The Monitor (Kampala)
September 15, 2003
Posted to the web September 15, 2003
Irene Nabwire
Kampala
GULU - A former rebel leader, who benefited from the Amnesty law, wants President Yoweri Museveni to forgive LRA rebel leader, Joseph Kony.
Maj. Gen. Ali Bamuze, the former leader of the Uganda National Rescue Front II, said: "When you are a father, you can utter anything to your stubborn child but after cooling down you just forgive him. I know that is what the President is going to do because you see Kony is also a Ugandan". Bamuze said this, Sept. 12, in a telephone interview from his home in Yumbe district, in response to a statement by President Museveni that he will not give an amnesty to Kony or any of the LRA leaders.
The president said that amnesty would only be extended to people who were abducted.
Bamuze called for round table talks to end the war in northern Uganda. "Let Kony leave his useless war and come out of the bush to sit on the round table with the President in order for peace to return to this country," he said.
