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Kenyan Church rejects gay Bishop

Dr John says his relationship is a 'gift from God'The head of the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK), Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi, has said that his Church will neither recognise nor support the plan by the Church of England to consecrate an openly gay Bishop.
He said the ACK will maintain that position even if it means losing financial support from the parent church.
"When it comes to making decisions we go by the Bible, we go by what the word of God says, with money or without money," Archbishop Nzimbi told BBC News Online.
The Archbishop says that homosexuality is against God's teachings and the consecration of a gay Bishop threatens the Unity of the Worldwide Anglican Communion.

People will ask - what is wrong with the mother Church in England?

Archbishop Benjamin NzimbiHead of Anglican Church of Kenya "It will bring confusion in the Church," says Archbishop Nzimbi.
"The Archbishop of Canterbury will preside over the consecration and people will ask - what is wrong with the mother Church in England?"
Violation of canon law
The row in the Anglican Church centres on the appointment of Canon Jeffrey John as the Bishop of Reading.
Dr John has described as a "gift from God" his relationship with another man, but said the partnership had not been sexual for some time.

A gay wedding in Canada also sent shockwaves through the church
But Archbishop Nzimbi has ruled out the possibility of the Anglican Church of Kenya recognising the decision by its spiritual head, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, "to violate canonical laws by consecrating a homosexual".
However, he has said the ACK will not ostracise lesbians and homosexuals in the church because this would be against its obligation of pastoral care.
The Archbishop of the Church of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, has threatened that his church would break ties with the Diocese of Oxford if the appointment was not rescinded.
Archbishop Nzimbi has urged Kenya's regional counterparts, Tanzania and Uganda, to oppose the move by the Church of England.
Kenya is one of the 38 affiliates that make up the 70 million-member global Anglican church.

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ugnet_: UK Proposal: People could work up until 70-BBC

Last Updated:Wednesday, 2 July, 2003, 07:46 GMT 08:46 UK

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Age discrimination to be outlawed

People could work up until 70 under the proposalsGovernment proposals that could see millions of people working until they are 70 will be unveiled on Wednesday.
The plans for tackling age discrimination will mark the biggest change in employment law for a generation.
Employers are set to be banned from enforcing a retirement age below 70.
Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt is to unveil a consultation document on the new proposals which are designed to outlaw ageist advertising and workplace practices.
Under the new rules employers would not be allowed to stipulate the required ages for a job or to tell older employees they did not qualify for training schemes.

This is not about political correctness; everyone is entitled to be treated as an individual

Patricia Hewitt
The legislation could see many more people working on into their sixties.
Currently employers can set compulsory retirement ages for staff.
But under the new plans that would not be allowed and they would have to allow people to work until they were 70.
The government believes that unfair age discrimination costs the economy billions of pounds - as much as £16bn a year - and stops people realising their true potential.
Ms Hewitt condemned ageism as the "last bastion" of discrimination.
She told the BBC: "We have got to get a way from a situation where hundreds of thousands of people are forced out of employment usually against their will, in their fifties sometimes in their late 40s ...and then find they can't even get an interview, they can't even get a job."
Ms Hewitt said more and more people wanted to combine work and family life.
"This is not about forcing people to work until they are 70, but this is about giving people much more choice," she said.

Employers' fear
John Cridland, deputy director general of the CBI, said employers recognised that age discrimination was unacceptable but warned it was difficult to define.
"Much more than any previous discrimination law, age discrimination is particularly difficult to define."
Mr Cridland warned there was a real risk of an "explosion" of employment tribunals if workers took up any new right to challenge employers if they felt they had been discriminated against because of their age.
"Employers need to be clear, whether at recruitment or retirement, they can take common-sense decisions that are inside the law."
The measures being suggested by the government would bring the UK into line with European Union employment law.

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ugnet_: Bush told Museveni to 'forget' third term-Minitor 2/7/2003

Bush told Museveni to 'forget' third term By Emma MutaizibwaJuly 2, 2003

President had no answer, says MP
American leader, Mr George W. Bush, who is visiting Uganda next week, has told President Yoweri Museveni to "forget" the third term.
According to information available to The Monitor, President Bush "advised" President Museveni to respect the 1995 Constitution and retire in 2006 when his second term ends.
The advise reportedly came last month during Museveni's visit to the United States where he met with Bush at the White House.
According to Mr Geoffrey Ekanya, the Tororo County MP who has just returned from the United States, Bush acknowledged Museveni's leadership in fighting HIV/Aids and his support for the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa).
That was the good news for Museveni, according to Ekanya, who quotes sources at the State Department and the US Congress in Washington, D.C.
Two Movement organs, the National Conference and the National Executive Committee, recently proposed that the Constitution should be amended to lift term limits for the president.
Critics responded with charges that it is Museveni who is pushing for the amendment so that he can run again in 2006.
According to Ekanya, however, sources at the State Department said that after all the praises, Bush "shocked" Museveni when he asked the Ugandan leader to retire in 2006.
Bush reportedly said that he would like to be introduced to Museveni's successor the next time they meet, Ekanya told The Monitor yesterday.
MP Ekanya, also secretary general of the opposition Reform Agenda, said that Museveni did not immediately answer.
Another source in Washington, D.C. also said that Museveni was shocked.
"It was like he had been hit by 15 atomic bombs," the source said.
According to the source, the original agenda arranged by Museveni's promoter, Ms Rosa Whittaker, had only two items Aids and Agoa.
The State Department, increasingly critical of Museveni's style, had been left out of it, the source said.But some influential people at State including a former American ambassador in Uganda reportedly worked hard to bring Museveni's succession and Uganda's role in the DR Congo on the agenda.
"They even got the US ambassador in Kampala to brief Bush before he met Museveni. That threw Whittaker and the Ugandan president completely off balance," the source told The Monitor on phone.
According to Ekanya, Bush told Museveni that they should both respect their constitutions and retire to go and look after their cattle in Rwakitura and Crawford (Texas), respectively.
Bush keeps a ranch in Texas while Museveni keeps cattle on both his farms at Kisozi and Rwakitura.
Sources in the State Department said that Bush also detailed Secretary of State Colin Powell to emphasise the need for Museveni to leave power in 2006.
The Americans also reportedly told the president to do something to quickly end the 17-year conflict in northern Uganda.
Ekanya said that Museveni responded by blaming the Sudan for supporting and arming Mr Joseph Kony's LRA rebels who have sown mayhem in northern Uganda since 1988.
Bush also reportedly told Museveni not to send Ugandan troops back into the DR Congo "under any circumstances", another source close to the State Department told The Monitor.
Some members of the US Congress also reportedly gave Museveni the same message when the president visited Capitol Hill.
Museveni is said to have recovered his composure to hit back at the US Congress when some speakers criticised him over Uganda's role in the DR Congo conflict.
"If you people [Americans] had not killed Patrice Lumumba [DR Congo's first Prime Minister assassinated in 1961] all this mess in the DR Congo would not be there," Museveni reportedly hit back.
The Congress members present fell silent, the source said.
According to Ekanya, the Americans also told the president to free political parties and restore full democracy without any conditions.
Bush reportedly also asked Museveni to deal firmly with corruption in the army (UPDF) and the government, sources said.
Musevenis request for funding from the Millennium Challenge Account was reportedly rejected, according to other sources at the World Bank and the US Treasury Department.
The Millennium Challenge Account funds are granted to developing countries that adhere to the principles of democracy, human rights and fight against corruption.
Ekanya said that part of the American civil society is furious that Museveni signed the so-called Article 18 Agreement with the United States to exempt American soldiers and officials from prosecution at the International Criminal Court.
Officials at the American embassy in Kampala have refused to comment on what Bush said or did not say to Museveni.
An embassy official, who asked not to be named, said that they would not wish to embarrass any of the parties ahead of Bush's visit here next week.
However, Ms Mary Karooro Okurut, the president's press secretary who

