ugnet_: Uganda: Three kids die of Panadol tablets overdose
From: odutola a To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:59 PM Subject: [abujaNig] Uganda: Three kids die of "Panadol tablets" overdose Uganda: Three kids die of "Panadol tablets" overdose"Three children died instantly and one was admitted toKayunga hospital in critical condition when theirmother gave them an overdose of Panadol tablets,reports Kibuuka Lumu." Source: New Vision, Kampala, Uganda. September 7,2003.Although details in the report are sketchy, this storyshould serve to remind general health consumers aswell as primary care providers in Africa that thisseemingly safe and commonly used drug can be fatal iftaken in excess of dosage recommendations.To read the full report and learn more aboutparacetamol and how to manage paracetamol overdose,click on:http://www.datelinehealth-africa.net/betav1.0/news/detailnews.asp?news_id=8175A. OdutolaEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ugnet_: 2 GIs KILLED AFTER DEADLY BAGHDAD BOMBING
2 GIs Killed After Deadly Baghdad Bombing 1 hour, 39 minutes ago By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded in an ambush just hours after a fatal car bombing that killed 10 people including the driver in the same Baghdad neighborhood, the U.S. military said Friday. The troops from the 1st Armored Division were on a routine patrol when the ambush occurred about 8 p.m. Thursday, the military said. No further details were released. Earlier Thursday, a bomber crashed a white Oldsmobile loaded with explosives into a police station in the Sadr City neighborhood, killing himself and nine other people and wounding as many as 45. Sadr City is the largest Shiite Muslim enclave in the Iraqi capital. Also Thursday, gunmen one dressed as a Muslim cleric shot and killed a Spanish military attache. The violence, six months to the day after Baghdad fell to American forces, underscored the predicament of a capital whose deliverance from Saddam Hussein's tyranny has been repeatedly undermined by terrorism, attacks on U.S. forces and sectarian unrest. The ancient city's landscape is now lined with massive concrete blast barriers and coils of barbed wire outside hotels, government departments and along stretches of road near U.S. military bases. There was no claim of responsibility for the car bombing in Sadr City, a Baghdad district with an estimated 2 million Shiites. "It was a huge blast and everything became dark from the debris and sand. I was thrown to the ground," said Mohammed Adnan, who sells watermelons opposite the police station. Vegetable seller Fakhriya Jarallah said two of her sons were repairing the outside wall of the compound. "I ran across the road like a madwoman to find out what happened to my sons. But thanks to God they are both safe," she said. Policemen and some in the crowd that gathered outside the police station after the explosion offered an assortment of possible culprits ranging from non-Iraqi Arab militants to Saddam loyalists and Shiite radicals angry about a cleric's arrest. The killing of the Spanish military attache happened across town in the upscale Mansour area about 30 minutes before the car bombing. Jose Antonio Bernal Gomez, an air force sergeant attached to Spain's National Intelligence Center, was shot to death after four men, one dressed as a Muslim cleric, knocked on the door of his home, according to a Spanish diplomat in Baghdad who spoke on condition of anonymity. A guard in the area, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said Gomez opened the door to the gunmen. When they tried to grab him, he ran outside and was shot. The guard said he heard six shots and Gomez was hit in the head at least once. American, Iraqi and Spanish authorities were investigating the attack, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. Commenting on Thursday's violence, L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. official in Iraq, emphasized his government's commitment to fighting terrorism, branding the perpetrators of attacks in Iraq as individuals who have shown "wanton disregard" for the lives of innocent people. In other developments Thursday: _ Iraq's national electricity network crippled by war, looting and sabotage has surpassed the production levels of the prewar period for the first time in six months, Bremer reported. _ U.S. troops arrested an Iraqi resistance leader believed to be responsible for scores of deadly attacks against American forces around Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. They also uncovered a factory where deadly roadside bombs were being built. _ A 4th Infantry Division soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a U.S. convoy northeast of Baghdad, the military said. _ U.S. soldiers conducted a raid Sunday near the Syrian border and detained 112 suspects, including a high-ranking official in the former Republican Guard, the miltary announced Thursday. _ Bremer said Thursday he welcomed the White House's decision for a new coordinating committee for Iraq. Bremer reports to the Defense Department, but it was disclosed earlier this week the White House had set up an oversight committee for Iraq
ugnet_: Notices on Fedearalism Politics in Uganda
On Federalism & Politics In Uganda. The political leadership of NRM had a sole intention of liquidation UPC as a political entity. That could only be done through killing all UPC members and their offspring to reach maximum effect. That could not be achieved since politics in Uganda is culturally based. Therefore killing off UPC would be killing off a culture and European failed in this endeavour badly in America and Australia with the Indians and aboriginal natives respectively! Now, Uganda has more than five kingdoms why should Buganda become the central player and NOT all of them: Busogo, Toro, Ankole, Bakonjo, Bunyoro, Teso, Alur that also embraces the same philosophy? Toro and Bunyoro kingdoms have very strong flowing only comparable to Buganda. It is intriguing where facts will suggest that a government that wants and proposed federalism as a system of governance even to CRC will care less, about other like thinking entities and concentrate on one miner institution of four million people. How should we view Gadafis support of Toro? As a strategy BENT on the social cultural promotion of Toro or a political-military one? And what about Gafabusa in Ankole who finances his palaces and existence? NRM is trapped in its an unfinished job the never materalising revolution and African Liberation. Generating rare unintended events! For NRM this will go on as long as there are still resources to do so- a sole reason why any right thinking Uganda should not believe in any government propaganda of free and fair political terrain. Next, African liberation mooted by NRM is based on a very narrow hypothesis and in a very wrong time. Africans liberating themselves from Africans and from what i.e. factional fighting in the Congo, Uganda, Burundi or Rwanda (hutu vs tsuti ) !? The war in Congo is not over as yet, since there is no homogeneous force holding power i.e. in case of Rwanda and Uganda with RPF and NRM respectively. Comparison can be made for Mozambique with FRELIMO and Angola MPLA-PT and rebel groups fighting in those countries. That is the natural trend. It is not the case in the Congo therefore there is a possibility of war in the not so distance future. Otherwise Burundi or Somalia issue would have been resolved very long time ago. This cant be called African liberation since such wars are not associated with foreign by internal factors and have been going since Africa existed i.e. in case of Uganda with Karamojong, buganda, bunyoro etc. The question of the Sudan will never be solved by Uganda here there any equally a large number of dark Africans committed to Islam as well as to Christianity. They will fight for the same and indeed the largest government forces in Southern Sudan are made of dark Africans. Playing a religious card is a dead end and the government there cant be directed or driven by Ugandas African liberation motives and political myopic rhetoricism. History is can be deleted by revolutions! NRM alternative is a contradictory structure covert political organisations i.e. political parties quasi federationism to bifurcate power seeking. Every revolution collapses sometimes and Uganda NRM based revolution has collapsed taking with it many innocent souls. NRM has to re-event its self and that can only be done by hoodwinking and play it nice with federal regionism. However, and not to antagonise other hostile forces or that NRM will not look plitically biased has to create alternative forces to counter anti-NRM sentiments by NRM becoming something else affiliated to itself. How many highly political highly sounding organize have registered apart from those older ones like UPC, DP, CP etc,? And if there is true political change NRM fought and murder so many people why should DP, Catholics, Baganda and Reform Agenda become actors and factors in Ugandans political drama as if the rest of the nation does not exist? The question is how could social organisation exist without economic base in a modern society? This really surprise me!!! My idea of the democractic worker farmers alliance still burns. Bwanika. __ bwanika url: www.idr.co.ug Logon & Join in ug-academicsdb discussion list http://www.coollist.com/subcribe.html List ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Email address: ~~ ~~ url: http://uhpl.uganda.co.ug http://pub59.ezboard.com/fugandamanufacturersassociationfrm1
Re: ugnet_: NATASHA KARUGIRE'S BABY
