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"Captain Bosco Atubo's capture in the northeastern
Congolese town of Aba is the first tangible confirmation of the rebel group's
presence in the DR Congo."
In twenty years? God I love new
Vision.
Em
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is
in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
l'anarchie"
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:43
AM
Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Uganda: U.S. to
Support Anti-LRA War
Would this convince you?
MONUC captures LRA commander
Publication date: Wednesday, 22nd March, 2006
By Emmy Allio
THE UN Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC) and
the Congolese army captured a senior LRA rebel in Garamba on Monday.
Captain Bosco Atubos capture in the northeastern Congolese town of
Aba is the first tangible confirmation of the rebel groups presence in the DR
Congo.
The Congolese army handed over Atubo to MONUC who in turn
handed him over to the Uganda government on Monday.
We are happy that
MONUC and the Congolese army have finally seen the truth and are getting
serious with the Kony rebels, said a senior security official.
Of the
LRA rebels now in Congo, Atubo is the second officer to be captured. Second
lieutenant Richard Odong, who was captured early this month on the Yei-Juba
road said they live peacefully in Congo without being attacked by the MONUC or
Congolese forces.
He said MONUC attacked them on February 23, when
they killed eight Guatemalan UN peacekeepers in Aba.
Odong told the
New Vision that they do not carry guns or wear uniforms in DRC but move freely
in Aba and Faradje posing as Sudanese refugees.
The head of the UN
High Commissioner for Refugees sub-office in Yei, Sudan, Ahmed Warsame, said
the LRA presence in Congo has disturbed villages and camps where the Sudanese
refugees are.
There are about 20,000 Sudanese refugees in Congo, but
around Garamba they are spread out in the settlements and camps of Aba,
Faradje, Kurukwata, Doruma, Niangara, Dungu and Bangadi.
Warsame said
LRA activities around Garamba forced the UNHCR staff in the Aba Sudanese
refugee camp to relocate to Aru, while another camp in Doruma was closed.
Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) forces and the UPDF are
conducting joint operations against LRA on the Sudan-Congo border.
The
minister of information in the SPLM government in southern Sudan said the
Sudan government was still supporting LRA and are now using them to fail the
southern government ahead of the referendum in five years time.
Sudanese military officials in Juba denied allegations of supporting
the LRA, saying Khartoum last gave them support in 1998.
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Copyright 2000-2006 The New Vision. All rights reserved.
Matek Opoko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ugandans:
I , and many other Ugandans, are yet to be convinced beyond any
reasonable doubt, that the so called "kony Rebels" exist. Is there a
force which is killing and massacring the people of Uganda? Answer:
yes there is. Could that force be some members of the UPDF?
Answer: Yes that could very well be the case.. Is this force part of a
conspiracy plan by the Museveni dictatorship to wipe out "Biological
Substances together with their culture and indentity in
Northern and Eastern Uganda? answer: that could very well be.
Now let us look at the evidence which tends to dismiss this Notion that
the so called
KONY rebels exist;
8) All we hear about the so called "Kony rebels" is nothing other then
NRM UPDF propaganda pronoucements mostly propagated by the New Vision
Newspaper.
7)We are told, by non other then Museveni that KONY Rebels
reminants now number only about 120. Now you ask yourself, how can 120
so called "kony reminants" cause choas in the whole of Northern and Eastern
Uganda, Southern Sudan and now Eastern DRC Congo. How is this
possible?
6) The other day we heard from the New Vision, that UPDF had unearth
"Kony's" B10 Guns buried somewhere in Northern Uganda. Now if you are a
soldier you know that B10 guns are very heavy weapons normally carried by
heavy Army Trucks. As to where "kony Rbebels" obtain such trucks to carry
these weapons, is indeed a mystery to many of us.
5)A roman Catholic Priest in Eastern DRC Congo, in the past week
testify that the people herein reffered to as 'kony rebels" and who are now
occupying Eastern DRC.. are actually UPDF troops.
4)WE are further told that the so called "kony rebels" have crossed to
Eastern DRC from Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda. A week later,
"Kony rebels" waylay and attempt to assasinate UPDF Army Major somewhere in
Northern Uganda.
3)from 6 above, How "kony rebels' actually crossed River Nile
from Northern and Southern Sudan under the hawkish watchful eyes of the
Ugandan UPDF troops, is but a wonder to many. Did this people swim accross
or used boats? who gave them the boats?
2)Above all and most importantly, Nobody , not even repsentatives of
Non-Governmental Organizations many of whom are roaming arround
are quiet abandant in Northern and Eastern Uganda , have over the
duration of twenty years have NOT actually seen
"kony" or talked to KONY face to face.
1)Consider that during the Angola Civil war , or the Sudan
Civil War international News Media like the BBC, VOA, RADIO FRANCE
INTERNATIONAL had a chance and did talk to the then rebel leaders such
as Jonas Savimbi, of Angola or John Garang of the Sudan. In the
case of "Kony" no such thing has occured!!!!What does that tell you or any
smart intelligent Ugandan out there?
For this and many other reasons, the existence of so called "kony
rebels" is very doubful indeed.
Nonetheless, the fact is that our people are suffering in the
camps of Northern and Eastern Uganda.
The key issue at hand now is for the regime to bring this suffering to
a speedy end and quickly.
It is no longer enough for the NRM Military dictatorship to continue
propagating it's constant propaganda pronoucement emminated through THE NEW
VISION NewsPaper in the hope that some how this propaganda
moves will help defeat "kony" and solve the pressing issue now
confronting the people of o Northern and Eastern Uganda.
In essence some of us are very much relieved that members of the
International Commuinty, in particular the United Nations, and the United
Nations Security Council and International Non-Governmental
Organizations , in a very fresh move are now demanding that the regime in
Kampala resolve the Northern/ Eastern Uganda Crises
peaceful .
Matek Opoko
Ed Kironde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Good
points, but i can see that for social reason you refer to uncle Joe's
rebels as "Kony rebels" or the so "called Kony rebels". By parenthisising
the insurgents, you create a fallacy that they do not exist or that you do
not want to refer to them as rebels, can we start there in admitting that
Kony exist and he is a leader of an insurgency organization with a lot of
support from Acholi people mainly based abroad, the Sudanese government
and some strong personalties on European Union. Let us admit that
the problem exist
Matek Opoko
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 conflict 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 problem 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
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 are 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
problems 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.
"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 concentrating on
Africa because he has seen the determination of the African people
to develop their continent.
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