ugnet_: MPs Panic whenever they meet with Museveni-Cecilia Ogwal

MPs panic before Museveni - OgwalBy Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda July 2, 2003-Monitor

Members of Parliament who sit on the Presidential and Foreign Affairs Committee have been asked to stop panicking whenever they meet with President Yoweri Museveni.
The MP for Lira Municipality, Ms Cecilia Ogwal, said yesterday that every time they meet with the president, MPs develop cold feet and fail to raise serious issues.
When we go there people get mesmerised, said the newly elected committee chairwoman, Ms Salaamu Musumba.
Musumba had called a meeting of her committee to draw up a plan, which includes meeting Museveni, Vice President Gilbert Bukenya, Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi and the Minister of Foreign Affairs James Wapakhabulo.
The committee oversees the activities of the above offices.
Ogwal asked Musumba to seek an appointment with Museveni, so that the president can brief MPs about the 2003/4 budget, his economic and political plans.
Ogwal said that MPs have a tendency of falling silent or asking trivial questions whenever they meet the president.She said that this reduces the meeting to a dialogue just between her and Museveni.
Ogwal said that the money allocated to State House in the 2003/4 budget is much more than that allocated to poverty eradication. She said that money for the welfare of the people in the State House should never be higher than that for fighting poverty.
Musumba said that before approving the various budgets, the committee should visit all their installations and headquarters.
She said that whenever the president goes upcountry he either sleeps in tents or hotels.
Do we need the many state lodges around the country? Musumba asked.
She said that Parliament has for the last five years been approving money to renovate the Entebbe State House, and wondered whether any work has been done.
She said that the committee would visit Entebbe and assess whether the State House there is of any value.

ugnet_: Court bans case debate on FM radio stations-Monitor 2/7/2003

Court bans Nambooze case By Siraje K. Lubwama July 2, 2003




Court has banned FM radio stations from debating the corruption case against Mukono Town Council law enforcement officer, Ms Betty Nambooze.
The Buganda Road Chief Magistrate, Mr Frank Othembi, issued the directive yesterday after he had just dismissed Ms Namboozes bail application.
Nambooze, also a columnist for Bukedde newspaper, is charged with abuse of office.
Mr Joseph Luzige, one of Namboozes defence lawyers, informed court that FM radio stations were debating the on-going case against his client.
Through Mr Erias Lukwago, Nambooze had applied for bail on grounds that she has asthma and had spent more than 120 days on remand.
Mr Dan Muwolobe, from the IGGs office, opposed the application, arguing that the trial commenced on May 3 before the accused had completed 120 days in custody.
I find that the accused has not spent 120 days in custody before trial as provided by the Constitution. She is not entitled to mandatory release on bail, Othembi ruled.
Lukwago said that he is going to appeal the ruling. 
The hearing of the case continues tomorrow.
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ugnet_: Bush told Museveni to 'forget' third term-Monitor 2/7/2003

Bush told Museveni to 'forget' third term By Emma MutaizibwaJuly 2, 2003

ugnet_: Kony War: Lt. Gen David Tinyefuza will announce his arrival

Waterloo or springboard?By Badru D. MulumbaJuly 2, 2003-Monitor

The real Lt. General David Tinyefuza will announce his arrival; he will not sneak in, says a journalist who covered Tinyefuza during Operation North. He will be anxious to show that he is in charge. That is Gen. Tinyefuza.

TAKE NO PRISONERS: Gen Tinyefuza has a new assignment (File photo).
It could be the defining moment both of his military and political careers. If he succeeds, David Tinyefuza would prove to the Doubting Thomases what many analysts have always said; that if any one could stop Joseph Kony, it was always him.
But if he fails, Gen. Tinyefuza could see the stature he built up during Operation Desert Storm go up in smoke.
Last weeks appointment of Gen. Tinyefuza as co-ordinator Operation Iron First also offers him the opportunity to show that stories of his ruthlessness are possibly unfounded.
And, in Tinyefuza, Museveni may just have a chance to step down knowing that the more than a decade-and-a-half-old rebellion is over.
Ending that war, despite countless ultimatums, ranks among Musevenis biggest failures.
Now, once again, the political careers of two men whose rivalry is said to be legendary seem to be too closely inter-linked. The period was the bush war 1981-85.
It is said that one day the National Resistance Army rebel group led by Yoweri Kaguta Museveni had just passed an order: no soldier would be allowed to have a woman in the camp. It was meant to shore up the discipline of the forces.
The exception, says a bush war veteran who joined the rebellion in 1982, was the commander in chief.
Why Museveni? he recalls Tinyefuza querying.
Such was the rivalry between Museveni and Tinyefuza that at one time, around 1984, there was that inexpressible feeling in the camp that the maverick, though considered dangerous and divisive, Tinyefuza would be left in the bush. Dead.
Like a leopard, Tinyefuza does not seem to have changed his spots.
Then came his acrimonious attempt to quit the army back in 1997. Back then, many thought the general was preparing himself for a possible bid for State House perhaps in 2001.
Today, however, he has been seen as withdrawn and a bit of a Museveni loyalist but nobody is ever certain of the general has up his sleeve.
Sometimes he has accused Museveni while appearing before parliament in 1997 of incompetence in co-ordinating the war against the Lords Resistance Army. Sometimes he has worked with him like when he commanded Operation Desert Storm in 1991. And sometimes he has campaigned for Museveni like in 2001.
It is said that after the 1991/2 operation, Tinyefuza usually boasted that he had cut the strength of the Lords Resistance Army to just under 10 percent of its strength before the operation.
Specifically, he reportedly said that about 300 rebels were remaining. These rebels, according to a journalist at the scene at the time, were thought to have fled into the Sudan as Tinyefuzas operation intensified.
It is believed that no other person to command the war in northern Uganda can say the same for themselves.
We remember that in 1996 when there was an inquiry, says Reagan Okumu (Aswa MP) Tinyefuza said that the government must end the military operations within three months. If it cant, it should abandon it and talk to Kony. If the government cant, [Museveni] should pack his bags and leave.
Okumu adds, We hope he still remembers that.
It is a public secret that Museveni never took kindly to Tinyefuzas testimony to Parliament. In the aftermath, there were accusations that Tinyefuza had used the wrong forum and speculation that he faced demotion.
This never came to pass.
Months later, he was appointed a presidential advisor but the writing was still on the wall.
***Is Museveni now calling Tinyefuzas bluff? Is he looking at him as the best option to end this war? Or is he setting Tinyefuza up for a final fall?
The real President Museveni is not known to take kindly to former colleagues publicly accusing him of incompetence, as Tinyefuza himself would testify.
I see it two ways. One: there is desperation and the president needs someone who can make a difference. You remember the Congo success story, says Okumu.
Last March, Museveni appointed Tinyefuza co-ordinator of the UPDF in Congo when the UPDF went to war against the Congolese UPC rebels.
But the person on the ground was Chief Political Commissar Brigadier Kale Kayihura with Tinyefuza working largely out of Kampala.
But the Kony war is not the Congo war. It is run on longer. And, it has led to a whole generation of Acholi grow up knowing no other life than one of conflict. There is also the belief some of them harbour that government wants to decimate them. It is in the psyche of the people in the north right from the leaders.
Well, politically, Museveni wants his third term. And, he wants to isolate and depopulate the areas that are anti third term, says Omara Atubo (Otuke MP). [The war] is just

