bitter enemies. 
 After the bludgeoning of an already prostrate Iraq, the world waited for evidence, for the discovery that was to have justified this brutal blitzkrieg. It never came. And it never will, because there were no WMDs and never had been. Bush lied to goad Americans to a climax of fear and fury so as to launch a baseless, shameful assault for which we will answer to our consciences, our children, and the world, for as long as our country exists. 
 The Constitution cites "high crimes and misdemeanors" against the state as grounds for impeachment. Could there be any higher crime against the American people than to have knowingly deceived us in order to stampede us into an act of barbarism that has betrayed our finest ideals, our highest ethical standards, our national honor, and our whole history? 
 Now, as the web of lies that created the Iraq disaster collapses in the light of bitter, incontrovertible truth, and the unending cortege of our dead and wounded young people continues to come home to hospitals and graveyards, we are asked to forget Bush's lies. We are told by cynics and moral defectives that his monstrous lie about WMDs didn't matter. We are told that eliminating its dictator was reason enough to bludgeon Iraq and to kill, maim and brutalize its stunned and powerless

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Mobutu left his country in ruinsThe eldest son of Mobutu Sese Seko, former leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has ended his six-year exile. 
Manda Mobutu, 43, was welcomed at the airport by 200 cheering supporters, reports Reuters news agency. 
He fled when his father was ousted in 1997 after a 32-year rule of notorious corruption and brutality. 
An aide said that Manda's Rally party would contest elections due in 2005 but did not say if Manda would run himself. 
Manda is seeking to have his father's body repatriated from Morocco, where he died in 1997. 
He had fled there shortly before his death, as rebels led by Laurent Kabila approached Kinshasa. 
Kabila's son, Joseph, is the current president of a power-sharing government, which is tasked with organising DR Congo's first ever elections after five years of war. 
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2003-11-25 Thread Ochan Otim



Ecweru's statements below linking key Acoli leaders with Kony are the
most outrageous I have ever read coming from a Uganda government
official. Just one example, his assertion that Joseph Kony is a
younger brother to former Omoro county MP Abednego Ongom is not only
unfounded, but very suspicious. To everyone who knows both, Ladit
Ongom is not, has never been Kony's brother. Ladit Ongom comes from
Awere; Kony is from Odek. 
The same is true for all the others. I would like to know where Mr.
Ecwero got his information from.
Suffice to say that Mr. Ecweru's statements is putting us Acoli community
worldwide on red alert again. For in the past when concoctions like
this are issued by government agents, the outcome is usually very
unpleasant to Acoli. Acoli reached its lowest point long time ago;
we wonder which level Mr. Ecweru is gunning for anyway! 
The bottom line is, all the attempts so far to link Kony with every
conceivable leader in Acoli will not work. Ugandans are far to
smarter than Mr. Museveni's government want to give them credit
for. In Acoli's eyes, both Kony and Museveni are responsible for
the death in their midst.
Ochan Otim
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Ecweru targets Kony relatives
Arrow Group coordinator Musa Ecweru has said the nine members of the LRA
high command are close relatives of the top leadership in Acholi, reports
Milton Olupot. 
He urged the leaders to use their influence to woo the Lords Resistance
Army out of rebellion. 
The relatives must use their influence to prevail on their brothers to
abandon rebellion. It is not enough for these leaders to sing about their
intentions of becoming future presidents,he said. 
He said the LRA chief Joseph Kony is a younger brother to former Omoro
county MP Abednego Ongom, a respected elder in Acholi. 
He said Vincent Otti is uncle to Gulu Municipality MP Nobert Mao, while
Lt. Col. Kwoyelo is cousin to Aswa county MP Reagan Okumu. 
Ecweru, in a statement yesterday, also said Charles Tabuley was young
brother to Agago county MP Prof. Morris Ogenga Latigo and that Otti
Lagong is a brother to the Rwot of Koch. 
The statement added that Onen Kamdulu is a nephew to Nwoya county MP
Zachary Olum and Abudema is Bishop Onono Onwengs nephew. 
He said Acholi leaders should not spend all their time and wisdom in
blaming the Government for failing to control the LRA. 
They must play a leading role in the whole process,he said. 
He said the leaders must echo a warning to the rebels to stop raping,
abducting and killing. 
To succeed, all leaders must join the Government in the pacification of
the sub-region,he said. 
It was not possible to get in touch with the named leaders as their
telephones were off. 
But Zachary Olum said he did not know and was not related to Onen
Kamdulu. 
I think Ecweru is running mad. The Teso group should behave in a mature
way. 
They think we are the ones who have sent the rebels to kill people in
Teso and yet our own people are equally killed in the same brutal
manner,Olum said angrily. 
Ends
Published on: Tuesday, 25th November, 2003

ugnet_: The Agoa Girls are in Town (Tickets $50m Only - Joachim Buwembo

Opinion- EastAfrican - Nairobi - KenyaMonday, November 24, 2003

The Agoa Girls are in Town(Tickets $50m Only!)By JOACHIM BUWEMBO
If you asked an average Ugandan what Agoa means, you are likely to get one of two responses: Either they dont know or they think it is a government factory that employs a thousand girls.
The Uganda government has been so enthusiastic about the USAs Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, which enables our countries to export directly to US markets, that many would be forgiven for mistaking the state for a trader. Though it is a decade and a half since the collapse of communism, Uganda is only slowly learning the hard lesson that government has no business engaging in business.
Moreover, the countrys own privatisation programme is as old as the fall of the Berlin wall. Uganda has been so committed to privatisation that few would have expected the state to still be trying to run businesses.
The government at first did the right thing and lobbied the American lawmakers to open their markets to Africa. Then it went ahead and got too involved in facilitating some enterprises to take advantage of Agoa. Many of us first heard of Agoa when government directed the district commissioners to recruit at least 1,000 rural girls to come and work in the textile factory, which is in effect an export-processing zone.
It transpired that the venture was being spearheaded by a Sri Lankan investor who was taking advantage of Agoa to set up shop in Kampala. When the factory started processing clothes, the elite become critical, arguing that the Sri Lankan wa not using Ugandan cotton and was being heavily subsidised by the Uganda government, which was directly picking up his transportation bills between Kampala and Mombasa.
But they were told that with over 1,000 local girls being employed in the venture, the economic benefits justified the governments heavy involvement.
Things took an embarrassing turn a few weeks ago when the workers, popularly known as the Agoa girls, went on strike protesting poor working conditions. The textile factory was back in the news.
Last week, the resident Sri Lankan director was summoned by parliament to explain the situation. It transpired that the investors had not put a single coin into the venture, but had invested $800,000 worth of expertise. As for the Uganda government, whose job is just to create an enabling environment, it had, er well, put in cash in excess of $5 million. Not to mention that the premises where the factory operates are also public property, formerly housing the defunct Coffee Marketing Board.
In addition, government has guaranteed loans to the company worth over $3million and, since business is not going very well, the taxpayer looks likely to pick the tab in case the investor defaults.
Smarting from the Agoa egg splashed over its face, government can now reflect and recall other ventures that have flopped because of excessive enthusiasm that went well beyond creating an enabling environment.
Over five years ago, for example, government wanted to buy combat helicopters in order to crush the rebels in the north of the country. The purchase of weapons has always been an exclusive government role, performed in utmost secrecy by officials of the defence and finance ministries. But somehow, this time, the government decided to make it a business deal, and brought in some private company registered offshore by a Ugandan and couple of foreigners.
What followed was a series of profit-oriented conspiracies between wheeling dealing businessmen and government officials. The whole deal ended with the state some $10 million poorer and two junk helicopters that could not even fly, let alone fight.
Partnerships between government and businessmen have only one result - loss for the government. The sweetest aspect of such partnerships is that government guarantees your loans while you retain the management powers. The "smart" thing is to perform poorly and fail to pay the loans, so that the ignorant taxpayers remain holding the can. You can then go and enjoy the loans, which you need not have invested fully in the venture.
There have been several such cases and the government by now knows exactly how it loses out each time by trying to have a direct stake in peoples businesses. But, being a slow learner, it just repeats the same mistakes. The business people who manage to entice government into going to bed with them, meanwhile, are laughing all the way to the bank.
For while the balance sheets of their companies look bad, their personal lives become considerably more comfortable.

