Matek
Doesn't that tell you that this source is in Uganda and most likely in
Northern Uganda therefore uses words very selectively?
Em
The Mulindwas communication group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ochan Otim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: ugnet_: War breeds scepticism in Uganda's blighted north
This what someone who knows a lot of what is happening in that area.
Ochan
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My deepest condolences and sympathy to the families and communities
affected.
By the weekend we had heard of this extremely tragic incidence from
relatives
of the affected.
It sad that four reporters can all agree to say "Fortunately, the UPDF
arrived
at the scene in armoured vehicles and dispersed the rebels." According to
the
narration we got, report was sent to the nearest detach very early that
evening. But UPDF arrived at the scene many hours after a number of victims
had
been slaughtered. Therefore there is nothing fortunate there. The whole
thing
could have been prevented if UPDF was really committed to protecting the
people.
Lastly, we are fed up of manipulations. The truth is very obvious especially
to
those who witnessed it.
At 08:53 PM 10/28/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> Why do rebels cook people? And what do they do with them after they are
>done cooking? Is this a new incident?
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>ugnet_: War breeds scepticism in Uganda's blighted north Date: Mon, 28
>Oct 2002 15:19:07 EST War breeds scepticism in Uganda's blighted north
> By Matthew Green GULU, Uganda, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Hopes for peace were
>fading in Uganda's northern town of Gulu, where residents say a government
>offensive to crush Lord's Resistance Army rebels has caused even more
>suffering. Guerrillas boiled a man in a pot, hacked dozens of villagers
>to death and abducted an unknown number of children in the past few weeks
>alone, the army says -- sowing some of their worst havoc in years. In
>Gulu, which lies at the epicentre of the war, optimism that the army's
>"Operation Iron Fist" would wipe out a movement feared for cutting off its
>victim's lips and noses has given way to jaded scepticism. "The war has
>been going on for so long, if they could stop it they would have done it
>long ago," said Charles, 31, recovering on the blue plastic sheets of a
>hospital bed from a gunshot wound in his inner thigh. "So many people are
>being wounded, so many people are being killed," he said, explaining how
>he was hit in a gun battle between the army and rebels outside town. The
>army says the LRA killed 47 people in the past week alone, and has accused
>the insurgents of burning people alive in grass huts or attempting to
>force captives to eat body parts from their victims. Thousands have been
>killed, half a million forced into camps and at least 16,000 children
>kidnapped for brainwashing as fighters and concubines since the LRA began
>its uprising 16 years ago. President Yoweri Museveni launched "Iron Fist"
>in March, hoping to decapitate the movement by destroying its bases in
>neighbouring Sudan, but the rebels have since returned to Uganda and
>stepped up their attacks. LRA leader Joseph Kony, who makes abducted
>children kill one another to enforce discipline, has in the past said he
>wants to rule Uganda by the Bible's Ten Commandments, but residents say
>the self-styled mystic has no clear agenda. "People want the rebels to
>stop the war," said William Ayela, 32, who fled to a squalid refugee camp
>in Gulu under army orders earlier this month. "People are dying, people
>are hungry, why don't they stop?," he said, cradling his two-year old son,
>whose belly has ballooned due to malnutrition. FORGOTTEN WAR The army
>says the rebel attacks are the last kicks of a dying horse, saying an
>agreement by Sudan to stop backing the LRA -- slapped on a "terrorist
>exclusion list" by the United States -- will hasten its demise. Museveni,
>himself a former guerrilla leader, has pledged to snuff out the rebellion
>by the end of February. Many in Gulu, a town trapped in a spiral of
>war-induced decay, say peace talks would work better than bullets and
>point out the drawbacks of the military option. The army ordered
>thousands of people into what it describes as protected camps earlier this
>month, turning villages surrounded by ripening crops into ghost towns.
>Residents say harvests are rotting in the fields, drawing warnings from aid
> workers that 500,000 people might be rendered entirely dependent on food
>aid next year. As armoured cars bristling with machine-guns kick up
>plumes of dust, the people of Gulu cannot help but feel caught in the
>middle in a war few say they understand. "The suffering is being caused
>by both parties," said Macleord Ochola, vice-chairman of the Acholi
>Religious Leaders Peace Initiative, wearing a silver cross over his purple
>bishop's robe. "When two elephants are fighting, it's the grass that they
>step on that's being crushed." 10/28/02 04:50 ET
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