ugnet_: BBC News E-mail: Kenya frees death row inmates

[Mulindwa Edward]

Did I  mention  some where that all 
prisoners in Uganda jails must be freed for there is too much corruption in 
Uganda and we can not figure out who was arrested and why? And Kironde I am with 
you on your two stands. We need to create a reliable system.
 
But when the movement system came into power, 
Museveni has made killing people in Luzira a drive through. 30 were killed, 28 
were killed like those are the numbers we are talking about.
Let record show that when the court sentence any 
body to death, he/she is sent to Luzira untill when the head of state signs 
his/her name to be physically killed. In the entire life of Obote as a 
president, he has never ever signed for any body to be killed in 
Luzira.
Go figure.
Em
 
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  From: 
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  Y Yaobang
  To answer your question: - When shall we free those 
  being tortured/suffering/dying in Museveni's 
  Uganda 
  
  "safe houses" and other 
  jails?
   
  A 
  short answer:  - 
  Yesterday
  A 
  long answer, I do not subscribe to torture, innocent suffering, and illegal 
  imprisonment.  If I were elected 
  the president of Uganda tomorrow and found 
  that there is anyone in the circumstances you describe, I would use my 
  authority to break open such torture chambers.  For the benefit of people like you, 
  Mr. Y Yaobang, who are committed to fighting for human rights, if I were the 
  president of Uganda tomorrow, I would go to the members of parliament to pass 
  a law that would enable Ugandans abroad to vote by mail and/or go to the 
  nearest Uganda consulates and cast their votes – which might help in getting 
  rid of regimes which forced them to flee their motherland.  Remember where you saw this first. 
  
   
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  YaobangSent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:51 PMTo: 
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  Ed Kironde,
   
  When shall we free those being 
  tortured/suffering/dying in Museveni's Uganda 
  "safe houses" and other 
  jails?
   
  y
   
   
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  commutes
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ugnet_: MPs confirm snake torture in safe houses

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National 
MPs confirm snake torture in ‘safe houses’
By Ssemujju Ibrahim NgandaMembers of Parliament who last week visited prisoners at Kigo Prison have confirmed allegations that security personnel use snakes and red ants to extract confessions from suspects.The MPs on the Parliamentary committee on Defence and Internal Affairs visited Kigo Prison off Entebbe Road on 19 February and interviewed prisoners, mostly those on treason charges.Mr Joseph Kule Muranga (Busongora North) led the parliamentary team. The committee chairman Simon Mayende did not accompany the delegation. The committee went to Kigo Prison following allegations by some MPs in the House that they had received reports that snakes, crocodiles and red ants are unleashed on prisoners to force them to confess.“Some of the prisoners said they were badly tortured. Two of them showed me their testicles which they claimed were smashed,” committee member Mr Harry Kasigwa told The Monitor yesterday. Kasigwa is MP for Jinja Municipality West.He said some of the prisoners had scars on their buttocks, which showed that they had been seriously caned.“One of them said his buttocks were knifed,” the MP said. He said some prisoners told the committee that security agencies pierced their nails with pins. “One of them had a panga [machete] cut in his head,” Mr Kasigwa said.He said prisoners claimed that 461 inmates were at one time kept in an underground prison in Makindye army barracks.But Army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza dismissed that claim. He said MPs have the powers under the law to access any Defence installations. He said they should photograph those inmates and move a motion in Parliament.Mr Kasigwa said inmates Wilson Kyaligonza and Nicholas Ruzinda had wounds.He said Lt. Dan Mugarura told the committee that he was blindfolded after his arrest and was dumped inside a ‘safe house’ (ungazetted detention centres). He said Mugarura told the MPs that he was once put in a room full of red ants and later in another one where ther!
e was a 
snake.Mr Kasigwa said the chairman of Bugantira LC-III in Gulu was also severely tortured.He said a woman called Lagulu, who was picked with 19 others from Gulu Prison by the army, said she was sexually abused while in Gulu army barracks.Maj. Bantariza refuted all these claims. He said if the army wanted to torture people it wouldn’t use such primitive methods.Treason suspects who were transferred from Gulu to Kigo told the committee that while in Gulu they used a single basin as a urinal, toilet and food utensil.There are 98 treason suspects at Kigo and 104 others who were arrested by Operation Wembley soldiers. “Wembley suspects are the most tortured,” Mr Kasigwa said.In total there are 720 prisoners at Kigo but the prison was constructed to accommodate 420.Aswa MP Ronald Reagan Okumu, who has been following the case of Gulu treason suspects, said the inmates had told him of these horrible stories.The committee will make its report this week and table it before Parliament.February 25, 2003 12:14:09

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RE: ugnet_: BBC News E-mail: Kenya frees death row inmates

[Ed Kironde]

Y Yaobang

To answer your question: - When shall we free those being
tortured/suffering/dying in Museveni's Uganda 

"safe houses" and other jails?

 

A short answer:  - Yesterday

A long answer, I do not subscribe to torture,
innocent suffering, and illegal imprisonment.  If I were elected the president of Uganda tomorrow and found that there is anyone in the circumstances you
describe, I would use my authority to break open such torture chambers.  For the benefit of people like you, Mr.
Y Yaobang, who are committed to fighting for human rights, if I were the
president of Uganda tomorrow, I would go to the members of parliament to pass a
law that would enable Ugandans abroad to vote by mail and/or go to the nearest Uganda
consulates and cast their votes – which might help in getting rid of
regimes which forced them to flee their motherland.  Remember where you saw this first. 

 

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Ed Kironde,

 

When shall we free those being
tortured/suffering/dying in Museveni's Uganda 

"safe houses" and other jails?

 

y

 

 

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>*Kenya frees death row inmates*

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>The Kenyan Government  releases 28 prisoners on death row and
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Re: ugnet_: BBC News E-mail: Kenya frees death row inmates

[Y Yaobang]

Ed Kironde,

When shall we free those being tortured/suffering/dying in Museveni's Uganda 
"safe houses" and other jails?

y


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Re: ugnet_: Movement Decides On Parties March 25

[Y Yaobang]

Matek,
The script is already written. The fat lady has already sang. Dictator 
Museveni, dying to be life president and realising that he could not muster 
enough local and diplomatic support to get a fith term for president under 
the monolithic MRM/NRA, now uses the only trick left - change the political 
system to multiparty (or a version of his making). That way he has two more 
5-year terms (according to his 1995 constitution).

Kids, 2016 is soon coming up, wait in line. And how old and what rank will 
Major Kaneirugaba (Museveni's son) be then? Fit to take over from his old 
fart.



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Movement Decides On Parties March 25

http://allafrica.com/publishers.html?passed_name=The%20Monitor&passed_location=Kampala";>The 
Monitor (Kampala)

February 25, 2003
Posted to the web February 25, 2003
Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda
Kampala
The top Movement organs convene next month to debate and take a decision on
the possible return to multiparty politics.
The Movement National Conference will also choose new leaders.

President Yoweri Museveni's term as Movement chairman and that of Mr Moses
Kigongo as vice chairman expire mid this year.
"This is to give notice to all members of the National Executive Committee 
of
the National Conference of the meeting of the 7th National Executive
Committee to take place on 25-28 March 2003 at

the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi," reads Museveni's 
instrument.

Museveni signed the instrument summoning the meeting on 20 February.

The Movement Act provides for at least two NEC meetings every year but none
was convened in 2002.
The National Executive Committee (NEC) would convene first to receive a
report on the calls to free political parties from an ad hoc committee set 
up
in December 2001, during a retreat at Kyankwanzi.

This followed open calls from ministers Bidandi Ssali, Eriya Kategaya and
James Wapakhabulo that it is time to free the political space.
National Political Commissar Dr Crispus Kiyonga was appointed to head the
committee, of which Mr Bidandi and Mr Kategaya are members.
Others include Attorney General Francis Ayume, Minister of State for
Parliamentary Affairs Felix Okot, Minister of State for High Education 
Betty
Akech and Maj. Roland Kakooza Mutale. The committee was given four months 
to
compile its report. It would then present it to Mr Museveni for onward
presentation to the NEC. Committee members thought it would be appropriate 
to
compile their report after discussions with Mr Museveni but the president
didn't find time to meet them in 2002.

The president this year found time and has since reportedly met the 
committee
at least three times.

Sources close to the committee said that a final meeting would be convened 
to
adopt the report, which would again be officially presented to Mr Museveni.

Museveni would then present the report to the NEC.

NEC members would debate it and if adopted recommend it to the National
Conference.
According to the instruments Mr Museveni signed, the Movement National
Conference would convene in Kampala between March 29-31.
Mr Kiyonga issued a press release yesterday announcing that the Movement
Secretariat has started sending out the necessary documents to Movement
cadres.
Presentation of the ad hoc committee report is item number 6 on the NEC
agenda.
Mr Museveni will also deliver a keynote address to both the NEC and 
National
Conference.






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ugnet_: MPs Confirm Snake Torture in 'Safe Houses'

[Matekopoko]

Members of the International community and friends of Uganda:

I hereby draw you attention to an article below which appeared in The Monitor News Paper of today February 25.2003.  Please note some of the methods which Dictator Yoweri Museveni's Uganda, uses to torture Ugandans. 

Yoweri Museveni's own members of Parliament have, as per the article below, verified to you citizens of the world, that in Yoweri Museveni's dungeons, snakes and red ants(safari ants) are used to torture NRM Victims.

Now, of course it is your choice to keep quiet and pretend that all is well in Uganda. It is your choice to listen to and believe in dictator Yoweri Museveni's propaganda that the rule of law is very much practiced in Uganda, .. that the rights of citizens of Ugandans is respected.  ..and that those Ugandans who are complaining about  Yoweri Museveni  atrocities are simply "making noise".  

But confronted with such facts as established by Yoweri Museveni's own parliament, even if you have a heart of stone, the UPC appeals to you supporters and apologist of Dictator Yoweri Museveni, to have a change of heart and look at museveni as nothing short of a monster who lives by deceit and his responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans, Congolese, Sudanese e.t.c.

Thank you

Matek 


MPs Confirm Snake Torture in 'Safe Houses'


The Monitor (Kampala)

February 25, 2003 
Posted to the web February 25, 2003 

Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda
Kampala 

Members of Parliament who last week visited prisoners at Kigo Prison have confirmed allegations that security personnel use snakes and red ants to extract confessions from suspects.

The MPs on the Parliamentary committee on Defence and Internal Affairs visited Kigo Prison off Entebbe Road on 19 February and interviewed prisoners, mostly those on treason charges.


Mr Joseph Kule Muranga (Busongora North) led the parliamentary team.

The committee chairman Simon Mayende did not accompany the delegation.

The committee went to Kigo Prison following allegations by some MPs in the House that they had received reports that snakes, crocodiles and red ants are unleashed on prisoners to force them to confess.

"Some of the prisoners said they were badly tortured. Two of them showed me their testicles which they claimed were smashed," committee member Mr Harry Kasigwa told The Monitor yesterday.

Kasigwa is MP for Jinja Municipality West.

He said some of the prisoners had scars on their buttocks, which showed that they had been seriously caned.

"One of them said his buttocks were knifed," the MP said. He said some prisoners told the committee that security agencies pierced their nails with pins.

"One of them had a panga [machete] cut in his head," Mr Kasigwa said.