Musaazi,enlightened,you may be,but having facts at your fingertips as you allude to is questionable.The facts you utter in this fora are indeed facts but are not directly related to the subject under discussion! That Mu7 your thief/murderer hero chooses to "pay"for his daughter to seek treatment(Give birth!)in Germany cannot be seen in the same light as President Mwai Kibaki,or the late King Hussein of Jordan seeking treatment abroad.The latter two are indeed the facts that show your enlightenment but the reasons behind their seeking treatment abroad shows you do not have the fingertips knowledge you want to make others believe.Why did you not include the late Tanzanian President Julius Kambarage Nyerere(RIP)?.Is that not one of the facts that you ought to have at your fingertips? Musaazi,I do think we should desist from this plagiarism in our reckless effort to defend an accomplished thief and murderer that your hero and comrade at arms Mu7 is. Thank you. Kipenji. emmanuel musaazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Mulindwa as usual what you are saying is mere cheap propaganda without any basis or proof whatsoever. Can yoy please give us some proof of what you are alleging. I am hereby dismissing your insinuations as rumours and gossip not to be taken seriously (utter gabbage). Mr. Mulindwa, i don't know how old you are or your level of intelect, but sometimes what you and your ilk put out on this medium is so rediculous it's laughable and sometimes sad. I (and i believe i speak for majority of thinking Ugandans) are not swayed by "Lugambo" type allegations, we are enlightened and knowledgeable people who have our facts on our finger tips. You can not expect to win over the hearts and minds of Uganda by this type of information.It is not even true that the President and his family have NEVER USED the Ugandan healthcare system. If you had carefully read the President's account, he stated that under certain sucumstances mainly based on security reasons, based on intelligence which you and i are not (and should not) be privy to it is not wise to go to Mulago. The President went to further give some instances when he or his family had made use of the Ugandan health care system.This should not even be surprising given that most leaders from third world countries do seek treatment from developed countries. A recent example was the then Presidential aspirant of Kenya, Mr. Kibaki, who (just last year) sort medical attention in Britain, the late King of Jordan sort medical attention from America before he finaly succumbed to his illness and i can go on and on. This issue should not be a source of serious discuss.Your allegations are down right silly.From: "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"John Rukumbura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: ugnet_: NATASHA KARUGIRE'S BABYDate: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:49:42 -0400Mwaami MusaaziWhat we are debating here is not what Obote found or did not find. We aredebating the fact that Museveni is scared to go into the Uganda hospitals hehas dilapidated. Apparently Mwaami Matovu is telling me that Museveni is notscared to go to the hospitals as any President cares about security and Ithink Mwaami Matovu that is crap. So let me take this chance as well toexpand on why it is crap.For two days I have consistently asked a very simple question, why was Aminand Obote using Uganda hospitals and Museveni with his entire family are notusing them? And no body has had the guts to tell us the truth. Matovu wantsus to believe that Museveni is worried about security. Mwaami Matovu you arereally wrong.The problem we have in Uganda is a government which came to power through awar. And one of the ways NRM fought the bush war was to get Uganda hospitalDoctors from Western Uganda, and use them to poison people NRM wanted dead.When NRM came to power, it continued to use Uganda Doctors as weapons, tokill people who are relised from Luzira prison. And you out there you knowwell that if your relative is relised from Luzira he/she ends up dead outside. It is the same system Uganda government is still using today. Amongthose who have been poisoned by Western Doctors in Uganda are Namiiti, MajorOlwol and Paul Muwanga. There are even more names if the decision was topost all of them. Museveni knows of this plan that is why he is scared ofbeing a patient in a Uganda hospital or any of his family members. The factthat Amin and Obote did not use the medical system to kill their politicalopponents, they used Mulago hospital as any other Uganda for the system wasnot corrupt by killer leaders.Professionally, Doctors are trained to function with out fear or favour,that is why you see that Museveni's Doctor in London is an Acholi, for thatis what he was trained to do, irrespective of the circumstances in Uganda.He is a Doctor. And by law he is required to give Museveni
ugnet_: political party.
Dear Emmy Musaazi: I have read allot about your concern of your beloved M7 and his dictatorship. I have wondered whether you are the son of Our beloved Mzee Musaazi! I know him very well, Weused to stay in Ntinda during the colonial days when I was very young. I used toadmire him very much, very handsome, light skinned, intelligent, educated with all the good nice everything. I wonder how he could produce a junk person like you!! even if you were his grand. You have no interest in Uganda at all. You are after M7 money. You don't have anything of ahuman in you at all. You even do not know that politics have been in Uganda that is why you write rubbish only. You do not remember that that M7 Stole hour Uganda Money in Commercial Bank in Kabale Shs.400,000,000. and killed our people up to day. in the Northern Uganda calling them Rebels, yet he was the biggest Goliral man. who has spoiled our Uganda. Please, do not think that we are fools like you. I grow in Buganda I am a muganda and for that matter I am proud to tall you that I am a proud Ugandan. Whether a person is from Buganda, Western, Northen or Eastern we are all Ugandans. Not Rwandies who have come to kill our people including some of you bogus Ugandan. I don't belong to any party but I am a nurse from the bottom of my heart I don't have any trible problems In the face of God there will be no colour or trible. JNansikombi. Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search
ugnet_: Study hits war views held by Fox fans
STUDY: FOX WATCHERS ARE WRONG Heavy viewers of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in Iraq as media consumers who rely on National Public Radio or the Public Broadcasting System, according to a study released last week. http://www.sunspot.net/features/bal-to.fox04oct04,0,5444015.story?coll=bal-f eatures-headlines Study hits war views held by Fox fans By David Folkenflik Sun Staff October 4, 2003 Heavy viewers of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in Iraq as media consumers who rely on National Public Radio or the Public Broadcasting System, according to a study released this week by a research center affiliated with the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs. When evidence surfaces that a significant portion of the public has just got a hole in the picture ... this is a potential problem in the way democracy functions, says Clay Ramsay, research director for the Washington-based Program on International Policy Attitudes, which studies foreign-policy issues. Fox News officials did not return repeated requests yesterday for comment on the study. Funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation, the study was conducted from June through September. It surveyed 3,334 Americans who receive their news from a single media source. Each was questioned about whether he held any of the following three beliefs, characterized by the center as egregious misperceptions: * Saddam Hussein has been directly linked with the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. * Weapons of mass destruction have already been found in Iraq. * World opinion favored the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. To date, as measured by government reports and accepted public surveys, each of those propositions is false, according to the center. The Bush administration has argued that evidence will be found of the weapons in Iraq as will direct links between Saddam and the al-Qaida members who planned the 9/11 attacks. But President Bush has been forced to acknowledge that no such proof has surfaced. Sixty percent of all respondents believed in at least one of the statements. But there were clear differences in perceptions among devotees of the various media outlets. Twenty-three percent of those who get their news from NPR or PBS believed in at least one of the mistaken claims. In contrast, 80 percent of Fox News viewers held at least one of the three incorrect beliefs. Among broadcast network viewers there also were differences. Seventy-one percent of those who relied on CBS for news held a false impression, as did 61 percent of ABC's audience and 55 percent of NBC viewers. Fifty-five percent of CNN viewers and 47 percent of Americans who rely on the print media as their primary source of information also held at least one misperception. The three evening network news shows command the largest audiences, together typically reaching between 25 million and 30 million viewers nightly. But Fox News, the top-rated cable-news outlet, has steadily increased its viewership by offering a blend of hard news and opinionated talk that often takes on a patriotic sheen. Its top show draws more than 2 million viewers nightly. Among those who primarily watch Fox, those who pay more attention are more likely to have misperceptions, the report concludes. Only those who mostly get their news from print media have fewer misperceptions as they pay more attention. The PIPA study suggests a strong link between people's understanding of the news and its source. That link held true throughout different demographic segments, such as those based on education level, viewing habits, and partisan leanings, Ramsay said. It proves that what we're doing is great journalism, says NPR spokeswoman Laura Gross. We're telling the truth and we let our audience decide. More information on the study can be found at www. pipa.org Copyright (c) 2003, The http://www.sunspot.net/ Baltimore Sun http://st.sageanalyst.net/NS?ci=703di=d013pg=ai=
ugnet_: MP's wife accuses him of battery and neglect
Friday, October 10, 2003 MP's wife accuses him of battery and neglectBy NATION Reporter The wife of a Member of Parliament yesterday went to the Federation of Women Lawyers to accuse him of assault and neglect. Showing marks all over her body, Mrs Linet Atieno, said her husband, Mr Sospeter Ojamoong', the MP for Amagoro, has changed his ways since he was elected to Parliament. But Mr Ojamoong' denied abandoning her, saying that the allegations were false. The MP said his wife was trying to blackmail him. "If there was any problem it is domestic and it should be sorted out at our level," he said. His wife, however, said the man she wedded six years ago had left the family to fend for itself. Mrs Atieno appeared at a press conference dressed in a wrap, exposing wounds on her back and cheeks, which she claimed were bites and scratches inflicted by her husband. She said over the past eight months, her husband had been embarrassing her. "Now that he is an MP, he says he doesn't need me. I have to queue outside his Parliamentary office at Continental Building to see him," she said as she displayed her marriage certificate to the Press. Federation of Women lawyers chairperson Joyce Majiwa said the issue was serious and urged police to take action. The organisation said the woman would have to decide whether to file charges against her husband. Comments\Views about this articleWant to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger
ugnet_: STIFLING DEMOCRACY
