Name Sake
Actually that is not bad as arguing with the uncle when he is in the living
room, you decide to change the locks on the door, but you advise him to move
from the living room you take him into the bedroom and show him the safe with
the combination, allow him to live in the bedroom and then change the lock on
the door. George Okello is calling me a very terrible man for I go at every one
that tries to remove Museveni, George there is no difference between Samson
Mande, Musiha Muntu Kiiza Besigye Betty Kamya Norbert Mao Olara Otunu
Tinyefunza let alone Dr Biraro.
They all fall into a class of the two {a} Movementists or{b} opportunists.
EM
On the 49th
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of edward pojim
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 12:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} UPDF looting sparked war in north - Col Mande
Ocen;
As I said a few months ago, replacing Museveni with any of these guys is like
changing your door lock to keep out a troublesome uncle, and then you turn
around and send him the new keys!
Pojim
From: Ocen Nekyon <[email protected]>
To: Ugandans At Heart <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: {UAH} UPDF looting sparked war in north - Col Mande
Pojim:
I have seen folks here refer to some of the named persons as the saviors of
Democracy in Uganda?
Ocen
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Gwokto La'Kitgum <[email protected]> wrote:
I thought "looting" was said to be a trademark patent owned by Northerners. Now
we hear from horses mouths who walked in my old man's cattle pad and simply
walked away with over 120 cows - reason I had to date a Musoga free of cattle
fines and dowry. The old man couldnt have approved of a the Acholi girl being
he couldnt afford even a heifer except an empty krall.
___________________________________
Gwokto La'Kitgum
"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Ocen Nekyon <[email protected]> wrote:
Pojim;
That suggestion works for me.
Ocem
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: edward pojim
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 23:00
To: [email protected]
Reply To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} UPDF looting sparked war in north - Col Mande
Ocen;
These folks need a neutral forum where they can tell all. I suggest ICC.
Pojim
From: Ocen Nekyon <[email protected]>
To: Ugandans At Heart <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 7:38 PM
Subject: {UAH} UPDF looting sparked war in north - Col Mande
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UPDF looting sparked war in north - Col Mande
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Gen Sejusa and Col Mande. Photo by Montage
By Tabu ButagiraPosted Saturday, September 28 2013 at 01:00
STOCKHOLM
The long-running insurgency in northern Uganda was provoked by plunder of the
region and revenge killings by the victorious National Resistance Army troops
upon taking over power in Kampala in 1986, a former senior NRA commander has
said.
The NRA was renamed Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) following the
promulgation of the 1995 Constitution. Col Samson Mande, who commanded the NRA
troops that captured Gulu and surrounding areas, says claims that people in
northern Uganda started a rebellion against President Museveni’s government
simply to reclaim lost state power, are inaccurate and misleading.
In an interview in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 16, Col Mande said the
defeated Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) soldiers, who were largely
drawn from northern Uganda, had reached out to him through local church
leaders, willing to surrender. But they fled after their colleagues who had
assembled at Pece Stadium in Gulu town were instead tortured by the NRA (now
UPDF) and some made to “disappear”.
According to Col Mande, the late Lord Adimola and a one Fr John of Alokolum
Seminary had approached him to negotiate surrender of the former UNLA soldiers
and he agreed. He temporarily assembled them at Pece Stadium with assurances
that they would not be victimised and would be considered for integration into
the NRA. Those gathered at the stadium, Col Mande says, included now top UPDF
commander Charles Otema Awany, one Charles Kareba and Lt Col Okoth.
Mass cross-over“They surrendered in large numbers and I called President
Museveni who visited Gulu, and I showed him all the weapons they [UNLA
soldiers] had surrendered willfully and he said I had done a good work,” he
said. Col Mande, who now lives in Sweden, said he was later surprised when the
overall commander of the counterinsurgency operations in the north, now Gen
David Sejusa, aka Tinyefuza, arrived and ordered him to “stop treating Acholi
with kid’s gloves”. “That meant I should have molested them, but how could I?
When I refused to follow the instruction which was against my conscience,
Tinyefuza said I was trying to use the group to stage a mutiny,” Col Mande says.
Subsequently, Gen Salim Saleh and Brig Matayo Kyaligonza were hurriedly
deployed to quell the ‘mutiny’ but Col Mande says they found no evidence of
such a planned revolt.
Col Mande says the assembled UNLA soldiers were loaded in five lorries
ostensibly to a prison farm in Kiburara in Ibanda District “and those soldiers
have never been seen again and those that remained at Pece Stadium
vanished”.Things then ran out of control when under Tinyefuza’s command, NRA
soldiers reportedly began torturing residents, confiscating their property both
in homes and trading centres.
For example, Col Mande says, a generator owned by Lacor Hospital was stolen
during the systematic plunder under the pretext of reclaiming property the
owners “seemed to have obtained from Kampala”. “I sent the President a message
that [looted] things were being sent down south and he should intervene. But
the President instead said I should stop being alarmist,” Col Mande told the
Saturday Monitor in the interview in Sweden.
According to Col Mande, the northerners with guns began individual defiance but
one Capt Ojuk volunteered to organise the group for formal resistance. The late
Alice Ouma Lakwena of the Holy Spirit Movement later assumed command of the
group before it morphed into the Joseph Kony-led Lord’s Resistance Army
insurgency.
The UPDF spokesman Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, however, refuted Col Mande’s claims
that the northern insurgency was provoked by the behaviour of the NRA troops.
He admitted there were some mistakes done by the NRA but insisted they were not
sufficient to cause the rebellion.
“It is true there were some things which were not done properly on the side of
the NRA. But the conduct of the NRA soldiers could not have been the original
cause of the insurgency,” Lt Col Ankunda said. He added: “The UNLA wanted to
regain political power they had lost in Kampala and when they were retreating
north, they went with that mentality, but did not agree on how to do it. A few
misguided elements were propped up by the Khartoum government and thought they
would fight the Uganda government.”
The blame gameWhen he was reminded that Col Mande had dismissed that very claim
of UNLA seeking to regain power as the cause of the insurgency, Lt Col Ankunda
countered that the renegade NRA commander was distorting history. “Then Mande
is a bad student of political science,” Lt Ankunda said. On the alleged brutal
treatment of the defeated UNLA soldiers by the NRA troops, Lt Col Ankunda said,
without admitting nor denying culpability, that the change of the NRA’s
operational mode was dictated by the resistance they met on the ground.
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Ocen Nekyon
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