Matovu
I know Matek is still in bed so before he responds to you, how about
accepting that NRM policies have failed, we have killed enough people we
have created enough enemies in our great lakes area. Let us get out of power
and we let some other decent person lead this nation? You know every
reasonable thinking starts with "I am sorry" playing dum never works.
Em
The Mulindwas communication group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
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From: "Lutimba Matovu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: ugnet_: 'LRA Near to Total Defeat'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That stated, any smart politician would have long
> sued for peace with the so called rebels if for any
>thing else to save thepeople of Uganda from more
> suffering.
Matek,
What else do you want Museveni and the govt to do?
There is the amnesty in place for rebels, the govt
proposed a ceasefire and a plan put in place for talks
all of which were shunned by Kony.
The suffering of the people is being aggravated by
Kony who does not want a peaceful resolution to the
conflict he started period.
LM
>
> Remember the veteran Guerilla fighter who often
> boasted to members of the
> International Community and Ugandans that he was and
> is a s military
> genius!!... Ever wondered as to why a mere KONY has
> given this "Military
> Genius" a sleepless night?
>
> The Military genius was not, so to say , smart
> enough to figure out early in
> the game that one does not fight rebels with the so
> called UPDF weakness!
> Why one might add?
>
>
> The bottom line is, fellow citizens, the people of
> Uganda are tired of wars.
> Museveni and his NRM can give a zillion reasons as
> to why UPDF is incapable
> of defeating the so called KONY Rebels... in fact
> the dictatorship can lie to
> the people of Uganda and citizens of the world all
> he wants. But the fact
> remains: UPDF is incapable of defeating he so called
> Kony rebels.
>
> That stated, any smart politician would have long
> sued for peace with the so
> called rebels if for any thing else to save the
> people of Uganda from more
> suffering.
>
> But no Museveni's BIG ego is on the line here fellow
> citizens. His wishful
> thinking, and yes his is but a mere wishful
> thinking, that KONY rebels would
> be finshed by the end of the year is not and will
> not console the families of
> those who are dying in this senseless war.
>
> Matek
>
> ran in Notheren Uganda is difficult
> << LRA Near to Total Defeat'
>
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> New Vision (Kampala)
>
> November 22, 2002
> Posted to the web November 22, 2002
>
> Okello Jabweli, Hamis Kaheru & Joyce Namutebi
> Kampala
>
> PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said Kony rebels have
> suffered a thorough
> beating and will be no more by next year.
>
> "The LRA is on the verge of final and total defeat.
> Nothing will save them,"
> the President said. "Only yesterday (Wednesday),
> after many losses, Kony and
> his troops fled the Imatong mountains towards
> Jabeleine. It is now the
> Sudanese to deal with him." Jabeleine, a Sudanese
> government controlled
> area,
> is not in the orbit of UPDF's Operation Iron Fist
> in southern Sudan.
>
> In a speech to Parliament yesterday, Museveni said
> the Government was
> finally
> addressing the weaknesses that have enabled Kony
> and his rag-tag Lord's
> Resistance Army (LRA) to thrive over the last 16
> years.
>
> Museveni's three-hour address was broadcast live on
> Radio Uganda.
>
> He said the UPDF had done well against Kony
> terrorists during a difficult
> part of the year (the rainy season when the grass
> is tall and movement is
> difficult) and promised even better outcome once
> the dry season starts in
> December.
>
> "I don't think we shall hear from Kony next year -
> 2003," Museveni said.
>
> He said Kony was able in the past to sneak in and
> out of the country to
> cause
> havoc due to Sudan's continued support to him, the
> perennial under-spending
> on defence and the poor road infrastructure in the
> north.
>
> Museveni said the constant factor has been the
> difficult terrain in the
> Acholi region. He said all the four problems were
> being addressed.
>
> He said the UPDF's under-equipping was a big and an
> unnecessary mistake
> because security is the basis of everything else.
>
> "It is wrong to talk of poverty eradication and
> development and not talk of
> security," he said.
>
> He said he was building a strategic core of the
> UPDF capable of defending
> Uganda from external aggression.
>
> He said nobody should be worried about the force.
> "Unless you had plans to
> invade Uganda, you shouldn't worry. It is mainly
> going to be a defensive
> force," he said.
>
> Museveni said the recent defence budget increment
> of US$26m would enable the
> army plug some of its weaknesses, especially the
> lack of appropriate
> equipment.
>
> "This argument of too much defence expenditure is
> nonsense. It is not
> acceptable and I don't want too hear it," Museveni
> said.
>
> "In my language, we have a saying that many tongues
> spoil the porridge. We
> need advice alright but somebody must be in charge.
> A country cannot be
> everybody's business. That is not possible.
> Somebody must be answerable."
>
> He supported his position with the late Mwalimu
> Julius Nyerere's philosophy
> that being independent also entails the ability to
> make mistakes.
>
> "There are elected leaders. If I make a decision,
> you my friend, whoever
> you're you, must respect it. If I make mistakes, I
> will learn from them but
> you can't have a situation where the country is
> everybody's business,"
> Museveni said.
>
> He dismissed claims that Sudan armed Kony and
> offered him a safe haven in
> retaliation for Uganda's support of the SPLA.
>
> Museveni said Uganda begun supporting the SPLA in
> 1988, two years after the
> first batch of rebels supported by Sudan launched
> attacks on Uganda. "We
> backed SPLA but that was long, long after the Sudan
> had attacked us. We
> supplied the SPLA because we are not punch-bags.
> You hit us, we hit you.
> That
> is the law of nature," he said.
>
> Museveni said the insecurity in the north was a
> classic case of terrorism
> supported by regional states against the people of
> Uganda.
>
> Retracing the genesis of the war, Museveni said the
> conflict initially
> gained
> ground in Acholiland due to unfounded fears that
> the NRA would retaliate
> against the Acholi and Langi for the Luweero
> atrocities and the chauvinism
> that had been sowed by colonialists.
>
> "These lies were soon exposed because no Acholi or
> Langi were being harassed
> either in Kampala or in the north," Museveni said.
>
> He said the early Acholi rebel leaders like the
> late Brig. Odong Latek,
> "priestess" Alice Lakwena and Angello Okello, were
> not
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