Mr Buwembo is Editor of The Sunday Vision of Kampala.Comments\Views about this article
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ugnet_: UN Sees No Let-Up as Museveni Vows to Kill Kony

Regional- EastAfrican - Nairobi - KenyaMonday, November 24, 2003 



UN Sees No Let-Up as M7Vows to Kill KonyA JOINT REPORT THE EASTAFRICAN 
WITH THE Ugandan government under increasing domestic and international pressure to find a solution to the war in the north, the United Nations last week predicted difficult times ahead and a worsening humanitarian situation. 
The Catholic Church said last week that the government should find a solution to the 17-year war between the Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) by talking peace to the rebels. 
Legislators from the war ravaged areas last week stormed out of parliament protesting the killing of their constituents and the government's failure to end the war. 
"We are going to stay out of parliament because there is no need to participate when the security situation in our constituencies has gone from bad to worse," said Mrs Cecilia Ogwal, who represents Lira Municipality. 
In July, a committee of ambassadors including UN agencies in the country held two days of discussions with the government on the worsening political and humanitarian situation in northern Uganda and urged the government to peacefully resolve the conflict. 
A report titled "Hear Our Voices" that the UN wrote for the donor community outlining the conflict and justifying the need to raise some $128 million for humanitarian work, noted: "The ongoing political debate on a presidential third term, demands for multi-party elections, the Cabinet reshuffle in May 2003, and the absence of a mechanism for a peaceful resolution of the conflict with the LRA, all point to an unstable internal political situation." 
However, army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza told The EastAfrican that while the donors were entitled to their views, the war in the north was at its "tail end." 
"The rebels are now cornered and are only operating in three counties in Lira. They have been driven out of Gulu, Kitgum and Teso region," said Maj Bantariza. 
The UN agencies, NGOs and international organisations operating in Uganda are asking for $128 million in the Inter-Agency Consolidated Appeal for the country to address the urgent humanitarian needs of refugees and that of over 1.2 million displaced people. 
Ajmal Qureshi, Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) representative in Uganda, told donor representatives in Kampala at the launch of the appeal last week that the money was urgently required. 
But President Yoweri Museveni says the war will be over by next month. Meeting legislators from the war-torn areas, the president said rebel leader Joseph Kony would have to surrender or be killed. 
The president has issued similar threats and deadlines in the past, which have all come to naught. 
However, a political analyst in Kampala told The EastAfrican last week that the president's threat could come to pass this time as Kony had lost many of his top commanders, including Charles Tabuley. 
He said Kony had been forced out of his traditional operating areas of Gulu, Kitgum and Apac, into areas where the population is hostile to suspected rebel collaborators. 
The donors, who in the past have been critical of Uganda's Defence expenditure have, upon realising the gravity of the northern problem, relented and allowed the country to spend more on the military. 
The president said two weeks ago that the army had acquired modern weaponry that will be used against the rebels who have terrorised northern Uganda since 1988 in a quest to bring down the secular government of President Museveni and replace it with a regime based on the biblical Ten Commandments. 
The insurgents are however best known for their brutality against millions of northern Ugandans, whom they have killed, maimed, abducted and displaced from their homes. 
The UN report states that one likely scenario would be the escalation of LRA activities in Acholi sub-region and the resultant insecurity around the internally displaced Person's camps and the countryside in 2004. This would hamper access by the displaced people to their village farmland, perpetuating dependence on humanitarian handouts. 
"There is no possibility of negotiating access with the LRA. The government of Uganda is expected to continue with the military action against the LRA and enter no peace talks or mechanisms for resolving the conflict by dialogue," the UN said, adding that the worst case scenario would be any peace initiative with the LRA collapsing and intensification of the military campaign triggering off increased violence, which will curtail the population's movement to access land outside camps. 
Another scenario includes a situation where tension between the governments of Uganda and Sudan escalate amid allegations of support of each other's opposition groups and that this would be exacerbated by Igad talks between the Khartoum government and Sudan People's Liberation Army rebels failing. 
"The problem of internal displacement in Uganda has been going

ugnet_: Leak of Constitutional Draft Alarm Ugandan Officials

Regional- EastAfrican - Nairobi - KenyaMonday, November 24, 2003

Leak of Constitutional DraftAlarms Ugandan OfficialsBy GERTRUDE KAMUZE THE EASTAFRICAN
FOLLOWING THE leakage of information from a confidential report still under compilation by the Constitution Review Commission (CRC), the government has ordered its chairman, Prof Fredrick Ssempebwa, to investigate the matter and report back "within the shortest possible time."
Said Nsaba Buturo, the Minister in charge of information, in the Office of the President: "The government is surprised that such an important report found its way to the public before being presented to the relevant people."
The minister said that the report's leakage to the media before being presented to the relevant authorities was against procedure.
Last week, The Monitor, a sister newspaper to The EastAfrican, published part of the report, prompting the government to seek a High Court injunction restraining the paper from publishing more details.
According to The Monitor, the commission had rejected the Cabinet's proposal seeking to remove the two-term limit for presidents. "This drew reactions from observers against a third term for President Museveni, who said the government government was now left with the option of either tampering with the report or calling a referendum on the issue.
The committee also proposes that Members of Parliament and the president be elected on the same day in order to avoid huge expenditures on the two exercises. "The president must be elected with a vice president as a running mate," the paper quoted part of the report.
The report further recommends that the government not deploy the army to provide security during elections and the head of the electoral commission should be someone qualified to be a judge.
Partly because of the understaffing of the police force, which currently stands at about 15,000 officers, during past elections the government has been deploying the army especially in war areas, to provide security and escort election officials.
But this has been abused in many cases as the army has ended up getting involved in the political process in favour of candidates sponsored by the ruling Movement.
At the same time, in Gulu region, which has been in a state of war for more than 17 years, during past elections, rebels have been threatening voters with death if they voted for President Museveni or candidates he is perceived to support. Still, the deployment of the army alongside the police during elections has been blamed for electoral violence during elections.
The CRC has been collecting views from the public for the past two years in an effort to amend the 1995 constitution.
It was supposed to hand in its report in October, but it has been asking for extensions. Last week, CRC asked parliament to give it another extension of up to January 2004. The Commission has also asked the government for Ush852 million ($425,000) to complete its work.
Prof Ssempebwa says the report is almost ready, only requiring editing, typesetting, legal drafting and input by a legal expert.
Outspoken legislator, Jacob Oulanyah is however suspicious of the commission's expenditure.
"What kind of report is this going to be and what material will it be produced?" he asked. He said that although the cost of the report was rising, it would end up being treated like other reports produced in the past.
"It will be presented to the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, who will decide what to do with it," said Mr Oulanyah. He added that the committee should have been created by an Act of parliament.
Prof Ssempebwa however promised to speak out if his report was tampered with by government officials before it came out.
"If they tamper with it, I will contest it ," he told journalists last week.
Mr Buturo however told The EastAfrican that whatever report the CRC came out with, was what will be adopted. "There is no way the government is going to adjust anything in the report," he said.
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ugnet_: LRA War Affects Us All

Editorial - EastAfrican - Nairobi - KenyaMonday, November 24, 2003 



LRA War Affects Us AllLast week, a group of about 30 Ugandan Members of Parliament walked out of the House to protest the government's failure to end the rebel war being waged in the north of the country by the Lord's Resistance Army. 
The walkout, led by Oyam South MP Dr Okullu Epak, should have caused a serious political crisis, because it expressed the frustrations of a people who think that the government no longer belongs to them, especially at a time when a major political transition  from a one-party to a multi-party state  is about to happen. 
Although the lack of reaction from the public and government made the incident look trivial, the next day, parliament was back in the news, when another MP, John Eresu, walked into the chamber carrying a gun. 
The walkout by the northern MPs may have become a footnote in the press, but, because of the serious implications that the war has for the future of Uganda, their protest cannot be dismissed. Northern Uganda has suffered neglect for far too long. A once popular joke said that one needed a visa to go there. 
Little of the much-lauded economic revival in the country extends beyond the River Nile. It is estimated that the prevalence of HIV/Aids in much of northern Uganda compares with the rate in Southern Africa. The poverty suffered by the people is crushing. 
This hurts the whole country, but hardly anyone with authority is acting as if the war were affecting fellow Ugandans. 
There was more sympathy from Ugandans for the victims of September 11 in New York than for the 20,000 or so children abducted in this country by the LRA rebels over the past 17 years of the war. 
It is therefore prudent for President Yoweri Museveni not to let his name go down in history as the one whose tenure led to the break-up of Uganda. 
It is still unclear what the LRA leader, Joseph Kony is fighting for. He has no political demands that can be answered through a political arrangement. 
This has often been used to justify the failure to end the war, yet it is also an open secret that the government's Operation Iron Fist, in which Uganda was allowed by the Khartoum government to pursue Kony into Sudan, failed because corrupt elements in the army stole private soldiers' salaries. 
However, it is not enough to merely blame the government, because, as individuals, Ugandans are not rising up to demand action from the state. 
Ugandans should stop treating the war as a problem "up there" and link it with their growing inability to make a decent living. It is only when the people act that the elected leaders follow. 
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ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Re: Make Eid a public holiday in Canada.(The facade of multiculturalism/apertheid put to test)

