[Ugnet] US to force Sudan on LRA

[Matek Opoko]

US to force Sudan on LRA
By Frank Nyakairu
Oct 9, 2004

KITGUM � A United States official has said his government will do everything possible to ensure the Sudan government respects Uganda�s sovereignty. The Usaid Assistant Administrator for Africa, Mr Young Frank, made the comments while visiting Kitgum district on Thursday. �We will do all that we can to make sure that they live up to their responsibility of respecting the territorial integrity of Uganda,� Young told The Monitor. His comments followed a request by the Minister of State for Northern Uganda Reconstruction, Ms Grace Akello, to the US government to exert more pressure on Sudan to stop arming the LRA led by Joseph Kony. �We ask you kindly to try and do something on our neighbours because you have seen the suffering the war has brought to our people,� Akello said. Addressing hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs) at Labuje Camp in Kitgum town, Young asked th e Uganda government to negotiate with the LRA to end the insurgency. He said the US government has been trying to bring the Uganda government and the LRA to a round table, but they have not succeeded. �We have been working very hard to try and get both parties (in the conflict) reach a peace agreement so that you (IDP) go home. The problem has been to get both sides to sit and agree. We shall continue to put pressure on both sides,� Young said. He said more parties were needed to pressure government and the rebels to change their opposition to peace talks. �We shall continue to [press for] peace not only through our good offices, but also through other institutions and the European governments to try to encourage both sides to realise this war has no winner. The conflict has only losers and we hope soon we will get them sit on a round table,� Young said. He toured St Joseph�s Hospital Kitgum and promised to help the hospital with logistics to cope with medical needs of the IDPs and the general local population. The northern insurgency has displaced about 1.6 million people while thousands have been killed, raped or abducted. The International Criminal Court is investigating LRA commanders for war crimes. The LRA has had its bases in southern Sudan from where it launches cross-border incursions into Uganda. ------   Interesting... Fellow citizens, unless one has been living the proverbial Plato's cave, I thought Yoweri Museveni  through his utterences and action  has expressed beyond any reasonable doubt to the people of   Uganda  and members of the International Community that the NRM military dictatorship is NOT ..   repeat NOT interesting in  negotiating peace aggreement  with the  so called Kony rebels.  For Museveni "Kony rebels" must be crushed..and over the past 19 years Museveni has been trying to do exactly that. He cares   not about the cost ( in terms of Human suffering in Northern Uganda and in terms of dollars spent) involved  in undertaking this mission to "crush" Kony. And in this Museveni effort to try and crush   "KONY"certain   countries in the WEST have  played instrumentals  roles  in  helping Museveni both Mil itarily and financial...and so our people continue to exprience tremendous suffering.. I guess to Museveni and his friends, the death of Africans in Northern Uganda  really does not matter. African are expendible.. they may be killed in huge number and nobody really  gives a hood! Indeed , after the Museveni and his friends lauched a war in DRC ..a war which claimed 3.5 Million  Africans! , Museveni and his friends at the end of it all,simply dimissed  the war in DRC congo as some sort of a nightmare which should not have happen.  Museveni wined and dined , cracked jokes recently   in harare  as if the war in DRC Congo didi not happen ..as if 3.5 million  people did not loss their lives in DRC Congo as a result of Yoweri Museveni misadventure in Congo. The likes of Yoweri Museveni  have NO conscious, fellow citizens, ...They kill Human Beings and would still sleep confortable at night.   MK

� 2004 The Monitor Publications

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