Mr. Bwambuga, After all these years you are still doubting if Kony and group do such things?
KK --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Netters, > I donot wish to condone this heinous act of murder > and berberism. But I wish to comment on the reaction > of the Army when they were reresponding to the > attack by Kony. As a well military officer > personally I dont thing that the way the army > respoded to a situation like it is reported in the > story about how the Army "came in trucks and the > rebels dispewrsed". > An army responding to a well known armed target is > much more high calibre than the way UPDF did here. I > hoped they didn't expect to walk up to Kony and say > "....Ok bwana Kony. here we are and we have got you > red handed. Do you agree or not......." > I think we deserve a better explanantion of how the > military responded here. > ----------------- > > > OPINION: PICTURE’S A THOUSAND WORDS > > TODAY, The New Vision’s front page is carrying > photographs of corpses of people whom witnesses say > were massacred by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance > Army in Pader district last Tuesday. > The corpses are mutilated. One has been beheaded; > another has had the legs cut off at the knees. To > one side of the road is a pot standing on bricks, > with a few sticks of firewood underneath. Baffled > villagers are standing around the macabre scene. > Last Thursday, that story was told in a front page > article titled “Kony stuffs man into pot: > Villagers survive eating body parts; LRA massacres > 34”. It detailed how bands of rebels attacked > Biwang village, near Gere-gere in Omot sub-county, > killing 34 villagers with sticks and pangas. A > witness said that one of the dead was chopped into > pieces that were then stuffed into a pot to be > cooked and forcefully served to the locals. Before > the boiling could commence, the army arrived on the > scene and the rebels dispersed. The New Vision did > not receive any pictures till the weekend, and had > relied on the accounts of the eyewitness and the > local UPDF intelligence officer. Normally, The New > Vision would not publish photographs of such ! > shockingly bloody scenes. Our position as an > upmarket, family newspaper proscribes the > publication of such graphic detail. Our Code of > Practice enjoins us to “refrain from publishing > pictures which immediately exacerbate grief or cause > distress.” But we believe that in this case, the > news value overrides these considerations. This is a > story that needs to be told. There are sceptics and > apologists, who will simply not believe the extreme > evil of rebel atrocities. A 1972 picture of children > running, one with clothes burnt off her back after > the US dropped napalm bombs on a Viet Cong village, > helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War. > That picture, as the old newsroom adage says, was > worth a thousand words. Ends > > -------------------- > This articlae also falls short of justifying its > story. In the first place, it was not the picture > referd to ubove that changed the American > populations' opinion in Vietnam. The war in Vietnam > was strongly opposed already in America. Ask Clinton > about it if you want. That war in the first place > was a misconceived one. > > > Bwambuga. > > > __________________________________________________________________ > The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. > Upgrade now! > http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp > > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account > today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ ===== Kandekye Kagyenzi Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