Please go all the miles to improve relations between the citizens.That is 
within your purview and nobody including me,will and has the powers to
deny you that.
Wallow in the delight of your thought and continue to have half full glasses.The choice resides with you.
All I say is wish you success.
Thank you.
Kipenji.
==oreke2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My issue is with you calling Canadian multiculturalism a "facade" not the remainder of the post, which really only consisted of a few people's comments - hardly enough to base a conclusion on. You are, therefore, simply expressing your personal opinion which, to start with, is seeing a cup half empty instead of half full. Your statement is hardly calling a spade a spade but sounds like "gottacha!" -intended for those who enjoy finger-pointing for the sake of finger-pointing instead of working to improve relations between citizens.Oreke--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], OWOR KIPENJI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: Oreke,the choice is yours.You can choose to concentrate on the form or the substance of a given system and like you rightly pointed out you'll always get what you want. The gist of that posting if you dared to
 persuse the various articles therein is not that you and your multifaceted/variegated cultures do not live side by side but rather that some cultures apriori set the programes that others should fit into. May be one day we shall all learn to call a spade a spade and not a big spoon then we shall have come to understand the substance of the system whose veneer is very attractive. Wish you many more multicultural years ahead. Thank you. Kipenji. =  oreke2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: I really object to your calling Canadian multiculturalism a facade.  Please point to any country in the world where as many cultures and  religions live in the same place in relative harmony. My "religion"  says YOU GET WHAT YOU CONCENTRATE ON which means that if you  continuously focus on the negative, this is what
 will come into your  experience (and vice versa). Try it. You may actually realize this  to be a fact. Oreke   --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Owor Kipenji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Making Eid a holiday may be going too farToronto SundayNov. 23, 2003. 01:00 AM Declare Eid a public holidayhttp://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer? pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1call_pageid=971358637177c=Artic lecid=1069456208555Letter, Nov. 20. Karamatullah K. Ghori's suggestion that the Canadian government  declare Eid a public holiday, if not for all Canadians then at least  for Canadian Muslims, in my view does not require a government edict. The
 Jewish people acknowledge (in their own ways) Passover,  Chanukah, etc. with little fanfare. Why do Muslims feel they need special "respect for the sactity'' of  their religious festivals? Muslims, as other religions, are free to  follow what they choose and newspapers such as this one constantly  highlight many other religions and cultures. Let's not carry  multiculturalism too far.=Nov. 21, 2003. 01:00 AM Too many religions to take a day offDeclare Eid a public holiday Letter, Nov. 20. I should not even have to get into what a mess this country would  be should each religion demand that it has a public holiday. There  are 19 major world religions, which are subdivided into 270 religious 
 groups. Could you imagine 270 separate religious public holidays in  Canada? While Canada does welcome and allow the freedom to practise other  religions, Karamatullah Ghori, as well as people with other religious  beliefs, should come to realize that Canada is a country that was  founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs. That is one of the reasons why we  pay homage via some Christian-based public holidays. Ghori should also realize that there are fewer than 600,000, (2 per  cent of the population), Muslims in Canada, not the millions he  suggested in his letter. That hardly warrants a public holiday. There  are also about 5 million people in Canada who have no religion, while  77.7 per cent of Canada's population is Christian or Jewish. Michael J. Whelan, Toronto   
 ===Declare Eid a public holidayNod to Ramadan a trend in retailing Toronto StarNov. 20, 2003. 01:00 AM http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer? pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1call_pageid=971358637177c=Artic lecid=1069283411089Nov. 17. Leslie Scrivener has done a service to Canadian Muslims by  highlighting some Canadian businesses', like IKEA's, special concern  for Muslim sensitivity on Ramadan, the month of fasting. I wish the  Canadian government in Ottawa would emulate this example. Ramadan culminates in the Muslim festival of Eid, which is as much  the most important date of the

Re: ugnet_: Witch hunting!

2003-11-25 Thread Jglechoofanopoitawodiyahmapachicha




To me I really do not care whether who is related 
to who. But the politics of relatives ready for slaughter by NRM intrigues me. 
This wave of Eweru-relationshiptype of politics is not new in the 
NRM camp. You should just understand why your brother was killed because 
ofmay be your political or spiritual leaning.


  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Ochan Otim 
  
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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  Subject: ugnet_: Witch hunting!
  Ecweru's statements below linking key Acoli leaders with Kony 
  are the most outrageous I have ever read coming from a Uganda government 
  official. Just one example, his assertion that Joseph Kony is a younger 
  brother to former Omoro county MP Abednego Ongom is not only unfounded, but 
  very suspicious. To everyone who knows both, Ladit Ongom is not, has 
  never been Kony's brother. Ladit Ongom comes from Awere; Kony is from 
  Odek. The same is true for all the others. I would like to know 
  where Mr. Ecwero got his information from.Suffice to say that Mr. 
  Ecweru's statements is putting us Acoli community worldwide on red alert 
  again. For in the past when concoctions like this are issued by 
  government agents, the outcome is usually very unpleasant to Acoli. 
  Acoli reached its lowest point long time ago; we wonder which level Mr. Ecweru 
  is gunning for anyway! The bottom line is, all the attempts so 
  far to link Kony with every conceivable leader in Acoli will not work. 
  Ugandans are far to smarter than Mr. Museveni's government want to give them 
  credit for. In Acoli's eyes, both Kony and Museveni are responsible for 
  the death in their midst.Ochan 
  Otim-Ecweru 
  targets Kony relativesArrow Group coordinator Musa Ecweru has said the 
  nine members of the LRA high command are close relatives of the top leadership 
  in Acholi, reports Milton Olupot. He urged the leaders to use 
  their influence to woo the Lords Resistance Army out of rebellion. The 
  relatives must use their influence to prevail on their brothers to abandon 
  rebellion. It is not enough for these leaders to sing about their intentions 
  of becoming future presidents,he said. He said the LRA chief Joseph 
  Kony is a younger brother to former Omoro county MP Abednego Ongom, a 
  respected elder in Acholi. He said Vincent Otti is uncle to Gulu 
  Municipality MP Nobert Mao, while Lt. Col. Kwoyelo is cousin to Aswa county MP 
  Reagan Okumu. Ecweru, in a statement yesterday, also said Charles 
  Tabuley was young brother to Agago county MP Prof. Morris Ogenga Latigo and 
  that Otti Lagong is a brother to the Rwot of Koch. The statement added 
  that Onen Kamdulu is a nephew to Nwoya county MP Zachary Olum and Abudema is 
  Bishop Onono Onwengs nephew. He said Acholi leaders should not spend 
  all their time and wisdom in blaming the Government for failing to control the 
  LRA. They must play a leading role in the whole process,he said. 
  He said the leaders must echo a warning to the rebels to stop raping, 
  abducting and killing. To succeed, all leaders must join the 
  Government in the pacification of the sub-region,he said. It was not 
  possible to get in touch with the named leaders as their telephones were off. 
  But Zachary Olum said he did not know and was not related to Onen Kamdulu. 
  I think Ecweru is running mad. The Teso group should behave in a 
  mature way. They think we are the ones who have sent the rebels to 
  kill people in Teso and yet our own people are equally killed in the same 
  brutal manner,Olum said angrily. EndsPublished on: 
  Tuesday, 25th November, 2003

ugnet_: Taban Amin willing to go and meet Joseph Kony





Taban To Meet Kony - New Vision - 25th November 2003








DETERMINED: Taban Amin meeting journalists at Acholi Inn, Gulu yesterday
By Justin Moro and Dennis Ojwee TABAN Amin, son to the late president Idi Amin yesterday said he was willing to go to Joseph Konys military camp at Baraak State Lodge in Juba, Sudan to talk to him over peace if the Uganda government could facilitate him. Taban was addressing journalists of the Northern Media Club at Acholi Inn in Gulu yesterday. I am ready to go to meet Kony in Sudan even now if I am given a go-ahead and facilitation by the Government. I know where Joseph Konys military camp is in Baraak in Juba, Sudan. I can go there because Kony knows me very well. I met with him once in Sudan and I dont think he (Kony) will refuse to talk to me, Taban said. Taban travelled to Kitgum yesterday with the director general of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), Col. Elly Kayanja, to visit areas affected by the LRA rebellion. The party, which included Kitgum resident district commissioner Lt. Santo Okot Lapolo, left Gulu b
 y road.
 Taban arrived in Gulu on Saturday, addressed a public rally and held a radio talk show. Its just a matter of getting a ticket and getting to Juba in Sudan and I will meet Kony. I think he will trust me because I have been with him in Sudan. May be he has not been accepting to talk to some people who have been trying because he never trusted them. So, we shall do everything possible to convince Kony to end this war. Kony is an ordinary Ugandan like us. Kony was born just like any other person and I know he will accept to listen to me, he said. Taban said his 2,500 fighters would return from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) within two days if their flight arrangements were completed. He said it was the duty of the United Nations to bring back to Uganda weapons from his fighters. He declined to reveal the number and type of weapons his soldiers possess. That is a military affair, not for the press, he said. We in the north mi
 litarily
 oriented but have failed to topple the Government, he said. Ends
Published on: Tuesday, 25th November, 2003


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ugnet_: The Museveni Succession and the Devil We Know

