>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:35:07 -0400 >Subject: Fwd: Re: ugnet_: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN NORTH UGANDA > >Ochan, > >Can you please forward my opinion to Lutimba Matovo. I think it is time I / we tell him to shut up and suck Acoli blood in silence. > >Matovo and the likes must know that it is the IDPs who have and are guarding and protecting the UPDF cowards contrary to his / their claim that "The UPDF is guarding the IDP's". Never has the UPDF ever protected the IDPs in the concentration camps; if anything the UPDF has made the armless civilians their shields and shock absorbers... and that is the way "the local people" have and continued to support UPDF. > >Secondly, when NRA was in the bush, it had options to choose from where and on whom to launce their attacks. It chose Rwanda and Western Uganda. LRA also had and still has options. Ever since it has been its choice to do it from Sudan and Northern Uganda. Much as the NRA was a national guerilla warfare, so is LRA. Although the majority of LRA fighters are Acolis, LRA is not an Acoli problem but a national one. What was the tribal composition of LRA anyway? It is only unfortunate that the Acolis happen to be in LRA's way and operation zone. > >It is Matovo's time to feast and celebrate! > >Ayila-kwac. > >> >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2003/07/09 Wed AM 02:37:40 EST >> >> Subject: Re: [AcoliForum] Fwd: Re: ugnet_: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN NORTH UGANDA >> >> Lutimba Matovo wrote, "The UPDF is guarding IDP's and have continuosly persued LRA rebels whenever they are". >> >> I was in Gulu for three weeks 1998/99. I visted Awer IDP's camp, which is only two miles away from my home, only once and for just a few hours...after 16 long years. My plan to visit my house which was still standing by then aborted because the rebels, as they had always done before, had camped on my compound for two full weeks and continued to relax there without any worry. The so called UPDF detach "protecting the IDPs" was and is still 2 miles away! The UPDF knew very well the presence and exact location of LRA in the area but did nothing to "pursue" them. >> How many times has the UPDF fled and abandoned the IDPs whenever the LRA attacked? How many times have the UPDF soldiers told IDPs to take care of themselves when LRA attack the camps? Where were the UPDF soldiers when LRA recently attacked Gulu Mission and Lacor Seminary and abducted students there? How many students has UPDF rescued so far in their pursuit of LRA? >> >> Ayila-kwac. >> > >> > From: Ochan Otim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Date: 2003/07/08 Tue PM 05:11:50 EST >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Subject: [AcoliForum] Fwd: Re: ugnet_: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO >> > VIOLENCE IN NORTH UGANDA >> > >> > Kaka: >> > >> > This is an example of some of the battles we do daily. Wodmogi otyeko weng >> > ikare ma owaco ni "Pe angeyo nongo ni an a bi ruku lacakacaka me lweny ki >> > komputer ki kalam ki kamera." >> > >> > Ocan >> > >> > >> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >Subject: Re: ugnet_: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN >> > >NORTH UGANDA >> > >Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:57:30 -0400 >> > > >> > >Mr. Lutimba Matovu, >> > > >> > >Stop your nonsensical propaganda. You wrote: "To finish kony once for all, >> > >we need the local people >> > >to support UPDF. This support is largely lacking. " >> > > >> > >Moreover the government of Uganda has never implemented any "immediate >> > >measures to guarantee the protection >> > >of all civilians and all aid workers from abduction >> > >and other violations of their fundamental rights," >> > > >> > >Instead the government of Uganda is a serious violator of the fundamental >> > >rights of these people >> > >and other Ugandans. >> > > >> > >The UPDF has always been informed by the local people whenever they hear of >> > >impending attacks by LRA but what does the UPDF do? They do not engage LRA. >> > >They are a "No" show and only come after the LRA are gone. They don't come >> > >before even when the attack is around the corner from their detaches. And >> > >what does Akonda or "A" something who is their spokesman for Northern >> > >Brigade say? Only that the UPDF is "pursuing the rebels." >> > > >> > >We the victims of course know why UPDF is not finishing Kony. You want this >> > >war of attrition to continue so that you steal the land from the Northerners >> > >and the Iteso to allocate to the new wealthy capitalists from the south and >> > >south western Uganda who will lease it to the expelled whites from Zimbabwe >> > >for commercial farming. Museveni is being told that he has the perfect >> > >excuse now to confine the Acholis in their pitiable little slavery camps as >> > >IDPs and develop them as ghettos for the biological substances who only >> > >deserve little plots around the camps to toil for their livelihood so that >> > >their former homes are freed up for commercial farming to move the rest of >> > >Uganda towards modernity while they step back towards darkness and >> > >backwardness. If only you knew the insidous plots in which