He said prisoners claimed that 461 inmates were at one time kept in an underground prison in Makindye army barracks.

But Army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza dismissed that claim.

He said MPs have the powers under the law to access any Defence installations.

He said they should photograph those inmates and move a motion in Parliament.

Mr Kasigwa said inmates Wilson Kyaligonza and Nicholas Ruzinda had wounds.

He said Lt. Dan Mugarura told the committee that he was blindfolded after his arrest and was dumped inside a 'safe house' (ungazetted detention centres).

He said Mugarura told the MPs that he was once put in a room full of red ants and later in another one where there was a snake.

Mr Kasigwa said the chairman of Bugantira LC-III in Gulu was also severely tortured.

He said a woman called Lagulu, who was picked with 19 others from Gulu Prison by the army, said she was sexually abused while in Gulu army barracks.

Maj. Bantariza refuted all these claims.

He said if the army wanted to torture people it wouldn't use such primitive methods.

Treason suspects who were transferred from Gulu to Kigo told the committee that while in Gulu they used a single basin as a urinal, toilet and food utensil.

There are 98 treason suspects at Kigo and 104 others who were arrested by Operation Wembley soldiers.

"Wembley suspects are the most tortured," Mr Kasigwa said.

In total there are 720 prisoners at Kigo but the prison was constructed to accommodate 420.

Aswa MP Ronald Reagan Okumu, who has been following the case of Gulu treason suspects, said the inmates had told him of these horrible stories.

The committee will make its report this week and table it before Parliament.

ugnet_: U.N. says Kinshasa blocks probe of its rebel links

[Matekopoko]

Fellow Citizens:
The situation in Eastern Part of the DRC is perhaps more confusing then ever. Reading news articles file by numerous journalist and reporters from different news gathering organization, pretty much lives one with an idea that situation in Eastern DRC, thanx to Yoweri Museveni, Bemba and numerous warlords, has Surely degenerated into what one often observers in American Wild west cowboy movies.

War Lord Yoweri Museveni has pretty much armed thugs and crooks in Eastern DRC   who are now killing innocent Congolese citizens with absolute impunity. 

Some of the atrocities committed by Yoweri Museveni's thugs in DRC, are indescribable.

 For instance, small children are killed by the so called rebels; who then proceed to ripped off hearts of their victim,   roasted it over a barn fire, eat this human flesh as if one is eating   barbecue chicken. 

The irony of the matter is that world allows Yoweri Museveni and his thugs in DRC Congo to get away with the sort of Barbaric crimes against Humanity.

Instead, we have the UN zeroing on the government in Kinshasha..apparently investing Kinshasa's role in arming rebels! 

Why, if I may ask, doesn't the UN investigate Museveni and his thugs? Why not hold Museveni accountable for the crimes against humanity?  why not demand that Museveni and his thugs in DRC stand trial for crimes against Humanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Why 

I submit to you fellow citizens, that by refusing to prosecute Museveni and his thugs in the DRC for crimes against Congolese, the United Nations does..rather is sending a very clear message to Museveni's thugs.. The message is that Museveni and his thugs can pretty much get away with crimes against Humanity.

The question then is: if Museveni and his thugs can get away with crimes against Congolese in DRC Congo, why then should the United Nations and members of the International community demand that other thugs financed by Kinshasa, or Rwanda for that matter should be prosecuted?  

Matek


U.N. says Kinshasa blocks probe of its rebel links

By Irwin Arieff

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The United Nations accused the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday of blocking U.N. peacekeepers from investigating whether its government was secretly supporting armed groups in rebel-held eastern Congo.

Despite assurances from Congo President Joseph Kabila, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the vast Central African nation has been refused the unrestricted access it requires to airports in the capital Kinshasa and the northern town of Gbadolite, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said.

It has also been prevented from fully monitoring rail and air traffic leaving the southeastern town of Lubumbashi, he said.

"Thus the mission has no direct evidence to address suspicions that the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to support armed groups in the east," Annan said in a new report to the U.N. Security Council, which is monitoring the Congo peace process after more than four years of civil war.

Congolese rebel leader Jean Pierre Bemba accused the government last week of trying to derail the peace process by sending arms to rebel-held areas in the northeast.

Bemba, whose Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) controls most of northern Congo, said Kinshasa had been flying in weapons to the eastern town of Beni, which is controlled by a rival rebel faction, the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy-Kisangani (RCD-K-ML).

The government, rebels and civil society groups agreed to a power-sharing deal in December under which Bemba would become one of four vice presidents.

2 MILLION KILLED

Kinshasa has denied allegations it is trying to delay or derail implementation of the accord, saying it is keen for a complete end to hostilities that have killed 2 million people since 1998 and made 2.5 million people homeless.

The civil war began in 1998 and has sucked in five neighboring states although most foreign troops have now been withdrawn. It began when rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda invaded to topple the central government, which was then propped up by troops from Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia.

According to Annan, the government has acknowledged providing training and technical assistance to the RCD-K-ML, which in conjunction with ethnic Mayi-Mayi militias controls swathes of jungle in the northeastern region of Ituri and is fighting Bemba's forces.

"But it claims that such assistance is to facilitate future integration of all military forces," Annan said.

The secretary-general also faulted Kinshasa for allowing government forces to violate peace accords by occupying the strategic eastern port town of Moliro, allowing access to Lake Tanganyika.

The U.N. mission has asked the government to withdraw to the defensive positions it has agreed to, Annan said.

U.N, peacekeepers were also having trouble investigating reports that Rwandan troops had reoccupied some parts of eastern Congo and were still providing support to

ugnet_: BBC News E-mail: Kenya frees death row inmates

[Ed Kironde]

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ugnet_: THE QUOTE OF THE WEEK !!!!!

[Mulindwa Edward]

 
 
"Is it not ironical that Mr Bush who was not really elected should deny 
my legitimacy, the legitimacy of President Mugabe, established by many observer 
groups from Africa and the Third World. Who, in these circumstances, should the 
world impose sanctions on? Robert Mugabe or George Bush?"
 
Robert Mugaabe
The president of Zimbabwe
 

 
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ugnet_: Quotes of the day: US must disarm

[Ochan Otim]

Mr Robert Mugabe speaking at the summit of the 116-member Non-Aligned 
Movement (Nam) in Malaysia :

"Why can't the United States demonstrate what Iraq should (do) by 
destroying their own massive heaps first?" he asked.

"The United States, awakened to the implications of being the sole 
superpower, joined by Britain as a born-again colonialist, and other 
Western countries have turned themselves into fierce hunting bulldogs 
raring to go, as they sniff for more blood, Third World blood,"

"Is it not ironical that Mr Bush who was not really elected should deny my 
legitimacy, the legitimacy of President Mugabe, established by many 
observer groups from Africa and the Third World."

"Who, in these circumstances, should the world impose sanctions on? Robert 
Mugabe or George Bush?"

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2796883.stm)

ugnet_: NOW, WHO ARMED SADDAM HUSSEIN?

[Mulindwa Edward]

Who 
Armed Saddam? - Rumsfeld's Account Book

By Stephen Green CounterPunch.org2-24-3

  
  

  
You have to give Defense Secretary Rumsfeld this 
credit: he's a risk taker, and he's damned brassy about it. 
 
Both were in evidence last week when he testified 
before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Under criticism for his 
prior characterizations of France and Germany as "old Europe," Rumsfeld 
fumed: "We would not be facing the problems in Iraq today if the 
technologically advanced countries of the world had seen the danger and 
strictly enforced the economic sanctions against Iraq." 
 
The Defense Secretary knew well, naturally, his 
audience in the Senate Armed Services Committee. As Senator Robert Byrd 
recently said from the Senate floor, "this Chamber is, for the most 
part, silent--ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no 
discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of 
this particular war. There is nothing." 
 
Still, Rumsfeld's statement was some chutspa! He was 
well aware that it was the U.S. Senate itself (Committee on Banking, 
Housing and Urban Affairs) which had conducted extensive hearings in 
1992 and 1994 on "United States Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their 
Impact on the Health of Persian Gulf War Veterans." And he'd probably 
read the front page Washington Post story ("U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq 
Buildup", 12/30/02) based upon recently declassified documents, which 
revealed that it was Rumsfeld himself who, as President Reagan's Middle 
East Envoy, had traveled to the Region to meet with Saddam Hussein in 
December 1983 to normalize, particularly, security relations. 
 
At the time of the visit , Iraq had already been 
removed from the State Department's list of terrorist countries in 1982; 
and in the previous month, November, President Reagan had approved 
National Security Decision Directive 114, on expansion of U.S.-Iraq 
relations generally. But it was Donald Rumsfeld's trip to Baghdad which 
opened of the floodgates during 1985-90 for lucrative U.S. weapons 
exports--some $1.5 billion worth-- including chemical/biological and 
nuclear weapons equipment and technology, along with critical components 
for missile delivery systems for all of the above. According to a 1994 
GAO Letter Report (GAO/NSIAD-94-98) some 771 weapons export licenses for 
Iraq were approved during this six year periodnot by our European 
allies, but by the U.S. Department of Commerce. 
 
To be sure, many of these weapons were expended in the 
latter phases of the Iran-Iraq war. Others were destroyed by Coalition 
forces in the Persian Gulf War, or by UN weapons inspectors in the 
control regime established by the UN Security Council following that 
conflict. But a great many undoubtedly remain, and pose grave risks to 
the 150,000 U.S. troops deployed in Kuwait, and 100,000 on the way. 
Imagine the embarrassment to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld before the Armed 
Services Committee last week if one or more Senators had had the 
awareness AND the courage to raise the matter of Iraq's secret 
supplier. 
 
And in this case, the devil is quite literally in the 
details. 
 
There were few if any reservations evident in the 
range of weapons which President Ronald Reagan, and his successor George 
W. H. Bush were willing to sell Saddam Hussein. Under the Arms Export 
Control Act of 1976, the foreign sale of munitions and other defense 
equipment and technology are controlled by the Department of State. 
During the 1980s, such items could not be sold or diverted to Communist 
states, nor to those on the U.S. list of terrorist-supporting countries. 
When Iraq came off that list in 1982, however, some $48 million of items 
such as data privacy devices, voice scramblers, communication and 
navigation equipment, electronic components, image intensifiers and 
pistols (to protect Saddam) were approved for sale during 
1985-90. 
 
But it was through the purchase of $1.5 billion of 
American "dual-use items," having, sometimes arguably, both military and 
civilian functions, that Iraq obtained the bulk of it weapons of mass 
destruction in the late 80s. "Duel-use items" are controlled and 
licensed by the Department of Commerce under the Export Administration 
Act of 1979. This is where the real damage was done. 
 
In 1992 and again in1994, hearings were conducted by 
 

ugnet_: We're Not Safe - Refugees

[Matekopoko]

We're Not Safe - Refugees


New Vision (Kampala)

February 25, 2003 
Posted to the web February 25, 2003 

Jude Etyang
Kampala 

OVER 100 refugees have expressed fear that the rebels they escaped from in Congo and Sudan are following them.

The refugees, who included women and children yesterday stormed the Kampala offices of the Refugee Law Project, a refugee-rights advocacy NGO, complaining about how the slow process of their asylum and resettlement applications was putting their lives at risk.

The head of the Francophone refugees, Philip Masimango, said Interaid, the NGO which processes asylum applications and resettlement, had failed to provide security and other basic necessities to the refugees.