Opinion- EastAfrican - Nairobi - KenyaMonday, November 24, 2003

The M-7 Succession andthe Devil We KnowBy CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO
Ugandan politics, always exciting and volatile, served up more drama last week. The Monitor, which has long been tormented by the Kampala government and remains the only media outlet where some truly independent reporting is still occasionally done in the country, got a leaked report authored by the Constitution Review Commission.
According to the leaked report, the CRC, headed by a straight lawyer and academic, Prof Fred Ssempebwa, had recommended, that the two-term limit on presidential tenure not be scrapped. President Yoweri Museveni and the more conservative and hardline elements of the ruling Movement have been campaigning for the term limit to be lifted, and an open-ended system which technically allows for a presidency for life to be put in place.
The day the Monitor broke the story, the government swiftly got a court injunction against the paper publishing further extracts from the leaked report.
This action was taken to suggest that Musevenis ambiguous signals that he is not seeking a third term (fifth, actually, two of them as an unelected ruler) are a smoke-screen. The more generous view in Uganda has been that Museveni is not planning to stand in 2006.
His game plan, according to one observer, was to keep opponents guessing with his conflicting utterances, actions, and body language and preoccupy them with trying to stop him from running in 2006, while he plans a strategy for getting his man into the State House.
Now sources suggest Musevenis staying on is possibly Plan C. What they dont agree on is what is Plan A. Its widely believed that Museveni is grooming his relatively new Vice President Dr Gibert Bukenya as his successor.
Bukenya is obviously still groping for the best position to place himself. One day he spells out his own vision for the country - like a man preparing to be president. Next day, he is crowing about Musevenis greatness, like a cheerleader, seeking to humour the president so he will keep him in the VPs office.
Then, infrequently, he strikes an independent-sounding tone, sounding like a man willing to make an internal challenge for the presidency in case he isnt anointed successor.
The less sanguine say the president and his court dont actually want Bukenya. Bukenya, they say, has two liabilities that are among the reasons he was picked in the first place - hes a Catholic, and from the south. While the calculation might have been that this would win support from the marginally majority Catholics and the crucial south, Bukenya could turn them into an independent base and be his own man as a successor.
Observers see another likely contender, allegedly favoured by many in the presidential court, in the genial and malleable Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, Minister of Internal Affairs. Observers think Ruhakanas mild image is less threatening, and he is likely to continue the old order without murmur.
But Ruhakana is from the west, and a Protestant. For those who think State House should pass to another religion and region, he could be a hard sell. Clearly, if Plan A is Bukenya, and Plan B is Rugunda or vice versa, then it doesnt require scrapping the term limit to have them succeed Museveni.
Its only Museveni who would need a third term to succeed himself. Theres hardly any time left, nor is enough consensus likely to develop in the Movement by 2006 to elect a new torchbearer. And there isnt enough time for the parties, largely banned for the past 17 years, to reorganise and offer a more credible leadership.
This leaves two options. One, to extend the term of the government (and Parliament) by three years as has been proposed by some MPs. Two, go with the man who is in place and is a known quantity - Museveni. One can see even his enemies saying; "Better the devil you know."
The succession formula in Uganda today seems to be: Plan A (Rugunda) + Plan B (Bukenya) = Plan C (Museveni).

Charles Onyango-Obbo is managing editor in charge of media convergence at the Nation Media Group.Comments\Views about this article
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ugnet_: Africa Aids Crisis Getting Worse - BBC

Last Updated: Tuesday, 25 November, 2003, 17:10 GMT

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Africa Aids crisis getting worse - BBC

By Grant Ferrett BBC Africa reporter

In its annual report on HIV and Aids, the United Nations agency, UNAids, once again highlights sub-Saharan Africa as by far the worst affected region.

Some 27 million are HIV positive in Africa
Of the estimated 40m people worldwide living with HIV, about two-thirds are in sub-Saharan Africa, with young women particularly at risk.
Although the UN says it detects increasing political support for tackling the spread of the virus, the report gives little cause for optimism.
HIV infection rates vary widely across Africa, from under one per cent in Mauritania in the north-west, to nearly 39% in Swaziland and Botswana in the south.
Devastation
As in previous years, southern Africa is at the heart of the global Aids crisis.

In pictures: Facing HIV
Botswana's missing medics The UN report says the epidemic has reached devastating proportions in the region.
In South Africa, which already has more people living with HIV and Aids than any other country, the report predicts that the worst still lies ahead, with the numbers of deaths continuing to increase rapidly over the next few years.
Young women in Africa are bearing the brunt of the onslaught.
According to various national surveys they are two-and-a-half times more likely to be infected as their male counterparts.
The UN says this is explained by a number of factors - for example, young women tend to start having sex earlier and are more susceptible to contracting the virus than young men.

HIV PREVALENCE WORLDWIDE

Guide: Global spread of HIV In the gloom, there are glimmers of hope.
Infection rates have dropped sharply in countries such as Rwanda and Ethiopia, and remained low in others such as Senegal.
The report also welcomes what it describes as an upsurge in political support against Aids in the region and increased funding.
But it acknowledges an almost complete absence of large-scale HIV prevention programmes and of drugs treatment.
For sub-Saharan Africa, the horror of Aids shows few signs of abating.

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ugnet_: Commonwealth Summit Shuns Mugabe - BBC

Last Updated: Tuesday, 25 November, 2003, 18:05 GMT

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Mr Mugabe's attendance would see boycotts by other nationsZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has not been invited to the Commonwealth summit meeting, to be held in Nigeria.
"He will not have an invitation," said Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who hosts the summit next month.
Zimbabwe was suspended from the group of 54 mainly former British colonies after charges that Mr Mugabe rigged his re-election last year.
Britain and Australia said Mr Mugabe should not be invited, but the hosts had the final say.

Mr Mugabe had said he expected to attend, raising the threat of a boycott by Britain's Queen Elizabeth and by prime ministers of Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Pacific nations.
"If there is no invitation they [Zimbabwe] will not come," Mr Obasanjo told journalists at a briefing at his residence near Lagos.
The summit runs from 5-8 December in Abuja, Nigeria's capital.
A spokesman for Zimbabwe's ruling party, Didymus Mutasa told the BBC that he now expected a number of other southern African countries to boycott the occasion.
Deadlock
BBC diplomatic correspondent Barnaby Mason says that according to recent comments by Commonwealth officials, it simply was not possible to invite Mr Mugabe to the summit.

Obasanjo will not want a huge row over Zimbabwe at the summitZimbabwe's suspension could be lifted only by the summit itself or by the three leaders - of Nigeria, South Africa and Australia - who had the issue delegated to them last year.
The trio were deadlocked, with South African President Thabo Mbeki in favour of readmitting Zimbabwe and his Australian counterpart, John Howard, adamantly opposed.
The South Africans have been promoting talks between the ruling party and the opposition in Zimbabwe with the hope of producing a deal in time for the summit.
Embarrassment
President Obasanjo went to talk to both sides last week.
While he was in Zimbabwe, President Mugabe embarrassed him by saying at a joint public appearance that he was looking forward to going to Abuja.
Mr Obasanjo said only that he was still consulting.
The dispute has got tangled up with another over the possible readmission of Pakistan, suspended after General Musharraf's 1999 military coup.
The UK and Australia have pushed for letting Pakistan back in, but African countries have rejected the idea.

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November 24, 2003 
By WILLIAM SAFIRE 





WASHINGTON - Two blockbuster magazine articles last week 
revealed evidence that Saddam's spy agency and top Qaeda 
operatives certainly were in frequent contact for a decade, 
and that there is renewed reason to suspect an Iraqi 
spymaster in Prague may have helped finance the 9/11 
attacks. 

href="" target=_0"On weeklystandard.com, 
you can find chunks of a 16-page letter by Under Secretary 
of Defense Douglas Feith, responding to a Senate 
Intelligence Committee request for evidence of Saddam-bin 
Laden collaboration. Fifty specific instances from C.I.A., 
N.S.A., F.B.I. and Pentagon files are described, many from 
"sensitive reporting" never made public. 

The Defense Department acknowledged the Oct. 27 letter 
included a classified annex of "raw reports or products" of 
U.S. intelligence agencies on "the relationship between 
Iraq and al Qaeda," cautioning that it "drew no 
conclusions." But with so much connective tissue exposed - 
some the result of "custodial interviews" of prisoners - 
the burden of proof has shifted to those still grimly in 
denial. 

Remember how anti-liberation politicians and journalists 
pooh-poohed Colin Powell's February 2003 speech to the U.N. 
about the presence in Iraq of a Qaeda associate, identified 
in this space as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi? Powell's assertion 
had this "sensitive reporting" basis: "As of Oct. 2002 al 
Zarqawi was setting up sleeper cells in Baghdad to be 
activated in case of a U.S. occupation of the city." 

Deniers derogate as "cherry picking" Feith's intelligence 
summary available to senators: "The Czech 
counterintelligence service reported that the Sept. 11 
hijacker [Mohamed] Atta met with the former Iraqi 
intelligence chief in Prague, al Ani, on several occasions. 
During one of those meetings, al Ani ordered the IIS [Iraq 
Intelligence Service] finance officer to issue Atta funds 
from IIS financial holdings in the Prague office." 

If true, that would implicate Saddam's regime in the murder 
of 3,000 Americans. Though the C.I.A. can confirm two Atta 
trips to Prague, in 1994 and 2000, it cannot confirm the 
two other visits the Czechs reported, including one on 
April 9, 2001, with Saddam's top European agent, al-Ani, 
then vice consul in Prague. C.I.A. chief George Tenet 
testified that the meeting reported by the Czech service 
was "possible," but the F.B.I. floated hints that car 
rental records showed Atta to be traveling between Virginia 
and Florida that week. 

Enter the writer Edward Jay Epstein in the liberal online 
journal Slate: "All these reports attributed to the FBI 
were, as it turns out, erroneous. There were no car rental 
records in Virginia, Florida, or anywhere else in April 
2001 for Mohamed Atta, since he had not yet obtained his 
Florida license." You cannot rent a car without a driver's 
license. 

Epstein went to Prague this month to interview Czech 
officials who want to cooperate with the U.S. to get to the 
bottom of the Atta-Iraqi story but have been stiffed by the 
F.B.I., whose bureaucracy is sensitive to charges of failed 
surveillance. Read href="" target=_0"his 
detailed Slate report and subsequent commentary on href="" 
target=_0"edwardjayepstein.com. 

