So only now after twenty years of fighting has Yoweri Museveni strenthen his army such that they are now strong enough to annahilate "konny and the rebels"!. fellow citizens and members of the International Commuinty , one can only begin to wonder as to how serious dictator Yoweri Museveni is in pursuing this "peace talks" in Juba with "konny and the so called LRA rebels.?
I am yet to witness a peace talk negotiations wereby one party simply issues threats and intimidations tactics in order to subdue the other The negotiations between the British and Irish Republican Army (IRA) was marked by matual repect .. the british never issued threaths against the IRA, as for museveni he is there busy making utterences which are rather unbecomming of a fellow whose governemtn is engaged in a peace negotiations with a rebel force. !
Museveni, must realize,
that the people of Uganda are tired of wars... for twenty years, the people have been subjected to many many wars and suffering... for twenty years he never defeated "KONNY rebels" for how many more year must the people of Uganda be subjected to Yoweri Museveni's war policies and the resulting consequencies in Northern and eastern Uganda?...enough is enough... the people of Uganda are now comming to the point whereby they have lost everything....and there is nothing more there is to live for! ..and that we must do away with Museveni as soon as possible before he creates more suffering for our people and nation!!
MK
Uganda says peace talks 'last chance' for LRA rebels
by Vincent Mayanja Wed Sep 20, 3:57 PM ET
KAMPALA (AFP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said in blunt comments that peace talks in south Sudan are the "last chance" for the rebel Lord's Resistance Army to avoid military annihilation.
Museveni also repeated his position that war crimes charges against elusive LRA supremo Joseph Kony and his top lieutenants will not be dropped until a peace deal is signed to end northern Uganda's brutal, two-decade war.
"If these talks fail, we shall protect the civilians, we shall hunt down these terrorists because the government is always there to fight and protect civilians," he said on
a radio programme aired in the war-ravaged north.
"The army is now very strong, they have all the means to destroy these terrorists," Museveni said on Mega FM in the town of Gulu, the epicenter of the conflict that has killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly two million.
"The Juba talks are the last chance for them to come out," he told listeners, referring to the venue for the negotiations that are expected to resume shortly after the conclusion of a landmark truce last month.
"I advise those of you who are still in the bush to come back," Museveni said. "If you don't, you will perish for nothing."
The president has twice extended a deadline for the rebels to agree to a comprehensive settlement as well as a blanket amnesty offer for Kony and four other senior LRA commanders, one of whom is now dead, charged with war crimes.
Earlier Wednesday, at one of two neutral camps in southern Sudan where rebel
fighters are to gather under the truce, Kony's deputy, Vincent Otti, renewed a demand for the charges to be quashed if they are to end their 19-year fight.
"Not even a single LRA soldier will go home before it is lifted," he said, referring to the charges and arrest warrants issued last year by The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for numerous alleged atrocities.
"The ICC is the first condition, without that I cannot go home because it might be a trap," Otti told reporters at Ri-Kwangba, a remote jungle site on the border between Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Fearing arrest, Kony and Otti have rejected repeated requests to attend the talks in the southern Sudanese capital of Juba.
"If they would like me to go to Juba, they should take away the indictments," Otti said. "If not, I shall not go to Juba.
The rebels have said they may sign a peace deal before the charges are dropped but will not fulfill all the conditions of an eventual accord until that is done.
In his radio address, Museveni, however, held firm to the position that Kampala will not ask for the charges to be dropped until the rebels and their leaders agree to a pact and meet its conditions.
"Why should we reward you before you give us peace?" he asked. "If the ICC indictments are removed, it will make the terrorists untouchable. "The removal of
the indictments will be a reward for their signing of the agreement.
"Otherwise (they) will die in our hands or in the hands of the ICC," Museveni said.
The ICC, the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, has said the charges and arrest warrants stand and that it expects member states to follow through on commitment to arrest its indictees.
The Juba talks mediated by the government of autonomous south Sudan are seen as the best chance to end the conflict in northern Uganda that regularly described as one of the world's worst and most-forgotten humanitarian crises.
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