your government >> > >is conniving...... >> > > >> > >My friend, the war is just beginning. >> > > >> > >Chris Opoka-Okumu >> > >============================================== >> > > >> > >To finish kony " >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >----- Original Message ----- at does >> > >From: "Lutimba Matovu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:03 PM >> > >Subject: Re: ugnet_: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN >> > >NORTH UGANDA >> > > >> > > >> > > > Chris Opoka-Okumu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > > > The European parliament - continues the text - >> > > > > "encourages the government and Ugandan military to >> > > > >adopt immediate measures to guarantee the protection >> > > > > of all civilians and all aid workers from abduction >> > > > > and other violations of their fundamental rights, >> > > > >as well as creating a safe environment for the >> > > > > assistance work of humanitarian groups consenting >> > > > > them to save lives". >> > > > >> > > > Chris, the EU legislators have just reaffirmed what >> > > > the Government has done for years. >> > > > >> > > > Its for this reason that our government sought >> > > > permission to launch operation Iron Fist in sudan. The >> > > > UPDF is guarding IDP's and have continuously persued >> > > > LRA rebels whenever they are. >> > > > >> > > > If it was not for our dedicated UPDF, Kony will be >> > > > ruling supreme in Northern Uganda but there is no >> > > > single village even after all these years which is >> > > > controlled by Kony. >> > > > >> > > > To finish kony once for all, we need the local people >> > > > to support UPDF. This support is largely lacking. >> > > > >> > > > I however dot believe Kony will listen to the EU. >> > > > >> > > > LM >> > UGANDA 8/7/2003 18:03 >> > EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN NORTH UGANDA >> > Politics/Economy, Standard >> > >> > The European Parliament today condemned "the serious and repeated human >> > rights violations perpetrated by all the parts involved" in the conflict >> > that has been devastating the districts of North Uganda for over 15 years, >> > calling for "an immediate cessation of the atrocities such as slavery, >> > torture, rape, killings" and all the other forms of abuse the civil >> > population is systematically subjected to. On initiative of the >> > Euro-parliamentarian Mario Mauro (Ppe-De/FI), the legislative body of the >> > 15 member nations approved a resolution which in particular deplores the >> > offensive of the rebel LRA (lord's Resistance Army) for its violence >> > against the defenceless people, "for the continuing abductions of children >> > to transform them into soldiers or for sexual exploitation" and for "the >> > growing number of attacks perpetrated against Catholic missions, as also >> > the recent order issued by the LRA leader - Joseph Kony - to destroy >> > Catholic missions and kill all the priests and missionaries"!. The European >> > parliament - continues the text - "encourages the government and Ugandan >> > military to adopt immediate measures to guarantee the protection of all >> > civilians and all aid workers from abduction and other violations of their >> > fundamental rights, as well as creating a safe environment for the >> > assistance work of humanitarian groups consenting them to save lives". The >> > resolution therefore urges the government of President Yoweri Museveni to >> > "apply good administration and political pluralism as to eliminate any >> > motivation of resorting to armed conflict; calling also that it sanction >> > abuse committed by its forces and more precisely that recently committed >> > against civilians by the VCCU anti-crime unit". In the same resolution, the >> > European Parliament also welcomes "the pledge by Sudan to not provide >> > ulterior support" to the LRA, exhorting the government of Khartoum to >> > respect and implement the pledge in its territory. The international >> > community, foremost the Office for Humanitarian Aid of the European Union >> > (ECHO), in the text is urged "to promptly intervene in face of the >> > incumbent humanitarian crisis, reinforcing emergency aid for the displaced, >> > in particular food and medical assistance, also instituting support >> > programmes for the freed prisoners to ensure their reintegration into >> > society". The United Nations Security Council is called to "study >> > possibilities of intervention of the international community for the >> > protection of the civil populations of North Uganda, including an eventual >> > application of Chapter VII of the UN Charter if requested by its Secretary >> > General Kofi Annan". The EU Council is in conclusion called to "study the >> > possibilities of a European intervention in the optic of the Mutual >> > Political and Security Policies (PESC) to monitor the security of the >> > populations admitted to the humanitarian aid distributed by the ECHO", >> > while the EU is exhorted "to consider the nomination of a special >> > representative to support current peace efforts, such as the Acholi >> > Religious Leaders Peace Initiative) a nd carefully monitor the situation of >> > minors affected by the armed conflict >> > in the region". [BO]