Since July, al-Ani has been in U.S. Department of Justice 
custody and I wonder how effectively he is being 
interrogated. Have we learned the whereabouts of his Prague 
and Baghdad aides and secretaries, and taken their 
testimony? Have we asked M.I.5 to let us speak to Jabir 
Salim, his Prague station-chief predecessor, who defected 
to Britain and may know which employees and which banks 
could transfer $100,000 to an account accessible to Atta? 

Did al-Ani order any payment to "the student from Hamburg" 
or his co-conspirators, as Czech intelligence believes, and 
did the paymaster carry out the order? To what superior in 
Baghdad did al-Ani report, and who worked most closely with 
him, and are they in custody and do their stories jibe? 
What have we offered al-Ani, in protection or immunity or 
plea bargain, to turn state's evidence? 

F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller is duty-bound to examine the 
full transcript of the interrogation to see how seriously 
this is being pursued; same with Senate Intelligence. I'd 
also assign new agents to follow up leads in Prague. 

Intrepid journalists will ultimately bring the full story 
of the Saddam-bin Laden connection to light. In the 
meantime, the F.B.I. should

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Op-Ed Columnist: Scaring Up Votes 

November 23, 2003 
By MAUREEN DOWD 





WASHINGTON 

First came the pre-emptive military policy. Now comes the 
pre-emptive campaign strategy. 

Before the president even knows his opponent, his first 
political ad is blanketing Iowa today. 

"It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped 
into this country to bring a day of horror like none we 
have ever known," Mr. Bush says, in a State of the Union 
clip. 

Well, that's a comforting message from our commander in 
chief. Do we really need his cold, clammy hand on our spine 
at a time when we're already rattled by fresh terror 
threats at home and abroad? When we're chilled by the 
metastasizing Al Qaeda, the resurgent Taliban and Baathist 
thugs armed with deadly booby traps; the countless, 
nameless terror groups emerging in Turkey, Morocco, 
Indonesia and elsewhere; the vicious attacks on Americans, 
Brits, aid workers and their supporters in Iraq, 
Afghanistan and Turkey? The latest illustration of the 
low-tech ingenuity of Iraqi foes impervious to our latest 
cascade of high-tech missiles: a hapless, singed donkey 
that carted rockets to a Baghdad hotel. 

Yet the Bush crowd is seizing the moment to scare us even 
more. 

Flashing the words "terrorists" and "self-defense" in 
crimson, the Republican National Committee spot urges 
Americans "to support the president's policy of pre-emptive 
self-defense" - a policy Colin Powell claimed was overblown 
by the press. 

"Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their 
intentions, politely putting us on notice before they 
strike?" Mr. Bush says. 

With this ad, Republicans have announced their intention: 
to scare us stupid, hoping we won't remember that this was 
the same State of the Union in which Mr. Bush made a 
misleading statement about the Iraq-Niger uranium 
connection, or remark that the imperial idyll in Iraq has 
created more terrorists. 

Richard Clarke, the former U.S. counterterrorism chief, 
told Ted Koppel that Mr. Bush's habit of putting X's 
through the pictures of arrested or killed Qaeda managers 
was very reminiscent of a scene in the movie "The Battle of 
Algiers," in which the French authorities did the same to 
the Algerian terrorists: "Unfortunately, after all the 
known Algerian terrorists were arrested or killed, the 
French lost. And that could be the thing that's happening 
here, that even though we're getting all the known Al Qaeda 
leaders, we're breeding new ones. Ones we don't know about 
and will be harder to find." 

This view of Al Qaeda was echoed by a European 
counterterrorism official in The Times: "There are fewer 
leaders but more followers." 

The president is trying to make the campaign about guts: he 
has the guts to persevere in the war on terror. 

But the real issue is trust: should we trust leaders who 
cynically manipulated intelligence, diverted 9/11 anger and 
lost focus on Osama so they could pursue an old cause near 
to neocon hearts: sacking Saddam? 

The Bush war left our chief villains operating, revved up 
the terrorist threat, ravaged our international alliances 
and sparked the resentment of a world that ached for us 
after 9/11. 

Now Mr. Bush says that poor Turkey, a critical ally in the 
Muslim world, is the newest front in the war on terror. 
"Iraq is a front," he said. "Turkey is a front. Anywhere 
the terrorists think they can strike is a front." Here a 
front, there a front, everywhere a terror front. 

In his Hobbesian gloom - "Fear and I were born twins," 
Hobbes said - Dick Cheney thought an Iraq whupping would 
make surly young anti-American Arab men scuttle away. 
Instead, it stoked their ire. 

James Goodby and Kenneth Weisbrode wrote in The Financial 
Times last week that the Bush crew has snuffed the optimism 
of F.D.R., Ronald Reagan and Bush père: "Fear has been used 
as a basis for curtailing freedom of _expression_ and for 
questioning legal rights long taken for granted. It has 
crept into political discourse and been used to discredit 
patriotic public servants. Ronald Reagan's favorite image, 
borrowed from an earlier visionary, of America as `a 
shining city on a hill' has been unnecessarily dimmed by 
another image: a nation motivated by fear and ready to lash 
out at any country it defines as the source of a gathering 
threat." 

Instead of a shining city, we have a dark bunker. 

But the 
only thing we really have to fear is fearmongering itself.

ugnet_: Apt lesson for our tyrants

Editorial Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Apt lesson for our tyrantsWhen he was President Mikhail Gorbachev's Foreign Minister - just before the Soviet Union broke up into tens of independent republics - Eduard Shevardnadze was among the world's most respected statesmen.
But, apparently, power corrupts. During the 12 years that he has served as president of Georgia, he has come to epitomise political corruption and misrule.
History will not condemn him as harshly as it has done his fellow Georgian, Josef Djugashvilli Stalin, under whose tyranny millions of dissidents were murdered.
Mr Shevardnadze is accused merely of massive rigging of the presidential election machine so as to perpetuate himself in power over deepening corruption and a slumping economy.
This would, nevertheless, have been a mortal sin if committed by the very man whose vow has always been complete de-Stalinisation and thorough political and economic liberalisation of the Georgian Republic.
He precipitated the crisis, not only by the rigging but, more immediately, by denying it, refusing to order an investigation and - in a manner uncharacteristic of the self-effacing Shevardnadze the world used to know - thumping his chest with the declaration that he would never step down.
It was only after it became apparent that many of his security forces were moving over to the opposition that he saw the need to quit. This was, indeed, the saving grace, a reminder of the old Shevadrnadze.
Mr Shevardnadze admitted that, after this security split, any attempt to assume military power would have resulted in a bloodbath. Many a tyrant would have ignored this terrible possibility, dug in his heel, and landed his country in a holocaust.
He nearly did it. And it is an excellent lesson to Africa's many tyrants who choose to continue with the bootblack long after their power base has been destroyed beyond repair.
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ugnet_: THE CONGO GENOCIDE THAT LIES UNDER THE CARPET





The Congo Genocide That Lies Under the 
Carpet African Church Information Service 
ANALYSISNovember 24, 2003 Posted to the web November 24, 2003 
By Nernlor GruduahNairobi In the course of the two wars the 
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has undergone since 1996, there have been two 
genocide incidences , one under the glare of international community, and the 
other swept under the carpet. Nernlor Gruduah reports. Apart from its 
current peacekeeping role in the DRC, the United Nations (UN) appears to have 
forgotten a commitment it made to the people of Congo and Rwanda on the one 
hand, and the international community on the other. The UN had 
undertaken to investigate the disappearance of nearly 300,000 Rwandan refugees, 
allegedly killed by the Rwandan army during the first war, that brought Laurent 
Désiré Kabila to power in May 1997. Such an undertaking was obviously 
going to be difficult, given that Kabila was used as a face by both Rwanda and 
Uganda, to execute their dual objectives in the DRC. The first objective 
was to invade the country in pursuit of former Rwandan army personnel and the 
Interahamwe Hutu militia, who fled there after the infamous Rwandan genocide of 
1994, in which up to 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered. These 
people were believed to have been behind the genocide. The second 
mission was to occupy the land, with the help of powerful external backers, 
notably the United States (US) and Britain, to extract its vast mineral 
resources. As a camouflage, Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces for 
the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL) sprung out of the blue to make the foreign 
invasion of DRC appear like a Congolese rebellion against Mobutu. A 
former guerrilla leader in the failed Katanga uprising, Kabila proved an 
opportunistic ready tool to be used as a puppet by the external aggressors. 
A planned UN investigation mission to DRC aborted after it was denied 
permission by Kabila, shortly after Rwanda and Uganda helped him overthrow 
long-serving president, Mobutu Sese Seko. Analysts suspect that Kabila's 
backers, who are said to be behind the massacre of the refugees, masterminded 
his refusal. The UN mission failed also because the Kabila-led 
government enjoyed enormous American support, for as long as he commanded the 
confidence of Washington's allies , Uganda and Rwanda. The US had 
ditched its long-time friend, Mobutu, when newly baptised confidants, presidents 
Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, and Paul Kagame of Rwanda, entered the stage. 
But the honeymoon between Kagame, Museveni and Kabila was short-lived as 
Kabila, under pressure from his own people resentful of the Rwandan presence, 
told Kagame that the job was complete and that it was time to leave DRC. 
This declaration, which was made in August 1998, infuriated Kagame, who 
instantaneously turned the guns against Kabila, using his (Kabila's) enemies and 
Rwandan exiles in DRC as a cover. The backlash of Kabila's decision saw 
the emergence , at the behest of Rwanda and Uganda , of rebel groups like the 
Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD). To his former masters-turned 
enemies, Kabila had not only bitten too much than he could chew, but had also 
bitten the hand that fed him. Telling the Rwandan army to pack up and 
leave was unacceptable to Kagame. Kinshasa, DRC's capital, nearly fell 
in the ensuing assault by Rwandan and Ugandan troops as well as splinter rebel 
groups. The city, however, survived by a whisker, thanks to the 
intervention of Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia, to stamp out a pattern that was 
developing, where Rwanda and Uganda were bent on changing government at will in 
Kinshasa. Political analysts attribute Kabila's violent death in January 
2001, when he was shot by his own bodyguard, to this fall-out. He was to 
be succeeded later by his son, Joseph Kabila, through whose leadership the 
country has finally formed a transitional government, after signing a peace 
accord with the rebel groups in April this year. The deal was brokered 
by South Africa. This development notwithstanding, does the UN's long 
silence over the failed investigation on the killing of 300,000 refugees mean 
that it is no longer worthwhile? These massacres were believed to have 
been an orchestrated move to effect a counter-genocide. The first wave 
targeted Rwandan Hutu refugees, mixed with former soldiers and Interahamwe 
militia fighters, largely blamed for the Rwandan genocide. The UN was 
forced to act by nearly forcibly repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rwandan 
refugees. At the time, journalists who visited the Kivu region of 
eastern DRC reported the existence of a number of mass graves. This is 
what prompted the UN to set up the investigation team. But then, the powerful 
hands working behind the scenes deliberately stalled the process. 
Observers note that under normal circumstances, Museveni and Kagame 
could pass for war criminals. Compared with former Liberian president,