WYCLIFFE MUGA / STIFLING DEMOCRACY Nyong'o's revealing new garbA story often told in business circles is that of the changes befalling a man who, after many years of struggle, finally starts to make serious money. The story is that such a newly-minted tycoon will soon be found complaining that it is his friends who have changed. The claim will be that his friends, who used to seemed like regular guys, are really just a bunch of leeches. They constantly seek to borrow things from him one of his limousines for some wedding and cash for an emergency. Worst of all, he has learnt that they laugh at him behind his back. They say his money has got to his head. The point of the story is that the great change that has occurred is not in the rich mans friends but in himself. His friends probably borrowed things from him even more frequently in the old days. But he did not notice it then because he, too, frequently borrowed from them. But, now that he is rich, he no longer needs their support. And, because they have known him for too long to be intimidated by his newly-acquired wealth, he finds them disrespectful. The many stories of this type I have heard over the years came to mind as I read a Special Report in the Sunday Nation of September 21 headlined, Media and Challenges for Narc by by Prof Peter Anyang-Nyongo, the Planning and National Development Minister. The theme of his piece was brought out fairly early in the article. "Nine months have now gone, and an interesting phenomenon is taking place in our mass media. This is the phenomenon of increasing sensationalism." He then went on to state that the mainstream dailies were now really no different from the tabloids of the gutter. "Whether one is reading the tabloids or the upmarket dailies, it is quite clear that one will not read about the serious things that are happening in government." And yet it is perfectly clear that it is not the mainstream media which have gone into irreversible decline, as Prof Nyongo suggests. Our mass media, with all their failings, are much the same creatures that they were last year. It is Prof Nyongo whose circumstances have changed greatly. He now earns a princely salary and fat perks. He has grown accustomed to brand new limousines with a flag. He travels abroad and wines and dines at the expense of the people. With all these wonderful improvements to his lifestyle, he is bound to find it disrespectful that his old colleagues in the media are not in the least intimidated or impressed by his new position. On the contrary, they criticise him freely as he once criticised the Moi regime. Indeed, it is a media pundit who ought to have come up with a column starting "Nine months have passed and an interesting phenomenon is taking place in Prof Nyongo: his increasing sensitivity to criticism." Kiambaa MP Njenga Karume recently felt obliged to remark that it was quite remarkable how a few months in high office can change a man. And truer words have never been spoken. In President Mois time, it was frequently noted that some of the most virulent critics of his Government, once elevated to the cabinet , suddenly did a 180-degree turn and praised the very same Government with equal vigour. In the Narc Government, what we have is largely a group of veteran oppositionists who, when out of power, found in the media useful allies in their efforts to expose the failings of the Kanu regime. But now that it is their failings that are being mocked by the same media, they are quick to accuse the media of drifting into sensationalism. It all goes to show just how right American founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were when they repeatedly asserted that a free and virile press is the only real defence against tyranny. Indeed, in a situation such as Kenya finds itself in now, the only clear beacon of hope amid the surrounding gloom, is that we still have a free and forceful press. The state of political affairs up to the end of last year could be summarised as follows: Kenya had a corrupt and inefficient government. But it had an effective opposition in Parliament and a free and vibrant press. Today we could say: Kenya has a governing party which does not seem to know how to govern. And we have a parliamentary opposition which does not seem to know how to oppose. But at least we have a free and vibrant press. For it is from the mass media that we have over the past months seen the most precise and articulate criticisms of the new Government. A leadership that wishes to learn and improve should welcome such criticism, and seek to profit by it. When such well-intended criticism is dismissed as sensationalism by one of the leading intellects in the Government, what we have here is the beginnings of intolerance to opposing viewpoints, and with it, incipient tyranny. It is impossible to deny that Prof Nyongo, along with many others now in Government, made great sacrifices to bring about a more
ugnet_: Gado's website
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ugnet_: Exchange between ministers was in bad taste
Letters Saturday, October 11, 2003 Exchange between ministers was in bad tasteAs a woman, I found it disturbing that Cabinet Ministers Martha Karua and Raila Odinga engaged in a verbal exchange. My concern is with Ms Karua because I expect women leaders to behave in a dignified manner and prove that we are better than men in handling issues. Women leaders should be seen as above the instinctive actions men are known for. As mothers of a nation, they should set good examples to children and society at large. Ms Karua's action cuts her out as one who cannot settle disputes peacefully. She is taking the path of men violence which our society seeks to eliminate. Her behaviour could be misinterpreted to mean that women are rejecting the "olive branch" in a struggle seeking womens representation in all decision-making positions in society. Women have a special role in advocating peaceful settlement of conflicts. In his letter to the 1995 United Nations Womens Conference in Beijing, Pope John Paul II appealed to international institutions to "make every effort to ensure that women regain full respect for their dignity and role as mothers." The world is striving to protect and uphold women's dignity. Pope John Paul II regrets that the world "which owes its survival to the gift of motherhood, often penalised women" and calls for more to be done "to prevent discrimination against those who have chosen to be wives and mothers." It is against these considerations that we, women must always think twice before we act, for the sake of our children, husbands, brothers and sisters. Boni Kazungu NAIROBI. Comments\Views about this articleWant to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger
ugnet_: Independence useless for poor wananchi
Independence useless for poor wananchiEditorialOct 11, 2003 Patriotism: A prerequisite for Social Transformation. That was the theme of our 41st Independence Day anniversary that was marked on Thursday. The President, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Museveni, at the national celebrations at Kololo Airstrip in Kampala said it's disgraceful that we earn more from human capital exports than from the export of goods. He noted that total earnings from goods we export amounted to a mere US $475 million while kyeyos, Ugandans who live and do odd jobs abroad, bring in US $661 million. Museveni's observation is not new. If patriotism means loving, supporting and protecting one's country then Uganda has only two types of patriots: The kyeyos and the donors. Uganda is already reeling from the dangerous effects of running a budget that is predominantly funded by external donations to the tune of over 50 percent.Depending on donors renders our political independence a circus. We cannot decide which political bus to board if we cannot pay our way. This has been obvious for a long time. The economic independence of Ugandans working abroad is newer and needs to be thoroughly studied and understood. Ugandans flee this country for two main reasons. They are either seeking better wages for their labour, or are fleeing political persecution. Unfortunately, the government refuses to end these two problems. Government must create conditions for improved incomes locally by either lowering the tax rates and widening the tax base or giving more incentives to the main sources of employment, especially agriculture. Instead, it prefers the tactical gains from increasingly raising the tax burden of the few people in formal employment and the import, export trade. Government can also stop the flow of human capital by improving the political conditions at home. Increased tolerance of views other than those of the ruling Movement class might even lead those in the Diaspora to return and build our economy. While government can pay lipservice to calls for increased democratisation from our donors and survive, the double-bite from increased flight of human capital and their political angst hurts this country everyday. © 2003 The Monitor PublicationsWant to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger
ugnet_: RE: How independence came
Netters, Its shocking that AM Obote was opposed to Uganda attaining Independence whereas his supporters and himself have always claimed he was a nationalist. Shame. Read on LM ==How independence came By Fred Guweddeko, oct 9 - 15, 2003 Nationalists lost the war but received the prize The road to Ugandas Independence was drawn by the most unlikely of all parties. It was when Germanys Adolf Hitler moved to colonise the biggest colonial masters, Britain and France. By resisting Hitlers colonialism Britain lost the right to occupy Uganda. Britain was committed in the 1941 Pacific Treaty with the USA, to free such imperial territories as Uganda. Americas support to prevent Hitler from colonising Britain was given on condition that the colonies would be freed. After the war, Britain was bound by the UN to free the territories and people under its bondage. The United Nations Organisation also recognised the right of people under imperial bondage to struggle for their freedom. No independence The 1941 Treaty notwithstanding various British government departments, private interests and ideological groups made concerted efforts between 1945 and 1959 to prevent Uganda from becoming independent. Three years from the 1941 Pacific Treaty, a grand imperial ceremony to mark 50 years of British rule in Uganda was held on April 10, 1944. The Governor Sir Charles Dundas declared that Britain would certainly celebrate on April 10, 1994 - a century of its stay in Uganda. British officers, the Hon. A. S. Richardson and Mr M. Birch demanded and predicted that Britain would rule Uganda forever. The Bishop of the Church of England in Uganda, Mr Birch the Chief Secretary and the leader of the British community in Uganda, the Hon. Frasser, repudiated independence. Months later, in January 1945, the colonial government in Uganda used as an excuse, a workers welfare strike, to destroy anti-colonialism. Critical Ugandans, literature on political freedoms and native contacts with the free world were violently suppressed. Natives who first criticised colonial rule in 1945 such as Katikkiro Wamala and Samsom Kisekka were declared to be insane. They were deported to Arua and Bunyoro to protect society from anti-colonial ideas. External opposition In immediate post-war Britain, only the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was committed to the 1941 Pacific Treaty to quickly withdraw