ugnet_: AMERICANS UGLY NOT ONLY TO IRAQIS
Americans Look Ugly Not Only To Iraqis By Zvi Bar'elHa'aretz Daily8-18-03 ANKARA -- Almost four months have passed since the conclusion of the "big" battles in Iraq, and the start of small, exhausting skirmishes. What appeared at first to be a tremendous show of American and British might, a conclusive blow which toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, is liable to become a foray into a lethal beehive, which waited for its prey to come. There is a constellation of powerful forces in Iraq: Shi'ites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Turkmen, and various other tribal, religious and secular leaders, who all want a piece of the country, present and future. Their ambitions are fairly well-known: they want a democratic, independent Iraq which enjoys economic prosperity due to its huge reserves of oil (the second largest in the world). "The problem isn't strategy: it's tactics Responses in neighborhoods in Baghdad and Basra to the daily indignities [caused by American soldiers], to the vulgarity and humiliation, are liable to damage the most enlightened, prudent strategy." The Turkish government official who made this statement brought up several examples of mistaken tactics, which instantly evoke a well-known analogy. Last week, an American helicopter uprooted a Shi'ite flag from a high antenna in a Baghdad neighborhood. What the helicopter pilot intended remains unclear. In any case, the response on the street was a stormy demonstration in which one person was killed, and several were injured. The Shi'ites demanded an apology and compensation; the Americans admitted they made a mistake. Two weeks earlier, the head of an important Iraqi tribe was detained at a U.S. roadblock, and a woman soldier conducted a body search in front of his fellow tribesmen. The response: a public outcry from the elders of all the tribes whose cooperation the Americans covet. Soldiers walk around the streets aiming their rifles at pedestrians. Sometimes women are searched by male soldiers who make vulgar jokes. "There is total ignorance about Iraqi culture among the soldiers," said the Turkish government official. "In many cases, the soldiers don't even know where they are, what city they're next to, what distinguishes Shi'ites from Sunnis, how women are to be treated, or what they're supposed to look for." The Americans look ugly not only to Iraqis. Three weeks ago, U.S. soldiers arrested a group of 11 Turkish soldiers in Sulaymaniyah, in Northern Iraq, on suspicion that they intended to kill the governor of Kirkuk. The incident threatened to disrupt relations between Turkey and the U.S., and it ignited a huge storm of protests in Turkey. "This was an act of personal revenge, and nothing else," the Turkish government official said. "The American soldiers who detained the Turks were ones who waited for a long time before the war on the Mediterranean Sea, and were later transferred to Rumania in the hope that the Turkish government would agree to let American troops pass through Turkey. These are frustrated soldiers who nursed anger. How can you wage a serious war when personal grievances govern the army's behavior? How can you allow a solitary soldier at a roadblock or on a patrol to set policies which influence America's status in Iraq?" "Mutual hatred between the Americans and Iraqis is starting to develop in an almost natural fashion, and it exacts a price each day. Soldiers are being killed, and the day of Iraq's liberation seems far away," the Turkish official continued. "We know in our ministries how to plan major moves, but reality changes every minute in Iraq." Out of nowhere, it seems, Al-Qaida operatives turn up, or groups from the fundamentalist Ansar Al-Islam group penetrate regions in Iraq; also, Iranian operatives are setting up support cells in southern Iraq, and various hoodlums control entire regions and branches of trade in Baghdad. Each group cites some sort of rationale: they purport to be fighting against the American conquest, and when large population clusters in cities have no access to American-backed forces, they depend on the support of local strongmen. Saddam Hussein's responsibility for the tragedy of Iraq is eroding rapidly. Saddam is being replaced by the American soldier, who is
ugnet_: Quotes of IDI AMIN DADA ( they are quite interesting)
It is interesting how the whole world has decided to spend time on a despot and a tyrant, very interesting indeed. We are either kidding our selves or we have too much time on our hands. It is even very interesting when we lambaste an African leader and we do not say even one word about his advisor who is currently in London and by the name of Bob Astles. In fact we are calling of taking Amin to court, and not a single person has called for Bob Astle's head, a man who killed thousands of Ugandans on Lake Victoria in day light. Is it because Iddi Amin is an African and Bob Astles a British? You wonder, how very strange are these days!! Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Jean-Claude Ndungutse To: Great Lakes Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 11:33 PM Subject: [great-lakes] Quotes of IDI AMIN DADA ( they are quite interesting) Quotes of a Tyrant Probably the most famous quote by Idi Amin Dada was in 1976 at the time hisgovernment had killed nearly a half-a-million Ugandans.Commenting on the mass murders, the despot said casually:"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are thesacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.''Some famous quotes attributed to the dictator from the Internet :When asked to describe himself, he said:"I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world."On what he preferred being called:"His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal Al Hadji Dr. Idi Amin,VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of theSea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General andUganda in Particular."On what he thinks others said about him: "People often mistake what I say for what I am thinking."On what he did to his perceived political enemies:"I ate them before they ate me."In an interview with a journalist:"I have also eaten human meat. It is very salty. Even more salty thenleopard meat.''When asked by Queen Elizabeth what else he would be doing in London:"Buying size 13 shoes, very hard to get in Uganda."On whether he missed Uganda:"I miss Ugandan food. I miss my many friends. When I was president Iused to go out in the evening with my friends, former boxing partners orthe lads from the national football team. I loved to go dancing like anordinary person. I'm first and foremost a boxing champion, as youknow."Some of his memorable speeches include one after a luncheon hosted by the Queenin London in his honour, Idi Amin had this to say for his vote of thanks."Mr Queen, Sir, Horrible Ministers, invented guests, ladies undergentlemen. I thank the Queen very plenty for what he has done to me. Itell you, I have eaten so much that I am now fed up with maliciousmeal.Before I continue, I would kindly ask you to open the windows so thatthe climate may get in plenty. But before I go back I must invert MrQueen to my country and I can assure you, Mr Queen that when youcome, I shall revenge to you. You will eat a full cow and I will work verydifficult to make sure that you will come back with a very full stomach.For now I am sorry that I have just made a short call on you. The nexttime I will make a long one possible for a full moon. Thank you forletting me undress you in front of all the disgusting people."And from quotes in The Guardian July 24, 2003, also found on the Internet:On liberty:"In communist countries you do not feel free to talk, there is one spyfor every three people. Not here. No one is afraid here. It's like Ugandagirls. I tell them to be proud, not shy. It's no good taking a girl to bed ifshe is shy. Do you get my point?''To Nixon after cuts in US aid to Uganda:"My dear brother, it is quite true that you have enough problems onyour plate, and it is surprising you have the zeal to add fresh ones. Atthis moment you are uncomfortably sandwiched in that uncomfortableaffair (Watergate), I ask almighty God to solve your problems. WeUgandans hope that the great United States of America does notcontinue to use its enormous resources, especially its military might,to destroy human life on earth.''On gender and productivity:"Women should not sleep while men are working. Even prostitutes cando some work, reporting subversives.'' Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Great-Lakes ForumIf you do wish to belong to great-lakes, you may subscribe by sending an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]= Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of
ugnet_: Re: WON NYACI WITH THE BARRELLS, Rwot Langony..
What a question, I do not know, man! I guess, none under PRESENT form. There are lots of vital puzzles that the experts must first look into. There are many UN conventions as well as Ugandan constitution violated here. For example, if it is established that the UPDF is incapable of providing security and protection for Ugandan, then naturally other forms of ingripande (options?!) should be seriously considered. In the event the Ugandan Parliament approves of such, several of those loopholes have to be sealed: 1) Resource fördelning (sharing, allocation?!) is one. When Locals take over the responsibility of the Army, THEY SHOULD ALSO TAKE OVER MILITARY RESOURSES. They should have access to the funds available. In which case the Parliament have to decide on the administration and transfer of those resources to the local defense council. This includes of course, compensation in form of salaries since they are taking over the official liability of the Army. 2) Secondly, the age limits of those youths have to be established. This will not be easy. Uganda signed the UN-convention on education in Dakar (1990?!). Which guarantees all youth not only education but also qualitative education (I have forgotten the official reference of that convention, I check it out). There, Uganda has already failed in the North. 3) To the best of my knowledge, the number of Acoli that would suffice such an operation cannot be raised without touching on MINORS. That is my knowledge of the demographical catastrophe in Acoli. So the experts have a lot to crack here. 4) Acoli already have huge representation in the UPDF. Perhaps those can be transferred to the Local defense. 5) Perhaps the biggest question is of course under whose jurisdiction the local defense will operate. How the Local defense will be constituted. They should most probably be under the local council. Answer those and we can discuss further. rgds noc´l From: patrick nokrach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Culture, Peace and A Sustainable Future [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WON NYACI WITH THE BARRELLS, Rwot Langony.. Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:33:53 + _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ---BeginMessage--- Which of the responses would you have wished Acholi leaders to have taken Patrick NokrachSkattegårdsgatan 1A59531 MjölbyTel;046-0142-42348Someone dies of hunger somewhere in the world every 3.6 seconds.Please visit: http://www.thehungersite.com and give someonea meal - at no cost! From: NOC´LADUMAS GEORGES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Culture, Peace and A Sustainable Future" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WON NYACI WITH THE BARRELLS, Rwot Langony.. Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:36:36 + WON NYACI WITH THE BARRELL The Won (Rwon?!) Nyaci of Lango takes to the barrels The Rwot of Koch grieves the eminent death of Abductees soldiers Their counterparts in Teso wuc (dance) among the Arrows Three regions of the same Uganda Hit by the same Disaster Respond so differently Symbolical of Ugandan unity?!?! Which ways to go Uganda PEOPLE´S Defense Forces? rgds noc´l _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Ta första steget Varför inte skicka en Virtuell Kyss till någon du gillar? ---End Message---
ugnet_: A Page from the Past: Gen Amin Talks to Drum... The Britishare my best friends....