Re: ugnet_: Army Knew of Ngetta attack - Col. Mugume




COO

No Col.Mugume will neither be court-martialled nor 
shot at firing squad, for he is a not a Northerner.

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"

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  attack - Col. Mugume
  
  We hope Col. Mugume too will be courtmartialled 
  like they did toCorporal (Pimundu?) and sentenced to death..Or 
  will he?.
  
  COO
  
  
  Army knew 
  of Ngetta attack - Col. Mugume By Emma Mutaizibwa  Joe Wacha Nov 24, 2003
  


  
LIRA - Fifth Division commander Col. John Mugume 
has said the army knew about the attack on Ngetta in which 12 civilians 
were killed. 
"We were 
informed about the attack on Ngetta," Mugume told an angry President 
Museveni at the weekend.
Museveni 
expressed his anger at the killing in Ngetta on Friday while meeting 
Lango cultural leaders at Lira Hotel.
The 
cultural leaders accused the army of failing to beat off the attack 
despite receiving prior information.
Museveni 
summoned Col. Mugume and the Operation Iron Fist Intelligence Officer 
Lt. Col. Otema Awany to the meeting to respond the accusations. Mugume 
admitted the army received warning reports about the attack.
Mugume said 
the army deployed at Ngetta. "The army was a distance away from the home 
where the massacre occurred," he lamented. 
He conceded 
however, that the army has been slow in responding to rebel 
attacks.
"We get 
information but our response is not timely," he said.
Museveni 
asked Mugume to coordinate with local leaders when deploying in 
anticipation of rebel attacks. "It's not enough to deploy and not to 
inform the local leaders. You should have asked the local leaders to 
pinpoint the area where the LRA would use to infiltrate the area," 
Museveni said.
The 
President gave Shs 3.6 million to the bereaved families. Meanwhile, one 
rebel involved in the massacre was captured.
The child 
soldier told a gathering on Thursday that he was ordered by his 
commander Lamola to kill two civilians.
The 
divisional army spokesperson Lt. Chris Magezi yesterday confirmed the 
child soldier was captured.
"The rebels 
who attacked Ngetta were ordered to kill two people each," he 
said.
Magezi said 
that four rebels were captured in last week's fighting. "One of them we 
captured is Vincent Otti's wife Aryemo Alice," Magezi said. 
  
  
  
  
  "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we 
  shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the 
  devotees of civil rights, When will you be satisfied? We can never be 
  satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain 
  lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities () No, no, 
  we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down 
  like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. (Martin Luther King, 1964 
  Nobel Peace prize laureate, assassinated for his 
  struggle)

ugnet_: 97.5% of Banyoro 'lost' in Kabalega's wars; how many will die in Kony's?

Ear to The Ground

By Charles Onyango-Obbo 97.5% of Banyoro lost in Kabalega wars; how many will die in Konys?Nov 26, 2003 - Monitor

When 34 MPs from the north walked out of Parliament demanding that the government do more to deal with the suffering of the people in the region because of the Joseph Kony-led Lords Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency, they were mocked by some of the Kampala regimes functionaries.
President Yoweri Museveni, to his credit, met the MPs and promised some fresh actions to deal with the crisis.
These are desperate times in northern Uganda; notwithstanding signals that the rebellion is either going into one of its usual holidays, or the LRA has been scattered by the UPDF.
Reports say that over two million people in the north and north east of Uganda are internally displaced persons (IDPs). If that is true, then Uganda has the worlds largest number of IDPs.
Some people who say the 34 protesting MPs should go and hang, think the suffering of fellow Ugandans from the north is just revenge for the atrocities of northern armies in Luwero and other parts of the country during Milton Obotes rule (1981-July 1985), or the military junta of the Okellos (July 1985 - January 1986).
So we might as well go to Luweros neighbour, Bunyoro region, to help us understand the consequences of the war in the north a little better.
I had never been an admirer of Bunyoros King Solomon Gafabusa Iguru I; but his great grandfather the brave king patriot of Bunyoro-Kitara, Kabalega is easily the greatest Ugandan of all time.
Lately, a new side of Iguru, that suggests that some traces of Kabalega are in his blood, has began to emerge.
Kabalega is the king who most fought British expansion. The colonialists had to assemble a large army, which included Sudanese mercenaries, to put down the Banyoros resistance, and defeat the alliance between Kabalega and controversial, but truly nationalist King Mwanga, of Buganda.
The colonialists then made an example of Bunyoro, so as to totally discourage natives from armed rebellion. Iguru, as most will know, has threatened to take Britain to court for war crimes committed by its colonial troops.
Iguru is seeking £ 2.8 billion compensation from Britain for acts of pillage, rape and murder.
Iguru says these actions, according to British press reports, were committed by soldiers - under the command of Col. Henry Colville (in case you did not know where Colville Street got its name), the consul of Uganda - against the kingdom. After his capture Kabalega was jailed without trial in the Seychelles for 22 years.
Iguru, according to the Sunday Observer, gained data from the Public Record Office in London, Oxfords Rhodes House, and the Churchill archives in Cambridge.
The records tell of vast looting by British soldiers under orders from Colville, and devastation of villages and slaughtering of civilians by Nubian soldiers.
The diary of Capt. A.B. Thruston, who led troops to annex the Bunyoro Kingdom in 1894, boasts of wanton destruction. I have, and will in the future, burn their houses, destroy their crops and cut down the banana plantations, he writes.
The value of this is that we have a sense of the cost in money terms of the war against Kabalega: The equivalent of about Shs 8.5 trillion. However, early this year King Iguru made rather shocking revelations about the human toll of the pacification of Bunyoro.
By the end of the formal war, the population of Bunyoro-Kitara was down to 2,500,000.
However, by the time the colonial regime had finished punishing Bunyoro in 1899 there were only 100,000 of them left!
The relative economic backwardness of Bunyoro today, and its sparse population of locals is a result of that war over 100 years ago.
What this tells us is that the more serious casualties of the northern war are not those that happen in the battlefield as such but away from it in the camps, e.g. where the IDPs live and during the mopping up exercises.
So while it is important to focus on ending the war, an equal priority for the MPs and international community should be the interventions that save the lives of the two million IDPs.
Secondly, since the northern war has gone on longer and with more ferocity than the Bunyoro campaign, we can reasonably assume that the cost to Uganda is far more than Shs 8 trillion. As a country, we must ask whether that is a cost we are willing to continue paying.
We shall never know how many people have died in the north and north east, until well after President Yoweri Musevenis rule has ended, and Kony and his disciples no longer terrorise the region.
I hope we will not find, like in Kabelegas Bunyoro, that 97.5 percent of the people in the north fled their homeland or died. Unfortunately, the total elimination mindset of both the government and LRA, makes this prospect the more likely one.
Thirdly, last year and in 2001 there were uprisings by Banyoro against other Ugandans, whom

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Eduard just may be an example of a person being promoted beyond his competence.
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Editorial 

