I'm not against a public inquiry. But what I was commenting on was not 'general accepted beliefs', rather it was the UPC itself acknowledging the human rights violations it committed while in power. Read the last sentence of the article you posted below !
Kasangwawo
From: "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] UPC hits back at Bukenya Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 14:58:54 -0500
Kasangwawo
A public inquirely is what I am calling for. We are tired with general accepted beliefs, let us open it up so that we know who did what?
Em
The Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" ----- Original Message ----- From: "jonah kasangwawo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] UPC hits back at Bukenya
> Well, at least now the UPC acknowledges that human rights violations were
> committed during its regimes. A step in the right direction.
>
>
> >From: "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] UPC hits back at Bukenya
> >Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:39:25 -0500
> >
> >There is one thing I fail to understand from all these people. If
Uganda's
> >vice president knows for a fact that UPC has human rights violation, how
> >does banning it from politics help? For a man of Bukenya's standard
should
> >know that the only way to fight human rights abuse is to make those
abuses
> >public, and we do that by holding public inquiries. Why do we fear to
open
> >up this secret and make it public? A public inquirely will allow us to
put
> >those responsible to courts and will bring the victims to closure. Why
> >doesn't NRM want to make UPC's human rights violations public?
> >
> >What I am afraid of, is the years and years we have spent in these forums
> >when a part of us state that UPC has been the worst party in Uganda's
> >history, and there are those of us who want to look at our past
governments
> >including NRm if I may add for what good they have done and we base our
> >work on those good things and move on. But we are forced as a society to
> >join a general belief that UPC was a bad party, and we can not ask to
back
> >it up, in so doing we even go to Uganda and find national institutions
> >which were built by UPC like hospitals and we destroy them. The
difference
> >becomes that our people die of curable diseases when Museveni's daughter
> >goes to Germany for a baby birth.
> >
> >Vice president, use your good and powerful office and set up an inqurely
so
> >that we can know what UPC did? For with out taking that step, I can not
> >help but believe that you have used a blanket statement to run away from
a
> >very competitive political party. And by calling for shutting down UPC
for
> >ten years, Ugandans must wonder what is in that party that you are scared
> >of. Thank you for campaigning for it. The days are strange indeed.
> >
> >Em
> >
> > The Mulindwas Communication Group
> >"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
> > Groupe de communication Mulindwas
> >"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Elum aniap Godfrey Ayoo
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Edward Mulindwa
> > Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:57 AM
> > Subject: [Ugandacom] UPC hits back at Bukenya
> >
> >
> >
> > UPC hits back at Bukenya
> >
> > The Uganda People's Congress (UPC) has not taken lightly remarks
> >by Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya that the Party be kept out of
power
> >for one or two decades.
> >
> > Prof. Bukenya on Thursday challenged the UPC to apologise for
its
> >past poor human rights record and the party has now addressed an
impromptu
> >press conference to protest the statements.
> >
> > Presenting the statement on behalf of the Presidential Policy
> >Commission Chairman James Rwanyarare (above), a member of the Commission
> >Oweyagah Afuna Adhula calls for reconciliation saying that the National
> >Resistance Movement /Army (NRM/NRA) is as guilty as the UPC.
> >
> > The UPC while acknowledging the violation of human rights during
> >its regimes accuses the NRA of murders in Mukura, Atiak, Kichwamba,
Kanungu
> >and the Republic House among others.
> >
> >
> >
> > "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We
> >cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil
> >rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long
as
> >our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the
> >motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities (.) No, no, we are
not
> >satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like
> >waters and righteousness like a mighty stream". (Martin Luther King, 1964
> >Nobel Peace prize laureate, assassinated for his struggle)
> >
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