ugnet_: Latest update: Profiles of the African nations Bush will visit

REPORT: Profiles of the African nations Bush will visit next week -New Vision Web, 2nd July 2003
BY KEZIO D. MUSOKE NEXT week, President Bush voyages to Africa, vowing to raise the profile of a vast continent that has stood small on America's radar screen since the end of the Cold War. Beginning July 7, Bush's five-nation trip will spotlight the administration's new $15 billion commitment to battle the AIDS scourge that has left Africa the most infected region on Earth, according to a June 26 speech Bush made to African business leaders. Bush also will emphasize the emerging importance of Africa in the U.S. war on terrorism and push for the end of bloodshed in Congo and Liberia. He will dole out both praise and aid to those nations that are cultivating free-market economies and democratic political systems. "We will work as partners in advancing the security and the health and the prosperity of the African peoples," said Bush, who has been to Africa just once before, when he represented his father at a 1992 independence celebration in the Gambia.
Here's a snapshot of the five countries Bush will visit: Senegal ONE reason this French-speaking West African land of 10 million is a star on the generally unstable continent is because of its peaceful transition to democracy in 2000 after 40 years of socialist rule. Since President Abdoulaye Wade's election that year, the country's peanut- and cotton-based economy has grown by 5 percent a year and media freedom has blossomed. Even so, one in four Senegalese live on less than $1 a day, and a 30-year, low-intensity guerrilla war for independence continues in Senegal's southern province of Casamance. Considered a global role model in the anti-AIDS battle in developing countries, Senegal has managed to keep the disease at bay by an aggressive education and prevention program begun in the mid-1980s. In Africa, only Uganda is credited with comparable success. Overwhelmingly Muslim, Senegal gained favor with the White House for convening an African forum
on terrorism shortly after the 9/11 attacks. But, during the run-up to the war in Iraq, Wade criticized America for acting without United Nations support. Still, the Pentagon is considering putting a skeleton base in Senegal as part of the U.S. military's worldwide reorganization. Following the footprints of then-President Bill Clinton who traveled there in 1998, Bush is slated to visit Goree Island, the site of a notorious former slave port that saw an estimated 2 million slaves pass through, many on their way to the American colonies. The White House says Bush will offer no apology for the U.S. history of slavery; Clinton didn't either during his visit. Uganda WINSTON Churchill once dubbed this East African country the "pearl of Africa." That was before dictator Idi Amin took power in the 1970s, triggering more than a decade of brutal state-sponsored violence that took the lives of as many as 500,000 people. In one of Africa's biggest turnarounds, Uganda
now is a relatively stable, semi-democracy, though its president, former guerrilla fighter Yoweri Museveni, is cracking down on political dissent. He has warned he will deal severely with members of the Ugandan People's Congress if, as they have vowed, they stage a demonstration against Bush's visit. A tropical, English-speaking country of 23 million people who are a mix of Christians and Muslims, Uganda is also home to half the world's remaining mountain gorillas. Coffee and vanilla are top exports, as well as clothing. In April alone, Ugandan factories sent more than 88,000 shirts, dresses and pants to America for sale. Bush has praised Uganda for managing the most dramatic decline in the rate of HIV infection of any country in the world - from 31 percent of its population in 1990 to about 15 percent now. Uganda also is a White House favorite for joining the global "coalition of the willing" assembled for the war in Iraq. But the U.N. has slapped Uganda for arming
fighters who are committing slaughter in Congo and pillaging the country. For 18 years, Uganda has been fighting an internal rebel war - one of the longest ongoing civil conflicts in the world - against the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, which has abducted and enslaved an estimated 20,000 children. Botswana Defying the foreign stereotype of the continent as one big banana republic, Botswana is fast becoming Africa's biggest success story. Land-locked and dominated by the Kalahari Desert, the southern Africa nation was just rated the least corrupt country on the continent by analysts at the World Economic Forum. Botswana is also Africa's longest continuous multi-party democracy, and a haven of human-rights protections. Freedom of the press and criticism of the ruling government abounds. Economically, the English-speaking country of 1.6 million people is blessed with abundant diamonds, and is led by Oxford University-trained economist
Festus Mogae, one of the best-respected

ugnet_: I have a right to trade with govt

I have a right to trade with govtBy Richard M. KavumaJuly 2, 2003

Lira Municipality Member of Parliament Cecilia Ogwal, a member of Uganda Peoples Congress, was once known as Ugandas Iron Lady. Lately, however, she has not been given to saying much in public. Richard M. Kavuma asked Ms Ogwal about the silence, and about her partys strategy as Uganda moves toward multiparty politics and more: -