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 
- 
Apt lesson for our tyrantsWhen he was President Mikhail Gorbachev's Foreign Minister - just before the Soviet Union broke up into tens of independent republics - Eduard Shevardnadze was among the world's most respected statesmen. 
But, apparently, power corrupts. During the 12 years that he has served as president of Georgia, he has come to epitomise political corruption and misrule. 
History will not condemn him as harshly as it has done his fellow Georgian, Josef Djugashvilli Stalin, under whose tyranny millions of dissidents were murdered. 
Mr Shevardnadze is accused merely of massive rigging of the presidential election machine so as to perpetuate himself in power over deepening corruption and a slumping economy. 
This would, nevertheless, have been a mortal sin if committed by the very man whose vow has always been complete de-Stalinisation and thorough political and economic liberalisation of the Georgian Republic. 
He precipitated the crisis, not only by the rigging but, more immediately, by denying it, refusing to order an investigation and - in a manner uncharacteristic of the self-effacing Shevardnadze the world used to know - thumping his chest with the declaration that he would never step down. 
It was only after it became apparent that many of his security forces were moving over to the opposition that he saw the need to quit. This was, indeed, the saving grace, a reminder of the old Shevadrnadze. 
Mr Shevardnadze admitted that, after this security split, any attempt to assume military power would have resulted in a bloodbath. Many a tyrant would have ignored this terrible possibility, dug in his heel, and landed his country in a holocaust. 
He nearly did it. And it is an excellent lesson to Africa's many tyrants who choose to continue with the bootblack long after their power base has been destroyed beyond repair. 
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Mw. Oryema,
We used this very poem during the time when Obote's goons were decimating us in the infamous "Luweero Triangle" in the early 1980s. I thnk it was around the time this monster swore that he would turn the entire District of West Nile into a National Park!
Funny how some things never change! 
But who could have imagined that Africans are so very much more cruel than colonialists that we used rile against!!! Man's inhumanity to Man seems to be epitomized amongst Africans.Fortunately, this time around, there is much more wider knowledge of the tragedy in in Northern Uganda, only the international community does not seem to be terribly interested in our misery.
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What Munini needs is unwavering support from us and those who strongly believe that something has seriously gone wrong with our society. What guarantee do we have that the Ofondos of Uganda will not turn their filthy mouth against all those who are working for an acceptable conditions of Ugandans. Whatever differences of opinion we may have in our debating here for the future of Uganda, we must always stand solidly behind whenever one of us is being singled out by a system that has failed to see the light. Situations like this one should truly unite us with a common resolve, for the struggle of Uganda's future does not deal with the Presidential seat only but covers the whole aspect of Uganda's society.. The struggle should be intesified when innocent citizens are being arrongantly attacked because they have pointed out what has caused our society to fail.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Scaring Up Votes 

November 23, 2003 
By MAUREEN DOWD 

WASHINGTON 

First came the pre-emptive military policy. Now comes the 
pre-emptive campaign strategy. 

Before the president even knows his opponent, his first 
political ad is blanketing Iowa today. 

"It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped 
into this country to bring a day of horror like none we 
have ever known," Mr. Bush says, in a State of the Union 
clip. 

Well, that's a comforting message from our commander in 
chief. Do we really need his cold, clammy hand on our spine 
at a time when we're already rattled by fresh terror 
threats at home and abroad? When we're chilled by the 
metastasizing Al Qaeda, the resurgent Taliban and Baathist 
thugs armed with deadly booby traps; the countless, 
nameless terror groups emerging in Turkey, Morocco, 
Indonesia and elsewhere; the vicious attacks on Americans, 
Brits, aid workers and their supporters in Iraq, 
Afghanistan and Turkey? The latest illustration of the 
low-tech ingenuity of Iraqi foes impervious to our latest 
cascade of high-tech missiles: a hapless, singed donkey 
that carted rockets to a Baghdad hotel. 

Yet the Bush crowd is seizing the moment to scare us even 
more. 

Flashing the words "terrorists" and "self-defense" in 
crimson, the Republican National Committee spot urges 
Americans "to support the president's policy of pre-emptive 
self-defense" - a policy Colin Powell claimed was overblown 
by the press. 

"Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their 
intentions, politely putting us on notice before they 
strike?" Mr. Bush says. 

With this ad, Republicans have announced their intention: 
to scare us stupid, hoping we won't remember that this was 
the same State of the Union in which Mr. Bush made a 
misleading statement about the Iraq-Niger uranium 
connection, or remark that the imperial idyll in Iraq has 
created more terrorists. 

Richard Clarke, the former U.S. counterterrorism chief, 
told Ted Koppel that Mr. Bush's habit of putting X's 
through the pictures of arrested or killed Qaeda managers 
was very reminiscent of a scene in the movie "The Battle of 
Algiers," in which the French authorities did the same to 
the Algerian terrorists: "Unfortunately, after all the 
known Algerian terrorists were arrested or killed, the 
French lost. And that could be the thing that's happening 
here, that even though we're getting all the known Al Qaeda 
leaders, we're breeding new ones. Ones we don't know about 
and will be harder to find." 

This view of Al Qaeda was echoed by a European 
counterterrorism official in The Times: "There are fewer 
leaders but more followers." 

The president is trying to make the campaign about guts: he 
has the guts to persevere in the war on terror. 

But the real issue is trust: should we trust leaders who 
cynically manipulated intelligence, diverted 9/11 anger and 
lost focus on Osama so they could pursue an old cause near 
to neocon hearts: sacking Saddam? 

The Bush war left our chief villains operating, revved up 
the terrorist threat, ravaged our international alliances 
and sparked the resentment of a world that ached for us 
after 9/11. 

Now Mr. Bush says that poor Turkey, a critical ally in the 
Muslim world, is the newest front in the war on terror. 
"Iraq is a front," he said. "Turkey is a front. Anywhere 
the terrorists think they can strike is a front." Here a 
front, there a front, everywhere a terror front. 

In his Hobbesian gloom - "Fear and I were born twins," 
Hobbes said - Dick Cheney thought an Iraq whupping would 
make surly young anti-American Arab men scuttle away. 
Instead, it stoked their ire. 

James Goodby and Kenneth Weisbrode wrote in The Financial 
Times last week that the Bush crew has snuffed the optimism 
of F.D.R., Ronald Reagan and Bush père: "Fear has been used 
as a basis for curtailing freedom of _expression_ and for 
questioning legal rights long taken for granted. It has 
crept into political discourse and been used to discredit 
patriotic public servants. Ronald Reagan's favorite image, 
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Sounds like dictator Musevenic of Uganda to me!
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Eduard just may be an example of a person being promoted beyond his competence.
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Editorial 

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 
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Apt lesson for our tyrantsWhen he was President Mikhail Gorbachev's Foreign Minister - just before the Soviet Union broke up into tens of independent republics - Eduard Shevardnadze was among the world's most respected statesmen. 
But, apparently, power corrupts. During the 12 years that he has served as president of Georgia, he has come to epitomise political corruption and misrule. 
History will not condemn him as harshly as it has done his fellow Georgian, Josef Djugashvilli Stalin, under whose tyranny millions of dissidents were murdered. 
Mr Shevardnadze is accused merely of massive rigging of the presidential election machine so as to perpetuate himself in power over deepening corruption and a slumping economy. 
This would, nevertheless, have been a mortal sin if committed by the very man whose vow has always been complete de-Stalinisation and thorough political and economic liberalisation of the Georgian Republic. 
He precipitated the crisis, not only by the rigging but, more immediately, by denying it, refusing to order an investigation and - in a manner uncharacteristic of the self-effacing Shevardnadze the world used to know - thumping his chest with the declaration that he would never step down. 
It was only after it became apparent that many of his security forces were moving over to the opposition that he saw the need to quit. This was, indeed, the saving grace, a reminder of the old Shevadrnadze. 
Mr Shevardnadze admitted that, after this security split, any attempt to assume military power would have resulted in a bloodbath. Many a tyrant would have ignored this terrible possibility, dug in his heel, and landed his country in a holocaust. 
He nearly did it. And it is an excellent lesson to Africa's many tyrants who choose to continue with the bootblack long after their power base has been destroyed beyond repair. 
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Re: ugnet_: Apt lesson for our tyrants

2003-11-25 Thread Mitayo Potosi

The liberation forces in South Africa WERE NOT at the point of throwing in 
the towel in the struggle against apartheid. It was Eduard Shevardnadze as a 
matter of curtesy who invited them and told them Guys you have a month to 
work out some accomodation with the apartheid regime. After that dont count 
on us as your allies, for you will find us working with de Klerk.

Just in case you have been wondering about the origins of such nonsense as 
Bishop Tutu's 'Truth and Reconciliation'; a concept that throws JUSTICE out 
of the window!!

Eduard Shevardnadze will forever remind me of this most monumental betrayal 
by so-called allies.

Which brings us to Steve Biko's loud and clear call to all of us, i.e. 
Black man, you are on your own.

