No capacity to end Kony war
In his column (The Monitor Tuesday, March 2, 2004), Kintu Nyago waxes indignant about âthe gravity of public statementsâ made by the EUâs ambassador Sigurd Illing in connection with the conflict in the north. He expresses preference for such statements to be channelled through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He says nothing about why they are acceptable when made in private [the right forum?] and not publicly.
Heâs against foreign envoys communicating clandestinely with âenemies of the Uganda stateâ, because âUgandans have the capacity to decide how to resolve their political challengesâ.
He forgets that âhis Ugandansâ have nothing to show for 18 years of using their âcapacityâ to end the war.He moans about members of the Young Democrats being routinely clobbered and tear-gassed for daring to hold public meetings. He quickly forgets that this is yet more evidence of lack of capacity to resolve political challenges.
In his mind, these facts have nothing to do with the actions of foreign envoys whose taxpayers help prop up a militaristic regime that canât pay its own bills. He wants the LRA High Command to be tried for crimes against humanity and in the same breath claims to ârecogniseâ the views of those who âinstead call for peaceâ. What is your good columnist trying to communicate?
Frederick Golooba-Mutebi
Johanneburg.
You raise some valid points above.
MK
"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