Ms Ogwal: The UPC does not need to register in order to exist (Photo by Bruno Birakwate).
What is behind the silence? The Movement has been portraying itself as a system, knowing very well that it was deceiving the people of Uganda and the donor community. It was operating as a political party to the exclusion of other parties.
I think what the parties have done is very good; to give Ugandans a chance to see the Movement for what it is. Because whatever we have said, people have not taken us seriously. That is why I have deliberately kept quiet over the last one year.
So when is the UPC going to register?
Registering the party is not a big deal for us. The issue is how we can shape the political landscape for the good of all Uganans, not registration of parties. But the law requires you to register in order, for instance, to hold a political rally. You see we dont need to register for UPC to exist. There are Members of Parliament who can stand up and say I m a member of UPC. Did they have to wait for the party to be registered to be elected?
I want to make this clear; registration of UPC is not an issue.
On the issue of your partys leadership, how long is Dr Milton Obote going to run UPC from exile?
I think those who keep saying that parties are disorganised or that they are undemocratic have not followed political developments in this country.
You know that right from 1986, when the Movement came to power, political parties have been banned. Now, how did you expect us to organise our leadership right from the grassroots up to the national level when political parties are banned?
But is Dr Obote willing to relinquish leadership?
Dr Obote is a democrat. He claims he is a democrat and I think he is a democrat. He was elected to be the party president in 1980. He never imposed himself as Museveni has imposed himself on the Movement. I dont remember a time when Museveni was elected as a leader of the Movement contesting against other people. Nobody can blame Dr Obote for continuing to run the party from exile. Actually it is the Movement, through its oppression, which has assisted Obote to remain at the leadership of UPC.
You are talking of competing for power, what would UPC offer this country?
I think the whole country knows us by our pragmatism. The country knows UPCs ability to deliver as a party. Looking at the country, torn apart after 20 years, UPC has a big challenge to unite the country in its diversity of political beliefs and ideologies. We have a challenge to work out policies that will be pro-people, a policy that takes care of the poor; a policy that has a human face. Not a policy that only looks at the World Bank and doesnt care whether the World Bank is wrong.
UPC abolished federo but you now say you support Bugandas demand for it. Are you trying to bait the Baganda?
I think what one can say is that politics is very dynamic. What was prevalent in 1960s is not prevalent today. I know that there were reasons that led to the abolition of the monarchy but that did not abolish federalism. We have agreed that mistakes do happen and probably mistakes did happen the 1960s. The way forward is to come up with a compromise that would take care of all interests.
Looking at the 1962 Constitution, there were a lot of favours from the central government to Buganda. What we came up with in the Constituent Assembly was a model that would acceptable to all. Federalism in itself as a political system is not only good for those who promote monarchism but good for all.
Not just decentralisation?
Federalism devolves power to the district to the region, and entrenches that power. It is not like decentralisation, which leaves that devolution shaky where it can be tampered with by the central government. So I support the federal approach to decentralisation. We proposed that if we create federal regions in Uganda, they should enjoy equal treatment from the centre. We promoted that nationalistic model of federalism and in fact it was the Baganda themselves the representative of Buganda in the CA who rejected it.
In fact I was very distressed at the manner in which the Movement manipulated the Baganda members into the CA to shoot down that arrangement.
Why would the Movement not want federo in Buganda?
You know very well that dictatorships hate power centres because they fear any kind of opposition. One of these power centres is the political parties and the first thing the Movement did was to ban parties. Any dictatorship would fear Buganda because of its big population, its being the centre of

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2003-07-02 Thread LilQT4851

WASHINGTON (July 1) - The Pentagon is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city.

Dubbed ``Combat Zones That See,'' the project is designed to help the U.S. military protect troops and fight in cities overseas.

Police, scientists and privacy experts say the unclassified technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans.

The project's centerpiece is groundbreaking computer software that is capable of automatically identifying vehicles by size, color, shape and license tag, or drivers and passengers by face.

According to interviews and contracting documents, the software may also provide instant alerts after detecting a vehicle with a license plate on a watchlist, or search months of records to locate and compare vehicles spotted near terrorist activities.

The project is being overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is helping the Pentagon develop new technologies for combatting terrorism and fighting wars in the 21st century.

Its other projects include developing software that scans databases of everyday transactions and personal records worldwide to predict terrorist attacks and creating a computerized diary that would record and analyze everything a person says, sees, hears, reads or touches.

Scientists and privacy experts - who already have seen the use of face-recognition technologies at a Super Bowl and monitoring cameras in London - are concerned about the potential impact of the emerging DARPA technologies if they are applied to civilians by commercial or government agencies outside the Pentagon.

``Government would have a reasonably good idea of where everyone is most of the time,'' said John Pike, a Global Security.org defense analyst.

DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker dismisses those concerns. She said the Combat Zones That See (CTS) technology isn't intended for homeland security or law enforcement and couldn't be used for ``other applications without extensive modifications.''

But scientists envision nonmilitary uses. ``One can easily foresee pressure to adopt a similar approach to crime-ridden areas of American cities or to the Super Bowl or any site where crowds gather,'' said Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists.

Pike agreed.

``Once DARPA demonstrates that it can be done, a number of companies would likely develop their own version in hope of getting contracts from local police, nuclear plant security, shopping centers, even people looking for deadbeat dads.''

James Fyfe, a deputy New York police commissioner, believes police will be ready customers for such technologies.

``Police executives are saying, `Shouldn't we just buy new technology if there's a chance it might help us?''' Fyfe said. ``That's the post-9-11 mentality.''

Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said he sees law enforcement applications for DARPA's urban camera project ``in limited scenarios.'' But citywide surveillance would tax police manpower, Kerlikowske said. ``Who's going to validate and corroborate all those alerts?''

According to contracting documents reviewed by The Associated Press, DARPA plans to award a three-year contract for up to $12 million by Sept. 1. In the first phase, at least 30 cameras would help protect troops at a fixed site. The project would use small $400 stick-on cameras, each linked to a $1,000 personal computer.

In the second phase, at least 100 cameras would be installed in 12 hours to support ``military operations in an urban terrain.''

The second-phase software should be able to analyze the video footage and identify ``what is normal (behavior), what is not'' and discover ``links between places, subjects and times of activity,'' the contracting documents state.

The program ``aspires to build the world's first multi-camera surveillance system that uses automatic ... analysis of live video'' to study vehicle movement ``and significant events across an extremely large area,'' the documents state.

Both configurations will be tested at Ft. Belvoir, Va., south of Washington, then in a foreign city. Walker declined comment on whether Kabul, Afghanistan, or Baghdad, Iraq, might be chosen but says the foreign country's permission will be obtained.

DARPA outlined project goals March 27 for more than 100 executives of potential contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.

DARPA told the contractors that 40 million cameras already are in use around the world, with 300 million expected by 2005.

U.S. police use cameras to monitor bridges, tunnels, airports and border crossings and regularly access security cameras in banks, stores and garages for investigative leads. In the District of Columbia, police have 16 closed-circuit television cameras watching major roads and gathering places.

Great Britain has an estimated 2.5 million closed-circuit television

ugnet_: The butcher of the north goes back to the North!

