[Ugnet] Commentary..... U.N. says operations in northern Uganda have failed

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:13:09 -0800

Fellow Citizens:
So much for NRM propaganda;  which combined together with failed policy ( which called for the "protection of Imperalist clientale states by NRM "friends" in Washington and London be it via Mass Media Propaganda or Military Support)  have made it possible for, what many reffer to as,  Genocide  to occur in Northern and Eastern Uganda for 20 years  right  before  members of the International Commuinty.
 
Ugandans, let us  give the man is due... this fellow Yoweri Museveni Kaguta  and his NRM are really very good at  propaganda warfare. Indeed they are good at coming up with words like ..
 
I hear these are mere   Hiccups, remnants, mop up, red line, hot line, when reffering  to the so called " LRA rebels".
 
Indeed the  whitemen Policy makers  in the capitals of the West bought hock and sinker this NRM propaganda moves.
 
20 years down the line,  inspite of dialy NRM/O propaganda, and pronoucements that the war in Northern/ Eastern Uganda is coming to an end,.... guess what the suffering of our people continues unabatted;  people dare not step out of the camps! or they become "rebel" meat, so to say. whether in ajumani in west nile region, of in Acholiland, Lango land or Teso land. The much hipped I hear UPDF protections of citizens pretty much varnishes in thin air. !!!
 
In the meantime, those citizens in the areas of kotido, Kabongong, Nakapiripiri, etter not venture out to persue daily economic activities. There too the maraunding Karamojang Cattle rustlers are ready and waiting..Citizens are only lack if they Karamojong cattle rustlers do not use them as target practice.
 
So much for Yoweri Museveni's Uganda.
 
Ugandans should however express a sense of hope, given the fact that belated though it is  and after 20 years, members of the International Commuinty have finally realized Museveni's /NRM bluff for the past 20 years...and that Organizations like the UN Security Council ( that is if the Twins will  permit them to do so..you know who I am talking about)  are now seeing the situation in Northern and Eastern Uganda with a new pair of glass.
 
Matek

Matek Opoko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Friday March 17, 7:54 PM

U.N. says operations in northern Uganda have failed

KAMPALA (Reuters) - The U.N., donors and the government have failed 1.6 million people uprooted by two decades of civil war in northern Uganda, but a new initiative provides a gli mmer of hope, a U.N. aid official said on Friday.
Dennis McNamara, the United Nations special adviser on internal displacement, said some members of the Security Council remained reluctant to put the conflict on its agenda.
But he said meetings next week among the U.N., Uganda and donors would aim to forge a plan to end the suffering.
"There is a very intense international effort, which has not happened before," McNamara told reporters in Kampala. He gave no further details.
Northern Uganda's people live in scores of squalid camps, sheltering from fighting between government troops and rebels from the cult-like Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) -- notorious for kidnapping at least 25,000 children.
"They are over-crowded, unacceptable slums where people do not get services and they are unprotected," McNamara said.
Living conditions are worsened because "the government is not protecting them properly... They are violated and abused with impunity by many sides, not just the LRA."
Aid workers say the north ranks among the world's most neglected humanitarian disasters. Death rates are higher than they were a year ago, the U.N. says, and twice as high as those in neighbouring Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur reg ion.
Uganda's army often says the LRA is on the verge of defeat, but McNamara said those claims did not tally with his experiences on several recent visits to the north.
"We are told it is nearly over, then we are escorted by two armoured cars and 35 soldiers," he said. "So, obviously, there are basic inconsistencies in what we are being told."
He said next week's meetings, to be followed by a March 30-31 visit to northern Uganda by U.N Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland, provided some hope.
Aid workers had fought hard to have the conflict discussed by the Security Council, which has never made a resolution on the north, but some member nations were ambivalent, he said.
Uganda has long been a favourite of the West as a centre of stability, development and support. That legacy has produced some hesitation by Security Council members, McNamara said.
"We hope they might be more courageous than they have been in the past," McNamara said
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