"Now we are seeing the rebels whom we ran away from at home here in Kampala. We are insecure because the rebels are roaming the streets. They are holding meetings in Kampala every day and we are worried," Masimango, who hails from Congo, said.

The refugees said they were particularly scared of the Congolese Liberation Movement and the RCD-Goma.

Masimango said a group of refugees from Congo, Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia have been homeless for a year now and have been living outside the Interaid offices at Old Kampala.

He said there was a threat to arrest them from the roadside camp and remand them to Luzira Prison.

Masimango appealed to the Government to consider the refugees' security as an important matter.

ugnet_: MP Sabiiti Questions Muhoozi's Promotion

[Matekopoko]

MP Sabiiti Questions Muhoozi's Promotion


The Monitor (Kampala)

February 23, 2003 
Posted to the web February 25, 2003 

Robert Muhereza
Kampala 

The Member of Parliament for Rukiga County in Kabale Jack Sabiiti has said the recent promotion of President Yoweri Museveni's son Muhoozi Kainerugaba suggests a hidden agenda.

"For an army officer to be promoted from one rank to another, facts like seniority, capacity and technical know-how of such an officer in question must be considered. I don't know whether the president's son qualifies for his promotion from a rank of lieutenant (Muhoozi was a captain -Ed) to major," Sabiiti said.

Mr Sabiiti was on 22 February addressing a press conference at Highland Hotel in Kabale.

"These hurried promotions of the president's son create some suspicion," Mr Sabiiti said.

He said many people don't support a third term for President Museveni.

The MP warned against amending the Constitution to suit the interests of a "few opportunistic politicians".

Mr Sabiiti argued that the longer leaders stay in power, the more corrupt they become.

"President Museveni should leave the seat before the power and people around him corrupt him," Mr Sabiiti said.

He said that even if the Movement became a political party, he would not support President Museveni to head it.

"What hasn't he achieved in the last 20 years that he wishes to achieve after 2006? There are many young Movementists who can lead this nation better after Museveni. Who knew that Uganda would have a better leader than [former president Milton] Obote before Museveni came in?"

Mr Sabiiti said the proposed construction of two international airports in western Uganda is not a priority project for an area still suffering from poverty and disease.

He said government should instead set up at least two manufacturing industries in each district to create employment.

Mr Sabiiti commended President Museveni for his recent proposal to open up the political space to political parties.

He also asked government to account for the recent 23 percent cut from other ministries' budgets in favour of Defence.

He said government should not treat that money as classified expenditure, which is not subject to auditing.

Mr Sabiiti is the vice-chairman of the parliamentary committee on Public Accounts.

"This is public money that has made so many ministries to be at a standstill. The minister of Finance must make accountability for this money and submit it to us," Mr Sabiiti said.

He said that the best way to fight rebels threatening Uganda's security is not to increase the Defence budget but to engage in dialogue.

"It's unfortunate that the president of Uganda believes more in the gun to fight rebels than having dialogue with them. Why doesn't he believe in the police force? The gun is not a solution that can stop rebels from fighting Uganda," he said.

He said former presidents (Idi Amin, Tito Okello Lutwa and Obote) had strong armies but they were still ousted.

"Where are they now? We must learn from the past," Mr Sabiiti advised.

ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Museveni Promotes Officers

[Mulindwa Edward]

But how can Museveni a non commissioned officer, 
commission officers?
Em
 
 
 
The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni Uganda is in Anarchy" 
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groupe de transmission de Mulindwas " avec Yoweri Museveni, Ouganda est dans 
anarchy "
 
 

  - Original Message - 
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  Subject: [Ugandacom] Museveni Promotes 
  Officers
  As if to say this newly appointed "officers" will save 
  Museveni  neck! Museveni Promotes OfficersThe 
  Monitor (Kampala)February 24, 2003 Posted to the web February 
  25, 2003 Alex B. AtuhaireKampala President Yoweri Museveni 
  has promoted 69 army officers, including Leo Kyanda, the commanding officer of 
  the Presidential Guard Brigade (PGB).The PGB is the former 
  Presidential Protection Unit (PPU), which was recently upgraded to a full 
  brigade.The promotions include four majors elevated to lieutenant 
  colonel, 54 captains elevated to major and 11 lieutenants elevated to 
  captain.Army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza confirmed the promotions 
  yesterday but declined to give details.Lt. Col. Kyanda, who is abroad 
  on a course, was promoted alongside three other majors; Timothy Sabiiti, 
  Kimbowa and Paul L'Okech. Lt. Col. Kimbowa is the acting commander of the 
  PGB.Also promoted is President Museven's son, who now becomes Maj. 
  Muhoozi Kainerugaba. The former captain recently returned from further 
  military training in Egypt. He is now in charge of the PGB's motorised 
  infantry.Nuwe Kyepaka, formerly a captain, has been promoted to Major. 
  Maj. Kyepaka, a long time aide to Army Commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini, is 
  now the officer in charge of operations and training in the Military 
  Police.Maj. Kyepaka recently trained in Egypt with Maj. Muhoozi 
  Kainerugaba. Other newly promoted majors are David Lumumba, O. Buturo, Felix 
  Nyero, Kabanda, James Kateera, Otim, Pande and Sunday. Maj. Lumumba, formerly 
  the intelligence officer for the 2 Division in Mbarara, is reportedly the new 
  director of counter intelligence at the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence 
  (CMI), a post formerly held by Maj. Buturo.Maj. Buturo has been 
  re-assigned to head another CMI directorate.Maj. Kateera, formerly the 
  PPU intelligence officer, has been re-assigned as officer in charge of 
  training and operations in the PGB.Maj. Nyero is the commanding 
  officer for 65th Battalion (of 4 Division) in the north.Among those 
  promoted to captain are Johnson Namanya, Allan Kyangungu and 
  Busulwa.Capt. Kyangungu is the commander of the Presidential Guard's 
  Elgon Coy while Capt. Namanya becomes the second in command of the PGB's 
  second mechanised battalion.
  


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ugnet_: ..and the confusion in Yoweri Museveni's OK Kraal Continues in DRC Congo

[Matekopoko]

A New Rebel Camp Takes Shape in War-Torn Region

African Church Information Service 

February 24, 2003 
Posted to the web February 25, 2003 

Crespo Sebunya
Bunia/Kampala 

A senior official of a Congolese rebel faction, Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), has broken off to form a new camp backed by Uganda.

Chief Kawo Panga, former deputy to Thomas Lubanga (leader of UPC), said in Kampala on February 1 that he has formed Force for Integration of Peace, and has asked Ugandan troops to stay in Bunia (in DRC) to forestall massacre. He also gave Lubanga a three-month deadline to enter into dialogue with him, or prepare for war.

Chief Panga said that his group would uproot Lubanga from Bunia. He accused Lubanga of engaging in human rights abuses.

The creation of the dissident UPC offshoot comes after Uganda fell out with UPC, its former ally, in mid January.

The political wing of UPC had signed a co-operation treaty with Rwanda, and thereafter voted for the withdrawal of 1,000 troops of Ugandan Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) from Bunia.

The development has sealed the fall-out between Uganda, UPC and Rally for Congolese Democracy - Liberation Movement (RCD-ML) led by Mbusa Nyamwisi. The three parties had made a commitment to the United Nations on November 24 last year, to bring peace in Ituri in eastern DRC.

Nevertheless, pressure continues to mount on Uganda to withdraw its troops from eastern Congo. A two-day meeting (February 8-9) between Presidents Joseph Kabila of DRC and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda in Dar es Salaam agreed that Uganda withdraws its troops in March.

ugnet_: Museveni Promotes Officers

[Matekopoko]

As if to say this newly appointed "officers" will save Museveni  neck! 

Museveni Promotes Officers


The Monitor (Kampala)

February 24, 2003 
Posted to the web February 25, 2003 

Alex B. Atuhaire
Kampala 

President Yoweri Museveni has promoted 69 army officers, including Leo Kyanda, the commanding officer of the Presidential Guard Brigade (PGB).

The PGB is the former Presidential Protection Unit (PPU), which was recently upgraded to a full brigade.

The promotions include four majors elevated to lieutenant colonel, 54 captains elevated to major and 11 lieutenants elevated to captain.

Army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza confirmed the promotions yesterday but declined to give details.

Lt. Col. Kyanda, who is abroad on a course, was promoted alongside three other majors; Timothy Sabiiti, Kimbowa and Paul L'Okech. Lt. Col. Kimbowa is the acting commander of the PGB.

Also promoted is President Museven's son, who now becomes Maj. Muhoozi Kainerugaba. The former captain recently returned from further military training in Egypt. He is now in charge of the PGB's motorised infantry.

Nuwe Kyepaka, formerly a captain, has been promoted to Major. Maj. Kyepaka, a long time aide to Army Commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini, is now the officer in charge of operations and training in the Military Police.

Maj. Kyepaka recently trained in Egypt with Maj. Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Other newly promoted majors are David Lumumba, O. Buturo, Felix Nyero, Kabanda, James Kateera, Otim, Pande and Sunday. Maj. Lumumba, formerly the intelligence officer for the 2 Division in Mbarara, is reportedly the new director of counter intelligence at the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), a post formerly held by Maj. Buturo.

Maj. Buturo has been re-assigned to head another CMI directorate.

Maj. Kateera, formerly the PPU intelligence officer, has been re-assigned as officer in charge of training and operations in the PGB.

Maj. Nyero is the commanding officer for 65th Battalion (of 4 Division) in the north.

Among those promoted to captain are Johnson Namanya, Allan Kyangungu and Busulwa.

Capt. Kyangungu is the commander of the Presidential Guard's Elgon Coy while Capt. Namanya becomes the second in command of the PGB's second mechanised battalion.

Re: ugnet_: Population control is a GOOD thing for Africa - I disagree

[Mitayo Potosi]

To: okello oruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Brother, me and you are on the same side.

Check again!!

Dont get confused by my mask.



Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ugnet_: Population control is a GOOD thing for Africa - I 
disagree
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:35:54 -0500 (EST)

"What is the operative parameter here?
Is it population or the rate of population increase?"



"Ivinicus factus sum veritabem diceus." ( I have become an enemy for
speaking the truth ) St Paul!

Mitayo Potosi
Mitayo Potosi:

The age of St. Paul is long gone. Therefore, over a hundred years ago 
maybe. Proof: Some U.S Doctors are making it loud and clear "AIDS was 
manufactured in some U.S labs"! If the U.S government disagree, it should 
take these Doctors to court. Plain and simple is the message out there.

So, this is modern era. You disagree with the truth, it is up to you. But 
the truth will always remain the truth. And the only solution is court.



 Mitayo Potosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What is the operative parameter here?
Is it population or the rate of population increase?



"Ivinicus factus sum veritabem diceus." ( I have become an enemy for
speaking the truth ) St Paul!

