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--- Begin Message ---Bwana Bamugambe:Who said that I look like your mama's Fool? If there is any support what so ever, I would rather such support to "kony" ( who ever he is) or any "rebel" out there who is capable of taking on Museveni why? Because . I hold Museveni and his NRM responsible for the mess in Northern and Eastern Uganda which has been going on for now 20 years.!!Matek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Bwana-KUbwa Opoko, why are blaming M7 on suffering of Acholi people? You should give-up the killer Kony! lunderstand blood is thicker than water.....Kony is leaving on Achooli blood l ,m sure...100%.M7 ...WILL NEVER WIN..Kony-war with- out total support of North. With same elements still helping Kony..killing ,raping, cuting Achooli....lips and kidnapping children- sometimes l wonder if The Achooli Ghosts will blaming M7. So Bwana- Opoko.... do as THe Arrowboys---they are affective....since i was akid my grandfather used tell storys of The Achooli worriers....want happend to them? CWA.JB.
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> 'I Was Raped By Men Who Should Have Guarded Me'
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> STELLA was awakened by heavy footsteps treading outside her
> makeshift shack. She realised very soon she may breath her last.
> It was about 11:00pm. The moon brightly shone over Pabbo
> internally displaced people's camp, Gulu. Her heart missed several
> beats, then begun pounding in her ears.
>
> Stella prayed that God spares her children. In desperation, she
> shook the child lying next to her. "Wake up," she whispered.
> Unfortunately, the little girl woke up in a fright. She screamed.
> On Stella's other side, the last born also begun crying.
>
> The presence of her husband in the dingy hut was of no use. The
> father of her five children was dead drunk. She was even more
> terrified when he begun snoring loudly. She wanted to weep! But
> realised that would be at her children's detriment.
>
> Anguish seized her. She tried to calm herself, but could hardly
> stop the violent shiver that shook her from head to toe. A heavy
> sigh escaped her when the children stopped crying. Stella narrates...
>
> "I thought oh, God has heard me again. The footsteps outside had
> stopped, but in my frightened state, I didn't know which side they
> had gone. I stuffed my breast in the baby's mouth to prevent any
> further outbursts.
>
> "As I leaned on the mud wattle wall, my heart sank when I heard
> someone banging on the tin door," she narrates.
>
> "Funguwa mulango (open the door)," a man shouted.
>
> "Lubanga (God in Acholi)," I whispered, Lubanga! The door was made
> of straightened and patched up tins of USA oil. It was weak, so
> they easily kicked it open. All the children had woken up, but
> their father continued snoring. I held my breast firmly in the
> baby's mouth.
>
> "They were flashing torches, so glimpses of light fell on them. I
> recognised one of them, but I couldn't say for fear that they
> could kill my whole family. He was a popular soldier in the camp.
>
> "They were six men. They ordered me and my 10-year-old daughter to
> go out.
>
> "The moon was bright. Some were speaking Kiswahili with a
> Kinyankole accent. I knew they were UPDF soldiers not rebels.
>
> "My daughter tried to cry, but one of the soldiers kicked her and
> she fell on the ground. I stood there, helpless. I wanted to help
> my child, but I had to be cautious, any wrong move could get us
> killed. Seeing they were soldiers, I knew what they wanted. I only
> wished they could leave my little girl alone.
>
> "They ordered us to begin moving. I tried to plead with them to
> let my daughter go back and was slapped in the face. They accused
> me of being a rebel collaborator. I was not surprised. Other women
> said that is what they always said.
>
> "We were told not to look behind as we moved away from the camp.
> They ordered me to throw my baby in the bush. He was crying
> incessantly. I refused. I told them to kill us quickly, if they
> had plans of taking our lives.
>
> "One man slapped my face again and grabbed the baby. My son cried
> so loudly. I thought my ears would burst. He was thrown into the
> shrubs. I pleaded with him in vain.
>
> "After a distance, they ordered us to lie with our faces on the
> ground. I felt rough hands groping under my dress. As they raped
> me in turns, they were doing the same to my daughter. I could hear
> her struggling but they covered her mouth. She stopped struggling
> at some point. I think I also blacked out,"
>
> Every woman and girl in Pabbo IDP camp braves herself for rape and
> child sexual abuse respectively. Only, Stella says it strips off
> all preparations, leaving you shattered. She narrates...
>
> "I woke up with a start. There was dew on the grass. I moved my
> legs and felt sore all over. Then the horror came back to me. The
> pain was excruciating. But I remembered my children. My daughter
> was lying nearby, she was groaning. When I tried to help her up,
> she couldn't stand.
>
> "I had to hurry before the whole camp woke up. I couldn't stand
> the humiliation of what had happened. I carried my daughter to the
> camp.
> The pain was like I had been sliced between the legs, but I moved on.
>
> I passed my baby and stopped to check if he was breathing. I think
> he cried himself to sleep.