Mitayo Potosi



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Editorial
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
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Apt lesson for our tyrantsWhen he was President Mikhail Gorbachev's Foreign 
Minister - just before the Soviet Union broke up into tens of independent 
republics - Eduard Shevardnadze was among the world's most respected 
statesmen.
But, apparently, power corrupts. During the 12 years that he has served as 
president of Georgia, he has come to epitomise political corruption and 
misrule.
History will not condemn him as harshly as it has done his fellow Georgian, 
Josef Djugashvilli Stalin, under whose tyranny millions of dissidents were 
murdered.
Mr Shevardnadze is accused merely of massive rigging of the presidential 
election machine so as to perpetuate himself in power over deepening 
corruption and a slumping economy.
This would, nevertheless, have been a mortal sin if committed by the very 
man whose vow has always been complete de-Stalinisation and thorough 
political and economic liberalisation of the Georgian Republic.
He precipitated the crisis, not only by the rigging but, more immediately, 
by denying it, refusing to order an investigation and - in a manner 
uncharacteristic of the self-effacing Shevardnadze the world used to know - 
thumping his chest with the declaration that he would never step down.
It was only after it became apparent that many of his security forces were 
moving over to the opposition that he saw the need to quit. This was, 
indeed, the saving grace, a reminder of the old Shevadrnadze.
Mr Shevardnadze admitted that, after this security split, any attempt to 
assume military power would have resulted in a bloodbath. Many a tyrant 
would have ignored this terrible possibility, dug in his heel, and landed 
his country in a holocaust.
He nearly did it. And it is an excellent lesson to Africa's many tyrants who 
choose to continue with the bootblack long after their power base has been 
destroyed beyond repair.
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Editorial 

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 
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Apt lesson for our tyrantsWhen he was President Mikhail Gorbachev's Foreign Minister - just before the Soviet Union broke up into tens of independent republics - Eduard Shevardnadze was among the world's most respected statesmen. 
But, apparently, power corrupts. During the 12 years that he has served as president of Georgia, he has come to epitomise political corruption and misrule. 
History will not condemn him as harshly as it has done his fellow Georgian, Josef Djugashvilli Stalin, under whose tyranny millions of dissidents were murdered. 
Mr Shevardnadze is accused merely of massive rigging of the presidential election machine so as to perpetuate himself in power over deepening corruption and a slumping economy. 
This would, nevertheless, have been a mortal sin if committed by the very man whose vow has always been complete de-Stalinisation

ugnet_: Global AIDS epidemic rampant:kills more people this year than ever before

Global AIDS epidemic rampant: kills more people this year than ever beforeat 12:29 on November 25, 2003, EST.

LONDON (AP) - International efforts to control the spread of HIV/AIDS are failing, with more people dying from the disease this year than ever before and as many as 46 million people around the world now living with the virus, says a UN report released Tuesday.
The worldwide epidemic has killed more than three million people this year and infected five million more with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, said UNAIDS, the UN agency responsible for co-ordinating global efforts to fight AIDS.
The report said the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa remains rampant while epidemic-sized outbreaks are growing in China, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and several central Asian republics.
"This year, more people became infected with HIV than any previous year before and more people then ever died from AIDS," said UNAIDS executive director Dr. Peter Piot.
The global response to the crisis has expanded significantly in recent years through more spending on anti-retroviral medication and on education, UNAIDS said.
"However, it is quite clear that our current global efforts remain entirely inadequate for an epidemic that is continuing to spiral out of control," Piot said. "AIDS is tightening its grip on southern Africa and threatening other regions of the world."
Kistan Shoultz, the UNAIDS co-ordinator in Kenya, said "most" African governments need to do more to fight AIDS.
"This requires huge resources, huge energy levels, far expanded efforts," Shoultz said in Nairobi.
Anti-retroviral treatment coverage remains dismal in sub-Saharan Africa overall and basic knowledge of HIV/AIDS remains disturbingly low in many countries, especially among women, the report said.
"This is an epidemic that at the start was a white, middle-class gay man's disease," Piot said. "Today, if you use a stereotype, the face of AIDS is a young woman from Africa."
Voluntary counselling and testing services are virtually absent in many countries and only one per cent of pregnant women in severely affected countries have access to services aimed at preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission, the report said.
Dr. Jack Chow, who heads the World Health Organization's AIDS campaign, said the WHO is focusing on its so-call three-by-five initiative, which aims to deliver anti-retroviral drugs to three million people worldwide by the end of 2005.
Piot said there was some positive news in the report, with several countries successfully combating the spread of the disease. For example, Uganda marked its 12th consecutive year of reduced HIV infections.
The report was released ahead of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
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ugnet_: Museveni backs new family laws

Museveni backs new family lawsBy Halima AbdallaNov 26, 2003

Agrees with clergy on bimansulo dance
KAMPALA President Museveni hosted Muslim leaders to a feast at the Nile Hotel Gardens on Monday night.
It was the Presidents third annual Iftar (pre-Idd night meal to break the fast) with Muslims.
The night feast on the eve of Idd marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Mr Museveni commended Muslim and Church of Uganda leaders for openly condemning nudity shows the so-called ebimansulo and other societal ills.
Museveni was responding to the Mufti, Sheikh Shaban Mubajje, who had asked him to act against immorality.
Mubajje said ebimansulo and the Domestic Relations Bill (DRB) were not Islamic.
Museveni agreed that nudity shows promote immorality, especially among vulnerable young people.
Government will move on those youth who behave worse than animals, the President warned.
Museveni asked religious leaders to support the government in accessing foreign markets.
He said Africans have not progressed after 40 years of independence because of heavy dependence on foreign aid.
He now wants the continent to work collectively to penetrate markets in Europe, America and Asia.
He said Ugandas agro-products such as passion fruits, vanilla, fish, honey and silk are on demand in the United States and Europe because of their high organic value.
Museveni urged Ugandans to produce the products in large quantities in order to attract processing industries that will add value to exports.
The President listed his governments successes, such as ending extra-judicial killings. He said Ugandans now have security of person and of their property.
He said peace would also be restored to northern Uganda.
The region has suffered from a brutal armed conflict since August 1986.
Museveni said the government has restored democracy and built 104 of the planned 220 mini-hospitals.
Each of the hospitals has a resident medical doctor, scanning and operating facilities.
In addition, he said, most Ugandans now have safe drinking water which has reduced the spread of water-borne diseases.
Museveni asked Muslims to forgive and seek reconciliation on all issues.
Even me, who is not a Muslim and do not go to church a lot, I can forgive. Forget about the past to avoid confusing your benefactors, he said.
On the DRB, Museveni said the bill would not undermine the teachings of any religion, including Islam.
The proposed law would only take care of the interests of every Ugandan.
Dont worry, it will give everyone what he wants. We shall not accept to be dressed in the same suit, Museveni said.
When making a hairstyle do it according to the shape of your head, he added in apparent reference to the diverse marriage systems in Uganda.
Human rights activists have been pushing for the speedy enactment of the new family law.
The DRB addresses issues such as property in marriage, bride price, divorce, marital rape, polygamy and monogamy, widow inheritance, minimum age of marriage and cohabitation.
It was first drafted in 1999. The Cabinet recently approved the latest draft, which is now due for presentation to Parliament for debate.
Sheikh Mubajje congratulated Muslims for fulfilling the fourth pillar of Islam fasting and self-restraint from pleasure.
Mubajje asked Museveni to find a peaceful way of ending armed conflict in northern Uganda.
He said while the rest of the country fasted peacefully, the Muslims and Christians in the war-torn areas did not.
Mubajje also asked Museveni to give Muslims equal opportunities to government jobs.
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Ugandans, why are you notrising up now against dictator Musevenic? It's your turn, the Georgians did it
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Wednesday, November 26, 2003 
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Apt lesson for our tyrantsWhen he was President Mikhail Gorbachev's Foreign Minister - just before the Soviet Union broke up into tens of independent republics - Eduard Shevardnadze was among the world's most respected statesmen. 
But, apparently, power corrupts. During the 12 years that he has served as president of Georgia, he has come to epitomise political corruption and misrule. 
History will not condemn him as harshly as it has done his fellow Georgian, Josef Djugashvilli Stalin, under whose tyranny millions of dissidents were murdered. 
Mr Shevardnadze is accused merely of massive rigging of the presidential election machine so as to perpetuate himself in power over deepening corruption and a slumping economy. 
This would, nevertheless, have been a mortal sin if committed by the very man whose vow has always been complete de-Stalinisation and thorough political and economic liberalisation of the Georgian Republic. 
He precipitated the crisis, not only by the rigging but, more immediately, by denying it, refusing to order an investigation and - in a manner uncharacteristic of the self-effacing Shevardnadze the world used to know - thumping his chest with the declaration that he would never step down. 
It was only after it became apparent that many of his security forces were moving over to the opposition that he saw the need to quit. This was, indeed, the saving grace, a reminder of the old Shevadrnadze. 
Mr Shevardnadze admitted that, after this security split, any attempt to assume military power would have resulted in a bloodbath. Many a tyrant would have ignored this terrible possibility, dug in his heel, and landed his country in a holocaust. 
He nearly did it. And it is an excellent lesson to Africa's many tyrants who choose to continue with the bootblack long after their power base has been destroyed beyond repair. 
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ugnet_: Hullo

2003-11-25 Thread Mitayo Potosi

Dear Sofie Anyomokolo,

This is just a hello to, again, wish you the best while you stay below the 
49th parallel.

Today we had our first snow in Toronto. This year it has come early.

And don't worry about some stuffed-shirt fellows on Acholinet.  Such will 
always be with us. Afraid of anybody who has an independent thinking and 
approach.

Me too I was refused subscription on Bugandanet. They told me that even 
getting other people to support my application would not help me.

Mitayo Potosi

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