Mitayo Potosi
>From: okello oruk
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: ugnet_: Population control is a GOOD thing for Africa - I
>disagree
>Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:56:09 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>Mr. Ssemakula,
>I still disagree. Most of the points you raised have been heard many 
times
>now. They are the same old same old stuffs.
>I will point out briefly, three things. This is because I do not want to
>get into a lengthy discussion on this is which, to me at least, is plain
>obvious.
>1. There is Malthusian theories at work in Africa. If you have no idea 
what
>Thomas Malthus proposed over hundred years ago, then read him. Furhter
>population will therefore speed up the process. Unfortunately we Africans
>are very forgetful. I am sure you know about Thomas Malthus and what he
>wrote.
>2. Africa is large; has got huge amount of resources. Yet even at the
>current population, which is by the way low for a continent its size,
>Africans do not consume more than one percent of global output products
>despite the fact that the bulk of resources being used to produce these
>goods come from Africa.
>3. The population increase you see in Gulu is not at all the natural 
trend
>of population increase. These are people displaced by the current war in
>the north. Children and mothers mostly. To consider this as population
>increase beats all logic.
>Have a good one.
> Ocii
> J Ssemakula wrote:Mr. Oruk and other
>Pro-big-population folks, Today the world population exceeds 6 billion
>mouths to feed, clothe, educate, provide medical care etc. Africa's share
>(on the continent only) of that load is som 855 Million individuals, of 
who
>701 Million call Sub-Saharan Africa home. That is enough already! To make
>matters much worse, of the 855 Million people on the continent 53% are 
unde
>the age of 20. In sub-Saharan Africa, this proportion even bigger: 55%.
>So, in a manner of speaking, our problems are already here. This is 
because
>each one of those people too will soon want the very same resources that
>are in shortage now, and for good measure, will also want to reproduce.
>Must we be doomed to never ending famines, in addition to incessant wars,
>all types of pests and the diesease they bear? Must Africa for ever be
>characterized as continent with the lowest educational attainment, 
poorest
>housing, poorest health delivery system!
> s, least productive agriculture, poorest nutrition etc on the planet?
>Do you know that in Africa today, 90% of the population depends of
>woodfuels for heating, cooking and lighting and that trees are not being
>replinished fast enough? Do you know that villages that are only 10 miles
>from the capital city of Uganda, Kampala, have never had electricity or
>portable water and do not have plumbing of any sort and their roads won't
>be tarmacked for at least another 50 years? Yes, I admit, there is AIDS 
is
>a a deadly scourge. But trying to out reproduce it is quite simply a 
losing
>proportion, and is ni fact worse than anything else we can do about it. 
You
>see, this bib disease with a small name may be nearly 100% fatal, BUT, it
>also nearly 100% preventable -- and at little or no individual cost: via
>safe sex -- condoms; monogamy on one hand and abstention on the other. Of
>course, it is imperative that people be continually educated and reminded
>about its dangers and incurabil!
> ity. That said, about 10% of Uganda's poplation is HIV-positiv!
>e which
>is a very big proportion. Still, this amounts to about 2.5 million people
>out of nearly 24 million. Some of scientist believe that AIDS will kill
>100,000 Ugandans (who would otherwise survive were they to be HIV-free)
>per year

ugnet_: UN Helicopter Shot in Bunia

[Matekopoko]

UN Helicopter Shot in Bunia


The Monitor (Kampala)

February 25, 2003 
Posted to the web February 25, 2003 

Frank Nyakairu
Kampala 

A United Nations helicopter was on Monday shot at as it took off from the town of Bunia in northeastern DR Congo's troubled Ituri region.

"A MONUC helicopter was fired on above Bunia, 15 minutes after it took off, bound for Beni. The incident happened 40kms south west of Bunia," MONUC said in a statement yesterday.

One bullet penetrated the cockpit of the MI-8 helicopter, but none of the eight people on board was injured.

They included the commander of the MONUC forces, Senegalese Gen. Mountaga Diallo.

"The helicopter was able to continue on its way without any difficulties and landed at Beni (Nord-Kivu) half an hour later," the statement said.

The statement did not say who was behind the shooting.

Gen. Diallo had travelled to Bunia as the head of a team of negotiators who held talks with Thomas Lubanga, head of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) militia.

The negotiators had discussed with Lubanga the possibility of reviving attempts to set up a pacification commission for Ituri where ethnic fighting, that broke out four years ago, flared up again last November.

On Monday, the UN Security Council ambassadors accredited to DR Congo called for a pacification commission to be set up.

The attack was the first against MONUC since the beginning of the year, and the fifth since the UN observers deployed in the DRC in 1999.

ugnet_: President slams Bush and Blair

[Mitayo Potosi]

  The herald

  Last Updated: Wednesday, 26 February 2003
   President slams Bush and Blair
  From Innocent Gore in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  President Mugabe yesterday accused the United States and 
Britain of trying to
  impose a new form of colonialism on developing countries.

  Speaking at a summit of the 116-member Non-Aligned Movement 
(NAM),
  President Mugabe said US President George W. Bush and British 
Prime Minister
  Tony Blair were imperialists who wanted to create a world 
where powerful "big
  brother" states imposed their will on weaker ones.

  "The United States awakened to the implications of being the 
sole superpower,
  joined by Britain as a born-again colonialist, and other 
Western countries have
  turned themselves into ferocious hunting bull-dogs raring to 
go as they sniff for
  more blood, Third World blood.

  "We are their hunted game for slaughter. The charter of the 
United Nations and its
  sacrosanct tenets of international peace, the sovereignty of 
nations and
  non-interference in domestic affairs of states, are being 
desecrated by the day."

  Cde Mugabe said Iraq might have developed or desired to 
develop weapons of
  mass destruction, but the US should demonstrate what Baghdad 
should do by
  destroying its own massive heaps of nuclear weapons first.

  "They should surely teach by example, and yet they have 
refused to sign the
  treaty on nuclear disarmament.

  "To support the US administration's zest for aggression on 
Iraq is to support a
  proposed inhuman campaign, which is sure to see many lives 
lost," he said.

  Millions of people throughout the world, including the United 
States and Britain,
  have demonstrated against the push for war against Iraq.

  Both Mr Bush and Mr Blair had developed similar warlike 
dispositions from similar
  ideologies of new imperialism.

  This is demonstrated by Mr Blair's close policy adviser, Mr 
Robert Cooper, who
  argues that what was now needed was a new kind of imperialism 
"acceptable to a
  world of human rights and cosmopolitan values".

  Arguing for what he calls a "New Liberal Imperialism", Mr 
Cooper says the
  challenge of the post-modern world is to get used to the idea 
of double standards
  and that when "dealing with more old-fashioned kinds of 
states outside the
  post-modern continent of Europe, we need to revert to the 
rougher methods of an
  earlier force, pre-emptive attack, deception, whatever is 
necessary".

  But Cde Mugabe said: "Who, after reading this Blair 
philosophy would be
  surprised by his irrational actions on Zimbabwe?

  "He desires and is determined to undermine the sovereignty of 
my country and
  introduce neo-colonialist rule.

  "That we shall never allow him to achieve and I want to take 
this opportunity to
  thank you for your consistent support and solidarity with 
Zimbabwe."

  He said colonialism had assumed a new form and sought to 
garner the Third
  World "as we get globally villagised under false economic 
pretences".

  "We are cheated to believe that we shall all be equals in 
that village, but are denied
  to assume military strength of the same magnitude as that of 
the Western and
  more highly developed states. We dare not develop nuclear 
arms for this is a
  prerogative of only the big ones. Trade between rich and poor 
must be free and
  uninhibited and no preferences or derogations will be 
tolerated in this global
  village governed by WTO norms."

  Cde Mugabe said politically, the sovereignty of developing 
nations would not
  have the same weight as that of "big brother" and that big 
brother had the right to
  determine the justice of their systems and not the other way 
round.

  Big brother could blatantly use his prejudice to determine 
and upset the validity of
  any elections in the Third World and declare a validly 
elected president of a
  country illegitimate.

  "But we must remain silent about the presidential election 
fiasco of the United
  States whose vote failed to produce a winner until the US 
Supreme Court,
  dominated by Republican judges, imposed Mr George Bush (Jr) 
as winner. And is
  it not ironical that Mr Bush who was not elected, should deny 
my legitimacy
  established by many observer grou

ugnet_: Anti-Iraq War Sentiments Cause Usa to Change Stance On LRA

[Matekopoko]

Anti-Iraq War Sentiments Cause Usa to Change Stance On LRA


African Church Information Service 

February 24, 2003 
Posted to the web February 25, 2003 

Crespo Sebunya
Kampala 

The groundswell of anti-Iraq war sentiments in Uganda is having ramifications on USA's perception of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group operating in northern Uganda.

US ambassador to Uganda, Jimmy Clocker, now says dialogue with LRA is necessary. He is doubtful that Uganda Peoples' Defence Force (UPDF) would be able to protect thousands of people displaced in LRA controlled areas.

The ambassador also wants a clear amnesty call that would leave no fears of revenge once rebels surrender.

The statements mark a turnaround in opinion. In 2001, US put LRA on a list of terrorist organisations, and granted Uganda US$ 3 million to fight Joseph Kony, the leader of LRA.

Ambassador Clocker, said that judging from the Iraq debate in Kampala, it appears Kampala was nearer to Baghdad than Gulu district in northern Uganda, where LRA has been launching its attacks. Majority of Ugandans, in opinion polls here, were against US invasion of Iraq.

A planned anti-Iraq war demonstrations organised by non-governmental organisations was put off at the eleventh hour on February 18, after police warned organisers that they would be held responsible for any utterances that would upset relations between Uganda and the US.

The demonstrations were to involve at least 20 organisations.

Nevertheless, they still issued an unsigned statement condemning US government for being a security risk. They said US pro-war attitude could spark an arms race among developing countries to guard against being bullied by the super power.

That no organisation pegged its name on the statement underlines fears of serious consequences to any civil group that would explicitly express anti-Iraq war opinion.

US's change of stance in Uganda coincides with that of the European Union (EU), whose officials said in Kampala that they were willing to sponsor dialogue between LRA and the government.

ugnet_: Movement Decides On Parties March 25

[Matekopoko]

Movement Decides On Parties March 25

The Monitor (Kampala)

February 25, 2003 
Posted to the web February 25, 2003 

Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda
Kampala 

The top Movement organs convene next month to debate and take a decision on the possible return to multiparty politics.

The Movement National Conference will also choose new leaders.

President Yoweri Museveni's term as Movement chairman and that of Mr Moses Kigongo as vice chairman expire mid this year.

"This is to give notice to all members of the National Executive Committee of the National Conference of the meeting of the 7th National Executive Committee to take place on 25-28 March 2003 at

the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi," reads Museveni's instrument.

Museveni signed the instrument summoning the meeting on 20 February.

The Movement Act provides for at least two NEC meetings every year but none was convened in 2002.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) would convene first to receive a report on the calls to free political parties from an ad hoc committee set up in December 2001, during a retreat at Kyankwanzi.

This followed open calls from ministers Bidandi Ssali, Eriya Kategaya and James Wapakhabulo that it is time to free the political space.

National Political Commissar Dr Crispus Kiyonga was appointed to head the committee, of which Mr Bidandi and Mr Kategaya are members.

Others include Attorney General Francis Ayume, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Felix Okot, Minister of State for High Education Betty Akech and Maj. Roland Kakooza Mutale. The committee was given four months to compile its report. It would then present it to Mr Museveni for onward presentation to the NEC. Committee members thought it would be appropriate to compile their report after discussions with Mr Museveni but the president didn't find time to meet them in 2002.

The president this year found time and has since reportedly met the committee at least three times.

Sources close to the committee said that a final meeting would be convened to adopt the report, which would again be officially presented to Mr Museveni.