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> "My daughter was bleeding profusely. For four days, she refused to
> come out of the hut. I told my husband what happened. He went to
> report to the barracks, but was beaten up severely.
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> "My bright girl has since dropped out of school, other children
> laugh at her. The soldiers were not punished, they were just
> transferred..." Stella says.
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> suffering..by Yoweri Museveni
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> Tracing the roots of the Acholi people?s sufferingYoweri K.
> MuseveniGULU
> The suffering of our people in Acholi, in particular, as well as
> part of the North-Central part of Uganda in general, has been
> occasioned by six factors: colonial manipulation and distortions;
> poor leadership; a weak state; bad national politics; the Afro-
> Arab conflict in the Sudan; and lack of education leading to
> mysticism.
> When the British were colonizing Uganda, they used the method of
> playing one group against another (divide and rule). Fearing the
> strength of the Buganda they had expanded at the expense of
> Bunyoro, in particular, as well as other parts of Uganda in
> general, they started a new scheme of using parts of the North
> against our people in Buganda. They, then, started peddling
> certain myths and lies to play one group of our people against
> another. For instance, the Baganda were very "clever" people.
>
> They were not like other natives of Uganda. On the other hand, the
> Northerners, the Acholis in particular, were "a martial race"
> whose natural instincts were skewed towards war-like activities.
> Those lies and distortions went to the heads of whatever
> leadership was available at that time which, in turn, amplified
> and spread them to the rest of the population.
>
> Clear thinking leaders should never have countenanced such trash.
> It should have been treated with disdain they deserved before it
> led our people to all these sufferings: the 1966 coup by Obote
> against the Constitution; Amin's 1971 coup and the hemorrhage that
> went with it; the missed chance of 1979/1980; the massacres in
> Luwero (the philosophy of "a good Muganda is a dead one"); and the
> demonic madness of Kony, his collaborators and apologists.
>
> Poor leadership
> Juxtaposed side by side with the problem of colonial distortions
> and manipulation is the problem of poor leadership in Acholi. Like
> many oth er areas of Uganda, our Acholi people lacked leaders from
> within the community to tell, in very clear language, the trouble
> makers to go to hell.
>
> Buganda, and other parts of Uganda, for a long time, had the same
> problem: - nobody within the respective communities to tell off
> the trouble-makers and parasites.
> My personal experiences highlight this issue in two instances: the
> onset of Idi Amin in 1971 and the problem of Obugabe (Kingship in
> Ankole). Virtually all the citizens of North Ankole had been DP
> supporters. They, therefore, jubilated when Obote was overthrown
> by Amin.
>
> Their simple but erroneous reasoning was as follows: "the enemy of
> my enemy is my friend." I told off all my confused compatriots,
> relatives, friends or previous collaborators. I could not support
> an uneducated person to be the President of Uganda for any length
> of time; moreover, a person that was known to be a killer. I never
> aided or abetted Amin for even one day. In so doing I provided
> uncompromising leadership against evil, against my very relatives,
> friends and close collaborators.
>
> More recently, there was the divisive issue of Obugabe (Kingship)
> in Ankole. I made it very clear that either Omugabe was accepted
> by all sections or we would allow no Mugabe. That type of
> leadership has been lacking in Acholi, except for some few
> individuals from this area.
>
> How could leaders accept rape of children, murders, mutilations,
> disfigurements, etc? By not condemning loudly the terrorists, many
> Acholi leaders were encouraging the wrong-doers. In fact, they
> would say: "let us kill civilians and Government would be blamed".
> Indeed, it would happen - the Government would be condemned and
> the killers would eith er be pampered or covered up. How many times
> did we hear the statements like: "It is the Government killing
> Acholis and blaming it on the rebels"?
>
> Weak state
> The third factor was a weak state, especially the phenomenon of a
> one-dimensional national defence force. Modern Armies are, at
> least, three-dimensional. A three-dimensional defence force covers
> land, sea (lakes) and air - i.e. Army, Airforce and navy. Owing to
> the turbulent history of Uganda, the building of a three
> dimensional National Defence force was never achieved. It is only
> recently that we are tackling this problem.
>
> By 1986 we had a very dedicated land force (infantry mainly). It
> was not, however, possible to quickly resolve the terrorism put
> out by Kony, supported by certain external forces, only relying on
> this force alone. That is why the struggle had to be protracted.
> We are now, finally, solving that problem of a uni-dimensional
> national defence force. That is how we have been able to break the
> back of the terrorists.
>
> We are continuing to build the three dimensions of our national
> defence forces. I can assure Ugandans that, henceforth, it will
> not be possible for any force to destabilise our democracy using
> force.
>
> We have the capacity to deal with them promptly unlike in the past
> when we had to engage in this valiant but protracted campaign
> against the terrorists. Those in the habit of threatening violence
> had better restrain themselves.
