Right from the highly state officials - it was pronounced that it was actually NOT ADF
who burnt 80 students alive - then who burnt them - WHEN WILL THE CULPITS BE
BROUGHT TO BOOK ----WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY AND WHO WILL SAVE OUR COUNTRY AND PEOPLE??!
1. Sarah Nabakooza, suspected to be an Allied Democratic Front (ADF)
rebel commander has been charged with the murder 20 Kichwamba Technical
College students in 1998
2. The commander of Allied Democratic Force rebels, self- styled Major
Henry Matovu, yesterday called The Monitor and said they attacked Kasese
town centre Saturday in order to embarrass President Yoweri Museveni and
Brig. James Kazini.
3. LT. Rajab Kasozi Thursday told the Army General Court Martial that
his unit was overwhelmed by the ADF firepower.
See story Kichwamba Death Toll Rises Up To 80 who were massacred by the ADF rebels on
Monday morning has risen to over 80 according to figures obtained from Kichwamba
National Technical Institute registry- New Vision (Kampala) June 10, 1998
At least 50 students of Kichwamba National Technical Institute in Kabarole district
were yesterday
morning burnt to death in their dormitories by the ADF rebels.
Others are John Bosco Lutalo son of Engineer Kibuuka, Permanent Secretary Ministry of
Works,
Chrisestom Nsimbi, Muyomba, Paul Lwanga and Robert Lubega.
Most of these were residents of Balya which accommodated about 60 students and only
two survived.
The burnt remains of an estimated 80 students massacred by the ADF rebels at Kichwamba
National Technical Institute Monday, will be buried in a mass grave today.
New Vision (Kampala) June 12, 1998 The remains of 31 students of Kichwamba National
Technical Institute, Kabarole, were yesterday buried in a mass grave at the college.
Sarah Nabakooza, suspected to be an Allied Democratic Front (ADF) rebel commander has
been charged with the murder 20 Kichwamba Technical College students in 1998
LT. Rajab Kasozi Thursday told the Army General Court Martial that his unit was
overwhelmed by the ADF firepower.
The President was yesterday addressing residents at Kichwamba National Technical
Institute, where the ADF rebels burnt and shot dead an estimated 80 students and
abducted 100 others two weeks ago.
Kichwamba Survivor Dies In Mulago
New Vision (Kampala)
June 16, 1998
Another victim of the Kichwamba Technical Institute massacre died yesterday morning at
Mulago
Hospital.
Mulago Hospital Director Mr Lawrence Kaggwa said Fred Ntungwa, 21, died of severe
burns in the
morning hours at the intensive care unit. Six others, with whom he was brought to
Mulago Saturday are still in critical condition.
At least 80 students died and over 100 others abducted by the ADF rebels in a pre-dawn
attack June 8. The remains of ten others have been recovered in Kichwamba.
Prosper Mbabazi, Eric Bizimana, David Birungyi, Johnson Rugaju, Luyimbazi Joshua and
Kamugisha Bernard are in ward 6A. Medical personnel attending them have limited the
number of visitors because the patients are stressed and need rest. Mbabazi often
breaks into tears at the sight of people he knows.
Meanwhile, a medical expert attending Kyotera Member of Parliament, Patrick Kiggundu,
has said the MP is improving slowly, though still in a coma. Kiggundu, Friday
sustained head injuries in an accident at Lwera, near Lukaya on Kampala-Masaka Highway.
New Vision (Kampala)
April 29, 2002
ARMY Commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini has revealed that renegade UPDF Lt. Col. Anthony
Kyakabale led the March 17, 2001 attack on Kasese town.
He said Kyakabale was assisted by Maj. Patrick Muhindo's former aide identified as
Kawuda, and other people still at large.
Kazini was on Saturday night speaking as chief guest at hotel Margherita in Kasese at
a party hosted for him by the Kasese business community.
The party was to congratulate him upon his promotion to the rank of Major General and
his appointment as the army commander. He was flanked by the Second Division
commander, Poteli Kivuna.
The business community was led by its chairman, Costa Wambale, who is also the
district chairman for the Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
"Your vehicles and other property were not burnt by the ADF but by Kyakabale assisted
by Maj. Muhindo and facilitated by foreign forces," Kazini said.
He said a nine-year-old pupil called Kagaba from MotherCare Primary school, who was
abducted during the attack, had been seen in a neighbouring country which he did not
name.
Kyakabale, who is under the custody of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in
Kigali, Rwanda is on record for having declared war on Uganda.
He is also linked to Col. Kizza Besigye's Reform Agenda, a loose political
organisation calling for change in the Movement government.
Kazini said ADF terrorists who had been trained in Pakistan, burnt Uganda Technical
College Kichwamba in 1998. Over 80 students were killed and others abducted.
He said the terrorists were trained by the al- Qaeda group of suspected terror
mastermind, Osama Bin Laden.
Kazini was quoting the former ADF chief of records, Haji Sadat Kinobe, who surrendered
to the UPDF sometime last year. Kinobe was later released but fled after being linked
to the Kichwamba attack.