from the colonies. Churchill consequently lost elections to the pro-colonies interests. Economic interests in Britain were restructuring colonies to support its post-war reconstruction. The post-war finance minister in Britain, Chancellor Cripps, told the British Africa Governors Conference of 1947 that the whole future of the Pound Sterling and Britains economic recovery depended on their resources in Africa. Independence had to wait. When the Colonial Secretary Mr Creech Jones, visited Uganda in 1947, Governor Sir John Hall prevented native leaders from mentioning independence. They instead petitioned for native development under British colonialism. In South Africa, General Smuts, the World War II leader favouring Africas independence, lost elections to Dr F. Malan for this reason. Dr Malan conceived the idea of granting independence in British Africa to the local British population. The idea became popular with the British settler community leadership, which sought to unite Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika for independence under their (White) leadership. This delayed the advance to native independence and, in Buganda, caused Kabaka Fredrick Mutesas deportation in 1953. For Uganda, the Hon. Col. Ponsonby (MP), the Chairman of Britains Joint East African Board, addressed the local British settlers on independence. Col. Ponsonby said that any colonial political changes would involve Africans coming more under European organisation and less under native chiefs. Col. Ponsonby said it would be better for Africa and the world if British colonies there advanced to independence with natives under Europeans. The Colonial Secretary, the Lord Chandos, was supportive. Political repression Between 1945 and 1950, the colonial government in Uganda criminalised native political associations to destroy any connection with anti-colonial mobilisation. Natives could have community associations, commercial companies and agricultural co-operatives but not politics. Agricultural co-operatives were the largest and most popular native associations. They could not organise beyond the county and later the district. The colonial government directly controlled them to bar them from politics. From 1946, the anti colonial movement titled Bataka Union in Buganda and Busoga, operated under the cover of a company called Federation of African Farmers. The Bataka Union and its African cover company were banned in 1949. In Britain the interests opposed to
ugnet_: RE: How independence came
Netters, Its shocking that AM Obote was opposed to Uganda attaining Independence whereas his supporters and himself have always claimed he was a nationalist. Read on LM ==How independence came By Fred Guweddeko, oct 9 - 15, 2003 Nationalists lost the war but received the prize The road to Ugandas Independence was drawn by the most unlikely of all parties. It was when Germanys Adolf Hitler moved to colonise the biggest colonial masters, Britain and France. By resisting Hitlers colonialism Britain lost the right to occupy Uganda. Britain was committed in the 1941 Pacific Treaty with the USA, to free such imperial territories as Uganda. Americas support to prevent Hitler from colonising Britain was given on condition that the colonies would be freed. After the war, Britain was bound by the UN to free the territories and people under its bondage. The United Nations Organisation also recognised the right of people under imperial bondage to struggle for their freedom. No independence The 1941 Treaty notwithstanding various British government departments, private interests and ideological groups made concerted efforts between 1945 and 1959 to prevent Uganda from becoming independent. Three years from the 1941 Pacific Treaty, a grand imperial ceremony to mark 50 years of British rule in Uganda was held on April 10, 1944. The Governor Sir Charles Dundas declared that Britain would certainly celebrate on April 10, 1994 - a century of its stay in Uganda. British officers, the Hon. A. S. Richardson and Mr M. Birch demanded and predicted that Britain would rule Uganda forever. The Bishop of the Church of England in Uganda, Mr Birch the Chief Secretary and the leader of the British community in Uganda, the Hon. Frasser, repudiated independence. Months later, in January 1945, the colonial government in Uganda used as an excuse, a workers welfare strike, to destroy anti-colonialism. Critical Ugandans, literature on political freedoms and native contacts with the free world were violently suppressed. Natives who first criticised colonial rule in 1945 such as Katikkiro Wamala and Samsom Kisekka were declared to be insane. They were deported to Arua and Bunyoro to protect society from anti-colonial ideas. External opposition In immediate post-war Britain, only the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was committed to the 1941 Pacific Treaty to quickly withdraw from the colonies. Churchill consequently lost elections to the pro-colonies interests. Economic interests in Britain were restructuring colonies to support its post-war reconstruction. The post-war finance minister in Britain, Chancellor Cripps, told the British Africa Governors Conference of 1947 that the whole future of the Pound Sterling and Britains economic recovery depended on their resources in Africa. Independence had to wait. When the Colonial Secretary Mr Creech Jones, visited Uganda in 1947, Governor Sir John Hall prevented native leaders from mentioning independence. They instead petitioned for native development under British colonialism. In South Africa, General Smuts, the World War II leader favouring Africas independence, lost elections to Dr F. Malan for this reason. Dr Malan conceived the idea of granting independence in British Africa to the local British population. The idea became popular with the British settler community leadership, which sought to unite Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika for independence under their (White) leadership. This delayed the advance to native independence and, in Buganda, caused Kabaka Fredrick Mutesas deportation in 1953. For Uganda, the Hon. Col. Ponsonby (MP), the Chairman of Britains Joint East African Board, addressed the local British settlers on independence. Col. Ponsonby said that any colonial political changes would involve Africans coming more under European organisation and less under native chiefs. Col. Ponsonby said it would be better for Africa and the world if British colonies there advanced to independence with natives under Europeans. The Colonial Secretary, the Lord Chandos, was supportive. Political repression Between 1945 and 1950, the colonial government in Uganda criminalised native political associations to destroy any connection with anti-colonial mobilisation. Natives could have community associations, commercial companies and agricultural co-operatives but not politics. Agricultural co-operatives were the largest and most popular native associations. They could not organise beyond the county and later the district. The colonial government directly controlled them to bar them from politics. From 1946, the anti colonial movement titled Bataka Union in Buganda and Busoga, operated under the cover of a company called Federation of African Farmers. The Bataka Union and its African cover company were banned in 1949. In Britain the interests opposed to independence for
ugnet_: I may stay in power if pushed - Museveni
NEW VISION - 11TH OCTOBER 2003 I may stay in power if pushed Museveni By Anne Mugisa President Yoweri Museveni has said that those agitating for his early retirement should show what vision they have for the development of the country and Africa. Museveni, who was reacting to questions from East African lawyers, said he may change his mind about retirement because agitators make him believe they are only interested in taking turns at leadership instead of facing real issues. The President was speaking at the annual meeting of East African lawyers at Entebbe. The more you talk about my staying in power the more I may change my mind about leaving because it makes me wonder as to why you are interested in my leaving yet you are not showing a vision for the future, Museveni said. People are only talking about their turn instead of articulating the vision for Uganda. The issue is not turns or chances, the issue is the future for Africa. We are not interested in turns, we are talking about the vis ion for Uganda and Africa. All you hear is the turn for so and so and the turn for so and so. The problem is not my retirement because I can do it anytime. The problem is the vision and challenges..., He said Africas problem has been its intellectuals and its leaders who are not critical of what is pushed down on them by the rest of the world. He said he wrote the letter for which he has been accused of betraying Africa during the World Trade Organisation meeting in Cancun, Mexico. He said he was opposed to lifting of the trade quota which India and China enjoy in December next year because Africa will lose even the little that it has. Museveni said the more developed nations in the Third World like China and India will swamp the international market and Africa will not stand a chance. Those who are saying Museveni has betrayed Africa, my instructions are in writing and signed by me, we shall see who has betrayed Africa. I want the quotas to stay until 2008. I will be tried by history, to judge who is a traitor and who isnt, he said. He said globalisation should force Africa into regional integration so that they can have blocs with bargaining power. Ends Published on: Saturday, 11th October, 2003 Email this article to a friend Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search
ugnet_: TWO CIVILIZED MEN AMONG THE BARBARIANS
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ugnet_: Daily News doomed from start
