Given Yoweri Museveni MO, i would not be surprise if the regime in Kampala violates the so called temporary ceasefire agreement , between the Rbels and Museveni dictatorship....and instead Museveni decides to unleash the UPDF to massacre the so called rebels now assemble at " Owiny Kibule". Indeed this is how Museveni operates, he is a master of deception and tricks. Already he has deployed his NRA guerillas to in a fighting formation to engage the rebels.. Once again if and when war breaks up, the people of Uganda may as well kiss the temporary peace they are enjoying goodbye.. they may as well pack their what ever few belongings they now posses and head on back to the camps..and continue enjoying miserable living!!
It must be pointed out that if dictaor Yoweri Museveni cannot bring about peace to our nation state, which has been yearning for peace for the last 20, years
Museveni should rest assured that the obstacle to peace (him) should now step aside and allow real leader of the people to step in and steer our people towards peace the Brig Chrales Arube and this age should now stand up, and do away with this war monger!!!
Matek
Uganda rebels say peace talks in 'grave danger'
by Peter Martell Tue Sep 26, 2:02 PM ET
JUBA, Sudan (AFP) - Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army warned that government troop movements had placed peace talks in "grave threat and danger" and vowed to walk out unless troops are pulled back.
After the first face-to-face meeting between the two sides since a landmark truce took effect last month, the rebels said they would quit the negotiations in the southern Sudanese capital of Juba in a week if action was not taken.
Chief LRA negotiator Martin Ojul said the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) were preparing to attack rebel fighters at two neutral camps in southern Sudan where they
are gathering under the truce, and demanded their withdrawal.
"The Juba peace talks are in grave threat and in danger of failure due to unfolding heavy military deployments of UPDF troops in Uganda, southern Sudan and the
Democratic Republic of Congo," he said in a statement.
It said Ugandan soldiers were gathering around the Owiny-Ki-Bul camp near Sudan's border with Uganda and that Kampala's troops were also massing near the Ri-Kwangba camp near the DRC border in violation of international law.
"As a precondition and in order for the negotiations to resume, (the LRA) demands the immediate withdrawal of the UPDF," the statement
said.
It added that the LRA would "not proceed with the negotiations" unless that and six other "issues of grave concern" -- including the provision of food, water and medicine to the camps -- were addressed.
"Before resuming negotiations, (the LRA) shall at the end of seven days review its position on the very grave subjects of this statement," Ojul said.
The Ugandan military has denied deploying soldiers to either of the two sites and accused the rebels of inventing complaints in order to get out of the talks aimed at ending northern Uganda's brutal, two-decade war.
But on Monday, the country's army chief told reporters in the region that the military would begin attacks on LRA fighters at the camps the moment the peace talks failed.
The comments by General Aronda Nyakayirima appeared to violate the spirit of the truce which includes a clause that the rebels will be allowed to "leave the assembly points
peacefully" if the talks fail.
"When they say there are no more talks in Juba, then it will be a free-for-all," Nyakayirima said. "It is a question of telling us that there are no more talks and we shall be on them."
"We know where Owiny-Ki-Bul is, we know how long it would take us to get to Owiny-Ki-Bul, we know where next they would like to go," he said. "Just encourage them to deliver at Juba."
The Juba talks, mediated by the government of autonomous south Sudan, are seen as the best chance to end the nearly 20-year war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly two million in northern Uganda.
But they have been effectively stalled since the truce took effect on August 29, with the two sides at odds on numerous issues, particularly the troops issue, war crimes charges against top LRA commanders, and power-sharing.
The rebels are demanding that the war crimes charges be dropped before they agree to a
final peace pact while Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said he will not ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to quash them until the deal is done.
On Tuesday, The Hague-based ICC prosecutor said again that he would not lift arrest warrants against the LRA commanders despite the peace talks.
"If we do not execute the arrest warrants, the crimes can start again," Luis Moreno Ocampo told a meeting of aid groups.
The LRA has been accused of committing atrocities including murder, rape, mutilations and mass abductions since it took leadership of a regional rebellion among northern Uganda's ethnic Acholi minority in 1988.
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