DRUM: March 1973 President Idi Amin of Uganda Has in a dramatically short time, given marching orders to the Israelis, the British and the Asians. He has also taken uncompromising steps to rid Uganda's streets of armed robbers and prostitutes, and has campaigned against what he calls phoney missionaries. The controversial soldier-president has been criticised by the foreign press for jeopardizing the economy and of being intolerant of Christian worship, while there have been reports of disappearances of many top Ugandan people. In an exclusive interview, DRUM put these allegations before President Amin. DRUM: Overseas newspapers have been carrying stories about people disappearing in Uganda without trace. AMIN: We in Uganda do not depend on the sensational stories put out by overseas newspapers and even the BBC. Some of these people alleged to have disappeared are staying in the neighbouring countries. They were not chased away from Uganda, but they decided to run away on their own. Where there have been genuine cases of people disappearing - like the case of the two Americans - we have not hesitated to appoint an inquiry. DRUM: Can you say that there has been a drop in crime in Uganda since you came to power? AMIN: Definitely yes. Kondoism has died since I ordered the army to shoot robbers on sight. DRUM: Mr President, can you explain the reasons which led you to embark on what you have described as the economic war? AMIN: We embarked on the economic war war because the Asians were milking Uganda's economy. Some were engaged in economic sabotage while others were busy taking their money out of the country. No responsible government can allow this state of affairs to continue. DRUM: What evidence has your government got that the Asians were sabotaging the economy? AMIN: My government is a government of action. We have eyes and we can see things. Some Asians have been caught red-handed trying to take Ugandan money outside the country. In one instance, police raided a mosque in Kampala and found nearly two million shillings in currency notes packed in biscuit tins. These so-called biscuits were due to be exported to Britain. Is this not sabotage? Asians in Uganda have also been sending their money to relatives and friends in the neighbouring African countries. We cannot tolerate a situation in which our economy is being mlked by foreigners. DRUM: What progress has Uganda made in winning the economic war? AMIN: We have made a lot of progress. Shops vacated by departing Asians are being allocated to Ugandans. The banks are ready with money to give to those African traders who apply for overdrafts. There are so many African countries ready to help Uganda with personnel to replace the non-Ugandans who have left. DRUM: Can you say something about your relations with Great Britain? AMIN: The British are my best friends, but they are annoyed because I have kicked out the British Asians. They can say what they like. I have no time for imperialists. They have decided to cut off financial and technical aid to Uganda, but we do not worry. There are so many countries ready to help us. The British are very much annoyed with us now because they are spending between £7 million and £8 million a year feeding the British Asian refugees in camps allover Europe. If the British want friendship, we are prepared to remain friends, but the steps I have taken to hand over the economy of Uganda to Ugandans are here to stay. We have to win the economic war. DRUM: Is there freedom of worship in Uganda? If so, why are you being accused of persecuting Christians? AMIN: In Uganda there is complete freedom of worship and everyone can follow whatever religion he or she chooses. My quarrel with Christian bishops is that some of the White missionaries in the country are not missionaries in the real sense. They are mercenaries. Some are spies. I feel that the security of the people of Uganda is my paramount task. Some of these so-called missionaries do not even know the Bible. You will understand, therefore, why I have not been disposed towards such missionaries because when trouble starts, it is the people of Uganda who will suffer. DRUM: You frequently condemn young women for the way they behave and dress. Do you think you are being fair to them? AMIN: I am totally against loose living by some women in Uganda. Some of them have gone elsewhere in Africa and are doing terrible things there with Europeans. Some are loitering in our towns at night looking for customers. To make matters worse, some of our women are spying for foreigners. This must stop. It is no use saying that these prostitutes are a minority. As far as I can see, they are women and that spoils the image of Uganda. I have already banned the min-skirt and other sexy dresses. The next step will be to round up all town women and take them to camps in rural areas where they will be fed and made to work on the
ugnet_: SEE YA
Iraqi Commander Swears He Saw US Evacuate Saddam The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: North-East American Power Outage Traced To Dim Bulb In White House
Power Outage Traced To Dim Bulb In White House --- The Tale Of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York, Carted Off $90 Million, Then Tonight, Turned Off Our Lights by Greg Palast August 15, 2003 http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm I can tell you all about the ne're-do-wells that put out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters -- the Niagara Mohawk Power Company -- some years back. You see, before I was a journalist, I worked for a living, as an investigator of corporate racketeers. In the 1980s, "NiMo" built a nuclear plant, Nine Mile Point, a brutally costly piece of hot junk for which NiMo and its partner companies charged billions to New York State's electricity ratepayers. To pull off this grand theft by kilowatt, the NiMo-led consortium fabricated cost and schedule reports, then performed a Harry Potter job on the account books. In 1988, I showed a jury a memo from an executive from one partner, Long Island Lighting, giving a lesson to a NiMo honcho on how to lie to government regulators. The jury ordered LILCO to pay $4.3 billion and, ultimately, put them out of business. And that's why, if you're in the Northeast, you're reading this by candlelight tonight. Here's what happened. After LILCO was hammered by the law, after government regulators slammed Niagara Mohawk and dozens of other book-cooking, document-doctoring utility companies all over America with fines and penalties totaling in the tens of billions of dollars, the industry leaders got together to swear never to break the regulations again. Their plan was not to follow the rules, but to ELIMINATE the rules. They called it "deregulation." It was like a committee of bank robbers figuring out how to make safecracking legal. But they dare not launch the scheme in the USA. Rather, in 1990, one devious little bunch of operators out of Texas, Houston Natural Gas, operating under the alias "Enron," talked an over-the-edge free-market fanatic, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, into licensing the first completely deregulated power plant in the hemisphere. And so began an economic disease called "regulatory reform" that spread faster than SARS. Notably, Enron rewarded Thatcher's Energy Minister, one Lord Wakeham, with a bushel of dollar bills for 'consulting' services and a seat on Enron's board of directors. The English experiment proved the viability of Enron's new industrial formula: that the enthusiasm of politicians for deregulation was in direct proportion to the payola provided by power companies. The power elite first moved on England because they knew Americans wouldn't swallow the deregulation snake oil easily. The USA had gotten used to cheap power available at the flick of switch. This was the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt who, in 1933, caged the man he thought to be the last of the power pirates, Samuel Insull. Wall Street wheeler-dealer Insull creator of the Power Trust, and six decades before Ken Lay, faked account books and ripped off consumers. To frustrate Insull and his ilk, FDR gave us the Federal Power Commission and the Public Utilities Holding Company Act which told electricity companies where to stand and salute. Detailed regulations limited charges to real expenditures plus a government-set profit. The laws banned "power markets" and required companies to keep the lights on under threat of arrest -- no blackout blackmail to hike rates. Of particular significance as I write here in the dark, regulators told utilities exactly how much they had to spend to insure the system stayed in repair and the lights stayed on. Bureaucrats crawled along the wire and, like me, crawled through the account books, to make sure the power execs spent customers' money on parts and labor. If they didn't, we'd whack'm over the head with our thick rule books. Did we get in the way of these businessmen's entrepreneurial spirit? Damn right we did. Most important, FDR banned political contributions from utility companies -- no 'soft' money, no 'hard' money, no money PERIOD. But then came George the First. In 1992, just prior to his departure from the White House, President Bush Senior gave the power industry one long deep-through-the-teeth kiss good-bye: federal deregulation of electricity. It was a legacy he wanted to leave for his son, the gratitude of power companies which ponied up $16 million for the Republican campaign of 2000, seven times the sum they gave Democrats. But Poppy Bush's gift of deregulating of wholesale prices set by the feds only got the power pirates halfway to the plunder of Joe Ratepayer. For the big payday they needed deregulation at the state level. There were only two states, California and Texas, big enough and Republican enough to put the electricity market con into operation. California fell first. The power companies spent $39 million to defeat a 1998 referendum pushed by Ralph Nadar which would have blocked the de-reg scam. Another $37 million was spent on lobbying
ugnet_: USAID Donates Us$8.9m Food Relief
Fellow Citizens: Now that USAID has donated US Dollars 8.9 Million worth of food aid to the people of Northern Uganda, like fools we should all sing HOSSANA .. ...Clap hands and smile profusely, in appreciation for the generosity of this good benevolent American Government . We should all forget that it is the some damn American Government who have over the years supplied Yoweri Museveni's NRM military dictatorship with military weapons, which weapons have been used by the NRM military dictatorship to slaughter our people. This people must really think we are stupid! LO! Matek USAID Donates Us$8.9m Food Relief New Vision (Kampala)August 16, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 Anne Mugisa Kampala The US Agency for International Devel-opment (USAID) has donated US$8.9m worth of food aid for over 1.6 million people at risk in the north and northeastern Uganda. The 20,000 tons of food were provided after an appeal by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the government for US$54m (sh108b) for the internally displaced people, drought victims and refugees. A recent statement issued in Kampala by the US embassy said the WFP and Uganda appeal made last month indicated that 1,622,000 were in dire need of food to sustain them for the next seven months. It indicated of the 1.6 million, 820,000 were internally displaced people in the northern Uganda, 147,000 are refugees while 655,000 are drought victims in the northeast.The statement said the additional food aid brings the amount donated by the US to Uganda this year to 100,000 tonnes worth US$68m (shs136b). "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
Re: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP)
In order to justify your false allegations. From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:45:11 -0400 Kasangwawo Why would I fake something about a cause of a death of an individual? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:38 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) So why don't you post the whole report for everyone to see ? Or is this another of your fake claims ! Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 16:05:40 -0400 Kasangwawo What is in that report is the cause of Mutesa's death. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 3:29 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Mulindwa, They say that knowledge is power. I just want to know what is in the post-mortem report. Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:37:20 -0400 Kasangwawo Why? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Mulindwa, could you please post the entire post-mortem report of Muteesa II as you threatened. Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:50:10 -0400 Mwaami Matovu I am not going to be involved in name calling, you see I hate loosing the discussion. But I will stand with my original offer, that I do not want to see you again ever, posting any where a lie, like you did that Obote killed Mutesa through poison. As long as you do not state that lie I will accommodate you. If you want to see my very ugly side, lie again. For then you will leave me no option but to post the entire post-mortem report of Muteesa on Ugandanet. For it is the only proof I have that Mutesa died of a very different thing than your dreams. And posting that report on Ugandanet is the very last thing I want to do. But if you ever allege any where, that Obote killed Mutesa by poison, you will leave me no option. So be very aware of the consequences while in your very silly rumblings. I am sending you a direct copy of this posting so that we are both sure, that you did not miss it on Ugandanet. I hope we are on the same page now on. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: joseph odwe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Matovu Not that you derseve even my comment on your silyness but I will bless you with it. By the way English is language that has been claimed by others as their own and unlike you I nkow I am not one of those. Therefore I will let you pride or worry yourself with the mastership of the language while take care of making my point understood. j.O From: Lutimba Matovu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: joseph odwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Odwe, Your poor written English clearly exemplifies your poor and low
RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office
Mr. Fugee, I see that you have no substantive rebuttal to Mr. Ibingira's expose' of Obote as a conniving power-hungry megalomaniac. As for the bit about Obote's attempts to bar the ANC from the OAU's pre-cursor, it is from an impeachabe source: Mr. Mandela himself. Original Message Follows From: "The Fugee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:33:52 +0200 Ssemakula, Many of us have decided to leave you to your rabid hatred of Obote. You seem to be so confused by your hatred that you would absolve everyone, including yourself, of any responsibility in ensuring that Ugandans and Uganda gets what it truly deserves. As such I find it very difficult to even begin to discuss or debate any matter as you have concluded where all blame should lie. Though I must confess that I have seriously thought about tackling an issue raised by you through Ibingira's writings and time willing I may still do so. The real question is: What have you done and what are you doing for a truly democratic Uganda where all citizens have and can enjoy their God given personal to holder fundamental human rights and freedoms? The Fugee PS "Why did he try to have Mandela and the ANC -- which he termed a "tribal organization" -- banned from attending the OAU's precursor meeting in Addis Ababa? Who were/are Obote's masters whose interests he worked so hard to uphold?" Where did this come from? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Ssemakula Sent: 15 August 2003 21:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office Is it safe to assume that even the UPC zealots have finally seen the light that power-hungry megalomaniacal Obote was and is a liability? Is there any doubt that Obote single-handedly set Uganda on the course of decay that it has never recovered from? Where the heck is Mr. Dambisya's promised (threatened?) defense of Obote? Original Message Follows From: "J Ssemakula" Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:15:51 + _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. Get 2 months FREE*. This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
Re: ugnet_: QUOTES OF A TYRANT(May His Soul Rest in Peace!)
Museveni is reported to have said sometime ago: "Ensi egula mirambo", which is not too far from Amin's: "In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.'' Original Message Follows From: Owor Kipenji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: QUOTES OF A TYRANT(May His Soul Rest in Peace!) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 22:26:51 +0100 (BST) Quotes of a TyrantProbably the most famous quote by Idi Amin Dada was in 1976 at the time his government had killed nearly a half-a-million Ugandans. Commenting on the mass murders, the despot said casually: "In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.''Some famous quotes attributed to the dictator from the Internet : When asked to describe himself, he said: "I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world." - On what he preferred being called: "His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal Al Hadji Dr. Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular." - On what he thinks others said about him: "People often mistake what I say for what I am thinking." - On what he did to his perceived political enemies: "I ate them before they ate me." - In an interview with a journalist: "I have also eaten human meat. It is very salty. Even more salty then leopard meat.'' - When asked by Queen Elizabeth what else he would be doing in London: "Buying size 13 shoes, very hard to get in Uganda." - On whether he missed Uganda: "I miss Ugandan food. I miss my many friends. When I was president I used to go out in the evening with my friends, former boxing partners or the lads from the national football team. I loved to go dancing like an ordinary person. I'm first and foremost a boxing champion, as you know." - Some of his memorable speeches include one after a luncheon hosted by the Queen in London in his honour, Idi Amin had this to say for his vote of thanks. "Mr Queen, Sir, Horrible Ministers, invented guests, ladies under gentlemen. I thank the Queen very plenty for what he has done to me. I tell you, I have eaten so much that I am now fed up with malicious meal. Before I continue, I would kindly ask you to open the windows so that the climate may get in plenty. But before I go back I must invert Mr Queen to my country and I can assure you, Mr Queen that when you come, I shall revenge to you. You will eat a full cow and I will work very difficult to make sure that you will come back with a very full stomach. For now I am sorry that I have just made a short call on you. The next time I will make a long one possible for a full moon. Thank you for letting me undress you in front of all the disgusting people." - And from quotes in The Guardian July 24, 2003, also found on the Internet: On liberty: "In communist countries you do not feel free to talk, there is one spy for every three people. Not here. No one is afraid here. It's like Uganda girls. I tell them to be proud, not shy. It's no good taking a girl to bed if she is shy. Do you get my point?'' - To Nixon after cuts in US aid to Uganda: "My dear brother, it is quite true that you have enough problems on your plate, and it is surprising you have the zeal to add fresh ones. At this moment you are uncomfortably sandwiched in that uncomfortable affair (Watergate), I ask almighty God to solve your problems. We Ugandans hope that the great United States of America does not continue to use its enormous resources, especially its military might, to destroy human life on earth.'' - On gender and productivity: "Women should not sleep while men are working. Even prostitutes can do some work, reporting subversives.''Comments\Views about this article - Copyright ©2002, Nation Media Group Ltd. All rights reserved. Front Page | News | Comment | Letters | Sports | Cutting Edge | Feedback - Want to chat instantly with your online friends?Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: US to Fund Private Projects
Fellow Citizens: I really do not understand the mental capability of this Americans. A students of Economic 101 would tell you that for a development initiative along the line which the Americans are proposing in the article below, can only succeed in an environment there is peace and tranquility let alone political stability in the whole country. But then our friends refuse to listen to such sound advise. Instead they would like to throw more money, which in essence, will end up financing the NRM military dictatorship in Uganda in the NRM's movies to promote more wars in the country. What private projects are the Americans going to fund?..and where in Uganda?.. Kampala, Jinja, Mbale, ..and where are the raw material going to come from which then can be used by the so called manufacturers to produce finished products... From the some war ravaged regions of Uganda? MS Marysue Shore, move must is nothing other then another attempt by the administration in Washington to project and portray an illusionary image of "compassionate Republicanism" as preached by Mr. President Bush Matek US to Fund Private Projects The Monitor (Kampala)August 18, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 Joseph Olanyo Kampala Uganda is to benefit from a multi-million dollar fund by the American government to promote private investment in Africa. The Overseas Investment Corporation (OPIC), a US government development agency that facilitates participation of the US in economic development of less developed countries is handling the program. Ms Marysue Shore, the Senior Advisor to President George Bush and Director of African Affairs now on a visit to Uganda, said August 15 that OPIC had invested $900 million in Africa in the last five years.The Corporation is currently working on a $20 million program for Uganda. The money will be channeled through the East African Development Bank.Shore was meeting the Uganda Manufacturers Association board members at Lugogo grounds. The talks are part of her agenda in Uganda to meet various financial and private sector institutions in the country. Her visit is a follow up of President Bush's recent visit to Africa. Bush had a stopover in Uganda.OPIC was established in 1971 as a self-sustaining agency. == "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
Re: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic!