Last Updated: Saturday, 11 October 2003 ; www.herald.co.zw Daily News doomed from start By Lovemore Mataire THE Daily News, it seems, was doomed right from its lauch in 1999. Despite efforts by several internal and external forces to ensure its survival beyond the 2000 general elections, it was clear from the start that the paper was ill-omened. It therefore came as no surprise when the paper finally closed this year because its demise was what Dambudzo Marechera would call an accident waiting to happen. There were so many forces that gave birth to the Daily News. While its proponents lamented the lack of media diversity and the need for an alternative voice to that of The Herald, the major reasons for its birth were largely circumstantial and fundamentally flawed. Its birth was circumstantial and fundamentally flawed because it was deliberately created to counter mainly The Herald and create a conducive environment for the emergence of an opposition party in the mould of the MDC. Its birth was flawed because the architects of its birth had no national leanings with Zimbabwe. Its creation was meant to counter the nationalist and revolutionary sentiments that were beginning to permeate in the country principally on the issue of land. The Daily News came into the fold not on the basis of fundamental principles of freedom of expression and media pluralism but its architects contrived its narrow and linear perspective whose main agenda was to oust Zanu-PF and President Mugabe from power. It came as no coincidence that at its inception, the British were the main investors in the paper, something that most journalists at the now defunct Daily News were unaware of. That the British had a huge stake in the Daily News is clear. It is a fact substantiated by one of the founding directors Wilf Mbanga who acknowledges when he writes: From the moment I boarded a plane to Britain in early 1998 to seek investors for an independent daily in Zimbabwe, I knew that we had embarked on a collision course with President Mugabe's Zanu-PF government. (The Standard, 5 October 2003). In the same article Mbanga asserts that at the time the Daily News was launched, there was so much at stake. In Mbanga's words, the country had begun to slide into a morass of political and economic chaos and corruption. Really, if the country was sliding into such a deplorable state, what then where the interests of the British in investing in the newspaper industry in Zimbabwe? Would it make any business sense for one to inject huge amounts of capital into a venture located in a corrupt country? It is clear that the prime motive of the British in the Daily News was neither to create employment nor promote freedom of Press or any of the euphemisms one can think of. The major reason for British interests in the Daily News was, as Mbanga says, so much at stake. The birth of the Daily New was fundamentally flawed and doomed because its agenda was premised on the pedestal of wanting to remove a system of government from power by agitating for the creation of a new alternative political party to challenge Zanu-PF. Again Mbanga gives a synopsis into the immediate role of the Daily News. It would go on to play a key role in the emergence of the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in 1999, the national reforms in February 2000 and the general elections later that year. Mbanga's ego is most revealing in that it makes it clear to everyone that the prime motive of the Daily News was not to inform, educate or entertain. The problem with the Daily News was that its publisher, the Associated Newspaper of Zimbabwe group was registered as a media services provider when in fact it was a political organisation with heavy funding from the British. The agenda was not to make money because as Mbanga asserts, the economic situation was sliding into a morass. The idea was also not to promote media plurality because again as Mbanga provides, the paper was to play a prominent role in the emergence of the MDC and the no vote in the first constitutional referendum in the history of Zimbabwe. Sympathy should be extended to innocent people that worked and toiled under ANZ without even the slightest knowledge that the paper was not launched to make money. Its agenda was simple to create conditions conducive for the ouster of President Mugabe and his government. This was an utter demonstration of the condescending attitude of the British towards African governments and in particular the Government of Zimbabwe. From the luxury of their homes in England, the so-called British investors saw themselves in the mould of the pioneers and the architects of President Mugabe's demise. They were part of history making and they were certain of victory once the Daily News became operational. But its birth was not just smooth sailing. Just before its launch the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists
ugnet_: Joint Christian Council Condemns Kony Atrocities
Joint Christian Council Condemns Kony Atrocities Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala) October 10, 2003 Posted to the web October 10, 2003 Alfred Wasike Kampala TOP Church leaders yesterday condemned the suffering visited on innocent civilians by the 17-year-long war in northern Uganda. "We, as Christian leaders, reiterate our faith and commitment in a peaceful solution to the conflict in northern Uganda. We condemn and abhor the wanton killings, mutilation and debasement of our brethren in that part of the country by the belligerents," said the Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) leadership in its 41st Independence Day statement. The statement was signed by the UJCC chairperson Archbishop of the Orthodox Church, His Eminence Jonah Lwanga, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala and the Church of Uganda leader, Rt. Rev. Dr. Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyooyo. It also called for unity in diversity and the need to fight poverty and corruption. "The journey from independence in 1962, can be characterised as a struggle for national identity," they said.
Re: ugnet_: I may stay in power if pushed - Museveni
What does Mu7 with his moribund system that is now fearing its' own shadows have to present to Ugandans to make him think his kleptocracy and murder infested regime is the only way for Uganda?. He claims to be a student of History and if indeed that claim is true,then he really needs to go and read about what happened to Ceausescu of Romania a murderous kleptocrat like him. He has for the past 18 years as ruler of Uganda used all means to kill Ugandans including the Medical staff as he outlined in his fear for having his family members get treated in Uganda lest they be treated to their brand of medicine that he urges his cohorts in the medical profession to use on others,and so this makes him think that he is omniscient when facts available reveal contrary evidence. Mu7 should get out of his paranoid dreams before Ugandans in mass do a Ceausescu on him and his guilt ridden family who are now purporting to be born-again Christians as though that will wash the highway of blood of innocent Ugandans they have butchered/murdered/annihilated and destroyed. Daydreamers like him and those who cheer him should know their days are now numbered because the blood letting that they have wantonly occasioned must stop. Thank you. Kipenji. =Omar Kezimbira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NEW VISION - 11TH OCTOBER 2003 I may stay in power if pushed Museveni By Anne Mugisa President Yoweri Museveni has said that those agitating for his early retirement should show what vision they have for the development of the country and Africa. Museveni, who was reacting to questions from East African lawyers, said he may change his mind about retirement because agitators make him believe they are only interested in taking turns at leadership instead of facing real issues. The President was speaking at the annual meeting of East African lawyers at Entebbe. The more you talk about my staying in power the more I may change my mind about leaving because it makes me wonder as to why you are interested in my leaving yet you are not showing a vision for the future, Museveni said. People are only talking about their turn instead of articulating the vision for Uganda. The issue is not turns or chances, the issue is the future for Africa. We are not interested in turns, we are talking about the vis ion for Uganda and Africa. All you hear is the turn for so and so and the turn for so and so. The problem is not my retirement because I can do it anytime. The problem is the vision and challenges..., He said Africas problem has been its intellectuals and its leaders who are not critical of what is pushed down on them by the rest of the world. He said he wrote the letter for which he has been accused of betraying Africa during the World Trade Organisation meeting in Cancun, Mexico. He said he was opposed to lifting of the trade quota which India and China enjoy in December next year because Africa will lose even the little that it has. Museveni said the more developed nations in the Third World like China and India will swamp the international market and Africa will not stand a chance. Those who are saying Museveni has betrayed Africa, my instructions are in writing and signed by me, we shall see who has betrayed Africa. I want the quotas to stay until 2008. I will be tried by history, to judge who is a traitor and who isnt, he said. He said globalisation should force Africa into regional integration so that they can have blocs with bargaining power. Ends Published on: Saturday, 11th October, 2003 Email this article to a friend Do you Yahoo!?The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product searchWant to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger
ugnet_: UPDF PREYS ON THE VERY PEOPLE THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO DEFEND-Bill Law of the BBC
BBC Correspondent Bill Law writes: A few thousand child soldiers led by a charismatic madman called Joseph Kony have run rings around the UPDF. Mr Kony's LRA, the Lord's Resistance Army, kidnaps, brutalises and brainwashes young children. In 1997, the government moved most of the Acholi people into camps. They said it was to protect innocent civilians as well as making it easier for them to pursue the LRA. But the camps offer no protection either from the rebel raids or the UPDF-WHOSE POORLY FED AND DEMORALISED SOLDIERS PREY ON THE VERY PEOPLE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DEFEND! ..and that is a description of the Indomitable so called Yoweri Museveni's UPDF MK
ugnet_: Cardinal Meets Politicians Over Life Presidency
Cardinal Meets Politicians Over Life Presidency Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site The Monitor (Kampala) October 10, 2003 Posted to the web October 10, 2003 Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda Lubaga Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala has again criticised attempts by the government to remove the term limits on the presidency. The Catholic prelate, who has openly denounced the proposal before, says what Uganda needs are good leaders - and that there are many available. "That is my opinion," Wamala said, "whoever wants to follow it is free." The cardinal was this week at his Lubaga offices while meeting Mr Kibirige Mayanja, the president general of the Justice Forum. Mayanja sought audience with the cardinal to brief him about his party's delegates' conference, which took place on September 26-27 in Kampala. The politician praised the cardinal for his public stand against the lifting of term limits. "Allow me, therefore, on behalf of Justice Forum to congratulate Your Eminence and the entire Catholic Church for this bold stand and thank you for setting a good example of what the role of the religious leaders should be in nation building," Mayanja said. He gave the cardinal a document, which demands a return to "genuine multiparty democracy and [the] dismantling of the instruments of dictatorship". The document also opposes any attempts to extend President Yoweri Museveni's rule beyond 2006 when his last elective term expires.