Waterloo or springboard?By Badru D. MulumbaJuly 2, 2003

ugnet_: Join Me In Recognizing the Federalists-Note to Kipenji/Kyijomanyi

Messrs Kipenji Kyijomanyi,

Gentlemen, permit me to perhaps to pre-empt Mr. Oworon the stance of postings. What are the criteria of postings vis-a-vis the right of an individual Ugandan to express his views? I had all along thought thatwe ought to show a difference betweenthe status quo at home and the model we are striving for a future Uganda.

I am sensitive to displine and I hate the language of telling a fellow Ugandan to go somewhere else. It is like telling a fellow Ugandan to dance the tune thatonlyserves your pleasure and nothing more otherwise you are shown the door out.Now, where is the freedomof _expression_ and tolerance?What is wrong with anybody making a posting that is relevantto the theme of that particular forum or Ugandan politics?Letsfocus on the substance posted irrespective of whether the original author is A, B, or C.

For instance, whenever I read Mulindwa's postings, I go for the substance and not for Mulindwa as an individual. I read what serves my interest and whatever does not interest me goes down the drains. I have no quarrel with Mulindwa enjoying his freedom of _expression_. Afterall, most of the netters are western orientedin action and words. Why fear substance?

On the federal net, Kyijomanyi's postings do not normally escape my reading as his mode of language in presenting his arguement wins the heart of eventhe one who may not be in agreement with him. On the hand, a forum without a person of Owor Kipenji's firebrand would not be worth its salt. So, why mess up the meny?

Mind you discussions in the forums are like doing shadow boxing andnetters are observing the game plan. Therefore, letsrestrain fromheavy handedness before we get to the real matches.

If it is a question of class classification then the rules should always beset from the word go and nobody would feel compelled to knock at the door of that particularforum.Let the democracy we are aspiring for inUganda begin in the forums otherwise soon or later netters may begin to ask the common question: What is wrong with us Ugandans?

God bless,

Omar Kezimbira
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Mwaami Kyijomanyi, thanks for your concern.I can notspeak for the birds,because if I did so,then theserpent might talk for the elephant!.I forwarded that posting to the Fednet for members toread it not because I was requested to,but because Ifelt it touched on the issues that we were hotlydebating on.Your guess on its bibliography is therefore as good asmine.Besides,what concerned me was more to do with itscontent more than its source since it was now open fordissection through the discussion forum.I do notbelieve in promoting myths when within this fora aremany people with first hand information on whatever isuttered in the forum.Thanks.Kipenji.--- WB Kyijomanyi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:-Mr. Owor Kipenji:Do you really believe that it is Mulindwa who writesthat stuff you post? We know who writes that materialand passes it on to Mulindwa and one of them is amember of Fedsnet. It is all apparent in one of thepostings appearing today about the lost counties. Ifyou really want to know we can name the author ofthose Mulindwa postings [most listers I believealready know who he is] and we shall be forced to doso as long as he continues to hide behind Mulindwa. But answer us first: do you believe Mulindwa writesthem himself or not?WBKYou shFrom: OWOR KIPENJI Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FedsNet] Forwarded message:Join Me InRecognizing the Federalists(Mulindwa Edward) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:28:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mulindwa
Edward" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 02:06:44 -0400 Subject: ugnet_: JOIN ME IN RECOGNIZING THE FEDERALISTS Netters, It is today exactly 18 months since the Communicationgroup stated to follow the discussions of creating a solution to Uganda's problems. In so doing we have taken into account several factors. And after considering all of them, the group begs to announce its choice this morning. Just that you understandwhat was considered before this decision was made, walk with me. 1) INVOLVEMENT OF UGANDANS The fact that our nation is under duress, a great number of electronic discussion centres have been created, we have however found out that fedenet has more Ugandans involved
in the discussion of Uganda's future. (Just for clarification, that does not mean that Ugandan's who joined Fednet were actively contributors, it can as well mean that although many registered they did not find it worth their time. So we have chosen them into this category just based on numbers subscribing and un-subscribing) 2)

ugnet_: It is good Kony has reached Teso

July 2, 2003

It is good Kony has reached Teso
At the risk of being labeled a rebel apologist, I wish to assert how happy I am that the Kony war has now reached Teso.
Let me set the record straight. I am not happy that the people of Teso are being displaced, killed or maimed, or because the regime is now threatened. It is rather because the escalation of the war has changed the attitude of the people towards the war.
In 1996, the people of the north complained that the Museveni establishment rigged elections and beat up people to vote for them. It took Maj. Kakooza-Mutales activities in western Uganda for people to accept that this regime is brutal. Mr James Garuga Musinguzi, who stood against Minister of Defence Amama Mbabazi in Kinkizi, can testify to that.
Some political commentators in Kampala were saying that after all, Kony is killing his own people. Minister of State for Health Mike Mukula even took the argument further by saying that fish only survives in water. Has the water flooded in Teso?
I think he and many other people have had a change in attitude towards the Kony war now. The people of Gulu were right. Kony is a national problem, not an Acholi one. And he is not just a bandit. I urge the Mukulas of this world to support constructive peace talks to end this rebellion because no serious attempt toward peace talks has ever been made.
To the people of Teso, I share your grief and ask you to join the Acholi to force the government to engage in a constructive peace effort as the only way of ending this murderous rebellion.
Nicholas Opiyo[EMAIL PROTECTED]
© 2003 The Monitor Publications

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The Mystery of Itch, the Joy of Scratch 


July 1, 2003 

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An itch demands a scratch, but science has barely begun to 

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July 1, 2003 
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America backs President Hamid Karzai, but it can't 
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Re: ugnet_: Latest update: Profiles of the African nations Bush will visit

2003-07-02 Thread Y Yaobang

The author of this article states that Uganda is a semi-democracy. How 
ridiculuous! It is like saying one is semi-pregnant. Who doesnt know that 
under Museveni, Uganda is a dictatorship??  I wish the UPC rally against 
Bush a success.



