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New Vision (Kampala)February 14, 2004
Posted to the web February 16, 2004 Denis Ocwich
Kampala
ACHOLI religious leaders have come under fire for insisting on peace talks with Joseph Kony.Kitgum district chairman, Nahaman Ojwe, described the clerics as detractors who are not directly affected by the conflict.
He said it was obvious that the rebel leader was not interested in dialogue."Some of them are talking from safe havens, mosques and churches.
Let us hear from the people who are directly affected by the war," Ojwe said.Ojwe, who is opposed to peace talks, last week condemned the rebels for killing innocent people.Meanwhile, a former MP for Erute South, John Akeny who is now a volunteer mobiliser for the Amuka militia in Lango, has also slammed peace talks."If somebody believes talking to Kony is possible, let him go and surrender his life," Akeny said.
He described Kony as a devil and a parasite which survives on the assets of other people.He hailed the International Criminal Court for its decision to probe Kony.
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
