| " Minister Ruth Nankabirwa " comments exhibit yet a another twisted logic; citizens the fact of the matter is that UPDF forces have been fighting "konny rebels" for NOT 2 years, of 5 years but Twenty years!!!. .. Now any military strategist will tell you that if you have been fighting an enemy for close to twenty years !!.. and you have not succeeded in defeating the said enemy , then it is time to explore different avenues in a move contain the situation ( ie through peace talks).. indeed this
is precisely what the people of Uganda want...a peaceful avenue to resolve the Northern and Eastern Uganda Museveni created crises. Issuing threats to the so called "rebels in Gambara Forest.. mbhu that you are getting ready to attack them, cannot bring about peace in Uganda and for that matter in the great lakes region of Africa. Suppose "kony" like Dubia, says bring in on... then what?.. indeed, based on the facts and intelligence on the ground in Uganda, Museveni cannot afford to massively re-deploy UPDF trooops into DRC Congo, to fight "kony".. if Museveni as much as tries to deploy his forces in DRC congo, that would spell the end of NRM.. the population in Uganda are tired of wars which has been on going for twenty years!!!.. that said, the population is much likely to turn against the NRM military dictatorship, if once agian the regime initiates yet another
war by massively deploying UPDF troops... MK Uganda threatens to attack rebels in Congo
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| KAMPALA: Uganda said yesterday it might still attack Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels camped in Congo if peace talks hosted by neighbouring southern Sudan fail to end fighting in one of Africas longest wars. Tentative discussions with representatives of the LRA began a week ago, but have advanced little beyond the government offering amnesty in return for total LRA surrender, and the rebels demanding compensation and power-sharing. While the talks continued, Ugandas Deputy Defence Minister Ruth Nankabirwa said Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) still had legal obligations to disarm militia groups like the LRA that posed a threat to regional security. Because of peace talks you cannot paralyse all these other efforts, she told reporters. If these talks fail, what next? Will Uganda jump into DRC? That is a possibility. Kinshasa and the UN have refused repeated requests from Uganda to be allowed to send its troops into Congo to hunt down the rebels themselves. Congolese leaders were watching the talks in Juba closely, Nankabirwa said, and would be called to account by their own people who might remain at risk from the LRA if they failed. LRA leader Joseph Kony is believed to be hiding in remote northeastern DRCs Garamba forest, where he crossed late last year from hideouts in southern Sudan. South Sudans regional government says it wants to broker an end to Konys two-decade insurgency, which has killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted nearly 2mn in northern Uganda alone and destabilised southern Sudan. But Kony and his deputies are wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, and have so far stayed hidden in Congo during the negotiations being mediated by southern Sudans Vice-President Riek Machar. In a bid to coax Kony out of the bush, Machar will lead about 60 LRA relatives - including Konys mother Nora - local religious leaders and elders from the rebels northern Acholi tribe to meet the LRA leaders this week on the border. Reuters | |
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