So, where is the post-mortem report ? Its no use continually referring to an invisible document. I also doubt very much the existence of any records in Bank of Uganda. From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:32:20 -0400 Kasangwawo On all accusations made, on all love Buganda has to her Kingdom, would Obote poison Muteesa and the person who knew about it decide to be anonymous except to you? Let us remember that what we are discussing today is both of great importance to a whole mass of people and the History of Uganda as a nation. So I would encourage every one to stick on the facts, for there are those who are going to read these facts and take them for whole truth and help you God. That is why I stated before that the cause of death of Mutesa was not by poison from Obote. Can I back that claim? Yes the Post Mortem made in London and in a nation which was against Obote is available. I hope you can produce the evidence backing that Some one, Secondly I stated that the funds which were sent to Mutesa and his family even after his death all way through to Amin, can be backed up by records in Bank of Uganda, which is in Uganda today. So let us not take these things that likely, for they are of great Historical importance. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Bwambuga, we also know that someone (identity known) put poison in Sir Freddie's drink, which led to his eventual death. This evidence comes from someone who spent the last few years of the King's life looking after him and was therefore very close to him. I therefore fail to see why you think that your allegations are stronger than what you call Matovu's false accusations. On the other hand, you might be confusing your information with that about a known alcoholic in Lusaka. Kasangwawo From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 23:19:36 -0400 Matovu, We know that Kabaka Fred Mutesa (RIP) was a seroius alcoholic case. And he died from Alcohol Poisoning. My evidence comes from a cery good friend of mine, but he was sharing a girl friend with the Late Kabaka while he was still in power as President. This friend is a typical Muganda and big time supporter of the royalty. He says it was a well known fact among the late Kabaka's confidants that his alcohol would sooner rather than later kill him. And kill him it did. This should put to rest Matovu's false accusations of Obote. This is like the other quotation about a dead Muganda, Turns out those words were actually uttered by a typical Muganda, but hell wishers just pushed it to Obote to suit their ill intentioned politiking and subjecting Ugandans to false history. Bwambuga. Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mwaami Kasangwawo I do not think that any body in a right mind needs a proof of Amin's brutality, and I do not think that there is any body arguing about it, what is bothering people is the way we want to attack this problem of a Ugandan president whose family wants to take home and the operative word home not to Kololo, remember this man has a land he is not a beggar for land to be buried on, Amin is not like Kiseka who NRM had to borrow land to burry him officially, he is not like Lule who ended up in Kololo where any government will dig him up, trust me, for better use of that real estate. Amin wants to go to Koboko and rest. Whether alive or dead. Should have I gone into this discussion? And the answer is no, but I was very disturbed to see how the Museveni virus has affected Ugandans. We are not responsible for any or all of our actions. Because Dr. Kigongo posted on Ugandanet that Amin was a bad leader so he should be buried in Saudi Arabia. Can he tell us whether Saudi Arabian dissidents are buried in Uganda? Our nation needs prayers, for I expected better from him but hey he is a Doctor. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:14 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: I LOVE AMIN SAYS NASUR For all apologists for the killers of Ugandans, I am posting below a letter which is representative of
ugnet_: Decency
Whenever you post anything here please have the decency to give source, author and date. Mitayo Potosi _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
RE: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic!
Bwambuga, what are you yelling for ? Ever heard of netiquette ? Do you think that by shouting you become more credible ? You and Mulindwa (communication gang) seem to think that you can post anything without any proof whatsoever and we're supposed to take it as the gospel truth. I'm afraid this won't happen. Funnily enough, after failing to provide the evidence, you demand proof from me to support my case. ! Kasangwawo PS Its nice that you have decided to stop propagating false History to incite false anger in Uganda. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:01:55 -0400 I HOPE WE ALL REST OUR CASE ABOUT FALSE HISTORY TO INCITE FALSE ANGER IN UGANDA. OR SHOULD I SAY BUGANDA? FFELLOWS IN THE NAME OF PEACE IN UGANDA, STAY WITH THE TRUTH; OTHERWISE YOUR CHILDREN WILL PAY DEARLY FOR YOUR OWN STUPID, MYPIC, EVIL, ILL-THOUGHTS. YOU MAY BE SERVING YOUR SELF EGO, BUT YOU ARE NOT HELPING YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. GOOD EVENING. BWAMBUGA. Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kasangwawo Cut the crap if you think that I am doing research for you then as always you are on the wrong foot. You see I left the days of posting what the likes of you want to hear. And by the way let me add as well that the UPC' government's support to Muteesa did not stop on UPC government but even under Iddi Amin , moneys continued to flow to the family in London. Although some of the recipients decided not to use it better than becoming pipe fitters. On the proof of that, do not wait on me, go to Bank of Uganda where Obote made the original instructions, the records are public to today. So if you as a Muganda was thinking that your King was living from checks made from your grand father, think again. The state decided to maintain him with dignity in his exile life. The rest of the decisions on his life were made by him self and him self alone. And if you have any way to show us how Mutesa survived in London please by all means post it. Let us move from this crap of Buganda loves the Kingdom. Good day Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:32 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Mulindwa, I would hope that you have evidence about your allegation that the UPC regime maintained the late Sir Freddie Muteesa II in exile. In addition to the post-mortem report, I would also like to take a look at it. Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:39:01 -0400 Bwambuga And I will add to those few notes another point just for clarification. Sir Edward Mutesa was in exile and we all know what happens in exile. The first point to hit home is poverty. However the current UPC government at the time, saw it fit to maintain the exiled King financially. Uganda Government continuously sent Mutesa funds to maintain him self in London, funds he him self decided to use to cut down on stress by drinking and throwing continuous parties. Untill when he drunk him self out on his birth day party. That is why it is very nonsensical for Lutimba Matovu to state that Mutesa was poisoned by Obote, if Obote wanted Mutesa to die in exile he would have not instructed Bank of Uganda to maintain the exiled King financially. Oh good morning, by the way. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 11:19 PM Subject: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Matovu, We know that Kabaka Fred Mutesa (RIP) was a seroius alcoholic case. And he died from Alcohol Poisoning. My evidence comes from a cery good friend of mine, but he was sharing a girl friend with the Late Kabaka while he was still in power as President. This friend is a typical Muganda and big time supporter of the royalty. He says it was a well known fact among the late Kabaka's confidants that his alcohol would sooner rather than later kill him. And kill him it did. This should put to rest Matovu's false accusations of Obote. This is like the other quotation about a dead Muganda, Turns out those words were actually uttered by a typical Muganda, but hell wishers just pushed it to Obote to suit their ill intentioned politiking and
ugnet_: Gulu Children Study On Streets
Gulu Children Study On Streets Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site The Monitor (Kampala)August 18, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 Vincent Mayanja Kampala With a polythene sheet covering only his feet, 12-year-old George Olwal holds an exercise book with a torn cover, as he dozes momentarily below a street light on Queen's Avenue in Gulu.Afraid of being abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, who force boys to fight and turn girls into concubines, he is part of an estimated 20,000 children that flock into the regional capital every night for protection from the rebels freely roaming the countryside after nightfall.Olwal, whose dream is to be a lawyer, was apparently utilising the street light to revise his Social Studies notes before he goes to school for a test the next day."I could not sleep at home because, if the rebels came, they will take me with them," he said, adding: "I want to read because we were told that we might have a test tomorrow."Olwal said his younger brother was already sleeping on Jomo Kenyatta Road.Daily, after classes, Olwal and his brother run home, drop off their school uniform, eat any ready meal prepared by their parents and then trek for over a kilometre (half a mile) to Gulu, about 360 kilometres (225 miles) north of Kampala.At dawn, they rush back home to wash and put on their uniform before heading for classes."That is the life the children here live, but they have to sit for the same exams like those in schools in Kampala," Roman Catholic Spanish priest Carlos Rodriguez, who has been working in the region long enough that he can speak the local Acholi dialect very fluently, told AFP in an interview.Children too young to be out at night unaccompanied can also be seen on the streets, mainly on Queen's Avenue, Awich Road and Jomo Kenyatta Road.Church leaders say that other northern Uganda towns offer similar security to the children.An AFP journalist had to bend to try to cover again a 7-year-old child, whose thin blanket had slipped off his body while deep asleep.The disgusting buzzing sound of mosquitoes in this town is just normal and the children of the streets must be constant victims of malaria."This war has affected the most vulnerable of our society, the women and children, many of whom sleep in the bush or on the streets of Gulu and Kitgum towns," Roman Catholic Archbishop John Baptist Odama told AFP in an interview.Odama said that abductions and killings in villages and ambushes "are still a painful reality," but pointed out that those taking place in Kitgum and Pader districts remained unreported.A women's group under the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative started a programme under which the street children are provided with more decent places where they can sleep.Schools in town and churches had made arrangements to have these children accommodated in their facilities, but they encountered resistance, as most children prefer the streets, where they are free, instead of the institutions, where regulations restrict their freedom to do some things."In the missions, they are told not to talk after midnight and girls are separated from boys, but on the streets they do whatever they presume is freedom," Carlos said.The government, especially President Yoweri Museveni, has promised victory, but the LRA has remained resilient.A military campaign that was meant to rout them out of their southern Sudan bases just reinforced their zeal, breaking up into smaller groups and sneaking back to Uganda to resume their terror operations. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: How India's Mother of Invention Built an Industry
/ advertisement ---\ Explore more of Starbucks at Starbucks.com. http://www.starbucks.com/default.asp?ci=1015 \--/ How India's Mother of Invention Built an Industry August 16, 2003 By AMY WALDMAN BANGALORE, India - Like father, like daughter, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw thought in the 1970's, when she set out to become a brew master just as her father had been. She left India to train in Australia, then returned home to find that daughters were not welcome in India's breweries. That door closing for her opened another one for India. Unemployed, she followed a love of biology and a chance referral to an Irish biotechnology company. At 25, she started their Indian operation from her garage, successfully extracting from papaya an enzyme used to tenderize meat, among other things, and from the swim bladders of tropical fish a collagen that helps clear beer. It was the beginning of India's biotechnology industry. Twenty-five years later, Ms. Mazumdar-Shaw, 50, has become a symbol of sorts for that industry. Her now independent company, Biocon India Ltd., of which she is chairwoman and managing director, employs almost 900 people, making it among India's largest biotechnology companies. From this capital of the southern state of Karnataka, which is now home to 85 biotechnology companies, Ms. Mazumdar-Shaw is among those trying to shape a nation's approach to uncharted scientific and commercial terrain. It is both promising and risky. Across India, states are racing to set up biotech parks, hoping to mimic the success of the information technology industry that defined India as a global knowledge powerhouse. But biotechnology touches human lives in a way that information technology does not, and that is at the heart of the debate over its benefits and risks for developing countries. That debate heated up with President Bush's charge that Europe's resistance to genetically modified foods has made African countries reluctant to accept bio-engineered foods despite widespread hunger there. Similar concerns have arisen in India, which rejected a donation of a soy-corn blend this year because the United States could not certify that it had not been genetically modified. The worry in the developing world, said Ms. Mazumdar-Shaw, who does not share the concern, is this: "Why has Europe banned it? It must be for a reason. Why are we being fools and embracing it?" She passionately believes that India must embrace biotechnology, with the proper precautions. She believes it can change the way this country of more than one billion people, at least one-fourth of them deep in poverty, eats and farms, researches and cures disease. "Today anything can be done - we have the techniques," she said. Biotechnologists are working to develop high-protein potatoes and high-nutrient rice that could help address the country's malnutrition problem. They have developed a vaccine for leprosy, which was not being researched in the West, and are working on biofuels from local crops like sugar cane. But such ventures, if done badly, could also cause damage, sending new genetic strains into the country's basmati rice crop, for example, threatening a staple food. It is a new frontier characterized by excitement, but also uncertainty. Ms. Mazumdar-Shaw seems well-suited to both. She is possessed of what she calls a "spirit of adventure," along with a deep determination to succeed. Her family was unconventional, not least in her father's choice of profession as a master brewer. They were Brahmins originally from the state of Gujarat, which even today prohibits alcohol. "My parents were today's people," she said. Unable to get into medical college, she focused on zoology and other biosciences at Bangalore University, and she became fascinated by fermentation science. She earned a scholarship to Australia, only to meet disappointment at home in her quest to become India's first female master brewer. But the setback was only temporary. Today she has capitalized well on the abundance and affordability of Indian biologists and chemists, building a loyal team. She is simultaneously warm and controlled, a gracefully aggressive entrepreneur who favors scarves and pearls. Her company resembles a large family - her husband, John Shaw, an exuberant Scotsman, is on the management team. She eats lunch in the cafeteria with everyone else, and has decorated the company's walls with her personal art collection. Ms. Mazumdar-Shaw has taken a lead in trying to shape policy and perception toward biotechnology. Over a recent breakfast, she explained to the former American ambassador, Robert D. Blackwill, why Western companies' fear that their intellectual property would not be protected in India was misplaced, and asked him to spread the word. She has few
