LRA solution lies in maintaining IDP camps The English say that "between two evils you choose the lesser, and so instead of being massacred helplessly the people in the North, some people had to leave their villages and go to the camps.
Memories of the most gruesome massacre of innocent civilians in Atiak villages will probably haunt the Acholi forever, and the architect Vincent Otti will never surrender or talk peace. Members of LRA rebels cooking human beings in pots are even more disturbing, but the recent worst was the hacking of 18 women in Pagak and their babies leaving them speechless stuck on their mothers' backs. It's a ping-pong that seems not to end but which can never prevail forever. The solution lies nowhere else but in protecting the people in the IDP camps and continue to search for their killers in the jungles. ( This is the ultimate job of the UPDF. Since the Bar Lonyo massacre, gallant soldiers of Filth Division have intensified pressure on criminal Odiambo who led the attack. After looting tones of food which he was about to deliver to chief terrorist Kony in Sudan, he got a beating of his life in Kit Valley - North of Magwi where he lost 54 fighters and dropped all the loot. He will never forget May 18, 2004. This is why the defence Minister is genuinely demanding an increase to cater for the various security challenges at hand. Even before an increment is made, the UPDF will continue to operate the way we have always done. It is our resolve to protect the IDP camps as one of the approaches to end this conflict remains unshaken, and we shall not accept to be derailed by detractors. Lt Paddy Ankunda UPDF PRO for Northern Uganda +============================================ ..AND NOW FOR A BRIEF COMMENTARY... FIRST AND FOREMOST PADDY AKUNDE'S REASONING DEFIES LOGIC. HE SAYS QUOTE " THE SOLUTION LIES NOWEHERE ELSE BUT TO CONTINUE "PROTECTING" THE PEOPLE IN THE CAMPS". NOW ONE REALLY BEGINS TO WONDER AS TO WHAT NOTION OF "PRROTECTION" IS AKUNDE REFFERING TOO? YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO, FELLOW CITIZENS, THAT FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS DURING WHICH THE NRM MILITARY DICTATORSHIP HAS BEEN FIGHTING "KONY", OUR PEOPLE IN THE CAMPS HAVE CONTINUOUSLY SUFFERED ....THERE HAS BEEN NO "PROTECTION" OF WHICH OUR FRIEND SPEATH. TO NOW CLAIM THAT NRM INTENDS TO PERSUE THE SOME POLICY OF FIGHTING "KONY" WHILE AT THE SOME TIME OFFER "PROTECTION" ( AS DEFINED BY AKUNDE) TO THE PEOPLE OF NORTHERN UGANDA, IS TO ENGAGE IN A DETRIMENTAL POLICY WHICH WILL LEAD UP TO THE COMPLETE ANNAHILATION OF THE ACHOLI. WHAT THE PEOPLE OF ACHOLI NEED IS AN ALTERNATIVE AVENUE THROUGH WHICH THE ISSUE WHICH HAS CONFRONTED THAT SOCIETY AND THE PEOPLE OF UGANDA FOR NOW 20 YEARS, MAY BE RESOLVED PEACEFULLY. ..AND IF THE NRM CAN NOT BRING PEACE TO ALL UGANDANS ..THEY NEED TO PACK UP AND GO TO NYAKATURA. mATEK -------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
