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Netters,
This is serious miscarriage of
Justice.
"THE UPDF
field court martial on Friday sentenced a soldier to death by firing squad
after he was found guilty of cowardice and failure to execute his duties."
He is said to have committed the offence when
he failed to respond to information that LRA had attacked a village and
because he did not respopnd to this information, LRA executed 8 civilians.
His defence is that his brief was to
guard the students and the internally displaced persons at Uganda College of
Commerce.
Is right to say the failure to respond
constituted cowardice? Is it right to say that failure to respond to a
situation outside once immediate duty constitute neglect of duty? What
would have happened if Pimundu took his soldiers to this village and the LRA
came and butchered the students in Uganda College of Commerce and the
IDP camps as they did in Kichwamba precisely because those who were to guard
the students were not at their post? Would he not be also accused of neglect
of duties?
What happened to those soldiers who abandoned
their post at Kichwamba Technical School, were they also executed by firing
squad? Why now Pimundu?
Can the death of 8 civilians be the necessary
result of Pimundu nor responding or the LRA would have executed them anyway
as is their wont?
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Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 4:55
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Subject: ugnet_: UPDF Soldier to Face
Firing Squad For Cowardice
| Firing Squad For Coward -New
Vision-7/9/2003 |
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THE END: Pimundu is led off to await
death |
By Nathan Etengu
THE UPDF field court martial on
Friday sentenced a soldier to death by firing squad after he was
found guilty of cowardice and failure to execute his duties.
Corporal Pimundu Gimaro, attached to the Military Police,
committed the offences on August 31 when he failed to respond to
information from a civilian that the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels
had attacked a village near his station.
The nine-member
court martial, chaired by the UPDF 3rd Division Commander, Col.
Andrew Guti, ruled that Pimundu’s omissions led to the death of
eight civilians at the hands of the rebels who had attacked Agasi
village.
“This court is final. There is no appeal. You have
been sentenced to death,” Guti announced at around 6:50pm.
Pimundu who had waited outside as the panel deliberated his
fate sighed and looked down as colleagues from the Military Police
handcuffed him and led him to a waiting pick-up truck.
He
was to be execut ed yesterday morning after President Yoweri
Museveni, the commander-in-chief of the army, was briefed on the
court decision.
Each of the two counts on which Pimundu was
charged carried a maximum punishment of death.
A prosecution
witness told court how he struggled to reach the UPDF unit after the
rebels had abducted him. He said Pimundu ignored his report.
Pimundu, in his defence, said that his brief was to guard
the students and the internally displaced persons at Uganda College
of Commerce.
Ends
Published on: Sunday, 7th September, 2003 |
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