ugnet_: Sculpture Erected in Kampala As Tribute to Child Victims of War
Sculpture Erected in Kampala As Tribute to Child Victims of War Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site UN Integrated Regional Information Networks October 10, 2003 Posted to the web October 10, 2003 Kampala A young British artist has erected a large clay work in the centre of Uganda's capital Kampala as a tribute to the children suffering in one of Africa's longest running civil conflicts. Its aim is to raise awareness of the plight of youngsters caught up in northern Uganda's 17-year-long insurgency. Madeline Lesley says her piece was inspired by her experiences working in the northern town of Gulu, where thousands of children trek each night to avoid being abducted by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Many of the children she worked with were former LRA soldiers, others had seen their families killed in LRA attacks. "I don't know how therapeutic it really was, but it was good just to get a bunch of these kids together having fun with clay," said Lesley. The work consists of four life size clay sculptures of children she worked with in Gulu, plus another 100 more abstract pieces, fashioned from clay body parts made by the children. It was inaugurated on Thursday in Constitution Square, in the heart of the city's administrative and business district. "It's really just to remind people about this problem," Lesley said. "That the kids are suffering most and that it's going on not too far away from here. It's also asking 'for how long are we going to let this continue?'" Thousands of children converge on Gulu every evening to sleep out in the town's dusty streets or its bus park, before returning home each morning. "One evening I did a headcount of all the areas of Gulu where they congregate," Lesley commented. "I counted roughly 25,000 people, most of them children." "My work was mostly with an organisation called the Noah's Ark Children's Ministry which had provided a shelter for around 2,000 of these kids in a big concrete building in the town centre," she added.
ugnet_: End International Silence On Kony -Bishop Ojwang
End International Silence On Kony -Bishop Ojwang Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala) INTERVIEW October 8, 2003 Posted to the web October 10, 2003 Kampala Bishop Benjamin Ojwang (51) of the Anglican Diocese of Kitgum spent one month (August 21 - September 25) in Britain to launch an international campaign for peace in Northern Uganda. The trip was sponsored by the UK-based Church Mission Society (CMS). Denis Ocwich interviewed him on his return. Tell me about your mission to London? I went there for two purposes; one is pastoral, just to visit our religious link in London. Secondly to campaign for breaking the silence of the international community towards the war in northern Uganda. Why did you have to take the campaign all the way to Europe? This war has lasted 17 years and all along we, the religious leaders, have been urging for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Our role as religious leaders is prophetic, to keep talking and praying for the voiceless flock. We are crying for peace through non violence. But it reached a point when we were almost in a dilemma, especially after the government said 'let's pursue the military option.' Why should I keep quiet when the bone has pricked my eyes? Kony is killing people, he is displacing people and cutting people's lips and limbs. Did you inform the government about your mission? And are you going to make a formal report to the government, or meet the President personally? I am a religious leader, and I didn't need to get permission from the government. But I want to thank the government for putting in place the Presidential Peace Team, that shows they are interested in dialogue. I would love to meet the President, if it is organised. But as of now, there is no report to present to the government and no arrangement for me to meet anybody there. But I believe the government was (informally) aware of my mission because it was published even in the newspapers. Didn't you read about it? But other people would say this is an internal matter which can be solved locally by Ugandans? I don't agree with that. Take for instance: If you are a father and have two children fighting each other, do you leave them to kill each other? If you are saying that we can handle this problem internally, then what have we been doing all these 17 years, and yet people are suffering? Even the Bible tells us that when you are sick, go to the doctor... we are going outside to seek for the doctor to heal us of our sickness which is war. What have you achieved out of the trip abroad? Oh, very much! I travelled to many places (around London) where they gave me platforms to preach for peace. After I had launched the campaign, many people signed the petition to break the silence on the war. I even held talks with the Bishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, who promised to join hands with us to achieve peace. The people outside are willing to help us in many ways including humanitarian assistance, peace monitoring and mediation. But the government of Uganda needs to welcome them. On August 21, you were to present a petition to Tony Blair (British Premier). Did you meet Blair personally? Yes I presented the petition of about two pages to 10 Downing Street, Blair's office. I did not meet Blair personally, but he received it because I later, got the acknowledgement letter from him. He promised to act towards bringing peace to Northern Uganda. I also met an MP (from Britain) and got good response from other people. What does the petition say? We are asking Blair to help us break the international conspiracy of silence over the LRA war. We are also urging the international bodies to intervene by offering humanitarian assistance, mediation and monitoring the conflict. Does it mean the international community is ignorant about the Kony war? When you go out, people say Uganda is a very good country. They don't know about the atrocities being committed by the rebels against the people, and how people are suffering. Even in Uganda here, when you move to places in the west like Kabale or Bushenyi, people do not know much and are less concerned about what is taking place in the north. Did you meet the Acholi community over the matter? Yes I met them. Anyway, those people are not really...(pauses). You know in every community, you cannot find people 100% united, people always have differences... I told them war cannot bring peace, and we should use only non violence means by promoting negotiations. Some people claim there are sections of Acholi - both in Uganda and abroad - who either still support Kony or sympathise with him? What do you make of that? Like I said, there are always divisions. But I always preach unity. Let us all work together for peace. Ugandans must speak with one voice for peace. People should not look at this war as for the Acholi
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ugnet_: RE: How independence came
Netters, Its shocking that AM Obote was opposed to Uganda attaining Independence whereas his supporters and himself have always claimed he was a nationalist. Shame. Read on LM ==How independence came By Fred Guweddeko, oct 9 - 15, 2003 Nationalists lost the war but received the prize The road to Ugandas Independence was drawn by the most unlikely of all parties. It was when Germanys Adolf Hitler moved to colonise the biggest colonial masters, Britain and France. By resisting Hitlers colonialism Britain lost the right to occupy Uganda. Britain was committed in the 1941 Pacific Treaty with the USA, to free such imperial territories as Uganda. Americas support to prevent Hitler from colonising Britain was given on condition that the colonies would be freed. After the war, Britain was bound by the UN to free the territories and people under its bondage. The United Nations Organisation also recognised the right of people under imperial bondage to struggle for their freedom. No independence The 1941 Treaty notwithstanding various British government departments, private interests and ideological groups made concerted efforts between 1945 and 1959 to prevent Uganda from becoming independent. Three years from the 1941 Pacific Treaty, a grand imperial ceremony to mark 50 years of British rule in Uganda was held on April 10, 1944. The Governor Sir Charles Dundas declared that Britain would certainly celebrate on April 10, 1994 - a century of its stay in Uganda. British officers, the Hon. A. S. Richardson and Mr M. Birch demanded and predicted that Britain would rule Uganda forever. The Bishop of the Church of England in Uganda, Mr Birch the Chief Secretary and the leader of the British community in Uganda, the Hon. Frasser, repudiated independence. Months later, in January 1945, the colonial government in Uganda used as an excuse, a workers welfare strike, to destroy anti-colonialism. Critical Ugandans, literature on political freedoms and native contacts with the free world were violently suppressed. Natives who first criticised colonial rule in 1945 such as Katikkiro Wamala and Samsom Kisekka were declared to be insane. They were deported to Arua and Bunyoro to protect society from anti-colonial ideas. External opposition In immediate post-war Britain, only the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was committed to the 1941 Pacific Treaty to quickly withdraw from the colonies. Churchill consequently lost elections to the pro-colonies interests. Economic interests in Britain were restructuring colonies to support its post-war reconstruction. The post-war finance minister in Britain, Chancellor Cripps, told the British Africa Governors Conference of 1947 that the whole future of the Pound Sterling and Britains economic recovery depended on their resources in Africa. Independence had to wait. When the Colonial Secretary Mr Creech Jones, visited Uganda in 1947, Governor Sir John Hall prevented native leaders from mentioning