Museveni would then present the report to the NEC.

NEC members would debate it and if adopted recommend it to the National Conference.

According to the instruments Mr Museveni signed, the Movement National Conference would convene in Kampala between March 29-31.

Mr Kiyonga issued a press release yesterday announcing that the Movement Secretariat has started sending out the necessary documents to Movement cadres.

Presentation of the ad hoc committee report is item number 6 on the NEC agenda.

Mr Museveni will also deliver a keynote address to both the NEC and National Conference.

ugnet_: Government Drops SPLA Support

[Matekopoko]

Government Drops SPLA Support



New Vision (Kampala)

February 25, 2003 
Posted to the web February 25, 2003 

Felix Osike
Kampala 

UGANDA has stopped providing military support or intelligence information to the southern Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) rebels.

A protocol signed between the two countries in Khartoum over the weekend said SPLA officers would not be allowed to carry arms while in Uganda. This is in return for Sudan's commitment to flush out the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels of Joseph Kony from their rear bases in southern Sudan.

"Uganda will not train the SPLA or any other dissident force for the purpose of fighting the government of Sudan or allow them to plan or prepare to wage war or hostile propaganda against Sudan from Uganda," the UPDF spokesman, Maj. Shaban Bantariza, said in a statement yesterday.

After a meeting between Defence minister Amama Mbabazi and his Sudanese counterpart Maj. Gen. Bakir Hassan Saleh, Sudan renewed the protocol allowing UPDF operations in Sudan for four months, ending May 31. The last protocol expired on January 31.

Sirajudin Hamid Yousuf, the Sudanese ambassador in Kampala, last month said although relations between the two countries had improved, Khartoum was still unhappy about Uganda's perceived failure to make a "meaningful commitment" to stem support for the SPLA.

Hamid said many illicit small arms and heavy weapons, such as tanks and armoured vehicles, entered Sudan across the Ugandan border.

The protocol said the SPLA would not be allowed to transit military goods through Uganda.

Sudan assured Uganda of its determination to eliminate the LRA from its territory by deploying its forces in the former LRA camps of Bin-Rwot, Lubangatek and Lalar by March 17.

"The Sudanese People's Armed Forces will operate against the LRA wherever it sneaks into territory close to Sudanese army defence positions, search for, capture and hand over LRA fighters to UPDF and their collaborators," Bantariza said.

Uganda's delegation to the talks included Brig. J. Oketta, the UPDF chief of logistics and engineering, Col. Noble Mayombo, the chief of military intelligence and A. Nadduli, in charge of Uganda's embassy in Sudan.

Sudanese president Omar el Bashir met the delegation.

The delegations discussed relations between the two countries, defence, the implementation of the 1999 Nairobi peace agreement and the March 2002 Operation Iron Fist protocol.

A review of the bilateral relations will be considered at the joint ministerial conference in April.

Re: ugnet_: Buganda Flag

[mulindwa]

Kasangwawo

It is your chance enlighten us
Em



Are you serious ? Do you really believe he 'made' him President because
> he loves Baganda ? Grow up !
>
>
>>From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: ugnet_: Buganda Flag
>>Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:19:58 -0500
>>
>>Bwambuga
>>Now all along I have been reading in these forums that Obote hates
>> Baganda, why did he make Mutesa a President of Uganda?
>>Em
>>  The Mulindwas Communication Group
>>"With Yoweri Museveni Uganda is in Anarchy"
>>  Le groupe de transmission de Mulindwas
>>" avec Yoweri Museveni, Ouganda est dans anarchy "
>>
>>
>>
>>- Original Message -
>>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 5:02 PM
>>Subject: ugnet_: Buganda Flag
>>
>>
>>
>>This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website
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>> mirrors http://www.flags-by-swi.com/fotw/flags/ug.html
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>>by Mukasa E. Ssemakula
>>
>>Buganda is the largest traditional kingdom within Uganda (the others
>> are Toro, Ankole and Bunyoro, which make up part of the Western
>> Region). During the colonial period, the British allowed the Kabaka
>> (king) of Buganda and the rulers of the other states a large degree of
>> power and influence, and this was retained a little while into
>> independence. The kingdoms were abolished by Obote in the 1960's but
>> have recently been revived by Yuseveni's government as a way of
>> bringing government closer to the traditional feelings of the people.
>>
>>Roy Stilling, 1996-09-14
>>
>>When Uganda became independent, Milton Obote became prime minister.
>> Being from the small Langi tribe, he appointed King 'Freddy' Mutesa II,
>> Kabaka of Buganda, as president of Uganda. As has been mentioned, the
>> Baganda were  the
>>largest ethnic group and more anglicised (by contact with missionaries
>> and the colonial authorities) than the other groups.
>>
>>By appointing Mutesa, Obote screwed up badly. He alienated other tribes
>> and didn't actually succeed in placating the Baganda, who by May 1966
>> were openly agitating for Obote's overthrow. Obote used the then deputy
>>  commander
>>of the Army, one Idi Amin (who probably needs no introduction) to do
>> the dirty work. Amin personally attacked the Kabaka's palace with a 122
>> mm gun mounted on his (Amin's) personal jeep. the King escaped, but
>> took the hint and fled to Britain were he died in (I think) the early
>> 1970s. Later, of course, Idi Amin staged a coup against Obote.
>> Ironically, this was  initially
>>welcomed by the Baganda (naturally, Amin blamed Obote for their
>>persecution).
>>
>>Stuart Notholt, 1996-09-15 See also:
>>
>>Uganda
>>
>>
>>--
>>He it is Who created for you all that is on earth...He is the
>> All-knower of everything.
>>Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim.
>>The United Nations: described the conflict as the worst in the violent
>> history of northern Uganda.
>>
>>Michael Bwambuga.
>>
>>
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Re: ugnet_: Never Stay at Hotel Africana Kampala

[mulindwa]

Why would you go to Uganda and sleep in a hotel?
Em





Typical of the so-called communications gang. The man complains about
> the  services he got (or did not get) at a hotel, but the gang takes us
> on a  journey about something else !
> Look, Mulindwa, one can get problems with hotel services anywhere in the
>  world - in Europe, America, Asia or Toronto.
>
> Kasangwawo
>
>
>>From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: ugnet_: Never Stay at Hotel Africana Kampala
>>Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:44:09 -0500
>>
>>Fellow Ugandan
>>
>>By the tone of your posting, it sends waves that you were touched by
>> the  tough hand of the erosion of moral and morale that our nation have
>> been  stuck into for the last 20 years. But I can as well conclude that
>> your life  had the mercy to get out since you can talk about it. Many
>> Ugandans have  not been so lucky. So we must thank God for that.
>>Now we must take this concern one step further, our nation can not be
>> healed by eliminating bad hotels, for what you saw is not a problem of
>> a  hotel, it is not a problem of a soldier, it is a problem of a whole
>> nation  which is heading for a total anarchy. So instead of playing the
>> elimination  game, let us work towards changes in our nation. We must
>> stop this freight  train as it continues to go faster and faster to the
>> total destruction of  the nation. Today you have seen a hotel, another
>> one saw a worst taxi  driver who robbed him, another one's parent was
>> operated on when Doctors  were using torches for light, yet the other
>> one died for the electricity  through rationing was cut off when his
>> tummy was still open.
>>
>>All those are true results of a nation with out a government. we all as
>>  Ugandans must start to think and hard and together if we are to save
>> our  nation. Uganda was supposed to be a pearl of Africa until when The
>> Movement  got its dirty hands on it. That is what we must reverse.
>>
>>Thank God you left Uganda alive.
>>Em
>>  The Mulindwas Communication Group
>>"With Yoweri Museveni Uganda is in Anarchy"
>>  Le groupe de transmission de Mulindwas
>>" avec Yoweri Museveni, Ouganda est dans anarchy "
>>
>>
>>   - Original Message -
>>   From: swmm
>>   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>   Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 1:51 PM
>>   Subject: ugnet_: Never Stay at Hotel Africana Kampala
>>
>>
>>   Guys wishing to stay in a hotel in Kampala, you may need to get
>> second
>>opinions about hotel Africana. They offer false promises and their
>> services  are horrible.
>>
>>   I was just pissed!
>
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ugnet_: [Fwd: [rwanda-l] Museveni to open up for Multiparty sysyem]

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Subject: [rwanda-l] Museveni to open up for Multiparty sysyem
From: "H G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, February 25, 2003 5:29 pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]





Netters,
 
Is Museveni's move going to ingriguant some change of heart to his
counterpart in Rwanda? If things stay the way they are, I will say No.
No until, perhaps, after the first mandat as president ( self)
elected.  The reason I say this is because President Kagame follows,
systematically,  president Museveni footsteps at the
letter. And this should not come as a surprise since the
 only political figure he has been around for so long is Museveni.
As matter of fact, before the split on the management of Congo's
minerals, president Kagame himself( as well as all those who grow up in
Uganda) used to call Museveni his/their cousin.  That is why
Kagame's administrative institutions were set up similar to Uganda's.
Here are some examples:


Both leaders come to power after a military victory. After that, they
set up " a broad based government" whereby people of different political
persuasions would be brought together to rebuild the country"( so as
their say).

Both contries have NEC( National Executive Concil). Every political
decision is communicated/debated in this INVISIBLE/unkown and
self-nominated high level organization.This is the truly but yet
unoficial  highest organe of the UMURYANGO-RPF. 


President Museveni managed to maintain himself on power thru this system
of " broad based government"or FORUM ,where all the NEC decisions(
nomination, gvt reshaffles, new institutions, etc..), are communicated
to the "so-called" parteners( abasangirangendo) for execution. Wherever
pesident Museveni has succeded, Kagame has to prove that he is capable
of. That is why, president Kagame is taking this coming elections
in his own hands. He wants/needs to prove to his Ugandan counterpart
that he no longer a "boy". That is why will  be self-elected
president no MATTER WHAT. NAHO UBUNDI HAZAPFA UMUNTU. After
his first mandat as a ( self)elected president, Kagame will be
forced to shift to multi-party system and his explaination will be (
similar to Museveni's) "The people who have opened their markets to us
are the ones who want us to open political space to multi party
politics," . Now, another question:
As rwandans, are we ready to endure what we are going thru for another
five years: persecution, emprisonment, violation of human rights,
killings... as well as poverty? The obvious answer is No. We need to
find way to have president Kagame be forced to change his agenda before
it is too late. Can we do it? I think the answer is Yes. As the
saying goes: Where there is a Will, there is a Way.  President
Kagame can be elected president, I don't have any  problem with
that. My only concern, it got to be done within
democratic standards: set up democratic system that is fair to all ,
fair justice, separation of power( executif, legistlatif and justice),
fair election, ... This is my wish and this is what I fight for: a
democratic system, that is fair to all rwandan children. HG
===
 
 
 
 
 
Museveni Was Firm As Movt Diehards Opposed Opening Up












 

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The Monitor (Kampala)
February 22, 2003 Posted to the web February 24, 2003
Andrew M. MwendaKampala
On January 28, 2003, President Yoweri Museveni declared that Uganda
should open politics to multi party competition. Sunday Monitor talked
to eleven of the twenty two people who attended the historic meeting,
and through their private notes taken during the meeting, we have been
able to build a fair picture of the debate that ensued. On January 28,
2003, President Yoweri Museveni made history when he recommended that
the Movement should turn itself into a political party and open up
political space for other political parties to compete against the
movement. In spite of protestations from movement hardliners in the
meeting against this change, the president was firm and resolute that
the country is ripe for change.