Kazini said it took long to defeat the enemy due to corruption in the army, such as
keeping 'ghost
soldiers' by those who had been deployed in the area.
He thanked the people in Kasese and the Rwenzori region for rallying behind the UPDF
to defeat ADF.
ADF commander speaks out on Kasese attack
August 3, 1998
Kampala
The commander of Allied Democratic Force rebels, self- styled Major Henry Matovu,
yesterday called The Monitor and said they attacked Kasese town centre Saturday in
order to embarrass President Yoweri Museveni and Brig. James Kazini.
Matovu claimed the rebels killed 43 UPDF soldiers in a surprise night attack on Kasese
town.
At least 10 civilians, 3 UPDF soldiers, 2 rebels, and two policemen have been reported
killed when about 100 ADF rebels attacked Kasese town. Two lodges, 27 vehicles were
burnt and several properties looted or destroyed.
Matovu said the ADF rebels attacked the army detach when the soldiers were asleep. At
the time he was talking to The Monitor yesterday, there were sounds of celebration in
the background, and he said they were "busy eating chicken".
There was rapturous laughter in the background which The Monitor could hear on phone,
and Matovu himself broke into shrill prolonged laughter.
He challenged President Yoweri Museveni, whom he said had said the ADF would be
finished in three months, to count how many months have since elapsed.
He said Museveni sent Major Semakula with some commandos called "Mwana-Mwana" to
finish the ADF but that they also failed. He bragged that Museveni cannot finish ADF
with UPDF because, he said, Ugandans are tired of fighting.
He said the attack was to prove to President Museveni and Brigadier Kazini that they
are wrong to think ADF is finished.
Acting Chief of Staff Brig. Kazini was sent to the Kasese-Bundibugyo area about two
months ago to snuff out the ADF rebellion. The rebel commander also said that the
attack was to prove to Kazini that he can do nothing despite new troops and arms he
has been given.
Matovu challenged government to explain how the rebels infiltrated up to Kasese town
and attacked an army encampment and airfield if it's true they are finished.
When The Monitor reminded him that the ADF has dislodged from the mountains, Matovu
said their withdrawal was merely tactical. He said they simply left the camps because
they had no investment there to die for but they were not defeated.
"We had no factories, investments in those camps. They are just bush camps, there is
no need fighting battles to hold a bush," he said.
He claimed they have collaborators within the UPDF who give them intelligence
information.
He claimed they have killed 100 UPDF soldiers since Brigadier Kazini took up 2nd
Division military command against the ADF in June this year, and that there were 43
military casualties in the Kasese attack.
He declared Kasese a "war zone" and warned all foreigners to leave. He alleged that
all the reported dead civilians during the latest attack were men, and since the
government has said it will give guns to people in the region, all men are now rebel
targets.
He warned that government should disarm civilians to avoid making them rebel targets.
However, in a press release issued yesterday, 2nd division commanding officer and
Acting Chief of
Staff, Brigadier James Kazini reassured the public that the situation was now under
control after
repulsing the rebels.
According to the release, six civilians, two policemen and two rebels were killed
during the attack. Twenty vehicles and 13 rooms of lodges were burnt. One KCC project
vehicle was damaged. No UPDF casualties were mentioned.
Kazini said the rebels infiltrated from the [Rwenzori] mountains with the aim of
looting drugs, food items and other essential commodities. He said they attempted to
attack an army detachment in town but were repulsed. He said the rebels were desperate
after the army overran their bases. He regretted the attack.
Other information The Monitor obtained indicate that the attack was commanded by a
woman rebel.
According to information from one of the Uganda People's Defence Force soldiers who
engaged the rebels at the front, the woman rebel first commanded the rebels in an
unsuccessful attack on Kasese High School shortly before they turned their wrath on
the town.
The soldier said he heard the woman commanding the rebels to go to Nyakasanga suburb
after their
attack had been repulsed by the army guarding the school.
He said he heard the woman rebel telling her fighters: "Kati tugende Nyakasanga" (Let
us now go to Nyakasanga) after failing to break the UPDF defenses at the school. The
Kasese airfield which the rebels attacked is in Nyakasanga suburb.
On June 7, a female rebel commander was in charge of the deadly attack on National
Technical Institute Kichwamba in which about 70 students were burnt to death and a
number of others abducted.
It is not clear whether this was the same woman. By Saturday 10.00 a.m., many vehicles
were seen being loaded with household properties and heading towards Kabarole and
Mbarara routes.
Some soldiers at the UPDF officers mess told The Monitor that rebels had stayed in
some lodges in
Kasese town two days before the attack. But the rebels had left by the time the army
reached there.
"We received information that these people [rebels] have been staying in some lodges
and even cooking for themselves. But by the time we moved in to check, they had left,"
one soldier said.
The 2nd division political commissar said he went to a discotheque at Club Mountains
in Kasese a few hours before the attack and found there suspicious people.
He said he heard some of them in the disco saying. "Where are the Kasese women who
have been saying there are no men to dance with? We want to dance with them today," he
quoted them as saying.
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