Mwami Mulindwa:
Here is yet another more NORM hullabaloo you are supposed to believe! It is like for 18 years they have been at it. Uttering the some old tired rubbish (for now 18 years) in the hope that those Uganda without the ability to engage in Critical thinking, will ultimately believe this propaganda rubbish
Matek
In a message dated 11/2/2003 7:40:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Netters this is an interesting article about Kony, his origins and
motivations...article taken from site below;
http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/14C8D00C472ED3CFC12569260047E374
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Background of the Lord's Resistance Army (1987-2002)
Killing of Acholis loyal to President Obote by Idi Amin in the 1970s
Acholis mobilised for the overthrow of Amin in the late 1970s
The "Obote II" Ugandan army (UNLA) included a predominant Acholi element
until Museveni (NRA) gained power in 1986
Acholi contingent of the UNLA continued to engage the NRA forces in 1986
while fleeing to Sudan and creating rebel group Uganda People's Democratic
Army (UPDA)
Holy Spirit Movement Front (HSMF) led by Alice Auma "Lakwena" fighting NRA
during the 1986-87 period
Joseph Kony fighting with UPDA but "inspired" by HSMF
Peace accord between UPDA and NRA in 1988, but Kony leaving and creating LRA
Breakdown of peace talks between LRA and Museveni in 1994 marks end of
support for LRA by Acholi people
First round of major LRA attacks during 1996 forced approximately 110,000
Acholi people to seek refuge in trading centres in Gulu district
Reported in March 2002 that between 2,000 â3,000 LRA fighters remained
encamped within Sudan between 65 and 100 km. from the border
LRA actively pursued by Ugandan army during first of 2002 after being
considered a "terrorist group" by the US
"From the beginning, the LRA's principal tactic has been to target the
civilian population of Acholiland, terrorizing the community and creating
paralyzing despondency. In its attacks, it characteristically kills, maims,
rapes, loots, burns homes, destroys crops, and â most traumatically â
abducts civilians, especially children. Kony is said to believe (or to have
been told by his spirits) that the Acholi are to be punished for their lack
of support to his cause.
Beyond this vague objective, its own survival and a vaguely-stated goal of
'overthrowing the Museveni government', the LRA seems to have no coherent
political programme. As a channel for spirits, Kony has created an aura for
himself and his organisation of deliberate irrationality and obscurantism.
As a practical matter, the LRA exists as an end in itself, serving to prey
upon the civilian population, keeping it in a state of terror and turmoil
and preventing any meaningful economic reconstruction of the region. "
(Weeks March 2002, p.9)
Historical background:
"During the first post-Independence government of President Milton Obote
(referred to as 'Obote I'), the Ugandan army was still derived primarily
from the north. The Acholi, while not the majority, comprised its
predominant ethnic group. Soldiers from the West Nile region were prominent
as well. (Gersony, Section 1, 1997, "Background")
"Amin's persecution of Acholis: Army Commander Col. Idi Amin - an ethnic
Kakwa and a Muslim who claimed to be from Koboko County in the West Nile's
Arua District - overthrew Obote in January 1971. Fearing the army's Acholi
and Langi elements, he ordered them to the barracks, and early in his regime
had many hundreds of their officers and enlisted men killed. The Amin regime
was characterized by the elimination of many prominent, educated or
prosperous Acholi in Kampala as well as in the north, including in 1977 the
Anglican Archbishop of Uganda. Some Acholi assert that an entire generation
of Acholi leaders was eliminated or forced into exile during these years.
Amin replaced the Acholi in the army with West Nilers, especially Kakwa and
Aringa people from northern Arua and with a group many Ugandans refer to as
"Sudanese." The term "Sudanese" apparently refers to Sudanese migrant
laborers long settled in Uganda and their descendants, who resided around
the Jinja area near Kampala; or their relatives from southern Sudan (and
some from northeastern Zaire) who were invited to join the Amin forces.
As national and international disaffection with Amin increased,
anti-Government elements (including the current president, Yoweri Museveni)
coalesced in Tanzania during the late 1970s, and organized to overthrow him.
According to some northerners, Ugandan Acholis residing as refugees in Sudan
as well as Acholi in Gulu and Kitgum living in their home areas were
recruited for this purpose. In Tanzania, they organized and trained to
participate in the Ugandan National Liberation Army (UNLA). The Tanzanian
Army and the UNLA invaded Uganda and in April 1979 overthrew the Amin
forces, many of whom retreated to Sudan.
Following three brief interim presidencies (Lule, Binaisa and Muwanga), and
an election whose integrity was widely questioned, President Obote was
returned to power in 1980. The "Obote II" Ugandan army, now the UNLA, again
included a predominant Acholi element. Its proportion was estimated by some
Acholi sources as about 30% to 40% of the approximately 35,000-person force.
A larger proportion of officers than enlisted men may have been Acholis. The
army, often perceived by the public as largely of Acholi origin, was used by
the government for the unenviable job of settling power disputes and
carrying out unpopular government orders, gaining for it the enmity of many
Ugandans. " (Gersony, Section 1, 1997,"Amin's persecution of Acholis
