[Ugnet] Re: [Ugandacom] Uganda: U.S. to Support Anti-LRA War

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:09:44 -0800

First, by admitting that  problems do exist, one   begins  to address the issue at hand in a genuine fashion. Unfortunately, Museveni and your NRM/O seem to minimize the problem at hand..they have been doing so for twenty years.
 
For instance the NRM has stated time and time ( one only needs to look  at New Vision archives to reach this conculsion) again to Ugandans and Members of the International Commuinty  that the wars in Northern and Eastern Uganda is in it's last stages ...that the so called "kony Rebels" have been reduced  to a handful of  "rebels"..and that soon the people  now living in squalid  de-humunizing conditions in the camps of Northern and Eastern Uganda will soon go home. This NRM Propaganda has been going on for twenty years.
 
Second, The NRM Military dictatorship has not attempted genuinely  to resolve the issue with   the so called "Kony Rebels"  peacefully. The NRM with it's friends in the WEST have emphasised MILITARY means  over peaceful means to solve the problems.
 
To that end Museveni's NRM has recuited and trained many many Militia armies like AMUKA or Arrow Bridgade a move to   contain the so called "Kony rebels".
In the mean time the UPDF continues to be armed to the tooth by nation such as Britian and the USA  to continue fighting a war which has no end in sight and has lead to many Human suffering in the camps.All this efforts as you are very much aware has failed to contain the so called "rebels" .
 
And now the regime in Kampala is threathening DRC Congo Governemnt with yet another invasion of DRC ..I hear in a move to go after "kony Rebels"..in essense Museveni is now trying to expand the "kony War" to include Eastern DRC Congo.Which may include the establisment of yet more camps in Eastern DRC  Congo.
 
In the meantime, Uganda legislators in Parliament, even though the people of Northern and Eastern Uganda have lived and continue to live under deplorable conditions in the camps, have not seen it fit to declare Northern and Eastern Uganda  disaster areas; . ..actions which could have lead to a more sustain comprehensive effort on the part of Members of the International Commuinty to step in with geninue efforts to help
 the people of Northern and Eastern Uganda.
 
 
The only attempt to try to use peaceful means to reslove the issue at hand , was to deploy a third rated so called  "peace negotiater, who also dabs as Yoweri Museveni's concurbine..a lady by the name of Ms. Betty Atuke Bigombe" as I hear "the peace mediator". "Kony Smelt the rat" and pretty much snubbed Bigombe's efforts. She is now coiled up here in Washington DC..doing what..only the heavens now.
 
The mere fact that the regime in Kampala and it's friends in the west can deploy Ms. Betty  Bigombe to I hear "negotiate peace " with the "rebels".. that in and of it's self tells some of us that the NRM and members of the International Commuinty are not serious!!
 
Moreover, now that the ICC has indicted "kony himself and his so called "Rebel Commanders", it appear , at least to some of us, that any future attempt to try  to negotiate peace with the so called "kony rebels" is further doomed for ever and ever!!
 
So the Military option has failed, the peacful option has now failed..now what is next? only Museveni and his NRM Military Dictatorships can and must articluate to the people of Uganda as to what they are going to do to healp the people in the camps of Northern and eastern Uganda..before the people can NO LONGER TAKE IT ANY MORE and demand Museveni's head on a plate!!!
 
Opoko Matek

Ed Kironde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Matek Opoko
The approach(es) in the past 20 years has/have been:
 
(01) Military - hunting down the insurgents since 1986
(02) Political  - negotiations using Acholi elders, Religious leaders, Acholi politicians, international threats.
(03) Monetary - luring insurgents  (like Alice Lakwena, rebels of other groups, etc) with money,
(04) Social - amnesty as in presidential pardon, fusing the warring factions into the main stream national army,
Whatever approach you call it, assume that the government has failed or is not interested in ending the conflict,what  new approach, Mr Matek Opoko, would you deploy to end the conflic t so that the 2 million Ugandans in the conflict zone could live happily thereafter? Thank you


Matek Opoko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Fellow Citizens:
 
As the  wise would say:   when working  on a problem..and you do not seem to be getting a suitable answer, Concrete logical analysis demands that you change coarse
and begin to look at the problem from a different angle!!
 
Damn people however, keep hammering at the some problem using the means they have used for 20 years!!!!...in a move to solve the problem...even  If it means hammering on the prob lem for anaother 20 years...like a cave man  hammering on a peace  rock they will be at it!!! Of course nobody cares about the ramification on the civilian population of the said approach.
 
MK
 
Uganda: U.S. to Support Anti-LRA War

 
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New Vision (Kampala)
March 19, 2006 Posted to the web March 20, 2006
Alice Emasu
Washington, DC
THE United States Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council in Washington, Dr. Cindy Courville, has said the US government is committed to supporting Uganda to end the 20-year northern Uganda war.
Courville revealed this on Thursday during a meeting with six women journalists from Africa at her office in the White House, Washington DC.
She said the administration of President George Bush was working tirelessly to find the best way to fight Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
The LRA, declared by the United States a terrorist organisation, has been at war for 20 years, raping, maiming and killing the local population. Over one million people have been uprooted from their homes by the war and a re now living in camps.
"We know that you are challenged by Kony. Many people feel frustrated but we have to work with you and get a solution. We feel that it is probably not right to deploy 2,000 American soldiers to fight one man," explained Courville, who is President Bush's advisor on security and foreign policy matters.
According to her, the solution to the war in the north couldn't be found as fast as the people want it. She said the US has assisted the country to train the army in anti-terrorism.
While commenting on the recently-concluded presidential election, Courville said prior to the election, Uganda was seen as a role model of democracy in many ways by most of the African countries.
She said the US did not participate in removing the presidential term limits. "We are told your people chose to return Museveni as your president. But even if there were probl ems with the term limits, you now have to work with him and build the political parties," she said.
Courville pointed out that Museveni cannot be compared with the former South African President Nelson Mandela because whereas Mandela, inherited the political policies from previous governments; Museveni initiated policies.
She, however, observed that the challenge for Museveni is to move forward and open up the political space for the parties.
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"I really believe that Uganda has a big future. I think that democracy for East Africa will be a success. But for the region to be stable, the East African leaders need to work with the governments of Rwanda and Burundi because they still need support," Courville said.
She disclosed that Bush was concen trating on Africa because he has seen the determination of the African people to develop their continent.
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