Good!!
let the Tustsis go back to their cave in Rwanda... we are tired of this tutsis running around killing our people in the camps of Northern and Eastern Uganda ..let all tutsis in the UPDF be deproyed in Kampala and Mbarara...and other there in the south!!
MK
Uganda: LRA Want UPDF Out of North
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The Monitor (Kampala)
OPINION
August 22, 2006
Posted to the web August 21, 2006
August 22, 2006
Posted to the web August 21, 2006
1. Introduction
Since 1971, Uganda has never had an army with a national outlook with vision and defined goals. Throughout this period, all the successive armies have been responsible for widespread insecurity and instability in Uganda and neighbouring countries.
The composition, command, structure and goals of all those armies, including the 26-year-old NRA/UPDF lacked national character. The
sectarian National Resistance Army of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, which is referred to in the Uganda Constitution as the UPDF, engaged in the present conflict, cannot claim to be a national army. The disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration herein referred to as DDR, should therefore be a golden opportunity and the best way forward for the disbandment of the UPDF, LRA and any other armed groups.
In their place, Uganda shall constitute and build a new national army that guarantees the security, peace and sustainable prosperity of the people of Uganda. For the smooth implementation of this Uganda Comprehensive Peace Agreement (UCPA), the DDR shall be divided into pre-interim and interim periods.
The LRA/M recommends that the pre-interim period covers disarmament and demobilisation period which shall be 90 days from the day the UCPA is signed.
2. Demobilisation:
(a)Both parties in the conflict shall after signing a comprehensive peace agreement:
Assemble its troops, including (in the case of the Government of Uganda), all the militias, within 30 days in designated assembly areas.
lProvide full particulars, strength and dispositions of all members of its troops to the ceasefire monitoring commission (CMC).
The government of Uganda shall provide particulars of militias with details, their locations, and strength.
Provide full details of all state security organs, their personnel, strength, particulars of its members and locations.
Comply with the provision regarding deployment of peace keeping troops throughout the north and eastern parts of Uganda to provide defence, security and to ensure that none of the parties to the peace agreement violates the UCPA.
Work out a formula for demobilisation and creation of a new army based on the formula of 3:2 reflective of regional representation (UPDF 3 and LRA 2).
Form local, national and international independent monitoring commissions with the task of creating a new genuine national armed force of Uganda with the total strength of roughly 30,000 of all ranks, officers, men and women.
(b) The CMC shall oversee demobilisation in various parts of the country.
(c) The same commission shall also oversee the creation of a new organ dealing with internal and external security.
(d) Govt Obligations:
(a)The government troops shall be withdrawn from all military outposts in war-affected areas of northern and eastern Uganda of Madi, Acholi, Lango and Teso sub-regions.
They shall be stationed in
military barracks in the towns of Arua, Madi Opei, Gulu, Lira, Soroti, Mbale, Tororo and Jinja.
(b) The government troops in central and western Uganda shall remain in their respective barracks.
(c) All state security organs identified under article 2 (iv) shall be disbanded.
LRA/M Obligations:
(a)The LRA troops shall be withdrawn from wherever they are to the designated areas of Nebbi, Arua, Adjumani, Kitgum, Gulu, Oyam, Lira and Kapyelebong districts.
3. Disarmament
(a.) Each of the parties namely; UPDF and LRA, shall:
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Provide full detail of all ammunitions, arms, military equipment in various military stores, depots and factories.
Aware that Uganda has used forbidden weapons in its military campaigns in northern and eastern Uganda, and in southern Sudan, the government of Uganda shall provide full detail of all prohibited / banned weapons used, the date when they were used, and location where they were used.
The government shall also provide detailed information on WMD in its possession and their locations, such as those that were retrieved from Gulu military barracks.
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