The president made the recommendation during a meeting of the adhoc
committee set up by the movement's National Executive Council (NEC) in
Kyankwanzi on December 18, 2001. The committee was mandated by NEC to
"examine the performance of the movement system in light of the current
political trends/developments, including calls to open up to political
party pluralism with a view to guide the political future of this
country." This was the third time the committee was meeting the
president in a space of only one month. When the discussion was
concluding page 66 of the report where eleven points are listed as the
justification for allowing multi party politics, the president called
for a halt. He said he had a twelfth point to make in favour of
political pluralism - i.e. that the movement needs to purify itself.
Someone asked: "what do you mean by that Mr. President?" And Museveni
began his long exp

[no subject]

[gook makanga]

EAR TO THE GROUND: Museveni isn't giving up, he's just digginginBy Charles Onyango-ObboPresident Yoweri Museveni has, finally, taken a position infavour ofopening up the political system to free competition by politicalparties.The hard questions are now pouring in: Is he serious, and whynow? When willthis opening up really happen? Will the people who have grownfat on theMovement's one-party system, including sections of the military,let him getway with it or will they attempt to kick him out?Generally there are two vocal views on the matter. One, thatPresidentMuseveni was never opposed to parties as such, except he thoughtit wasn'tthe right time to open up. Second, that he's responding topressure from thegrowing threat of a major rebellion, and the factional splits intheMovement which are eroding his power. He's therefore trying tobuy himselfsome more time on a new ticket as a reformist.Perhaps both views are right.However, the problem is wider than Mr Museveni and the troubledMovement.There is a wider political problem that encompasses the Movementand itsmain party rivals, the UPC, DP. All of them are advocates ofdemocracy whenthey are out of power or in turmoil.The UPC became part of the liberation movement against Idi Aminafter itsone-party rule was overthrown in 1971. It became repressiveafter it wonpower in the December 1980 elections, and became democraticagain afterbeing ousted in July 1985 - now even supporting the monarchiesit banned in1966.The DP, Uganda's professional opposition party, was alwaysdemocratic until,for six months after the July 1985 coup, its leader Dr PaulSsemogerere wasinvited into government as minister by the military junta of theOkellos(Tito and Basilio).In the first years of the Movement, when DP was the unofficialjuniorpartner in government, Dr Ssemogerere even !
backed t
he crackdownon attemptsby a wing of his party to hold rallies, and turned his back onsenior DPpoliticians who were arrested on trumped up treason charges. Itwas after DPhad been sidelined and Dr Ssemogerere resigned from governmentin 1995, thathe rediscovered the democratic path.Likewise, Mr Museveni and his Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM)were democratsin 1980. Then he went to the bush and formed the NationalResistanceArmy/Movement to fight Milton Obote's UPC government, and thenthe Okellos'junta. Once entrenched, Mr Museveni saw to it that even UPM was"dissolved".The famous criticism of corruption, opulence, and the torturechambers thathe and his comrades had so much condemned past regimes forreturned in abigger way - certainly the corruption and the opulence. And, tocap it all,the one party-type politics they so vilified became the"Movement/individualmerit" system.As these political organisations lose their idealism, and wallowincorruption, nepotism, and cruel rule, they are usually desertedby thebrighter minds and face public apathy. As the best and brightestaredisillusioned by politics and leave, a vacuum is created. Thisvacuum is nowfilled by the tough guys; then the folks who can no longer makea livingoutside politics; and also the types who want to enrichthemselves usingstate power. Thus a process of degeneration sets in.Whether or not a regime is faced by the threat of rebellions(after all MrMuseveni didn't open up in the 1980s when more serious groupslike the UPDAwere fighting him) or internal party strife, at one point itwill seekcohesion.And here, then, is the tricky part. By opening up, Mr Museveniwould seem tobe reaching out again. But effectively he is narrowing down. Asthepresident is alleged to have said, opening up is partly to allowthose whodon't believe in the Movement to walk away!
, and le
ave it forthose (few) whobelieve in it. So while Museveni might appear to some to begiving up, he'sin fact digging in. One good example of this was the recentelections inIsrael when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud and the Labourpartycoalition collapsed because he could no longer live with thelatter'sopposition to his hard line against the Palestinians. Mr Sharonwent on toscore a resounding victory (by Israeli standards), and thedowish Labourparty was handed its biggest electoral humiliation of recentyears.Opening up, done early before the anger boils over as the lateJuliusNyerere did in 1985, can land a party a new lease of politicaldominance aswe have seen with Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) in Tanzania. Doneyears late asKenya's Daniel arap Moi did in 1992, will win a party one easywin againstan opposition in disarray, and one narrow escape helped by aballot swindle.Thus Mr Moi and KANU won easily in 1992, struggled badly in1997, before theparty was electorally obliterated in December 2002.So, while the embarrassment of having to do a 360 degreesturn-around forthose people who have been parroting Mr Museveni's anti-partyline mightseem a little too much, they should not be blinded to the realpossibilitythat The Chief might just have snatched a big victory out of thejaws ofdefeat.The parties should als

ugnet_: GM mosquitoes not fit enough

[Lugemwa FN]

GM mosquitoes not fit enough Natasha McDowell Genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes — which scientists hope could one day be used to eradicate malaria — do not compete well against normal mosquitoes, according to work published today in the journal Science. Researchers found that when GM mosquitoes are bred with unmodified mosquitoes, the introduced test gene disappears in subsequent generations. The findings stress the importance of ensuring the fitness of modified mosquitoes before they are released into the wild, says Andrea Crisanti of Imperial College, London, who led the study. Malaria affects 300 million people every year and with no immediate prospect of a vaccine, scientists have been seeking alternative ways to tackle the disease. One strategy is to create and release a GM strain of mosquito that is unable to transmit the malarial parasite, which will eventually dominate wild populations. Three years ago, Crisanti created the first GM mosquito by introducing a DNA fragment that glows under ultraviolet light. However, he and his colleagues have now shown that when these mosquitoes are allowed to breed with normal mosquitoes, the number of GM mosquitoes in the population quickly drops. In some experiments, the introduced gene disappeared within 4 to 16 generations. “It casts a gloomy light on the idea of engineering mosquito strains unable to transmit malaria,” says Chris Curtis of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Crisanti thinks the problem could be that the GM mosquitoes are inbred, originating from a single modified individual. As a result, the introduced gene may have become associated with harmful mutations that, while they do not kill the mosquitoes, cause them to lose out when competing with normal mosquitoes. “A solution would be to make sure that the GM mosquito lines are outbred, by mating the GM mosquitoes only with normal mo!
squitoes
,” says Crisanti. He also says that larger population studies are now needed, but is optimistic that anti-malaria GM mosquitoes could be employed within 10 years. But even if the problem of inbreeding is overcome, Curtis is sceptical that the approach will ever work. Rather than modifying mosquitoes so that they are unable to transmit the malarial parasite, he believes a better approach would be to make sterile males. “The screw worm fly — a pest of cattle — has been eradicated all the way from Texas to Panama by swamping the wild populations with sterile males unable to breed,” says Curtis. It’s an old idea, he says, but the advantage is that any decrease in fitness can simply be overcome by releasing larger numbers into the wild. ---
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Re: ugnet_: Never Stay at Hotel Africana Kampala

[jonah kasangwawo]

Typical of the so-called communications gang. The man complains about the 
services he got (or did not get) at a hotel, but the gang takes us on a 
journey about something else !
Look, Mulindwa, one can get problems with hotel services anywhere in the 
world - in Europe, America, Asia or Toronto.

Kasangwawo


From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ugnet_: Never Stay at Hotel Africana Kampala
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:44:09 -0500
Fellow Ugandan

By the tone of your posting, it sends waves that you were touched by the 
tough hand of the erosion of moral and morale that our nation have been 
stuck into for the last 20 years. But I can as well conclude that your life 
had the mercy to get out since you can talk about it. Many Ugandans have 
not been so lucky. So we must thank God for that.
Now we must take this concern one step further, our nation can not be 
healed by eliminating bad hotels, for what you saw is not a problem of a 
hotel, it is not a problem of a soldier, it is a problem of a whole nation 
which is heading for a total anarchy. So instead of playing the elimination 
game, let us work towards changes in our nation. We must stop this freight 
train as it continues to go faster and faster to the total destruction of 
the nation. Today you have seen a hotel, another one saw a worst taxi 
driver who robbed him, another one's parent was operated on when Doctors 
were using torches for light, yet the other one died for the electricity 
through rationing was cut off when his tummy was still open.

All those are true results of a nation with out a government. we all as 
Ugandans must start to think and hard and together if we are to save our 
nation. Uganda was supposed to be a pearl of Africa until when The Movement 
got its dirty hands on it. That is what we must reverse.

Thank God you left Uganda alive.
Em
 The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni Uganda is in Anarchy"
 Le groupe de transmission de Mulindwas
" avec Yoweri Museveni, Ouganda est dans anarchy "
  - Original Message -
  From: swmm
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 1:51 PM
  Subject: ugnet_: Never Stay at Hotel Africana Kampala
  Guys wishing to stay in a hotel in Kampala, you may need to get second 
opinions about hotel Africana. They offer false promises and their services 
are horrible.

  I was just pissed!


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Re: ugnet_: Buganda Flag

[jonah kasangwawo]

Are you serious ? Do you really believe he 'made' him President because
he loves Baganda ? Grow up !

From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ugnet_: Buganda Flag
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:19:58 -0500
Bwambuga
Now all along I have been reading in these forums that Obote hates Baganda,
why did he make Mutesa a President of Uganda?
Em
 The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni Uganda is in Anarchy"
 Le groupe de transmission de Mulindwas
" avec Yoweri Museveni, Ouganda est dans anarchy "


- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 5:02 PM
Subject: ugnet_: Buganda Flag


This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website
Buganda (Uganda)
Last modified: 1998-02-06 by rob raeside
Keywords: buganda | uganda |
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by Mukasa E. Ssemakula

Buganda is the largest traditional kingdom within Uganda (the others are
Toro, Ankole and Bunyoro, which make up part of the Western Region). During
the colonial period, the British allowed the Kabaka (king) of Buganda and
the rulers of the other states a large degree of power and influence, and
this was retained a little while into independence. The kingdoms were
abolished by Obote in the 1960's but have recently been revived by
Yuseveni's government as a way of bringing government closer to the
traditional feelings of the people.
Roy Stilling, 1996-09-14

When Uganda became independent, Milton Obote became prime minister. Being
from the small Langi tribe, he appointed King 'Freddy' Mutesa II, Kabaka of
Buganda, as president of Uganda. As has been mentioned, the Baganda were 
the
largest ethnic group and more anglicised (by contact with missionaries and
the colonial authorities) than the other groups.

By appointing Mutesa, Obote screwed up badly. He alienated other tribes and
didn't actually succeed in placating the Baganda, who by May 1966 were
openly agitating for Obote's overthrow. Obote used the then deputy 
commander
of the Army, one Idi Amin (who probably needs no introduction) to do the
dirty work. Amin personally attacked the Kabaka's palace with a 122 mm gun
mounted on his (Amin's) personal jeep. the King escaped, but took the hint
and fled to Britain were he died in (I think) the early 1970s. Later, of
course, Idi Amin staged a coup against Obote. Ironically, this was 
initially
welcomed by the Baganda (naturally, Amin blamed Obote for their
persecution).

