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Matek
The British are playing stupid as always and we
know them more than they know them selves.
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 -----
From: Matek Opoko
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:13 AM
Subject: [Ugandacom] Uganda: UK Defends Uganda Mambas This issue , if not handle carefully , is going to
very much affect future British Relationship with Uganda 5, 10 20
year from now. The Brits will have to answer? Of course the Brits do not
see the pontential ramifications right now.
Matek
Uganda: UK Defends Uganda Mambas The
Monitor (Kampala)
March 31, 2006
Posted to the web March 30, 2006 Peter Nyanzi
Kampala THE British government has defended the sale of armoured
personnel carriers commonly known as mambas to Uganda, saying Kampala was not an
embargoed destination.
The British said the mambas have proven useful escorts to
food convoys in war-torn northern Uganda.
Oxfam, an international British charity organisation,
first raised the matter in a strongly worded press release early this
month.
They claimed that Mr Tony Blair's government looked on as
a S. African subsidiary of BAE, Britain's largest defence company, sold mambas
to Uganda.
They claimed the vehicles were heavily deployed "to
violently quash opposition demonstrations" in the run-up to February 23 general
elections.
"Since 2002, at least 32 armoured vehicles have been sold
to Uganda by Land Systems OMC, a BAE subsidiary," Oxfam said.
"The most recent delivery of 12 vehicles was completed
shortly before the elections." The matter came up on the floor of the House of
Commons on Monday, when the Conservative MP for Buckingham, Mr John Bercow,
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what
assessment he had made of the reports.
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