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Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 04:21:33 -0700 (PDT)

REPORT: Profiles of the African nations Bush will visit next week -New 
Vision Web, 2nd July 2003

BY KEZIO D. MUSOKE
NEXT week, President Bush voyages to Africa, vowing to raise the profile of 
a vast continent that has stood small on America's radar screen since the 
end of the Cold War.
Beginning July 7, Bush's five-nation trip will spotlight the 
administration's new $15 billion commitment to battle the AIDS scourge that 
has left Africa the most infected region on Earth, according to a June 26 
speech Bush made to African business leaders.
Bush also will emphasize the emerging importance of Africa in the U.S. war 
on terrorism and push for the end of bloodshed in Congo and Liberia. He 
will dole out both praise and aid to those nations that are cultivating 
free-market economies and democratic political systems.
We will work as partners in advancing the security and the health and the 
prosperity of the African peoples, said Bush, who has been to Africa just 
once before, when he represented his father at a 1992 independence 
celebration in the Gambia.
Here's a snapshot of the five countries Bush will visit:

Senegal
ONE reason this French-speaking West African land of 10 million is a star 
on the generally unstable continent is because of its peaceful transition 
to democracy in 2000 after 40 years of socialist rule.
Since President Abdoulaye Wade's election that year, the country's peanut- 
and cotton-based economy has grown by 5 percent a year and media freedom 
has blossomed. Even so, one in four Senegalese live on less than $1 a day, 
and a 30-year, low-intensity guerrilla war for independence continues in 
Senegal's southern province of Casamance.
Considered a global role model in the anti-AIDS battle in developing 
countries, Senegal has managed to keep the disease at bay by an aggressive 
education and prevention program begun in the mid-1980s. In Africa, only 
Uganda is credited with comparable success.
Overwhelmingly Muslim, Senegal gained favor with the White House for 
convening an African forum on terrorism shortly after the 9/11 attacks. 
But, during the run-up to the war in Iraq, Wade criticized America for 
acting without United Nations support. Still, the Pentagon is considering 
putting a skeleton base in Senegal as part of the U.S. military's worldwide 
reorganization.
Following the footprints of then-President Bill Clinton who traveled there 
in 1998, Bush is slated to visit Goree Island, the site of a notorious 
former slave port that saw an estimated 2 million slaves pass through, many 
on their way to the American colonies. The White House says Bush will offer 
no apology for the U.S. history of slavery; Clinton didn't either during 
his visit.

Uganda
WINSTON Churchill once dubbed this East African country the pearl of 
Africa. That was before dictator Idi Amin took power in the 1970s, 
triggering more than a decade of brutal state-sponsored violence that took 
the lives of as many as 500,000 people.
In one of Africa's biggest turnarounds, Uganda now is a relatively stable, 
semi-democracy, though its president, former guerrilla fighter Yoweri 
Museveni, is cracking down on political dissent. He has warned he will deal 
severely with members of the Ugandan People's Congress if, as they have 
vowed, they stage a demonstration against Bush's visit.
A tropical, English-speaking country of 23 million people who are a mix of 
Christians and Muslims, Uganda is also home to half the world's remaining 
mountain gorillas. Coffee and vanilla are top exports, as well as clothing. 
In April alone, Ugandan factories sent more than 88,000 shirts, dresses and 
pants to America for sale.
Bush has praised Uganda for managing the most dramatic decline in the rate 
of HIV infection of any country in the world - from 31 percent of its 
population in 1990 to about 15 percent now.
Uganda also is a White House favorite for joining the global coalition of 
the willing assembled for the war in Iraq. But the U.N. has slapped Uganda 
for arming fighters who are committing slaughter in Congo and pillaging the 
country.
For 18 years, Uganda has been fighting an internal rebel war - one of the 
longest ongoing civil conflicts in the world - against the rebel Lord's 
Resistance Army in northern Uganda, which has abducted and enslaved an 
estimated 20,000 children.

Botswana
Defying the foreign stereotype of the continent as one big banana republic, 
Botswana is fast becoming Africa's biggest success story. Land-locked and 
dominated by the Kalahari Desert, the

ugnet_: Strom's Skeleton - The late segregationist's black daughter.

politicsStrom's Skeleton - The late segregationist's black daughter.By Diane McWhorterPosted Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 12:11 PM PT

Thurmond: curiouser and curiouserIn all the words spent on Strom Thurmond's life and times since his death last week, I have seen no acknowledgment of the most interesting of his sundry racial legacies. She is Essie Mae Washington Williams, a widowed former school teacher in her 70s, living in Los Angeles. Presumably she did not show up for any of the obsequies even though Strom Thurmond was almost certainly her father. Williams is black.

Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson present persuasive evidence in their 1998 biography, Ol' Strom, that Thurmond sired a daughter in 1925 with a black house servant named Essie "Tunch" Butler, with whom he reputedly had an extended relationship. Though "Black Baby of Professional Racist" would seem to sail over the man-bites-dog bar of what is news, the story has never really gotten traction. The particulars of this family saga simply do not fit into the "redemption narrative" Americans tend to impose on our more regrettable bygones: Better that ol' Strom "transformed" from the Negro-baiting Dixiecrat presidential candidate of 1948 to One of the First Southern Senators To Hire a Black Aide in 1971.
In contrast to, say, George "I Was Wrong" Wallace, Thurmond has always been an ornery redemption project. He did not repent. Even so, his illegitimate daughter further complicates the moral picture. Does she mean that he was even more heinous than we knew? Or thatdude!he wasn't such a racist bastard after all?
We need not dwell on the obvious mind-boggling hypocrisies here: that someone who ran for president on an anti-pool-mixin' platform was party to an integrated gene pool. Or that Thurmond's other signature political achievementthe 24-hour-without-bathroom-break filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957was done in the name of sparing the South from "mongrelization." This form of duplicity has been a Southern tradition dating back to those miscegenating slave owners. Their peculiar conflation of shame and honor was captured in 1901 Alabama, at a constitutional convention called to disfranchise blacks. A reactionary old ex-governor known for being good to his mulatto "yard children" was aghast that the insincere anti-Negro propaganda fomented by him and his peers might bring actual injury to its objects. He demanded to know why, "when the Negro is doing no harm, why, people want to kill him and wipe him from the face of the earth."
Even as Thurmond was making a career of segging against his own flesh and blood, he himself wasn't a complete cad. If he didn't exactly claim Essie Mae Williams, neither did he disown her. He gave her money and paid her regular visits (and probably tuition) at the black South Carolina college where she was a "high yaller" sorority girl while he was governor of the state. And in some ways, Williams has played the dutiful daughter, insisting over the long years that Thurmond was merely a "family friend." (Efforts to reach her failed.)
I do not pretend to fully understand these dynamicsand urge those interested in the nexus of race and sex to consult Joel Kovel's White Racism: A Psychohistory. But I know this: Thurmond's secret interracial sex life was complementary to the conspicuously virginal choices he made to be his public consorts. The year before being named the Dixiecrat nominee in 1948, the 44-year-old Thurmond was photographed by Life standing on his head for his lovely 21-year-old fiancee. Caption: "Virile Governor." Thurmond's second bride, young enough at 22 to be the 66-year-old senator's granddaughter, was a former Miss South Carolina. Both wives (No. 1 died of a brain tumor at 33) were the proverbial "flower of southern womanhood," the ideal that justified segregation's direst form of social control, the ritual castration of lynching. Those fair and nubile white women gave Thurmond's ugly politics a shiny emotional gloss that blinded the Southern conscience to the shame of the Essie Mae Williamses.
The reason the South is the most interesting region in the country is that it's the only place where the psychic landscape is parceled out equally among Marx, Freud, and God. Thurmond straddled all three provinces, hard though it has sometimes been to distinguish them under the ground cover of race. (For a different angle on this, see Clarence Thomas.) The Marx part of Thurmond's story is the best-known: The States Rights Party ("Dixiecrat" was the coinage of a waggish newspaper editor) that drafted him for president in 1948 was a top-down junta of oligarchs who had been plotting their bolt from the New Deal Democratic Party since 1941, when Franklin Roosevelt created the Committee on Fair Employment Practice to eliminate race discrimination in war industries.
Racial conflict as a diversion from class conflict is nothing new, of course. But somehow Thurmond's subterranean Freudian