independence. They instead petitioned for native development under British colonialism. In South Africa, General Smuts, the World War II leader favouring Africas independence, lost elections to Dr F. Malan for this reason. Dr Malan conceived the idea of granting independence in British Africa to the local British population. The idea became popular with the British settler community leadership, which sought to unite Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika for independence under their (White) leadership. This delayed the advance to native independence and, in Buganda, caused Kabaka Fredrick Mutesas deportation in 1953. For Uganda, the Hon. Col. Ponsonby (MP), the Chairman of Britains Joint East African Board, addressed the local British settlers on independence. Col. Ponsonby said that any colonial political changes would involve Africans coming more under European organisation and less under native chiefs. Col. Ponsonby said it would be better for Africa and the world if British colonies there advanced to independence with natives under Europeans. The Colonial Secretary, the Lord Chandos, was supportive. Political repression Between 1945 and 1950, the colonial government in Uganda criminalised native political associations to destroy any connection with anti-colonial mobilisation. Natives could have community associations, commercial companies and agricultural co-operatives but not politics. Agricultural co-operatives were the largest and most popular native associations. They could not organise beyond the county and later the district. The colonial government directly controlled them to bar them from politics. From 1946, the anti colonial movement titled Bataka Union in Buganda and Busoga, operated under the cover of a company called Federation of African Farmers. The Bataka Union and its African cover company were banned in 1949. In Britain the interests opposed to
Re: [Ugandacom] Re: ugnet_: I may stay in power if pushed - Museveni
Are you sure that is an Acholi proverb? 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] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 7:24 PM Subject: [Ugandacom] Re: ugnet_: I may stay in power if pushed - Museveni ACHOLI PROVERB:"THE DISEASE WHICH ULTIMATELY KILLS THE "APHA" DOG, ( the leader of the pack) first Blocks it's Nose "( to prevent it from smelling) In a message dated 10/10/2003 7:19:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What does Mu7 with his moribund system that is now fearing its'own shadows have to present to Ugandans to make him think his kleptocracy and murder infested regime is the only way for Uganda?.He claims to be a student of History and if indeed that claim is true,thenhe really needs to go and read about what happened to Ceausescu ofRomania a murderous kleptocrat like him.He has for the past 18 years as ruler of Uganda used all means to killUgandans including the Medical staff as he outlined in his fear for havinghis family members get treated in Uganda lest they be treated to theirbrand of medicine that he urges his cohorts in the medical profession to use on others,and so this makes him think that he is omniscient when facts available reveal contrary evidence.Mu7 should get out of his paranoid dreams before Ugandans in mass do a Ceausescu on him and his guilt ridden family who are now purportingto be born-again Christians as though that will wash the highway of bloodof innocent Ugandans they have butchered/murdered/annihilated and destroyed.Daydreamers like him and those who cheer him should know their days are now numbered because the blood letting that they have wantonly occasioned must stop.Thank you.Kipenji. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [Ugandacom] Re: ugnet_: I may stay in power if pushed - Museveni
In a message dated 10/10/2003 7:42:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you sure that is an Acholi proverb? Em EM I believe there is a Kiganda,Iteso and Runyakole, verson of the some proverb. MK
Re: ugnet_: I may stay in power if pushed - Museveni
ACHOLI PROVERB: "THE DISEASE WHICH ULTIMATELY KILLS THE "APHA" DOG, ( the leader of the pack) first Blocks it's Nose "( to prevent it from smelling) In a message dated 10/10/2003 7:19:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What does Mu7 with his moribund system that is now fearing its' own shadows have to present to Ugandans to make him think his kleptocracy and murder infested regime is the only way for Uganda?. He claims to be a student of History and if indeed that claim is true,then he really needs to go and read about what happened to Ceausescu of Romania a murderous kleptocrat like him. He has for the past 18 years as ruler of Uganda used all means to kill Ugandans including the Medical staff as he outlined in his fear for having his family members get treated in Uganda lest they be treated to their brand of medicine that he urges his cohorts in the medical profession to use on others,and so this makes him think that he is omniscient when facts available reveal contrary evidence. Mu7 should get out of his paranoid dreams before Ugandans in mass do a Ceausescu on him and his guilt ridden family who are now purporting to be born-again Christians as though that will wash the highway of blood of innocent Ugandans they have butchered/murdered/annihilated and destroyed. Daydreamers like him and those who cheer him should know their days are now numbered because the blood letting that they have wantonly occasioned must stop. Thank you. Kipenji.
Re: [Ugandacom] Re: ugnet_: I may stay in power if pushed - Museveni
The line you are walking is getting thiner by the minute. "Olunatta Embwa, lujiziba Nnyindo" 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] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Re: ugnet_: I may stay in power if pushed - Museveni In a message dated 10/10/2003 7:42:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you sure that is an Acholi proverb? EmEM I believe there is a Kiganda,Iteso and Runyakole, verson of the some proverb.MK Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
ugnet_: U.N. says discovers new massacre in Congo
U.N. says discovers new massacre in Congo By Dino Mahtani KINSHASA (Reuters) - U.N. military observers have discovered 16 bodies, mainly women and children, in a village in eastern Congo, victims of what appeared to be the latest in a series of massacres, U.N. officials said Friday. A statement from the U.N. mission in Congo said the victims had been hacked to death with axes, machetes, clubs and knives. Two survivors of the attack, which took place Monday in the village of Ndunda had been hospitalized and four more people were missing, the statement said. Ndunda lies 20 miles north of Uvira, the main town in Congo's troubled South Kivu province, on the border with Burundi. The United Nations quoted witnesses as saying the attackers belonged to Burundi's biggest rebel group fighting in Congo, the Hutu Forces for the Defense of Democracy, or FDD. The witnesses say the attackers, who numbered around 20, spoke Kirundi -- Burundi's language -- and some of them were dressed in Burundian uniforms. "We discovered 16 dead bodies, mainly women and children on Wednesday. The FDD are suspected and there are investigations underway," a U.N. official told Reuters by telephone from Uvira. The U.N. statement said members of another Burundian Hutu rebel group, the extremist Forces for National Liberation, or FNL, were also present in the area. Earlier this week, U.N. troops deployed some 375 miles to the north in the Ituri province had already found the bodies of 40 children and 25 adults killed Monday in a separate attack blamed on Congolese tribal militiamen. Massacres of civilians and fighting between an array of armed groups and tribal militias has continued in eastern Congo despite an April peace accord between the Kinshasa government and foreign-backed rebel factions meant to end nearly five years of a war which has left three million people dead. Neighboring Burundi, itself embroiled in a civil war that has killed 300,000 people, has long complained that Burundian rebels have bases inside Congo, which they say are used to mount cross-border attacks. Wednesday, Burundi's Tutsi-dominated government signed a new peace accord with the FDD aimed at ending the decade-long conflict, but the FNL rejected the deal. 10/10/03 15:51 ET Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
ugnet_: Burundi rebels will wither away -S.Africa's Zuma
Burundi rebels will wither away -S.Africa's Zuma By Patrick McLoughlin STOCKHOLM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A Burundi rebel group which has rejected a peace deal aimed at halting the country's bloody civil war must compromise or face extinction, South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma said Thursday. "They could survive for a long time when there was no peace, but once everybody stopped fighting they are not going to make it," Zuma, a key mediator in Burundi's peace process, told Reuters during an official visit to Stockholm. Burundi's war has pitted rebels from the ethnic Hutu majority against a politically powerful Tutsi minority, killing an estimated 300,000 people over the last decade. The country's main Hutu rebel group, Pierre Nkurunziza's Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD), signed an accord with the government in South Africa on Wednesday, raising hopes for an end to the conflict. But a second, smaller Hutu rebel group, the Forces for National Liberation (FNL), rejected the pact and dismissed the negotiators as liars. Zuma said the accord would stick and that the FNL would come around to signing sooner rather than later, or they would "wither away." "IRRELEVANT" "The best thing for them is to join the process and stop fighting, otherwise they will become completely irrelevant in Burundi. It's only a matter of time." Zuma said he would contact FNL again and ask them to join the process in about two weeks when he returned to South Africa. "I am again going to formally communicate with them," he said. After the FDD and the Burundi government signed the deal, both sides agreed to immediately halt hostilities -- leaving the less powerful FNL fighting the government on its own. While the Burundi peace deal has been praised from Pretoria to Washington as a significant step toward peace in the region, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday it was still too dangerous for hundreds of thousands of Burundian refugees to return home. "The southern provinces are not safe yet for the refugees to return," said Ivana Unluova, a UNHCR spokeswoman in Tanzania, home to the largest single group of the estimated one million Burundians displaced or living outside their own country. "Fighting between the rebels, and between the rebels and the army, means we are not there to monitor conditions for returning refugees," she said. The International Crisis Group (ICG) thinktank said many refugees were also victims of land expropriation, a problem that could create political opportunities for the FNL if the refugees' return was not properly planned. "The foreseeable disappointment of a large number of refugees who will be unable to recover their property on return offers ideal political opportunities for the one rebel group still not involved in the peace process: the FNL," the ICG said. 10/09/03 12:17 ET Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
