UPC Unbothered Over Reform, Pafo Merger
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New Vision (Kampala)
July 16, 2004
Posted to the web July 16, 2004
Anne Mugisa
Kampala
The Uganda People's Congress (UPC) has said it is not bothered by the proposed merger
of the Parliamentary Advocacy Forum (PAFO) and the Reform Agenda.
UPC presidential commission chairman Dr. James Rwanyarare on Wednesday said UPC
members in PAFO would not desert the party.
He said UPC had been meeting PAFO in the G7 and advised them to either form a party,
or join others.
Speaking at the party's weekly press briefing, Rwanyarare said some members of PAFO
had requested to join the UPC.
Rwanyarare attacked President Yoweri Museveni over the northern war and US president
George Bush for branding Kony a terrorist.
He said the war was caused by political marginalisation and Kony was only a simpleton
who took advantage of the confusion, though he did not comprehend its complex dynamics.
Rwanyarare said Bush declared Kony a terrorist to please Museveni, adding that the
latter had also played the terrorist gimmick to the local and international community.
He said 15 UPC leaders in Lira were arrested and tortured by the UPDF after attending
the party's meeting.
Rwanyarare said they found seven secretly distributed to different Police stations,
two at Jinja Road and two at CPS Kampala, identifying one of the victims as C.P.
Okello.
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He, however, said UPC contacted the relatives of the alleged victims and asked them to
sue.
Rwanyarare said the relatives should also ask for the names of the eight who have not
yet been traced.
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