Stuart Notholt, 1996-09-15 See also:

Uganda

--
He it is Who created for you all that is on earth...He is the All-knower of
everything.
Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim.
The United Nations: described the conflict as the worst in the violent
history of northern Uganda.
Michael Bwambuga.

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ugnet_: Burundi president says monitors must deploy fast

[Matekopoko]

Burundi president says monitors must deploy fast


BUJUMBURA, 25 February (Reuters) - Burundian President Pierre Buyoya said observers must be deployed quickly to monitor a ceasefire in the war-torn country, despite a rebel decision to pull out of direct talks with the government.

The main Hutu rebel group in Burundi, the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD), which has been fighting the Tutsi-led army since 1993, accused Buyoya last Friday of breaking a December truce and said it would suspend its contacts with him.

The army has since accused the FDD of launching attacks on civilians. FDD leader Pierre Nkurunziza denied the accusation, saying his faction was ready to fight but only if provoked by an army attack.

Arriving back in Burundi late on Monday after a trip to Libya and Europe, Buyoya called for fast deployment of ceasefire monitors.

"It is essential to accelerate the mechanisms of monitoring the ceasefire which have been promised by the international community, because...without exterior neutral observation, incidents may happen," he told reporters.

An African Union team of observers has begun deploying in Burundi to monitor the ceasefire. It is due to be followed by a peacekeeping force which will oversee rebel disarmament.

Buyoya dismissed the FDD statement, saying he would wait and see whether the rebels followed through with their threat to suspend talks.

"The statement made by Nkurunziza's FDD is an internal matter for that movement," he said. "We will wait to see if it does not attend the next meeting, then we will know the real intentions of the FDD."

Several Hutu factions are fighting the Tutsi-led government in Burundi, in a war that has killed around 300,000 people since it began almost a decade ago. As well as the FDD, two small rebel groups have also signed up to a peace deal.

But the second main rebel group in Burundi, the Forces for National Liberation, has stayed outside the peace process.


   
02/25/03 02:33 ET
    

ugnet_: Fw: [rwanda-l] LOVE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER isn't Nikozitambirwa & Byilingiro?

[Mulindwa Edward]

From: rugura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:15 AM
Subject: [rwanda-l] LOVE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER isn't 
Nikozitambirwa & Byilingiro?
In Bali As In London, Africa Doesn't ExistFrom The East 
African, Sept 16-22, 2002By Charles Onyango-Obbo 
Some 
years ago my managing director travelled to a big conference of newspaper 
executives in London organized by the Financial Times. One of the sessions 
was a presentation on global newsprint price trends. So on flashed the giant 
electronic board, showing newsprint consumption in the world. There were 
buttons blinking on many countries and continents except one Ð Africa. As if 
to make the point that it was the Dark Continent, it was an unlit block. 
Going by the proud swagger of some of the African newspaper CEOs and 
editors whose publications sell over 200,000, you might be tempted into 
considering that a remarkable achievement. Don't. There are simply too few 
such papers, definitely less than ten Ð lower than the combined daily 
circulation of the British tabloid The Sun. The one place I didn't expect to 
find Africa dealt with so dismissively was in the scenic resort Indonesian 
island of Bali. So many tourists troop through the island's Denpasar 
airport, you can feel your head turn at the numbers. In the departure lounge 
is a huge board indicating the times of the major cities on each of the 
continents. Nothing is shown in Africa, not even the usual suspects - 
Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cairo, or Lagos. That's strange considering 
that the founder of modern Indonesia, Surkano Sukarno, was one of people who 
inspired the Cold War Third World political bloc, the Non-Aligned Countries. 
And of its East Asian neighbours like Singapore and Malaysia, Indonesia 
bears the closest resemblance to Africa with its ruinous ways, and 
squandered opportunities to move in the newly industrializing countries 
league. On the first anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks 
by Islamic militants in the USA, the American embassy in Indonesia, the 
country with the world's largest Muslim population, was closed. US 
ambassador Ralph Boyce was summoned by Indonesia's acting foreign minister 
to explain why the action had been taken without consulting the Jakarta 
government, in a manner that was reminiscent of Kenyan President Daniel arap 
Moi's famous diplomatic scuffles with the late-80s abrasive American envoy 
Smith Hempstone. It's corruption, however, that still has the 
IndonesiansÕ hopping mad. A court recently sentenced House of 
Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung to three years in jail for embezzling 
Ushs 9bn (US5m). Under Indonesian law, Tandjung would have had to resign or 
go to jail if the verdict was considered strong. But apparently because the 
verdict is considered weak, the Speaker has appealed, and remains in 
office. His Golkar Party supports him, and the opposition, though it has 
the numbers to unseat Tandjung, has failed to find the stomach to get rid of 
him. The air is filled with angry denunciations of Tandjung by commentators 
who argue that he only confirms Indonesia as one of the worldÕs most corrupt 
countries, and its politicians crooks without a sense of shame and honour. 
Indonesia is a country of a mind-boggling 14,000 islands, and 
possibly near 40,000 if you throw in the rocks and miniscule islets. 
Jakarta alone has 13 rivers running through it. And now it's choking 
with a very East African problem Ð the water hyacinth that has been 
largely conquered in Uganda. Among Indonesia's redemptions is that 
it has a lot of common sense marketing its tourism. Tourism has fed a 
culture that is polite to the point of being embarrassing. The tourists are 
returning the compliments by spending big. So guess where the Indonesian 
cinematic society is planning to hold its 2002 film festival? In Melbourne, 
Australia. Indeed the irony of the blank Africa at the Denpasar airport 
time map struck me when I learnt that tropical plants, some of them from 
Africa, are being sold to tourists for a fortune. Some of the tree seedlings 
are selling for; you can understand why an East African won't believe this, 
the equivalent of Ushs 7.2m ($4,000) apiece. That is 102,000 percent higher 
than a Ugandan school teacher's monthly salary! LOVE IS IN 
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (that's why we can't love ourselves, as we are so 
dark no mirror can't reflect our own image to ourselves!)The Hawker 
(the bird eye)--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Zephanie 
Byilingiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > On me dit 
que le sommet etait en francais et que donc Kagame peut beneficier> 
des circonstances attenuantes> Kagame 
etait-il le seul au sommet a ne pas comprende le 
francais?-N'etait-il> pas lui qui avait declare que le Rwanda est 
membre de la famille> francophone?> Pourquoi a-t-il attendu la fin 
du

ugnet_: Should Jon Chance Run for Re-Selection as a Radical Republican?

[Mulindwa Edward]

From: Jon Chance 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

Although the "U.S. President" has little or no significant power - 
since it's the media-money monopoly that runs the show (Eisenhower 
called it the military-industrial complex, Buckminster Fuller called it 
GRUNCH or LAWCAP) - is there any point in holding this titular office? 
The pay is okay, and the fringe benefits are excellent, but... aren't 
there better things to do with one's life?Most of the time, 
President Eisenhower played golf.  But he did manage to stop the 
British, French and Zionists from invading Suez in 1956.  And he 
delivered an excellent farewell address.Presidents Kennedy and Carter 
attempted to make some significant changes, such as dissolving the CIA and 
America's addiction to oil.  But look what the CIA, the Mossad and 
the world banksters did to JFK and Carter.  Physical assassination and 
character assassination, among other ploys.These days, lots of the 
usual puppet politicians are scrambling to announce that they're running for 
President in the Democratic Party.  It's unlikely that the media-money 
monopoly will pay much attention to anyone who's not a 
Republicrat.And it's part of the so-called "conspiracy" to have a 
Democratic Party "good cop" replace the Republican Party "bad cop" in 2004 
or 2008, depending largely on the price of gas and oil at the time. 
It's the "economy", stupid!  The more Gross National Pollution 
emitted by the USA, the more complacent most of our addicted citizens 
become.As I overheard during Election Fraud 2000 while visiting 
http://cfr.org , GM's Robert McNamara 
instructed NPR's William Shirer, "Anyone but Nader." You see, it's 
not a "conspiracy", it's simply the way things are done in the corporate 
world.Well, although I'd rather be doing other things than playing 
President, it's very insulting to citizens to have bribed, blackmailed 
and incompetent puppet politicians claiming to represent us. As a 
matter of honor, if we're to have any President, at least he or she should 
be at least as sensible as an average farmer or carpenter.  Lawyers and 
MBAs need not apply.So far, nobody that I've heard of has challenged 
poor George W. Bush as the so-called "Republican" candidate for 2004.  
I feel sorry for Dubya, since the whole world is laughing at him and he 
never wanted to play politics anyway.  He just wants to drink beer and 
watch baseball, not be the patsy for the global political-economic 
meltdown.Yesterday I called the Republicans to inquire about running for 
so-called "election" in the GOP. After all, I explained to their 
baffled bureacrats, I advocate abolishing all personal income taxes, 
reducing the size of the federal government by more than 90%, empowering 
State and local governments, protecting ALL of the Bill of Rights, and 
accepting no bribes. Doesn't that make me an excellent Republican? 
Some of them agreed, that would certainly be a very  appealing 
policy.  But how can you run without accepting "campaign 
contributions" from PACs?I replied that bribery is unlawful and will 
eventually land all these puppet politicians and their patrons in 
prison.That didn't endear me with the finance staff, whose job is to 
solicit and launder bribes.Hm  To play the game or 
not?  That is the question.Well, if I do play the game, I'll accept 
no bribes.  As for financing such a campaign, the most I'll accept 
is about $100 silver dollars (no Federal Reserve Corporation debt-dollars, 
please) from individual human citizens of the United States - citizens who 
accept nothing more than decent leadership in exchange.What this 
country needs is a radical republican like Thomas Jefferson.
 
The Mulindwas Communication Group"With 
Yoweri Museveni Uganda is in Anarchy" 
 Le 
groupe de transmission de Mulindwas " avec Yoweri Museveni, Ouganda est dans 
anarchy "

ugnet_: The Master Vs Slave Laws: references

[dbbwanika db]

Referendum June 2000 cabinet reshuffle 

Justice Minister Mayanja Nkangi moves from
Finance 
Defence Minister Paul Kavuma in for (acting)
Salim Sahel.
		
 2003 

Justice Minister Janat Mukwaya
Defence Ruth Nankabirwa.	

	Number of Mps about > 250 (2000) > 300 (2003) 		



Clause 21 of the Bill allows political parties to open offices and engage in political activities at national level, but not at district,municipal,sub-county, ward and village levels. The Bill was passed as an amendment to Section 269 of the Constitution of Uganda, which places restrictions on the operation of political parties.
			
On 31 August, Parliament overwhelmingly voted to amend the Constitution, validating the Referendum (Political Systems) of 2000 and other laws enacted since October 1996. A total of 224 MPs voted in favour of the Constitution (Amendment) Bill of 2000 tabled on 29 August by Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Mayanja Nkangi. 

Only one unidentified MP voted against the Bill which amended Articles 88, 89, 90, 97 and 257. 

