Gook ----Original Message Follows---- From: "jgalechoofanopitawodiayamapachicha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The News Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:18:41 -0000 When the lions begin to speak then you begin to unravel all what had happened. When truth begin to come out, then you realise how a particular destiny is often created by people who are themselves the ""them"" Jesse The Better Connection Kampala, 29 October 2002 Headlines National Upcountry Editorial Opinion Letters Citizen's Alert Commentary Coffee Break Business Features Society Gender Health Children Supplement Great Lakes World Sports Headlines Reform backs UN on Congo Badru D. Mulumba The alleged plunder of the DR Congo by Ugandan army officials has its beginnings in the Teso cattle rustling and insurgency of the 1980s, Reform Agenda said yesterday. The opposition pressure group said during its weekly press briefing in Kampala that some military officials allegedly became cattle rustlers themselves. Louis Otika, the group�s deputy secretary general, said that Reform Agenda has handed the UN report to a research team to analyse its findings. The UN panel investigations into the plunder of the Democratic Republic of the Congo mineral wealth and natural resources implicate UPDF officials and officials of other countries in the alleged plunder. Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh, and colonels Kahinda Otafiire and Noble Mayombo, say however, that the report is biased and based on hearsay. �If you read [the] UN report, there is a whole chapter where people participated in slaughtering cattle,� Reform Secretary for Agriculture Joseph Tumushabe said. �This is an old habit.� He said that the army, then called National Resistance Army, went to Teso saying it was going to stop cattle rustling. �It is regrettable that not only did cattle rustling by the Karimojong go on unstopped,� he said, �but also government soldiers are reported to have played a complicity role in the cattle rustling.� On the alleged absence of evidence in the UN report pinning the military officials, Reform Publicity Secretary Beti Kamya said, �There is no evidence, but you don�t expect a report of that nature to have everything.� She added: �Remember the presidential petition, the ruling was a couple of pages, but behind that ruling are documents and documents of evidence.� October 28, 2002 23:43:01 Return to index Home | About Us | News | Chat Room | Forum | Talk Back | Directory | Archive | Mail [Daily Monitor] [ Sunday Monitor] [ Ngoma] Please contact us with questions or comments. Copyright � 2002 Monitor Publications Ltd.
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