ugnet_: More land to our brothers and sisters in Zim
Last Updated: Monday, 18 August 2003 Thousands still seeking land for resettlement Herald Reporter THOUSANDS of land-hungry Zimbabweans are still thronging the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement in search of land for resettlement. Three years after the launch of the agrarian reform programme, the ministry remains inundated with people applying for resettlement, among them, Zimbabweans who are foreign based. There are also locally-based people who had played a wait-and-see game at the inception of the programme but now see that the agrarian reform is not reversible. In an interview, the Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, Cde Joseph Made, confirmed that thousands of people continue to either visit his office or phone, requesting to be resettled. We are inundated by our people in the United Kingdom, across Europe, the United States and all over the world, who want to come back home with their foreign currency and reclaim the land that is their birthright. We have said to them, we will not deprive any Zimbabwean of the land that is his birthright because there is land that is lying idle which we are reclaiming, said Cde Made. He added: Like we have always maintained, every Zimbabwean is entitled to land and we welcome those who are applying for land. The applications come in the wake President Robert Mugabe demanding that those who took more than one farm should surrender the rest and remain with only one, within two weeks. It also comes in the wake of the Government gazetting another 152 farms for resettle- ment, thereby opening up more land for resettlement. So far, more than 351 000 families were resettled under Model A1 while another 50 000 were resettled under Model A2. The Government has continued to focus on the land reform programme, despite a barrage of criticism from its detractors. Mitayo Potosi _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
Re: ugnet_: QUOTES OF A TYRANT(May His Soul Rest in Peace!)
In a message dated 8/18/2003 3:24:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On what he preferred being called: "His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal Al Hadji Dr. Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular." NEVER HEARD OF "Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea" part..somebody is most definitly adding salt here!!! MK "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Museveni Approves of Teso Militia
Museveni Approves of Teso Militia The Monitor (Kampala)August 18, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 Patrick Elobu Angonu Kampala The Lord's Resistance Army rebels struck Soroti-Kotido road yesterday as President Yoweri Museveni prepared to camp in the area.Mr Museveni arrived in Soroti on Saturday and vowed to camp in the region until the rebels are defeated. Museveni also told the rebels to target him and not the civilian population in the area."I dare the rebels who want to capture power in Kampala to abduct me instead because I am here and [I am the] leader of the government," Museveni told a public rally at Soroti Sports Ground.The President said that he would camp in Soroti town for half a week before he goes to camp in the rebel-infested sub-counties in Katakwi district. He also promised to deploy more troops in Teso.Meanwhile, Museveni defended the recruitment of the Teso Arrow Group militia to fight the LRA rebels and described them as freedom fighters.Museveni told the rally that the recruitment of the Arrow Group is a replica of the Luwero Triangle in which the National Resistance Army mobilised locals to fight the Milton Obote regime."I thank you people of Teso for creating another Luwero by coming up with the Arrow Group. In Luwero we mobilised and armed the able bodied youth who stood with the NRA to resist the old regime," he said."Therefore, what you are saying that the Teso youth are ready to take up arms to defend your peace and property, stop abduction of children and raping of your mothers1/4 I welcome that with my open hands," Museveni added.The President said that an Arrow Group battalion of 736 fighters should be deployed to defend every two sub-counties in Teso.Museveni used a local analogy to explain the role of the Arrow Group. He likened the LRA who are sowing mayhem in Teso to millet that is flying away during threshing."What we have done is aicom [beating] the heap of millet in Acholi. In the process of continuous beating of the millet heap some agugu [millet husks] has flown away into Teso. So we are saying this agugu in Teso can be collected by any other person in the family preferably children. That is why we are arming the Arrow boys to finish the LRA in Teso," the President said. Army criticisedAt the same rally, local leaders accused the army of being too defensive in its fight against the rebels.The LC-V Chairman of Katakwi, Mr Stephen Okure, told the President at the rally that the escalation of the LRA attacks in his district is due to fear by the UPDF soldiers to confront the rebels."What is happening is that the UPDF soldiers are just guarding their bases in the district. They are on the defensive positions and not offensive," Okure said."As the commander-in-chief, I call upon you to compel the UPDF soldiers to go on the offensive. Quite often, we see them driving their mambas along Soroti-Moroto road and not entering the bushes to confront the enemy," the local leader added.In response, Museveni promised to address the problem."There are two enemies to combat: those who kill people and those who don't defend the people," he said.The LC-V Chairman of Kaberamaido, Mr Victor Ekesu, urged the President to end the abduction of children."Today [August 16] alone, the LRA killed 13 people before abducting 80 others from Anyara sub-county," Ekesu said. The MP for Soroti Municipality, Mr Mike Mukula, said that the people of Teso are determined to kill Mr Joseph Kony and his entire army."And if we finish Kony and his army we shall never return the guns you have given us because we need to turn them against the Karimojong," Mukula said.Meanwhile, the LRA rebels killed three people in an attack, yesterday, at Alereke village, 17 km along the Soroti-Kotido highway. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: 'Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps': It's AboutTime. It's About Space.
/ advertisement ---\ Explore more of Starbucks at Starbucks.com. http://www.starbucks.com/default.asp?ci=1015 \--/ 'Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps': It's About Time. It's About Space. August 17, 2003 By WILLIAM R. EVERDELL The winning weapon of the American assault on Iraq, like that of World War II, depended on a technology first imagined by Einstein, with some help from Poincare. Not nuclear weapons of mass destruction, but the Global Positioning System, by which the four dimensions of space-time can be so precisely measured as to direct a bomb or a soldier to within 50 feet of any spot on earth. ''Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps,'' by Peter Galison, will tell you the fascinating story of what Einstein and Poincare actually did a century ago, and how they did it, and prove an important point -- that new theoretical physics in any age is just as likely to be stimulated by the technologies of the moment as to be spun out platonically from the abstractions of the past. Jules Henri Poincare was a genius, but his art has proved less accessible than that of other pioneer French modernists like Rimbaud, Seurat and Debussy, his contemporaries. Even in his own idea-happy country he is less celebrated than his politician cousin, Raymond, who was president of the republic during World War I. Jules Henri was a mathematician. In that proverbially transcendent discipline, he regularly rose above the clash of imperialisms that fed and threatened this first era of ''globalization,'' founding a new geometry of multidimensional surfaces and something we now call ''chaos theory'' as he wrestled to update Newton. In the polymathic tradition of his alma mater, the Paris Polytechnique, Poincare also made professional contributions to physics, philosophy and mine safety, serving in a multitude of other capacities as one of the most energetic administrators of France's Third Republic and its expanding empire. He became a pillar of French research and development, a maker of scientific standards, a member and chairman of the Bureau of Longitudes and a co-author of its nitpickingly accurate maps and intimately co-dependent time conventions, which made imperial (and international) projects like transcontinental railroads and transoceanic empires possible. He died in 1912, the year the Titanic went down, taking with it an optimism that the Great War would finish off two years later, together with open borders and free trade. Poincare published several books for the ''lay'' reader, composed of articles he had written on mathematics, physics and philosophy. At least one of them, ''Science and Hypothesis'' (1902), which I found in paperback when I was in high school, was a genuine masterpiece of the literature of explanation. Much later I found that it had influenced a great artist, Picasso; a great philosopher, Bertrand Russell; and a great poet, Paul Valery, who had kept it at his bedside. It also had a powerful and intriguing effect on a junior Swiss patent clerk and sometime high school teacher named Albert Einstein. Two years after the book was published, Einstein assigned it to himself and the two underemployed scholar friends who met as the ''Olympia Academy'' in his walkup in Bern. One year after that he published one of the 20th century's two most fundamental contributions to physics, the special theory of relativity. ''Relativity,'' the principle that the laws of nature should be the same no matter where you are or how fast you are going, goes back at least to Galileo. Poincare, who had written in ''Science and Hypothesis'' that time was not ''absolute,'' hailed the ''principle of relativity'' in his address at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 as one of the few principles that might survive the ''crisis'' in physics, a crisis brought on by the multiplying anomalies in the new electron/electromagnetic-field theories of the Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, and the inexhaustible radioactivity of the Curies' radium. What Einstein did with relativity in 1905 was apply the principle without compromise to simultaneity, making time relative to the speed of light. From that, with a little algebra he derived the stunning consequence that energy equals mass multiplied, and multiplied again, by the speed of light: E = mc2. The twice-told tale of relativity appears in a new way in Galison's book. For Edmund Whittaker, its first historian, relativity was only a theory, and Poincare had discovered it a year before Einstein. Arthur I. Miller proved Whittaker wrong. The cultural historian Stephen Kern laid out a cultural context for Poincare and Einstein that went well beyond physics. Their questions had been ''modernist,'' raised by the international effort to rethink space and time. Galison demonstrates convincingly and in
ugnet_: Give land to those who really want it
Last Updated: Monday, 18 August 2003 herald Give land to those who really want it Elsewhere in this issue we carry a story in which Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Dr Joseph Made is quoted as saying his ministry is inundated with calls from people asking to be resettled. Notable among the thousands of applicants are Zimbabweans working in the Diaspora. They include, as Dr Made put it, Zimbabweans working in the United States and the United Kingdom. It is now a well-known fact that the UK and the US have tried to rubbish Zimbabwes historic land reform programme and shift the peoples attention to trivial issues. Under the land reform programme, at least 350 000 families who until about three years ago had no land, are now proud owners of productive land. While those farmers did not produce as envisaged due to a number of factors including drought, a significant number of them are now millionaires and are smiling all the way to the bank. There is money in tilling the land. The 4 500 white commercial farmers who until the launch of the land reform programme held numerous huge tracts of land would not have put up so much resistance if this were not true. We salute those of our compatriots working abroad who have woken up to the fact that millions of dollars can be earned from the land. We are particularly excited by the interest that they have shown in investing in the land because we know that they have the financial resources needed to farm successfully. Farming, in our view, is big business, which calls for a lot of money. Some of our newly resettled farmers went onto the land with very little money and this impacted negatively on the productivity. Some straight-thinking members of the progressive international community have hailed the land reform programme in Zimbabwe as a step in the right direction. Those who support the programme have observed that, if properly implemented and supported, it can alleviate poverty and ensure that finite resources such as the land itself are in the hands of the majority. Others keen to see the land remaining in the hands of a few people of British kith and kin, have tried to lampoon the programme, blaming it for envisaged food shortages in the country between now and the end of the next crop-growing season. Yet even the World Bank, though without specifically mentioning Zimbabwe, has concurred that land is a finite resource whose utilisation can have a significant impact on any countrys economy. The Government has said all Zimbabweans regardless of their political inclinations are entitled to land. The Government has kept its promise on that. Today, even some senior MDC officials, who only recently were working with the West to discredit the programme, are landholders. The Meteorological Services Department has already predicted good rainfall this year. The need to ensure that land is given to those who really want it and are prepared to invest into it cannot be overestimated. We therefore welcome reports that lazy landholders will be compelled to relinquish the land for the purposes of resettling others. The Government has earmarked 152 more farms for acquisition with a view to resettling more people. It is important to ensure that people who have at least some interest in producing for the nation get land. The enthusiasm that is reportedly being exhibited by foreign-based Zimbabweans shows the confidence that they still have in the Government to sincerely implement the programme. This was not a vote-catching gimmick. Mitayo Potosi _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Morale in Army Low, Says General Saleh
