Report Pins Govt On Commitment to Peace
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The Monitor (Kampala)
June 16, 2004
Posted to the web June 16, 2004
Emma Mutaizibwa
Kampala
Government mistrust has hampered efforts to end the LRA conflict, reads a report from
the Refugee Law Project released on Friday.
The report is based on research carried out in May in the West Nile region, after four
insurgent groups surrendered to the government. Some of the rebel groups include the
West Nile Bank Front and the Uganda National Rescue Front.
Citing one of the brokered agreements in Libya between President Yoweri Museveni and
Moses Ali's rebel groups, the report says Museveni failed to live up to his promise
after he captured power.
"Indeed, numerous informants referred to an official agreement between Moses Ali and
Museveni in Libya, where Ali would be made Vice President if the NRA took power
first," the report reads.
The Director of the Refugee Law Project, Zachary Lomo, told a press conference at his
offices in Old Kampala, that, "There are hawkish elements who are misadvising the
President and hindering the restoration of peace in the north."
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But army spokesperson Maj. Shaban Bantariza, refuted the claims. "The Nairobi Peace
Accord collapsed because it asked the soldiers of the Lutwa junta to stop killing
people.
"When they failed, we simply swept them away," he said, adding that the surrender of
the current Gulu LC-5 chairman, Col. Walter Ochora, was a result of the Pece Peace
Accord.
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