>
> The fact that UPDF has been able not only to cope with the Kony
> group but to also suppress it, is a factor that should give
> Ugandans peace of mind regarding their democratic future. We are
> now going to focus more on corruption in relation to State funds, > contracts, fair adjudication and abuse of office.
>
> Bad politics
> The undoing of Uganda right from the days of colonialism was the
> problem of bad politics. Bad politics means politics that is
> devoid of principles that are designed to uplift the people of
> Uganda out of their backwardness.
>
> It is politics that is, instead, aimed at, using the Ugandan
> people's lack of information to use them for personal interests to
> access jobs or resources. It is politics without vision for
> transformation. It is parasitic politics. The bad politics of
> Uganda, in particular, has been characterized by two elements:
> lack of belief in democratic solutions and sectarianism.
>
> Why has Kony been killing people? If he wanted power, ever
> since1989, when we expanded the NRC, we have been having
> elections. Why couldn't he stand for any post? See how we are
> resolving all outstanding issues: opening the political space,
> regional tier, term limits for President, etc. We refer the issues
> to the referenda, Parliament, etc. Why should there be violence?
> Anybody who continues to believe or talk of violence, when there
> are democratic options is an enemy of the people and a criminal.
>
> The other element of bad politics is sectarianism, based on
> tribes, religion, etc. This is why Obote did not act against Amin
> even the British Governor-General gave him the evidence of all the
> crimes he had committed. At that time 1962, there was still the
> false groupism of the Northern Region vs the other regions of
> Uganda. The consequences were very bitter for Uganda. "Whatever a
> man sows is what he reaps." My stand on such issues is very clear.
> In 1989, I dismissed my own brother, Saleh, from the Army for
> drunkenness. Yet, very f ew people in Uganda could compare with
> Saleh in contributing to our struggle.
>
> He had, however, lost bearing. I had to act. I was, therefore,
> happy to hear that Rwot Acana reprimanded the terrorists when he
> met them near Palabek. That is part of the medicine.
>
> Afro-Arab conflict
> The Afro-Arab conflict in the Sudan is one of the greatest
> indignities to the black people. Sudan should be a great Afro-Arab
> bridge, where the heritages of the two different races are
> accorded equal treatment. Instead, some elements in Sudan tried to
> turn it into an Arab bridge-head into Black Africa - to convey
> Arabism and enforced Islamisation into the heartland of Black
> Africa.
>
> The Black people there, our brothers, waged a protracted and
> lonely struggle for their salvation ever since 1955. When we came
> into Government in 1986, for some unknown reasons, the Sudanese
> Arabs decided to attack us, without any provocation, on the 22nd
> of August, 1986, at Bibia. Our Battalion 28 defeated this attack
> decisively. However, the attackers, spurred on by Sudan fanned out
> and spread the terror to the countryside.
>
> The mistake by the Arabs of Sudan of interfering in our internal
> affairs caused us to give strong support to the SPLA. As a
> consequence, the SPLA took over 90% of Southern Sudan, a land area
> that is three times the size of Uganda. Some other Governments in
> Africa also extended material support to the SPLA off and on. The
> SPLA has, eventually, signed a very good agreement with the Sudan
> Government, thereby liberating the people of Southern Sudan.
>
> The Sudanese Arabs, by supporting Lakwena and Kony, created a lot
> of problems for us, but they also created a lot of problems for
> themselves and a hope of freedom for our Black brothers in
> Southern Sudan.
>
> Having realized the futility and counter productiveness of their
> support for Kony, the Sudanese Arabs, starting with 2002, agreed
> to end support for Kony. Some clandestine support for Kony
> continued until about one year ago.
>
> Without Sudan supporting Lakwena, Kony, and others, there would
> have been no terrorism in Northern Uganda, in West Nile, in the
> Rwenzori region, etc. However, possibly, there would not have been
> the liberation of Southern Sudan either. Should we conclude that
> God works in mysterious ways?
>
> Lack of Education
> There seems to be a lot of superstition in Acholi that can be
> manipulated by the crooks like Kony. This is an unfortunate result
> of limited education. The Movement has introduced Universal
> Education in the form of UPE. We have built Gulu Univ ersity, etc.
> We shall get rid of illiteracy. However, the Acholi leaders and
> religious leaders must help us with the superstition.
>
> The Movement and the UPDF have stood with you (the people of
> Acholi) throughout this in addition to our previous stand against
> Idi Amin, Milton Obote, etc. We support right, oppose wrong, unite
> as many people as can be united to isolate the enemy to the
> maximum. You all can see that our firm stand is, finally and
> irreversibly, bringing peace.
> We have a rehabilitation plan as soon as the scattered remnants
> are accounted for.
>
> *This is an edited version of a speech President Museveni gave at
> a retreat for Acholi leaders at Paraa Lodge on June 26.
>
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