Fellow Citizens; ..and what did you really expect... this chaps in Yoweri Museveni's UPDF have been fighting Museveni's wars right from 1985 in Luwero... that makes it close to 20 years in the BUSH.. The chaps fought in Sudan, DRC Congo, Bundibugo, kasese, Bunya , Ituri e.t.c In Kinsangani (DRC CONGO) the chaps were trerrible humiliated by the Rwandese RPF troops ... I hear Rwandese troops KILLED quiet a sizeble amont of UPDF troops in gun battles. Many more perished in the Sudan...and still many continue to die in northern Uganda in fights with the so called LRA Rebels. The irony is that Museveni NRM military dictatorship never offered any decent burrial for this fallen Ugandans. Information reaching us, has reavel that many widows of fallen UPDF soldiers do live in execruciating poverty the Regime in kampala refuses to offer even mere merge financial assistance to this widows. Many are simply left fending for themselves and their kidds!!! That is Museveni's NRM!! Matek force.now even if you are the Mighty simson ( in the Bible) Morale in Army Low, Says General Saleh The Monitor (Kampala)August 18, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 Kennedy Lule Kampala Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh is not happy with the way the army is run.Saleh, who is the commander of the reserve force, bared his heart at a closed meeting with Members of Parliament on the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee on Wednesday.According to MPs who attended the meeting, Saleh said the Uganda People's Defence Forces is ran like the "bush force, NRA", yet circumstances have since changed.Saleh acquired iconic status during the 1981-86 bush war for his battle exploits.He claimed that the morale of soldiers is low because President Yoweri Museveni wants them to sacrifice a lot like in the bush war days. Saleh told the MPs that Mr Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army rebels are not strong, but have benefited from the weaknesses in the army to sow mayhem in Acholi, Lango and Teso."The general was lamenting that some soldiers can hardly feed their families and even those on the battlefield have poor meals, there is scarcity of uniforms and some [soldiers] are tired and would want to leave the army but cannot easily do so1/4" an MP who attended the meeting told The Monitor. When contacted yesterday, Saleh said it would be criminal for him to discuss what transpired in a closed meeting."Why don't you ask those people who gave you that information to confirm it?" he said, before hanging up.Mr Simon Mayende (Samia Bugwe South), who chaired the meeting, was guarded. He said Saleh wants the welfare of soldiers improved. The MP said that Saleh talked about creating a fund to assist the wives of soldiers to engage in productive activities.Saleh also wants the reserve force regularised and streamlined with a law governing its operations and deployment, according to Mayende.Saleh told the MPs that every sub-county in Uganda should have a company (130 soldiers) of reservists, who could be called upon in times of war. The general said that with a steady reserve force in place, paramilitary groups like the Arrow Boys in Teso and Rhino in Lango now deployed against the rebels, would not be necessary.He argued that with a well-trained reserve force, the cost of running the army would also reduce.Saleh also called for a proper identification system to weed out ghost soldiers. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Cabinet Set to Okay Third Term Federo
Cabinet set to okay third term, federoBy Ssemujju Ibrahim NgandaAugust 19, 2003-Monitor Constitution to be amended this year Consensus is emerging in Cabinet over the adoption of federalism and the removal of presidential term limits. Sources have told the Monitor that several Cabinet meetings, some chaired by President Yoweri Museveni, have been held to discuss issues that government wants addressed in the 1995 Constitution. Information minister Nsaba Buturo told The Monitor on Saturday morning that several issues are under consideration but no conclusive positions have been adopted yet. Sources familiar with the discussions said that federalism (federo in popular speak) and the amendment of Article 105 (2) of the Constitution to enable Mr Museveni run for another term in 2006 came under serious debate at last Wednesdays Cabinet meeting. As it is the Constitution does not allow an individual to run for more that two five-year terms as President. Article 105 (2) provides that A person shall not be elected under this Constitution to hold office as President for more than two terms as prescribed by this article. Musevenis second five-year term expires in 2006. The Movement National Conference and National Executive Committee met in March and agreed to amend Article 105 (2). The National Political Commissar, Dr Crispus Kiyonga, presented the recommendation to the Constitutional Review Commission a month later. Sources said that changing 105 (2) has received less resistance compared to the introduction of federo. Some ministers are reported to have put up strong resistance against federo but scaled it down in the presence of Museveni. The Prime Minister, Prof. Apolo Nsibambi, told the parliamentary Committee on Presidential and Foreign Affairs on July 22 that Cabinet was also discussing the Constitution with the view to generate consensus on several other issues. Nsibambi told the committee that Museveni had as of that day chaired at least two meetings. The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Ms Janat Mukwaya, told the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee on August 13 that a bill to amend the Constitution would be in Parliament before years end. Sources said that Cabinet has in principle agreed to table its proposals to the Constitutional Review Commission. The commission is writing its report. Buturo said that Cabinet has a right to submit its views but even the issue of submission is yet to be finalised. Sources said that some ministers are arguing that it is a waste of time for them to submit views when they are the very people to debate the report from the review commission. Others, however, believe that if Cabinet refuses to submit its views the public would accuse it of undermining the process. One of the issues Cabinet is considering is the reduction of the powers of local governments. Museveni wants district chief administrative officers powers trimmed. © 2003 The Monitor Publications Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
ugnet_: Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: For Ugandan Girls, Delaying Sex Has Economic Cost
/ advertisement ---\ Explore more of Starbucks at Starbucks.com. http://www.starbucks.com/default.asp?ci=1015 \--/ For Ugandan Girls, Delaying Sex Has Economic Cost August 18, 2003 By MARC LACEY KAMPALA, Uganda - The biggest threat to Lillian's virginity may not be her hormones or those of the boys in her high school class. It may be her empty pockets and her ambition that prompt her to have sex. Lillian, a 16-year-old orphan, would be any parent's dream child. She studies hard and picks her friends carefully. She avoids bad influences, a challenge in this rugged slum on the outskirts of Kampala, the capital, and she is so committed to avoiding AIDS that she has become a leader in her school's Straight Talk club, which promotes abstinence. AIDS, a devastating killer in her community, is always on this young girl's mind. The disease ended the lives of both her parents while she was in primary school. The uncle who then became her guardian died of AIDS as well. She is intent on avoiding infection, and delaying sex is her - and her country's - answer. President Bush, on his recent tour of Africa, praised Uganda's anti-AIDS approach, which emphasizes abstinence. In Uganda, condoms are considered an imperfect alternative for those who cannot wait. But the situation is not that simple. Lillian's story and those of some of her classmates show the challenges that African young people, especially the girls, can face in trying to avoid the AIDS virus. Sex starts early here for a variety of reasons. There is the sexual curiosity that stirs in young people everywhere. Marriage for young girls is common as well, with girls dropping out of school, often to become an older man's second or third wife. Sex also presents an opportunity to make money, and young women find few jobs available. Poverty, it seems, can weaken even those with the most resolve. "It's easy to say, `Abstain,' " said Benjamin Wamusiru, an English teacher who leads the abstinence club at a local school. "But actually doing it is difficult with all the pressures in society. We lose members because of pregnancy. As time goes by, more and more of the club members experiment. It's toughest on the girls." A dedicated student who dreams of going to college, Lillian struggles to come up with the fees that all secondary school students in Uganda are required to pay. For Lillian - who, like some of her other classmates agreed to be interviewed on the condition that her last name not be used - the tuition comes to about $30 a month. Recently, some of the cousins with whom she has been living since her uncle's death have begun pressuring her to raise money by selling herself. "They say, `Why don't you find a sponsor?' " she said, dressed in her dark blue school uniform and looking very young. "I know what they mean. They want me to do what so many girls do and get a sugar daddy. You give him what he wants, and he gives you what you want." The other young women at Lillian's school say they are propositioned just about every day by older men who offer them a chance of a better life in exchange for sex. The abstinence clubs are popular, with most students prodded into joining by their parents. But many young people, as young as 12 or 13, have already begun sexual relationships. For them, abstinence is an abstraction. In many of their minds, sex brings opportunity - with infection an unwelcome byproduct. "These big men will say, `Come, get in the car and I'll give you a life,' " said Ruth, who is 16. The older men wave cash and cellphones, a sign of prestige in poor communities, and they talk about lives far more glamorous than the ones the girls are living. They do not bring up their H.I.V. status. "It's so common to see old men, even teachers, with much younger girls," said Patricia, 18, who had sex with her teenage boyfriend years ago but has since decided to abstain. "Everywhere you go, there's pressure from guys." She said that poverty makes it hard to resist. "Some of us are orphans," she said. "We are barely getting by. If someone comes along and says he'll buy you soap, you might try it. He gives you 1,000 shillings, and you hope next time he'll give you 2,000." Two thousand shillings, about $1, is a meaningful sum in this country. At the abstinence club, all the talk is about sex, sometimes explicitly. At a recent meeting, there was frequent giggling. The most direct message was that sex is dangerous these days and best left for adulthood. "We learn to not even listen to the guys' promises," Patricia said. "You don't express interest. You say no and then you walk away. Of course, some characters will continue to bother you. But you have to try to resist." Not everyone does. One club member dropped out of school last year after she became
ugnet_: Is Iraq awash with new armies ? - SZ
Chicago Tribune August 15, 2003 Lethal Iraqi guerrillas are not just `loyalists' Author: Georgie Anne Geyer, Universal Press Syndicate Coming from Iraq, the new realizations by our war planners ought to stun us with their sheer obviousness. For instance, the U.S. military has suddenly recognized that kicking in the doors of Iraqis' homes, blindfolding and kicking their husbands and fathers, and searching the women is not endearing them to all those they came to liberate. As Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, chief commander of allied forces in Iraq, said last week, I started to get multiple indicators that maybe our iron-fisted approach . . . was beginning to alienate Iraqis. (Odd Iraqis! Most people just love to have their doors kicked down in the middle of night!) It also is dawning on some American policy-makers that although they have predicted after each seminal event a real letup of attacks on Americans, that simply is not happening. Take the killings of Saddam's two monster-pawns two weeks ago. Udai and Qusai are gone; but that has had little effect on the guerrilla war against the United States. Instead, it grows in ferocity--and complexity--every day. Today, as during all of Iraq's brutal history, violence emerges from every type of often disorganized small group, and not always from above. As military historian William Lind of the Free Congress Foundation wrote in a recent commentary: Contrary to the mythology of the neo-cons, the guerrillas are not controlled by Saddam, nor are they fighting primarily for him. It is likely that there is already more than one guerrilla movement, with more than one set of motives and ultimate objectives. Both will proliferate as time goes on. And in a recent Baghdad dispatch called Random Death published in The New Republic, the well-informed writer Hassan Fattah further debunks the comforting, but delusionary idea that the resistance in Iraq is only from former regime loyalists. Instead, he reports persuasively, Iraq is awash in new armies (tribal militias, Islamic fighters, brigades of former Baathists, gangs, money mafias, and people simply bent upon revenge). The Americans think these groups are organized vertically--that you can simply take out the heads and the bodies will collapse or implode, and the threat will eventually fade away. But most of these are organized horizontally and with many causes that feed upon themselves. These types of guerrillas simply keep re-emerging in different forms--just as they have throughout Iraq's history. Wouldn't it be prudent to consider that this is what we are really facing? The blithe idea that things will just get better in Iraq and that America's fortunes will blossom will surely be proven false. What you see today may well be what you'll get tomorrow. Despite the fact that they will get much of the blame for the lack of coherent management of Iraq after the invasion, the American military is not the responsible party here. Responsibility rests, as it always has, with the zealous group of neo-conservatives whose real interest is not democracy in Iraq but the exercise of raw American power in the world on behalf of their egomaniacal imperial ambitions and their dedication to the expansionist dreams of he far-right Likud party in Israel. In this group's grandiose plans, the American military, professional and voluntary, is looked upon simply as a force to be used for whatever purposes they divine. In fact, they have encouraged the iron-fisted approach on the part of the American military because it divides them from the local people and keeps our soldiers more under the neo-cons' control. To say they have no sentimental attachment to the American military is a grave understatement. It was this group's decision--and fault--that there was no planning for the day after the invasion to stabilize Iraq. All the planning done by the State Department and the CIA was deliberately discarded by this group, situated around the secretary of defense and the vice president. Meanwhile, our American troops, the ones trying to do a serious and honorable job, endure a situation inside Iraq at least as serpentine and Machiavellian as the plotting of the neo-con cabal's here. Iraq was a war of choice. We didn't have to be there. Our soldiers are smart, and they know this. But these circumstances make them feel that the Iraqis should be immediately grateful and that they should then be able to go home. As the whole operation instead explodes in their faces, they find the complete opposite. Foreign Islamists are returning to Iraq to fight the invaders. The reconstruction (whenever that can begin) is estimated to cost Americans $1 billion a day. And instead of Iraqi oil paying for everything, oil is being imported into Iraq to try to get things moving. Even in Vietnam, America was not in such a labyrinthine and
Re: ugnet_: A Page from the Past: Gen Amin Talks to Drum... The British are my best friends....
