"There is no way we can fight a rebellion without cracking down on collaborators."
Uganda: 2 Women Held Over Rebel Links
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The Monitor (Kampala)
October 14, 2006
Posted to the web October 13, 2006
Posted to the web October 13, 2006
Felix Basiime
Mbarara
Mbarara
IN a recent crackdown on suspected rebel collaborators in the west, security operatives arrested two women from Mbarara town suspected to have links with the Allied Democratic Forces, currently at skirmishes with the UPDF in the bushes and forests of Kyenjojo and Kibaale.
The suspects are Ms Hassan Isingoma aka Mama Mariam and Ms Sulaiti.
They were picked from Kisenyi village in Kakoba Division in Mbarara Municipality at around midnight on Tuesday, the area LCI Chairman, Mr Evaristo Semogerere, said.
Concerned relatives told Daily Monitor on Wednesday that the suspects were tortured together with their landlady, Ms Sauda Abasi, by plain-clothed security operatives and LDUs before being driven off.
When contacted, Mbarara District Police Commander, Mr Alison Agaba, said he was not aware
of the operation, "They are not with us, may be they are in the army barracks."
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The head of the district security committee, who is also the RDC, Mr Clement Kandole, said the suspects had been followed by intelligence agencies according to information given by ADF captives in Kibaale, Kyenjojo areas. He said they were taken to Kampala for interrogation.
When Daily Monitor contacted the army spokesman for the 2nd Division, Lt Tabaro Kiconco, he said he was not aware of the operation but that they had decided to open war on rebel collaborators. "There is no way we can fight a rebellion without cracking down on collaborators."
In May, about eight other suspects were arrested from Mbarara, Ntungamo and Kasese districts. They include Mr Agaba Bashir of Nyamityobora Ward in Kakoba Division, Mr Majid Byaruhanga, Mr Hamdani Moshi and Mr Abdul
Wahabu Swaleh.
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