Deputy Speaker Edward Ssekandi barred Omara Atubo (Otuke) from presenting a certified copy of Constitutional petition number 2, challenging the Referendum (Political Systems) Act of 2000. He also stopped any comment on the case, which is pending in the Constitutional Court. Parliament at first suspended Rule 73, which provides for voting by secret ballot. The motion to suspend the Rule, which was not debated, was moved by Mike Mukula (Soroti Municipality) and passed with 182 votes against 18. Six MPs including Maj. Gen Mugisha Muntu abstained. 

Rule 73 provides for a secret ballot when the House is voting on a Bill seeking to amend the Constitution or election and removal of a personholding a Constitutional office. Under the amendments, Parliament will determine its methodof voting. It will also not be required to have a quorum of 93 members to transact business.

A quorum will only be necessary at the time of voting. Parliament, presided over by
Ssekandi, unanimously passed an amendment moved by Ben Mutyaba (Makindye East) seeking to bar courts from inquiring into the proceedings of the House and compelling the Speaker, members and staff to give evidence as was the case in the recent petition against the Referendum and Other Provisions Act of 2000. Article 257 was amended to provide that «no Act passed or purported to have been passed by Parliament at any time after the commencement of this Constitution shall be taken to be invalid by reason of the fact that the Bill for the Act was not discussed and recommendations made on it to Parliament by a standing committee.» The Referendum Act is one such Act that was never scrutinised by a standing committee. The Article was further amended to validate laws and resolutions, passed by the House using voice-voting that the Constitutional Court had also declared unconstitutional. (The New	Vision, Uganda, 1 September 2000) 			

Movement supporters also marshalled support from Justice Minister Mayanja Nkangi and the Minister for   Parliamentary Affairs, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, to rout the motion by multiparty legislators, who included the   outspoken de facto leader of the Uganda People's Congress, Mrs Cecilia Ogwal.
	

Paul Ssemogerere, the Democratic Party president, together with Nwoya County MP Zachary Olum and Kibuku County MP Reiner Kafiire, petitioned the Constitutional Court in November 2000 seeking nullification of the Constitutional Amendment Act 2000.

The Act was passed contrary to the provisions of Chapter 18 of the Constitution, they charged. The petitioners said it was not read before Parliament for at least 14 days before President Museveni's assent. They further maintained the amendment of articles 88, 89, 90 and 97 indirectly amended articles 1, 2, 28, 41, 43 and 44 without consent of the people through the referendum under articles 258-262 of the Constitution. But, typically, the petition was dismissed on 3-2 majority ruling.
-
	
CA set up a timetable in Article 271 (2) and (3) as well as Article 269 showing how the transition period would come to an end. That is why the 2000 Referendum on Political Systems became a constitutional requirement.

Political Parties and Organisations Bill 2001the bill sailed through with 146 votes in favour, 7 abstentions and one against. In a parliament of 306 MPs, government must be wondering what happened to its assumptions that it has two thirds of the MPs in the bag.

The member from Bukhooli North, who we all know has firm links with the Uganda People's Congress
party, Patrick Mwondha did say "parliament is being used to do somebody else' work".

Movement asks, what are you hiding

But you also had the Movementists on the other side insisting that in the spirit of "transparency" a vote by show hands was appropriate. Col Kahinda Otafiire asked: "Ona ficha nini? (Swahili for "what are you
hiding?").

Indeed if one didn't know better, he or she would think that in a Parliament of n

ugnet_: Uganda, motto!!

[NOC´LADUMAS GEORGES]

So was it time enough for Uganda again. This time around, it is Sweden which 
has ranked Ugandan-Swedish "refugee" community high amongst those harboring 
notorious war criminals.

There seems not to have been any protest from any of the Ugandan 
associations in Sweden. So it must be true that among us are many war 
criminals. But, there ain´t no smoke without fire. Why has Sweden come out 
with that now (rd. yesterday 24 feb 03)? Is it Bush ghosting?!

Some even claim Idi Amin´s Children and notorious gangs are around.

What do you (ugandan organizations in Sweden) say?
rgds
noc´l




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ugnet_: 10 AMERICANS DEAD

[Mulindwa Edward]

Explosion Kills 10 US Special Forces In Zarmat - 
Report

From Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD

Freelance Academic2-24-3

  
  

  
Translated By Jihad Unspun 
The Daily Ausaf 
Sabawoon.com 
 
Editors Note: Daily Islam also confirmed this report, 
with slightly lower casualty numbers. 
 
From news across the border, a severe explosion took 
place in Afghan province Zarmat when American Special Forces' officials 
were leaving the area in a double cabin vehicle. The intensity of the 
explosion could be heard from several kilometers away. 
 
The vehicle was completely destroyed and all ten 
people on board were killed on the spot. The body parts of the soldiers 
were seen far away from the scene of the explosion. Almost all the dead 
bodies were beyond recognition. Soon after, rescue units converged on 
the area with both ground vehicles and helicopters, sealing off the area 
and transported the bodies to an undisclosed location via helicopter. 
The American investigators on the scene were to determine if the 
explosion was the result of a pre installed time bomb or a land 
mine. 
 
Meanwhile, in other news, in suburbs of Kantar 
[kunar], an unknown assailant attacked an American Patrol in a surprise 
ambush. Americans soldiers managed to escape by jumping from the 
vehicles. According to details, the exchange of fire continued for more 
than an hour. Later on the Americans called for aerial support and the 
assailant fled the scene. 
 
In other news, two big caches of weapons were found 
from Garbaz's tribal area in Khost. According to locals, these caches 
were from the Taliban regime and a large number of weapons were stored 
by making a bunker. Coalition troops later on transported these weapons 
to Bagh-e-Sar airport. Afghan troops also took part along with coalition 
troops while helicopters hoovered [hovered] overhead One American 
soldier was severely injured due to a land mine explosion. He has been 
shifted to Khost for medical treatment where his condition is said to be 
critical. 
 
The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni Uganda is in Anarchy" 
 Le 
groupe de transmission de Mulindwas " avec Yoweri Museveni, Ouganda est dans 
anarchy "

ugnet_: WORLD BEGINNING TO SEE TRUTH ABOUT ZIMBABWE

[Mulindwa Edward]

By Clever Chirume 

As Britain intensifies its economic and psychological warfare 
against its former colony Zimbabwe, sharp differences appear to be emerging 
within the Commonwealth and the European Union, among other international 
organisations concerning this issue. Countries such as South Africa 
which have borne much of the British and US led pressure over Zimbabwe have 
stood firm and refused to sing the Tony Blair blues, which is unfortunately out 
of sync with the way things are happening in the country. This comes in 
the wake of the forthcoming Commonwealth Troika meeting in March to assess the 
progress made by Zimbabwe since its suspension from the Club ten months ago 
under what political commentators have described as controversial circumstances 
of the threats of aid freeze and alarmist warnings of region-wide economic, 
social and political instability by the West. It also comes against the 
backdrop of the continuing British failure to sustain its campaign against 
Zimbabwe. The British lobby has suffered similar embarrassment when the 
African, Caribbean and Pacific countries refused to be dragged into endorsing 
Britain’s bid to have Zimbabwe excluded from the ACP/EU joint meeting. 
The land issue, which has been the major source of acrimony between 
Britain and Zimbabwe in recent years, has entered its final phase, and Britain 
knows too well that history will not judge it lightly over this issue. 
It knows that its colonial misdeeds will not easily be swept under the 
carpet as easily as the Labour Party of Tony Blair would want to put it. 
The truth about the British lobby is that it has collapsed, and the 
world is now beginning to open its eyes to see the truth about Zimbabwe and its 
tolerance level is increasing with each passing day. The world in 
general is now awakening to the real truth and is now finding it difficult to 
believe the British assertion that President Mugabe is the one humiliating 
Britain and placing the lives of its citizens at risk. The truth is that 
the British colonialists have humiliated Zimbabweans for time immemorial. 
They plundered and looted Zimbabwe’s wealth from which they have built 
cities, they raped women of all ages, butchered and enslaved all men, including 
the blind and the deaf. These events have shown that Zimbabwe does not 
need to outstretch itself in publicly engaging the British surrogates wherever 
they are found in the world since their behaviour is motivated by sheer defiance 
of reason and clear lack of political grasp of the intricacies of Zimbabwe’s 
painful struggles towards total independence. Britain has remained 
adamant to see the truth even where those whose interests it seeks to protect 
such as the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) have decided to engage in 
constructive dialogue with Government over the current impasse with regards to 
the land issue. Britain appears not concerned about its growing 
diplomatic blunders and has dragged the EU into a list of unsavoury cases, which 
shows lack of regard for African institutions and governments. Not even 
the growing solidarity within most of the world about the correctness of 
Zimbabwe’s strategies concerning its political affairs have moved Blair from his 
warpath agenda against Zimbabwe, which has created a lot of unnecessary tensions 
within diplomatic circles and the current diplomatic tiff in the EU, among other 
international organisations. Many countries are now realising that the 
current determination by Britain to influence events in Zimbabwe is not inspired 
by the drive to protect the democratic interests of the Zimbabwean people in 
that country but by Britain’s disgruntlement over the regime in Harare. 
Some African leaders are now fed up with being pushed around by Britain 
and some of its surrogates in the EU. The remarks by the President of 
South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, that the practice by the North that "they alone know 
better than others about everything ran at cross purpose with the real spirit of 
human dignity and true partnership". This ultimately prevented genuine 
dialogue among those who purported to be concerned about events in countries 
like Zimbabwe. President Mbeki summed up this growing displeasure by 
saying he was not amused that each time the North was informed that there had 
been genuine progress in Zimbabwe, it (the North) called for more pressure and 
demands. "What Britain calls regime change in Zimbabwe is not going to 
happen. The particular focus on Zimbabwe suggests that particular agendas are 
being pursued here. And we are being dragooned to play . . . to come and fulfil 
and implement other people’s agendas," said President Mbeki. Annoyed by 
the arrogance and contemptuous attitude of the West, Nigeria, which is a member 
of the Commonwealth Troika, has also thrown its affirmation of solidarity with 
Zimbabwe ahead of the meeting. Nigeria has openly declared that it did 
not see any reason why Zimbabwe should be suspended fr

ugnet_: Uganda in anarchy?

[gook makanga]

Op Wembley Irks Rights Body









By Eddie Ssejjoba The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has blasted Operation Wembley and other state owned security agencies saying they had plunged the country into anarchy through torture of suspects which had denied several, people their right to life. The commissioner in charge of the central region, Veronica Bichetero (pictured), said the alleged ongoing notorious acts by the Operation Wembly and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) had taken Uganda back to the dark days of the past regimes of Idi Amin and Milton Obote where sanctioned extremist security organs like NASA institutionalised torture of suspects. She was on Friday addressing non-commissioned Police officers of Sembabule district during a workshop on community policing and human rights. She said the UHRC had several cases pinning Operation Wembly for taking away people’s lives, being used to settle personal grudges, extortion of money and expensive items like cars from suspects. They are also accused of arrest and torture of political opponents and spouses and relatives suffering for actions of suspects. “I know President Museveni is not happy with the notorious acts against the public that have caused countrywide outcry for gross violation human rights. But why should we allow such actions to go on in the country when we have in place bodies like ours that are there to prevent the violations?” she asked. Ends
Published on: Tuesday, 25th February, 2003

Gook 

 “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of bad people but also for the appalling silence of good people". M.L.King

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