Thank you Brother Yoswa! --- YOSWA DAMBISYA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DRUM: March 1973 President Idi Amin of Uganda Has in a dramatically short time, given marching orders to the Israelis, the British and the Asians. He has also taken uncompromising steps to rid Uganda's streets of armed robbers and prostitutes, and has campaigned against what he calls phoney missionaries. The controversial soldier-president has been criticised by the foreign press for jeopardizing the economy and of being intolerant of Christian worship, while there have been reports of disappearances of many top Ugandan people. In an exclusive interview, DRUM put these allegations before President Amin. DRUM: Overseas newspapers have been carrying stories about people disappearing in Uganda without trace. AMIN: We in Uganda do not depend on the sensational stories put out by overseas newspapers and even the BBC. Some of these people alleged to have disappeared are staying in the neighbouring countries. They were not chased away from Uganda, but they decided to run away on their own. Where there have been genuine cases of people disappearing - like the case of the two Americans - we have not hesitated to appoint an inquiry. DRUM: Can you say that there has been a drop in crime in Uganda since you came to power? AMIN: Definitely yes. Kondoism has died since I ordered the army to shoot robbers on sight. DRUM: Mr President, can you explain the reasons which led you to embark on what you have described as the economic war? AMIN: We embarked on the economic war war because the Asians were milking Uganda's economy. Some were engaged in economic sabotage while others were busy taking their money out of the country. No responsible government can allow this state of affairs to continue. DRUM: What evidence has your government got that the Asians were sabotaging the economy? AMIN: My government is a government of action. We have eyes and we can see things. Some Asians have been caught red-handed trying to take Ugandan money outside the country. In one instance, police raided a mosque in Kampala and found nearly two million shillings in currency notes packed in biscuit tins. These so-called biscuits were due to be exported to Britain. Is this not sabotage? Asians in Uganda have also been sending their money to relatives and friends in the neighbouring African countries. We cannot tolerate a situation in which our economy is being mlked by foreigners. DRUM: What progress has Uganda made in winning the economic war? AMIN: We have made a lot of progress. Shops vacated by departing Asians are being allocated to Ugandans. The banks are ready with money to give to those African traders who apply for overdrafts. There are so many African countries ready to help Uganda with personnel to replace the non-Ugandans who have left. DRUM: Can you say something about your relations with Great Britain? AMIN: The British are my best friends, but they are annoyed because I have kicked out the British Asians. They can say what they like. I have no time for imperialists. They have decided to cut off financial and technical aid to Uganda, but we do not worry. There are so many countries ready to help us. The British are very much annoyed with us now because they are spending between £7 million and £8 million a year feeding the British Asian refugees in camps allover Europe. If the British want friendship, we are prepared to remain friends, but the steps I have taken to hand over the economy of Uganda to Ugandans are here to stay. We have to win the economic war. DRUM: Is there freedom of worship in Uganda? If so, why are you being accused of persecuting Christians? AMIN: In Uganda there is complete freedom of worship and everyone can follow whatever religion he or she chooses. My quarrel with Christian bishops is that some of the White missionaries in the country are not missionaries in the real sense. They are mercenaries. Some are spies. I feel that the security of the people of Uganda is my paramount task. Some of these so-called missionaries do not even know the Bible. You will understand, therefore, why I have not been disposed towards such missionaries because when trouble starts, it is the people of Uganda who will suffer. DRUM: You frequently condemn young women for the way they behave and dress. Do you think you are being fair to them? AMIN: I am totally against loose living by some women in Uganda. Some of them have gone elsewhere in Africa and are doing terrible things there with Europeans. Some are loitering in our towns at night looking for customers. To make matters worse, some of our women are spying for foreigners. This must stop. It is no use saying that these prostitutes are a minority. As far as I can see, they are women and that spoils the image of Uganda. I have already banned the min-skirt and other sexy
Re: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic!
Kasangwawo Do you need the phone number for Bank of Uganda? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:16 AM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! So, where is the post-mortem report ? Its no use continually referring to an invisible document. I also doubt very much the existence of any records in Bank of Uganda. From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:32:20 -0400 Kasangwawo On all accusations made, on all love Buganda has to her Kingdom, would Obote poison Muteesa and the person who knew about it decide to be anonymous except to you? Let us remember that what we are discussing today is both of great importance to a whole mass of people and the History of Uganda as a nation. So I would encourage every one to stick on the facts, for there are those who are going to read these facts and take them for whole truth and help you God. That is why I stated before that the cause of death of Mutesa was not by poison from Obote. Can I back that claim? Yes the Post Mortem made in London and in a nation which was against Obote is available. I hope you can produce the evidence backing that Some one, Secondly I stated that the funds which were sent to Mutesa and his family even after his death all way through to Amin, can be backed up by records in Bank of Uganda, which is in Uganda today. So let us not take these things that likely, for they are of great Historical importance. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Bwambuga, we also know that someone (identity known) put poison in Sir Freddie's drink, which led to his eventual death. This evidence comes from someone who spent the last few years of the King's life looking after him and was therefore very close to him. I therefore fail to see why you think that your allegations are stronger than what you call Matovu's false accusations. On the other hand, you might be confusing your information with that about a known alcoholic in Lusaka. Kasangwawo From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 23:19:36 -0400 Matovu, We know that Kabaka Fred Mutesa (RIP) was a seroius alcoholic case. And he died from Alcohol Poisoning. My evidence comes from a cery good friend of mine, but he was sharing a girl friend with the Late Kabaka while he was still in power as President. This friend is a typical Muganda and big time supporter of the royalty. He says it was a well known fact among the late Kabaka's confidants that his alcohol would sooner rather than later kill him. And kill him it did. This should put to rest Matovu's false accusations of Obote. This is like the other quotation about a dead Muganda, Turns out those words were actually uttered by a typical Muganda, but hell wishers just pushed it to Obote to suit their ill intentioned politiking and subjecting Ugandans to false history. Bwambuga. Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mwaami Kasangwawo I do not think that any body in a right mind needs a proof of Amin's brutality, and I do not think that there is any body arguing about it, what is bothering people is the way we want to attack this problem of a Ugandan president whose family wants to take home and the operative word home not to Kololo, remember this man has a land he is not a beggar for land to be buried on, Amin is not like Kiseka who NRM had to borrow land to burry him officially, he is not like Lule who ended up in Kololo where any government will dig him up, trust me, for better use of that real estate. Amin wants to go to Koboko and rest. Whether alive or dead. Should have I gone into this discussion? And the answer is no, but I was very disturbed to see how the Museveni virus has affected Ugandans. We are not responsible for any or all of our actions. Because Dr. Kigongo posted on Ugandanet that Amin was a bad leader so he should be buried in Saudi Arabia. Can he tell us
ugnet_: Even the Emorimor is not secure from KONY
Arm Royal Guards, Emorimor Appeals to Government New Vision (Kampala)August 18, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 Nathan Etengu Kampala The leader of the Iteso cultural union, Emorimor Augustine Osuban, has appealed to the Government to arm the royal guards recently trained to protect him.He said the nine guards needed to be equipped following the recent abduction of the former Emorimor, Paphras Imodot Edimu. Imodot was abducted by the LRA rebels on August 6 and held for more than six hours before he escaped during heavy gunfire by the UPDF helicopter gunship that attacked the rebels in the area where he was being held."This shows that we need to protect our leaders from such attacks. The guards should also know their roles," Osuban said. The Emorimor made the appeal when he formally received the guards during the Iteso Cultural Union meeting at Soroti Secondary School on Saturday.The guards, recruited from different parts of the Iteso Cultural Union, were among the 105 royal guards who under-went a six months intensive military training at Kaweweta to protect cultural leaders in the country. ===o "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: How About Use of Magical Powers to Eliminate Kony?
