The British Col , remember him...the fellow the British Government dispatched to act as a co-mediator with Ms. Bigombe during the failed "peace negotiations" between "kony" and Museveni's Movement Regime., apparently, as word from the grapevine has it, the fellow walked out very upset about the turn of Events. I hear the fellow is somewhere in Kampala or perhaps has gone back to England to report his findings to her Majesty the QUEEN's Government
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Bigombe Returns
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The Monitor (Kampala)
March 19, 2005
Posted to the web March 18, 2005
Frank Nyakairu
Kampala
Ms Betty Bigombe, chief negotiator in the peace process to end the 19-year old war in northern Uganda has dismissed reports that she abandoned the peace process.
"I'm in Burundi but I will come back to Uganda this weekend to continue with the peace process," said Bigombe on phone on Thursday.
She was in Bujumbura on a post conflict assignment by the World Bank but said she had maintained contacts with the LRA and the peace process was still on.
The head of the government peace team and Internal Affairs Minister, Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, said the government had maintained contacts with the LRA.
"We have kept in touch with the LRA side through the mediator and the peace process is surely still on course," Rugunda said.
But the peace process has suffered a host of setbacks including alleged sabotage by some military officials and the continued war crimes investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Meanwhile, a team of Gulu leaders is in The Hague to persuade the ICC to halt issuing the warrants of arrest for LRA top leaders saying this would jeopardise the peace process.
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