ugnet_: Rebels in Uganda Kill 15 in Refugee Camp
Rebels in Uganda Kill 15 in Refugee Camp By HENRY WASSWA .c The Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Rebels attacked a refugee camp in northeastern Uganda on Thursday, killing 15 people, including four guards, a Roman Catholic priest said. Lord's Resistance Army rebels armed with guns and machetes attacked the camp early in the morning, Athanasius Mubiru said. The town is a trading center 168 miles northeast of Kampala. At least 16 people were seriously wounded, he said. The attackers burned down a small army camp and stole cows. The four slain guards were members of the Arrow Boys, a civilian defense force largely made up of former soldiers. The Arrow Boys were created by the government two months ago in response to increasing rebel attacks in northeastern Uganda. Edward Masiga, the commissioner of the Soroti district, where Odudui is located, confirmed the attack but said that only two Arrow Boys were killed. The rebels rarely speak to journalists and could not be reached for comment. Led by Joseph Kony, who claims to have spiritual powers that can protect his fighters, the Lord's Resistance Army is a shadowy organization that has been fighting President Yoweri Museveni since he came to power in 1986. The group replenishes its ranks with children it abducts to use as fighters, porters or concubines. The rebellion has wreaked havoc across northern Uganda. The rebels have launched attacks in eastern Uganda as well, forcing some 300,000 people to flee their homes since June, according to the U.N. World Food Program. The insurgency has displaced some 1.1 million Ugandans out of the country's 24 million people. The World Health Organization and the U.N. Children's Fund appealed to the government and rebels Thursday to suspend fighting and allow aid workers to immunize hundreds of thousands of children against measles. The two agencies plan to immunize 12.7 million children on Oct. 14-15 throughout this East African nation. 10/09/03 16:28 EDT Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
ugnet_: U.N. Forces Near Massacre Site in Congo
U.N. Forces Near Massacre Site in Congo By EDDY ISANGO .c The Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - U.N. peacekeepers are moving deep into a volatile northeast province of Congo to prevent massacres like the one that killed scores this week, the top U.N. envoy here said Wednesday. Peacekeepers are now setting up at least three permanent countryside deployments in Ituri province, where rampaging tribal fighters this week killed at least 65 people, mainly children, said William Swing, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special representative for Congo. Members of the 3,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force sent to the region last month had kept permanent bases only in Bunia, Ituri's capital. ``It's in these well-situated places where we can better control the movement of armed groups and avoid new massacres,'' Swing told The Associated Press in Kinshasa, Congo's capital. The United Nations is investigating Monday's attack in Katchele, some 40 miles northwest of Bunia, where bodies were found in a mass grave, a church and in the bush surrounding the village. U.N. officials have said the victims were from the Hema tribe. Fighters from the rival Lendu tribe are suspected of carrying out the attack. Ituri has been beset by increased fighting between the Hema and Lendu - and massacres and reprisal killings - since 1999, a year after the outbreak of Congo's recently ended war. The attack Monday was the first reported large-scale killing in Ituri since the beefed-up U.N. force replaced a French-led emergency force on Sept. 1. The French-led force was deployed in Bunia in June to stabilize the town after tribal fighting killed more than 500 people. The Hema and Lendu have traditionally clashed over land and resources in the fertile province rich with timber, gold and the mineral coltan, used to make some cell phones. The war in Congo broke out in August 1998 when Uganda and Rwanda sent troops to back rebels in a campaign to oust then-President Laurent Kabila. The main fighting ended last year after a series of peace deals took hold. 10/09/03 00:25 EDT Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
ugnet_: Lessons in Civility
Lessons in Civility Paul Krugman New York Times Friday 10 October 2003 It's the season of the angry liberal. Books like Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," Joe Conason's "Big Lies" and Molly Ivins's "Bushwhacked" have become best sellers. (Yes, I've got one out there, too.) But conservatives are distressed because those liberals are so angry and rude. O.K., they admit, they themselves were a bit rude during the Clinton years - that seven-year, $70 million investigation of a tiny money-losing land deal, all that fuss about the president's private life - but they're sorry, and now it's time for everyone to be civil. Indeed, angry liberals can take some lessons in civility from today's right. Consider, for example, Fox News's genteel response to Christiane Amanpour, the CNN correspondent. Ms. Amanpour recently expressed some regret over CNN's prewar reporting: "Perhaps, to a certain extent, my station was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News." A Fox spokeswoman replied, "It's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than as a spokeswoman for Al Qaeda." And liberal pundits who may be tempted to cast personal aspersions can take lessons in courtesy from conservatives like Charles Krauthammer, who last December reminded TV viewers of his previous career as a psychiatrist, then said of Al Gore, "He could use a little help." What's really important, of course, is that political figures stick to the issues, like the Bush adviser who told The New York Times that the problem with Senator John Kerry is that "he looks French." Some say that the right, having engaged in name-calling and smear tactics when Bill Clinton was president, now wants to change the rules so such behavior is no longer allowed. In fact, the right is still calling names and smearing; it wants to prohibit rude behavior only by liberals. But there's more going on than a simple attempt to impose a double standard. All this fuss about the rudeness of the Bush administration's critics is an attempt to preclude serious discussion of that administration's policies. For there is no way to be both honest and polite about what has happened in these past three years. On the fiscal front, this administration has used deceptive accounting to ram through repeated long-run tax cuts in the face of mounting deficits. And it continues to push for more tax cuts, when even the most sober observers now talk starkly about the risk to our solvency. It's impolite to say that George W. Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible president in American history, but it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. On the foreign policy front, this administration hyped the threat from Iraq, ignoring warnings from military professionals that a prolonged postwar occupation would tie down much of our Army and undermine our military readiness. (Joseph Galloway, co-author of "We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young," says that "we have perhaps the finest Army in history," but that "Donald H. Rumsfeld and his civilian aides have done just about everything they could to destroy that Army.") It's impolite to say that Mr. Bush has damaged our national security with his military adventurism, but it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. Still, some would say that criticism should focus only on Mr. Bush's policies, not on his person. But no administration in memory has made paeans to the president's character - his "honor and integrity" - so central to its political strategy. Nor has any previous administration been so determined to portray the president as a hero, going so far as to pose him in line with the heads on Mount Rushmore, or arrange that landing on the aircraft carrier. Surely, then, Mr. Bush's critics have the right to point out that the life story of the man inside the flight suit isn't particularly heroic - that he has never taken a risk or made a sacrifice for the sake of his country, and that his business career is a story of murky deals and insider privilege. In the months after 9/11, a shocked nation wanted to believe the best of its leader, and Mr. Bush was treated with reverence. But he abused the trust placed in him, pushing a partisan agenda that has left the nation weakened and divided. Yes, I know that's a rude thing to say. But it's also the truth. ---