How About Use of Magical Powers to Eliminate Kony? African Church Information Service August 18, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 Crespo Sebunya Kampala A recent meeting between a Government minister and witchdoctors to discuss the use of magical powers to dispel the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group, underlines growing concern that the Government is desperate to fight the insurgents, whose menace has spread eastwards, from their northern territory.Defence Minister, Ruth Nankabirwa, met the Uganda Traditional Healers Association, led by their chairman, Ben Gulu, and asked for help over the LRA matter."Since Kony uses spirits, it is appropriate that witchdoctors cast their spell and defeat Kony," Nankabirwa is reported to have said.Musanje Kyabaggu, General Secretary of the traditional healers association said they could use spirits as done during their forefathers, in addition to deploying "killer bees".The witchcraft strategy caused widespread concern, forcing the minister to swallow her words. She wrote to the media, denying such a scheme, as FM stations broadcast quotes by her.Pointing out that she was misunderstood, she elaborated that she felt there was need to counter pervasive belief in superstition rampant in the north, if government was to make headway in its fight against Joseph Kony, the leader of LRA."Many people are reluctant to volunteer information, fearing that Kony's spirits will note them and target them for revenge," she explained. It is also alleged that Kony's moves have had an impact within the ranks of Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), who believe that Kony has supernatural powers.However, some intelligence sources dismiss witchcraft powers in the war, arguing that Kony's informers are quite numerous to the extent that three out of four who attend local meetings in Gulu and Kitgum districts in the north, are LRA informers. Nevertheless, the use of witchcraft is widespread in Uganda. According to UNICEF statistics, 67 percent of Ugandans consult witchdoctors on all matters, including politics and wealth creation.Though it is widely accepted at individual level, what has raised concern now is that witchcraft could become part of government policy, if the defence minister's move is anything to go by.While many Government officials may not feel uneasy about application of witchcraft, religious leaders are worried about the trend in this mostly Christian country.Critics say the widespread belief in witchcraft is indicative of failure by religious institutions to have practical solutions against the practice. =-0 "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: UPDF to Be Strengthened, Says Museveni
..and I believe Yoweri Museveni Kaguta can count on the Washington Administartion to finance efforts to strenghten the UPDF. Museveni can tell the BUSh administartion that the money is needed to fight "Terrorist" ( yup that is the key word... that ought to get the americans moving!!) UPDF to Be Strengthened, Says Museveni New Vision (Kampala)August 18, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 Nathan Etengu And Richard Otim Kampala PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said the strength of the UPDF has to be beefed up to counter the lingering insecurity in parts of the country. Museveni was speaking at a public rally at Soroti Sports Ground on Saturday evening. He said the Government plans to rescind the decision taken in 1992 to reduce the number of soldiers in order to save money for development."We had cut down the size of the army from 100,000 soldiers to only 40,000 in order to save money for development. However, since some people (rebels) are foolish, we are going to mobilise and show them that we can move in both forward and reverse gear," he said.He said the persistence of the rebel activities had forced the Government to go into the "reverse gear" and mobilise the community against the rebels who were anti-development. The traditional leader for the Iteso, the Emorimor, His Highness, Augustine Osuban Lemukol, state ministers, Mike Mukula, Lt. Gen. Jeje Odongo, Christine Amongin Aporu and the Army commander, Major General Aronda Nyakairima, attended the rally. Teso leaders, including Katakwi LC5 chairman Stephen Ilemukorit, MPs Capt. John Emily Otekat (Soroti), Ismael Orot (Kumi) and Hajji Umar Okodel turned up in military fatigue and declared they had joined the Arrow Group boys.Kaberamaido district chairman Victor Ekesu told the President that the LRA rebels had in the morning killed 13 people in Anyara sub-county. He said the victims were among the over 80 civilians abducted by the rebels that day from Awiri village, Anyara.Museveni hailed the people of Teso and Lango for mobilising voluntary forces to fight the LRA.He said the Arrow Group from Teso and the Amuka (Rhino) Defence Unit from Lango, would be equipped to support the UPDF to wipe out the rebels. He said the number of volunteers should be increased to at least one battalion (about 700) for every two sub-counties in the areas disturbed by the rebels.Museveni said a hotline would be installed to receive information on the rebels in any part of the region for quick response. He vowed to deal with indisciplined and lazy UPDF commanders who ignore information given to them about the presence and movement of rebels in the region.He said some of the commanding officers had been arrested for laxity and failing to respond to tips from the civilian. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Bujagali Power Dam Project Must Go On, Says; Eskom Cited in Fresh Plans
Bujagali Power Dam Project Must Go On, Says; Eskom Cited in Fresh Plans The Monitor (Kampala)August 15, 2003 Posted to the web August 15, 2003 Badru D. Mulumba Kampala The Energy minister, Ms Syda Bbumba, was in a bullish mood yesterday, despite the withdrawal of AES Corporation from the Bujagali Power Dam Project."As the President indicated two years ago, Bujagali will be developed. I think Bujagali will be developed with or without AES. I think you had better be patient," Bbumba said.AES, which is based in the United States, said in its quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday that it was pulling out of the Bujagali project. The company announced that it was going to write-off $75 million (Shs 150 billion) it had invested in the failed venture.Meanwhile, a California-based NGO, the International Rivers Network revealed that South African power company, Eskom, might want to take over the project.IRN, which campaigns against damming rivers, has been a vocal critic of the Bujagali project on environmental grounds.In a statement signed by Ms Lori Pottinger, IRN said, "AES has lost $75 million in the Bujagali adventure. We hope this sends a message of caution to other power companies, such as South Africa's Eskom, which might consider investing in this uneconomic project."The state minister for Energy, Mr Daudi Migereko, had earlier said, "We are working with our development partners to see how to proceed."In its report, AES said it was working with the government of Uganda and the World Bank to see to it that the project proceeds without them. But plans to go ahead with the power project will have to go back to the drawing board, according to Rubaga South MP Ken Lukyamuzi."The Power Purchase Agreement was approved through Parliament, so any fresh agreement must come back to Parliament," said the MP who is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources.The departure of AES should pave the way for Norpak, the Norwegian power company interested in the Karuma Power Project.Migereko said, "Norpak has been working on its financial restructuring. Even when we have been working with AES, we were in contact with Norpak. They are developing their proposal."The impact of AES' withdrawal had not yet been determined by yesterday, although sources said up to 20 jobs are likely to be lost.The chairman of its local subsidiary, the AES Nile Power, Mr George Kihuguru, said, "You will have to talk to our officials in Washington." "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Kony Rebels Hack To Death Scores In Lira's Dokolo County
"Kony Rebels" Hack To Death Scores In Lira's Dokolo County New Vision (Kampala)August 18, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 James Oloch Kampala REBELS of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) hacked to death a number of people in Bata sub-county in Dokolo county, Lira district, over the weekend.The rebels also abducted over 40 people, leaving thousand fleeing to Lira town and Kyoga county in the southern part of Lira.The military spokesman, Lt Chris Magezi, told AFP on phone that several people were killed and that a military team sent to Lira to assess the situation had not yet returned. He said the attackers had been driven from Katakwi by the UPDF but had formed into smaller groups when they reached Lira on Saturday morning where they killed people.The rebels struck at around 4:00am. They also looted property at Awie-Lem village in Aderolongo parish, Bata sub- county. Sources in Dokolo said the UPDF intercepted the rebels at Egar.The rebels reportedly accused the local population of supporting the Government-sponsored Arrow Group, where volunteers have been recruited to join the war.Church leaders in the region have opposed the move, saying this will subject villagers to further brutality from the LRA. The northern Uganda Catholic Archbishop, John Baptist Odama, said recently that a similar mobilisation in 1992 exposed villagers to torture by the rebels, who started chopping off people's arms and lips after accusing them of supporting a government campaign against them.The LRA has been fighting since 1988, saying it wants to replace President Museveni's regime with one based on the biblical Ten Commandments. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Rebels Hack 15 to Death in Lira
Rebels Hack 15 to Death in Lira The Monitor (Kampala)August 18, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 Joe Wacha Kampala The Lord's Resistance Army rebels killed 15 people in an attack on Awie Lem parish, Batta sub-county in Lira early on Saturday.Locals in the area told The Monitor that the rebels struck at 4 a.m. and left at 7:30 a.m.One of the residents identified some of the dead as William Enonga, Opio Opolot, Enuku Erimu, Engwo Ochom, Okabo, and Okello. The rebels are also reported to have taken at least 40 people captive and looted an assortment of household items.Sgt. Charles Odongo, a prison warder who spoke to The Monitor from Batta on phone, said the area where the attack took place is about 4 kms from the border between Teso and Lira district.The Lira-based 5 Division spokesman, 2nd Lt Chris Magezi, said the army was still verifying the reports. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: HE WAS GREAT - SARAH AMIN
He was great - Sarah Amin SAD: Ex-first lady Sarah grieves in London On the wall of her living room where mourners assembled, hung a massive black-and-white picture of Idi Amin in full military decorations, reports Geoffrey Kulubya in London. Dr Amin was a good man, a good husband, a loving father and a great grand-father. With these words Sarah Kyolaba Amin, 47, summarised the life of her late husband, former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada. Sarah, Amins fifth wife, was speaking to The New Vision at Kizza Business Consultants premises in Forest Gate, East London on Sunday. Clad in a black suit, white blouse and black head gear, Sarah, who persistently called the late Amin Doctor, said she was disturbed that the Government of Uganda objected to Amins return home when he was critically ill. Politics aside, Amin fought a lot for Ugandans and that should have been a very good example for him to return home, said the mother of four of Amins children. Amin has the right to be buried in Uganda because he was Ugandan, she said. The sombre-faced former first lady said the whole family was saddened by Amins death. She said, Its really sad. We hope that he will rest in peace. And we would like to thank the family, friends and everybody concerned who have been comforting us during this time of sadness. The children are saddened. I pray to God that He will make us recover from this big loss soon. Sarah, who did not attend Amins burial, said she learned of his death through her stepson Aliga Amin who was at his fathers death bed. I didnt attend the burial because it was a very quick burial, she said. Amin was buried the same day he died in accordance with the Islamic law. She intends to travel with her children to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to visit Amins grave. Sarah and Amin parted ways in 1983 and never saw each other again. She first went to Germany before relocating to London 12 years ago. Amin spotted her when she was only 16. Several Ugandans living in London joined Sarah to mourn Amin. Duwa prayers will be held today at Sarahs at Woodgreen, North London. By Sunday evening, 356 sympathisers had signed a condolence book at Sarahs residence. A handful including former Kampala Mayor Nasser Sebaggala spent Saturday night with Sarah at a vigil. Sebaggala said by burying Amin in Saudi Arabia, Uganda had lost the opportunity of attracting tourists to see Amins grave. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: THE HISTORY OF THE ZIMBABWE LAND
Land at heart of Second Chimurenga THIS is the first part of an article that looks at the land situation in Zimbabwe before and after Independence. In recent months, more than 23 years after gaining independence and majority rule, the Government of Zimbabwe finally redistributed the remaining approximately 4 000 surplus commercial farms owned by white people the whites having had up until now a virtual monopoly over commercial farming in Zimbabwe. According to Stephen Chan, "In 1992, 4 500 mostly white farmers owned 11,5 million hectares. This was one third of the entire country. Seven million peasants lived on 16,4 million hectares of 'communal' farmland." Since Independence, the Government had purchased 3,3 million hectares (for the resettlement of dispossessed black farmers). It is obvious that this situation was iniquitous. Moreover, it was one which was always at the heart of the liberation movement, the Second Chimurenga. In fact it is fair to say that the millions of Zimbabwean peasants supported and fought in the war of liberation against settler colonialism precisely because they were cut off from the land and their livelihoods. It is not always realised that for them their expropriation at the hands of white settlers was not a matter of the dim and distant past. As David Blair explains in Degrees in Violence, after 1945 "thousands of new white settlers were flocking to Rhodesia and many had been promised farms by the British government. Demobilised soldiers were offered the chance to farm in Africa as a reward for service in the Second World War, and Rhodesia opened up new tracts to provide for them . . . "Quietly, with no fanfare, vast numbers of blacks were moved to make way for the new settlers . . . No fewer than 85 000 black families were evicted between 1945 and 1955, totalling perhaps 425 000 people. Considering that the black population in 1945 barely exceeded 1,5 million, something approaching 30 percent of all 'natives' were moved from their homes. "A burning sense of grievance certainly existed. Land had been stolen, with blacks herded into 'Native Reserves' while their white rulers took possession of the most fertile fields." At the height of the liberation struggle, members of Zanu-PF, the organisation which was most representative of the demands of the peasants and which therefore, became and has remained, the leading party in the Zimbabwean people's struggle for emancipation, would frequently stress the importance of solving the land question. The reason the peasants could never be satisfied by simply seeing a few black faces sitting in government positions was that for them the war was all about land, and without gaining land, the war would have been fought in vain. President Mugabe, Zanu-PF's leader, was always at pains to point out that he wanted the transfer of land to the majority population to be done consensually, with the white farmers, on the one hand, receiving compensation (to be provided by the British government who had been behind the 19th century expropriation of Zimabwe's soil by British settlers) and on the other being able to retain modest-sized holdings that would enable them to sustain their livelihoods. He duly undertook during the Independence negotiations at Lancaster House in London in 1978 that there would be no land redistribution without compensation, since at the time he did not believe forcible land redistribution would be necessary. Stephen Chan explains: "(President) Mugabe was certain that John Major had reassured him that Britain would indeed assist with funds for compensation. Tony Blair (the present prime minister) . . . thought that Britain was not committed to such previous understandings. "It had been an understanding in principle; figures had been loosely suggested, but there was never any formal document of binding agreement. To that extent, Blair was within his rights. "However, from the very first great push to resolve the Rhodesian issue in the mid-1970s, under Henry Kissinger, the matter of compensation subscribed to in hefty sums by the international community was always an accepted principle. It was implicit in the Lancaster House talks, but Carrington ensured that, although he recognised that a future government (of Zimbabwe) would want to widen the ownership of land, it found no formal enunciation in the final agreement. (President) Mugabe was asked why he had given way, at Lancaster House, on the land issue. 'We had to. That is the 'giving way' that I talked of, having to compromise on certain fundamental principles, but only because there was a chance, in the future, to amend the position' Stephen Chan, who is certainly no friend of (President) Mugabe, nevertheless considers he was a victim of British imperialist treachery. Once it finally became clear that Britain was not going to honour its obligations, then (President) Mugabe made it extremely clear that
