On Were's Writing James Orach Lukang
>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 19:32:37 -0500 (CDT)
>From: mw >Subject: Attn Walubo
>X-Listname: UGANDA DISCUSSION LIST >
>Dear Dr. Walubo,
>
>I do not see why you should waste your bites with this LRA/UPDA/Acholi thing.
>These people you have to understand have a problem which did not start >yestarday, in 1986,1980,1960 etc. Dr. Otto tried to bring the issue out >but it seems you may have missed it. There is a section of greedy people >in that society who hold public opinion who have turned that society >around. They have cultivated lies of hatred just to win their own >personal interests. What is interesting though is that members of this >society do not sift through all what they are told and divide what is >truth and what is not. Even those who have goten the chance of living >different lifestyles. What seems to hold the Acholi society together in >unison is this sense of foreign betrayall, hate that thrives on lies and >bigotry.
>
>One Acholi academic suggested that the army in uganda(UPDA) should be >abolished, but he declined to say the same for the LRA. Now, abolish the >UPDA, withdraw troopes from the war zone and send them home so that the >LRA can just march to the rest of the country? With their good record? >These are types of messages that these opinion leaders in that society >sell around. Even if one was anti-government today, he would just see >this as unworkable.
>
>To reinforce the point about how this society has been misled, when Owiny >Dollo tells parliament that the war in the north is a consequence of >insecurity, an Acholi academic all over a sudden wakes up with his >conclusions on the UPDA, government etc. The insecurity was caused by the >likes that Dr.Otto mentioned in his posting. You plant this insecurity in >the people that there is a master plan to kill all the Acholis or take >them as slaves to work in the Lubiri. This was not the work of the NRA. >Even during the Democratic dictatorship of Obote, the Acholis had this >insecurity that is why they went around arresting , killing and beating >up people. The same method was used by Cecilia Ogwall while on campaing >in Lira, where she said that 50,000 sons of Lango were taken to Mbarara >and killed, she even broke into tears. What do you expect the population >to decipher from this?
>
>More can even be seen from postings of Brother Ochan Otim and his friend >from Kampala. If you want to tell a lie to get your message across the >whole population and not Acholis only, thenm tell a calculated >lie(distorted truth). But such exegerated lies merely assist to widen the >distrust the rest of the country have in the Acholis as the people. This >is a fact even a young child of 12 can never trustly associate with >another Acholi child just because of their history. Things are only >getting worse.
>
>Therefore the war in the North is an Acholi making and it is only a >culture gone astray. It is therefore up to the peoples of that part of >the country to wake up and trust other peoples of the country. Otherwise >forever, whoever associates with a southerner is a traitor, whoever is >appointed by m7 to help solve Acholi's problem is rejected. So what?
>
>That is my case.
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