Re: ugnet_: UPDF to Be Strengthened, Says Museveni
Mwaami Lutimba Matovu What do you think is the right action of Museveni today, to get out of power and leave a young/er generation to look for Uganda's problems or to strengthen UPDF?, an army which is not a National force? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 8:48 PM Subject: ugnet_: UPDF to Be Strengthened, Says Museveni ..and I believe Yoweri Museveni Kaguta can count on the Washington Administartion to finance efforts to strenghten the UPDF. Museveni can tell the BUSh administartion that the money is needed to fight "Terrorist" ( yup that is the key word... that ought to get the americans moving!!)UPDF to Be Strengthened, Says Museveni New Vision (Kampala)August 18, 2003 Posted to the web August 18, 2003 Nathan Etengu And Richard OtimKampala PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said the strength of the UPDF has to be beefed up to counter the lingering insecurity in parts of the country.Museveni was speaking at a public rally at Soroti Sports Ground on Saturday evening. He said the Government plans to rescind the decision taken in 1992 to reduce the number of soldiers in order to save money for development."We had cut down the size of the army from 100,000 soldiers to only 40,000 in order to save money for development. However, since some people (rebels) are foolish, we are going to mobilise and show them that we can move in both forward and reverse gear," he said.He said the persistence of the rebel activities had forced the Government to go into the "reverse gear" and mobilise the community against the rebels who were anti-development.The traditional leader for the Iteso, the Emorimor, His Highness, Augustine Osuban Lemukol, state ministers, Mike Mukula, Lt. Gen. Jeje Odongo, Christine Amongin Aporu and the Army commander, Major General Aronda Nyakairima, attended the rally.Teso leaders, including Katakwi LC5 chairman Stephen Ilemukorit, MPs Capt. John Emily Otekat (Soroti), Ismael Orot (Kumi) and Hajji Umar Okodel turned up in military fatigue and declared they had joined the Arrow Group boys.Kaberamaido district chairman Victor Ekesu told the President that the LRA rebels had in the morning killed 13 people in Anyara sub-county.He said the victims were among the over 80 civilians abducted by the rebels that day from Awiri village, Anyara.Museveni hailed the people of Teso and Lango for mobilising voluntary forces to fight the LRA.He said the Arrow Group from Teso and the Amuka (Rhino) Defence Unit from Lango, would be equipped to support the UPDF to wipe out the rebels.He said the number of volunteers should be increased to at least one battalion (about 700) for every two sub-counties in the areas disturbed by the rebels.Museveni said a hotline would be installed to receive information on the rebels in any part of the region for quick response.He vowed to deal with indisciplined and lazy UPDF commanders who ignore information given to them about the presence and movement of rebels in the region.He said some of the commanding officers had been arrested for laxity and failing to respond to tips from the civilian."The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: THE GUERRILLA WARFARE IN CYBERSPACE
Bracing for guerrilla warfare in cyberspace 'There are lots of opportunities; that's very scary' By John ChristensenCNN Interactive (CNN) -- It is June, the children are out of school, and as highways and airports fill with vacationers, rolling power outages hit sections of Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and New York. An airliner is mysteriously knocked off the flight control system and crashes in Kansas. Parts of the 911 service in Washington fail, supervisors at the Department of Defense discover that their e-mail and telephone services are disrupted and officers aboard a U.S. Navy cruiser find that their computer systems have been attacked. "If somebody wanted to launch an attack, it would not be at all difficult." -- Fred B. Schneider, a professor of computer science at Cornell University As incidents mount, the stock market drops precipitously, and panic surges through the population. Unlikely? Hardly. The "electronic Pearl Harbor" that White House terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke fears is not just a threat, it has already happened. Much of the scenario above -- except for the plane and stock market crashes and the panic -- occurred in 1997 when 35 hackers hired by the National Security Agency launched simulated attacks on the U.S. electronic infrastructure. "Eligible Receiver," as the exercise was called, achieved "root level" access in 36 of the Department of Defense's 40,000 networks. The simulated attack also "turned off" sections of the U.S. power grid, "shut down" parts of the 911 network in Washington, D.C., and other cities and gained access to systems aboard a Navy cruiser at sea. At a hearing in November 1997, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, chairman of a Senate technology subcommittee, reported that nearly two-thirds of U.S. government computers systems have security holes. "If somebody wanted to launch an attack," says Fred B. Schneider, a professor of computer science at Cornell University, "it would not be at all difficult." 'There are lots of opportunities' Although "Eligible Receiver" took place in the United States, which has about 40 percent of the world's computers, the threat of cyberterrorism is global. Consider: During the Gulf War, Dutch hackers stole information about U.S. troop movements from U.S. Defense Department computers and tried to sell it to the Iraqis, who thought it was a hoax and turned it down. In March 1997, a 15-year-old Croatian youth penetrated computers at a U.S. Air Force base in Guam. In 1997 and 1998, an Israeli youth calling himself "The Analyzer" allegedly hacked into Pentagon computers with help from California teen-agers. Ehud Tenebaum, 20, was charged in Jerusalem in February 1999 with conspiracy and harming computer systems. In February 1999, unidentified hackers seized control of a British military communication satellite and demanded money in return for control of the satellite.The report was vehemently denied by the British military, which said all satellites were "where they should be and doing what they should be doing." Other knowledgable sources, including the Hacker News Network, called the hijacking highly unlikely. "There are lots of opportunities," says Schneider. "That's very scary." 'The Holy Grail of hackers' President Clinton announced in January 1999 a $1.46 billion initiative to deal with U.S. government computer security -- a 40 percent increase over fiscal 1998 spending. Of particular concern is the Pentagon, the military stronghold of the world's most powerful nation. "It's the Holy Grail of hackers," says computer security expert Rob Clyde. "It's about bragging rights for individuals and people with weird agendas." Clyde is vice president and general manager of technical security for Axent Technologies, a company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, that counts the Pentagon as one of its customers. The Defense Department acknowledges between 60 and 80 attacks a day, although there have been reports of far more than that. Web attacks from Russia? Maybe not (CNN) -- In January 1999, U.S. Air Intelligence Agency computers were hit by a coordinated attack, part of which appeared to come from Russia. Rob Clyde of the computer security firm Axent Technology suspects that a certain shareware program easily obtained on the Internet was used to launch the attack. The program allows attackers to cloak themselves and send out numerous probes that appear to be coming from around the world. Clyde says "it's a heck of a lot more likely" that the attack was launched by a hacker or hackers using the program than by terrorists or another country attempting
ugnet_: BLAIR'S OFFICE 'SUBSTANTIALLY' ALTERED IRAQ DOSSIER
Blair's Office 'Substantially' Altered Iraq DossierBy Andrew Gully8-17-03 LONDON (AFP) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office authorised a "substantial rewrite" of the government's controversial dossier on Iraq, an inquiry into the apparent suicide of weapons expert David Kelly heard Monday. Kelly's death is the subject of a parliamentary inquiry, amid allegations -- reportedly based on the weapons scientist's evidence -- that the Blair administration exaggerated the case for war on Iraq. An email from Blair's director of communications Alastair Campbell to chief-of-staff Jonathan Powell, dated September 5, disclosed that the dossier was being substantially rewritten ahead of its publication on September 24. Campbell, 46, is the man accused by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan of personally beefing up Downing Street's controversial dossier on Iraq, aimed at justifying the case for military action ahead of the March war. Gilligan alleged in a British newspaper article on June 1 that Campbell, who is set to testify before the probe Tuesday, was responsible for inserting a sensational claim into the dossier, a week before its publication, that stated Iraq could deploy chemical or biological weapons in just 45 minutes. Documents released to the inquiry Monday showed that the dossier should be altered "as per TB's discussion" -- an apparent reference to Tony Blair. It said: "Re dossier, substantial rewrite with JS and Julian M in charge, which JS will take to US next Friday, and be in shape Monday thereafter. "Structure as per TB's discussion. Agreement that there has to be real intelligence material in their presentation." JS apparently referred to John Scarlett, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, while Julian Miller was the the Cabinet Office's chief-of-the-assessment-staff. The US stood for the United States. Meanwhile a separate email from Powell, also presented to the inquiry Monday, outlined his misgivings over the dossier on the potential threat of Iraqi weapons. The government row with the BBC over whether or not the government "sexed up" the dossier and Kelly's subsequent and mysterious death have left Blair, who is dwindling badly in opinion polls, facing his gravest crisis since coming to power in 1997. Kelly apparently committed suicide in July days after being grilled by two parliamentary committees and after he was named by the defence ministry as the likely source of Gilligan's reports. "The dossier is good and convincing for those who are prepared to be convinced," Powell said in an email addressed to Scarlett. "The document does nothing to demonstrate a threat, let alone an imminent threat from Saddam," said the e-mail -- dated September 17 last year -- exactly a week before the dossier was published. "It shows he (Saddam) has the means but it does not demonstrate he has the motive to attack his neighbours let alone the West," Powell said in the e-mail. Now in its second week, the inquiry into Kelly's death has turned to focus on the role of Blair's office, with the careers of several officials including Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon hanging in the balance. The government has faced criticism for identifying Kelly, a top expert on biological weapons, with concern that failing to protect the scientist from the ensuing media and political storm may have contributed to his death. It remains to be seen who will take the political flak for the crisis, but many commentators have named Hoon as the likely government scapegoat. The inquiry heard last week that Hoon himself had overruled the advice of his top civil servant and decided to burden Kelly with the added pressure of testifying publicly in front of a parliamentary committee. Blair was also implicated when it emerged that he had personally ordered Kelly's defence ministry bosses to grill him for a second time over his contacts with Gilligan. Hoon and Blair, both currently on holiday, are expected to be summoned to appear at some point before the inquiry, due to last several more weeks. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
ugnet_: A US SOLDIER KILLED IN BAGHDAD BLAST
U.S. Soldier Killed in Baghdad Blast 2 hours, 31 minutes ago By TAREK AL-ISSAWI, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American soldier was killed by an explosive device in Baghdad Monday as the top U.S. civilian administrator said that attacks by saboteurs on Iraq (news - web sites)'s decrepit infrastructure and oil industry have cost the economy billions of dollars. U.S. officials said the soldier, from the Army's 1st Armored Division, was fatally wounded when the device detonated. He was rushed to a combat hospital where he was pronounced dead. The military didn't release any other details and it wasn't clear if the blast was the result of a hostile act. The soldier's name is being withheld pending notification of his next of kin. Two soldiers were wounded in a separate incident, after guerrillas attacked their convoy with rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire about 8 miles east of Tikrit, 4th Infantry spokesman Lt. Col. William MacDonald said. The soldiers were in stable condition. Meanwhile, the apparent sabotage of water, petroleum and electical lines is slowing U.S. efforts to rebuild Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator of Iraq, told CNN. "It's people who do not share the vision of a free Iraq with a vibrant economy the president has set forth and which Iraqis share," Bremer said on CNN. "These are probably people left over from the old regime who are simply fighting a rear guard action." A suspicious fire raged on Iraq's main northern oil export pipeline into Turkey, the U.S. Army said. Accounts varied over whether the blaze was accidental or an act of sabotage. It would take at least 10 days to repair the damaged pipeline, 4th Infantry Division spokeswoman Maj. Jocelyn Aberle said. Also on Monday, huge fires burned in warehouses in northeast Baghdad where a guard told The Associated Press that 50 gunmen had charged past him, looting spare parts from buses and other state vehicles and setting fires in old tires and buses. Mohammed Jabber said a U.S. Army patrol passed the area about 30 minutes later but took no action. In the past three months, such attacks have cost billions of dollars in damage, according to Bremer. But he warned that the United States would not be pushed out of Iraq. "I think these bitter-enders that we are faced with live in a fantasy world, where they think somehow the Baathists are going to come back," Bremer said, referring to members of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s Baath Party. "They are wrong. We'll leave when the job is done. They are not going to chase us out, they are not destined to succeed." Many neighborhoods in the north of Baghdad remained without water a day after a bomb blew an enormous hole in a 5-foot-diameter water main from reservoirs further north. U.S. troops killed two Iraqis in two separate incidents late Sunday, MacDonald said. In the first, soldiers shot dead a looter southeast of Tikrit after he disregarded warning shots. Another Iraqi was shot and died when his car ran a checkpoint north of Baghdad. U.S. troops detained three Iraqis and seized a cache of 15 shoulder-fired SA-7 missiles and 26 missile batteries in the town of Baiji, about 125 miles northwest of Baghdad, MacDonald said. Also seized was one rocket-propelled grenade and 72 pounds of plastic explosive, he said. ___ Associated Press writers Hrovje Hranjski in Tikrit, Sabah Jerges and Jamie Tarabay in Baghdad contributed to this report. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