Re: ugnet_: Court bans case debate on FM radio stations-Monitor 2/7/2003

We had best follow this story very, very closely! I think there is more to it than meets the eye. Could someone in the know educate us of the facts, nuances, undercurrents, etc?
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Subject: ugnet_: Court bans case debate on FM radio stations-Monitor 2/7/2003 
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 03:24:59 -0700 (PDT) 

Court bans Nambooze case 
By Siraje K. Lubwama 
July 2, 2003 

Court has banned FM radio stations from debating the corruption case against Mukono Town Council law enforcement officer, Ms Betty Nambooze. 

The Buganda Road Chief Magistrate, Mr Frank Othembi, issued the directive yesterday after he had just dismissed Ms Namboozes bail application. 

Nambooze, also a columnist for Bukedde newspaper, is charged with abuse of office. 

Mr Joseph Luzige, one of Namboozes defence lawyers, informed court that FM radio stations were debating the on-going case against his client. 

Through Mr Erias Lukwago, Nambooze had applied for bail on grounds that she has asthma and had spent more than 120 days on remand. 

Mr Dan Muwolobe, from the IGGs office, opposed the application, arguing that the trial commenced on May 3 before the accused had completed 120 days in custody. 

I find that the accused has not spent 120 days in custody before trial as provided by the Constitution. She is not entitled to mandatory release on bail, Othembi ruled. 

Lukwago said that he is going to appeal the ruling. 

The hearing of the case continues tomorrow. 

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ugnet_: EU wants Kony on Bush agenda

2003-07-02 Thread Ochan Otim

EU wants Kony on Bush agenda
By Badru D. Mulumba  Agencies
July 3, 2003
1 million displaced

A senior European Union official has called on the international community 
to give more attention to the forgotten crisis of northern Uganda, where 
about one million people have been displaced.

We have witnessed a forgotten crisis in northern Uganda, a crisis that has 
aroused little interest in the donor community, Ms Costanza Adinolfi, the 
head of the EU relief agency, the EU Humanitarian Aid Organisation (ECHO), 
said on Tuesday.

She wants the northern conflict to be on American President George W. 
Bush's agenda when he visits Uganda next week.

We have regular contact with our American colleagues. We know that they 
have had a team visiting northern Uganda, Adinolfi told The Monitor.

While noting Sudan's alleged support for the Lord's Resistance Army rebels, 
she said that the conflict in northern Uganda is essentially internal and 
must be solved internally.

We all know that. But this is [primarily] an internal problem within 
Uganda. So the political solution has to be found internally within 
Uganda, Adinolfi said.

There is a need to put pressure on the two sides to bring them to a 
political solution.

She said that her visit to northern Uganda revealed the consequences of a 
purely military solution.

That approach has caused more suffering and displaced one million people, 
she said.

Adinolfi said that EU humanitarian assistance to northern Uganda has risen 
from 1 million Euro in 2001 to 6 million Euro today.

We are there to help people to survive, to preserve their dignity, she said.
Adinolfi arrived in Uganda on June 29 on a fact-finding mission.
We visited Kitgum and Gulu and what interested us there was the fact that 
children were the main victims of this forgotten crisis, Adinolfi said, 
noting that the security situation has stopped relief aid reaching victims.

She said that the crisis is not only forgotten internationally but also 
nationally.

Ugandan authorities have done less than they should have done to solve the 
problem, she said.

The solution to the problem lies in dialogue, but neither side has fully 
explored this option, Adinolfi added, noting that current figures indicated 
as many as a million displaced persons.

There is now a duty by the international community to support dialogue and 
reconciliation in this conflict, a duty by the Ugandan authorities to 
embrace a political solution than a purely military one, she said, blaming 
mainly the LRA for the crisis.

Adinolfi said that the situation has worsened since the last visit by an EU 
team in February.

The Lord's Resistance Army has been fighting government forces since 1988.

The LRA relies on abductions to boost its ranks and is believed to have 
kidnapped some 10,000 children since 1995.

Captured boys are forced into rebel ranks as soldiers and girls are often 
turned into concubines for rebel commanders.

© 2003 The Monitor Publications

ugnet_: MP Flees Rally Over Rebel Threat









MP Flees Rally Over Rebel Threat








ABANDONED RALLY: orech
By Nathan Etengu Kalaki County MP David Martin Orech on Tuesday abandoned a public rally in his constituency after hearing rumours that LRA rebels were barely two kilometres away. Orech, accompanied by about 20 UPDF soldiers, was addressing a security mobilisation meeting at Anyara trading centre when civilians fleeing from Orungo sub-county, Katakwi district, reported that about 30 LRA rebels were at Olwa village. I also received unconfirmed reports from the fleeing civilians that the rebels had killed three people at Arubela village, Orech said. Orech said he was advised by the soldiers who escorted him to the rally, to immediately leave the place and report back to the UPDF 3rd division tactical headquarters in Soroti. I reported back to the Brigade Commander, UPDF 307, Lt. Col. Chris Kazoora who promised to deploy troops to Anyara and Otuboi, Orech said. He said the UPDF also promised arm the former UPA rebels and UPDF veterans to beef up the hunt for the LRA rebels who infiltrated Teso region about two weeks ago. He said LRA rebels had on Saturday night abducted seven people from Omid village bordering Amugu sub-county in Lira district. Ends
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ugnet_: Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh, silence the guns first_Oloya

Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh, silence the guns first

PROPOSED FOOD FOR PEACE: Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh
Dear General Salim Saleh; You do deserve a good grade for continuing the effort to find solution to the bloody conflict in northern Uganda. At a time when most people have simply walked away or turned their attention to more interesting issues, you have continued to plough forward to resolving the conflict has consumed the north for the better part of a decade and half. That said your proposal to end the war in northern Uganda through a unique food-for-peace program is a non-starter. Looked at closely, the idea is so full of holes it is akin to suggesting that the raffia basket be used for fetching water from the well. Even assuming that government can guarantee security for the project to prosper (something it has failed or been unable to do), there are many unanswered questions. For instance, how would the growing of food by displaced persons garner peace for the region? In the mean time, what happens to the LRA and Joseph Kony; will they too beat their swords into ploughshare? The problem with the food-for-peace program is that it makes very broad assumptions based on false premises. For example, it assumes that poverty alleviation will bring peace let people become richer and peace will follow as surely as the sun rises from the east. However, the reality is that people are poor because of the continuing insecurity, and that given peace, will prosper very quickly. In fact, if the conflict could be resolved this morning, the camps would be emptied by noon today as displaced citizens flock back home. Many have witnessed disproportionate suffering in the camps, and no promise of economic prosperity could make them stay for even one night longer in those god-forsaken camps. Moreover, the food-for-peace program also assumes that this conflict will fester for another five to ten years, roughly the time it takes for any food program to bear fruits (no pun intended). As such, the idea is defeatist, namely by accepting that no solution exists outside of a military
one. One could almost hear the army commanders say to each other: Since we are incapable of finishing the LRA with bullets, lets finish them off by growing cabbages and onions. In other words, there is too much emphasis placed on finishing off the LRA one way or the other, and not enough invested in actually talking to them. Interestingly, people were shoved into the so-called protected villages precisely because the government wanted to finish off the LRA. Yes, we know that the LRA is evil and, under different circumstances, should face the full weight of the law for atrocities committed against innocent civilians. However, if you are really keen to rescue the people of northern Uganda from the quagmire, and one does not doubt your sincerity, the first move is to get the government to silence its guns. This was the step that the British government took to broker a permanent ceasefire with the Irish Republican Army after three decades of bloody fighting. Similarly, in spite of deadly attacks by radical Palestinian groups, the Al Aqsa Brigade, Jihad, Fatah and Hamas, the Israeli government is beginning to extend the olive branch. In both cases, the British and Israeli accepted the fact that it was irresponsible to continue fighting the enemy with guns and bullets while civilian casualties mounted. When will the Uganda government come to similar awakening? Secondly, as someone who is stationed on the ground, you are aware that Acholi elders, religious leaders and ordinary citizens are keen to invite a third party, say the United Nations, to broker a peace talk. The reason being that the current peace effort is DOA simply because it does not inspire confidence in the LRA ranks to give up armed struggle. Yes, government forces continue to claim victory in the battlefield, but what good is your victory when the belly of the child under your protection is slit wide open? Moreover, is the government any cleaner than the LRA when it stubbornly refuses to acknowledge t
hat this conflict has gone on far enough and cannot be resolved by force? How long should the citizens of northern Uganda have to wait while government puts more money into training and arming the army to effectively neutralise the LRA? What, in the opinion of government leaders, is the acceptable number of civilian dead and casualties before it can look for alternatives? Finally, you can move things faster by suggesting to government to return to the 1994 style of peacemaking. Given a genuine hand in 1994 by Betty Bigombe (who travelled many times alone to meet the LRA in the bush without a security escort), the LRA was ready to disengage and return home. Think for a moment, if you were on the other side listening to current government pronouncements, would you willingly stick your neck out of the bush to see whether you are greeted with an olive branch or the barrel of an AK-47?

ugnet_: Wanted: Ugandan Heroes

No-Holds-Barred

By Peter G. Mwesige Wanted: Ugandan HeroesJuly 3, 2003

Mr Gaetano Kaggwa, Ugandas representative in the Big Brother Africa House in South Africa, who quickly shot to fame when he joined the other African contestants in the $100,000 competition, is no longer just a star. He is a Ugandan hero.
Ask the women who watch the live show, and the men too. Gaetano is the man; he is the talk of town.
For the uninitiated, Big Brother Africa is a reality TV show that started in May. Twelve contestants from different African countries have been put in a closed off house where everything they do, from showering to snoring, is captured live on air.
One contestant is evicted after voting by viewers in the participating countries every week. The last person in the house will walk off with $100,000.
In one week alone, our major newspapers had 10 front page headlines about Gaetanos exploits, not to mention the stories in the inside pages.
Ugandan Has Sex in Big Brother (Sunday Vision); Ugandas Gaetano Wins Trip to Big Brother in London (The New Vision); Gae in UK Big Brother House (The Monitor); UK Papers Dare Gae Over Sex (The New Vision); British Papers Praise Bed-Hot Gaetano (The Monitor); Gaetano Returns to S. Africa(The Monitor); Gaetano, Abby in Passionate Night (Sunday Monitor); Gaetano, Abby Do It Again (Sunday Vision); 25 Million Hooked to Gaetano On TV (The Monitor); Gae Drops Abby (The New Vision).
For the week that he was in the UK, the British tabloids also carried screaming headlines about Gaetano.
Of course part of the attraction of Gaetanos story is sex. To use a cliché, sex sells, and Gaetano has given The New Vision and The Monitor an opportunity to tap into the Red Peppers niche. And the FM stations are having a field day with jokes on the passionate goings-on in the BBA house.
But even before sex came into the picture, one could not fail to detect the patriotism that most viewers took to the show. Nigerians will send messages saying, Bayo, you are doing us proud; we are all behind you, while the Ugandans will send messages cheering on their own. Oh why, local newspapers are full of MTN sponsored ads appealing to us to support Uganda (Gaetano), and vote to evict other housemates.
My sense of the zeal that Ugandans are showing for Gaetanos quest to come back with the big bucks is that besides the welcome distraction that the show offers, we are a country badly in need of heroes and heroines.
Now, I am not oblivious to our unsung heroes and heroines: the foot soldiers who put their lives on the line in defence of our country; the policemen (minus the corrupt ones of course) who keep law and order; the teachers who educate the nations future leaders; the health workers who give their all. Most of these people do their jobs in spite of the meagre rewards they get for it. But because many of them never get the opportunity to make headline news, we can easily forget about their contribution.
Unfortunately, the people who make the headline news have been, for the most part, a big let down. In sports, we have the occasional victories by athelete Dorcas Inzikuru, or the Kobs. But the crowd pulling Cranes, the national soccer team, have brought only tears.
So have the politicians. There was a time when President Yoweri Museveni was the promise of the future. He stood out as a mountain in the region, many saying that only South African hero Nelson Mandela stood higher.
There was a time when Ugandans who travelled abroad listened proudly as their hosts talked about Mr Museveni as Ugandas gift and saviour.
In neighbouring Kenya, university students would cut classes to attend public speeches by the Ugandan president. The last time he was in Kenya to witness the inauguration of President Mwai Kibaki, he was almost booed off the platform.
Musevenis inspirational speeches are now history. He rarely says anything new, and often looks bored with what he is saying (the last time I made such observations, my column was banned!).
Museveni has joined the list of other African leaders who want to rule for life, and has become increasingly intolerant of dissent. Some will say he was always like that, but at least he had managed to cover up his thirst for power and contempt for opposition. Now the dragon has been unleashed.
Many of those leading the opposition against Museveni also appear to fall short of hero status. Yes, they have been stifled by the state, but they could still do more to inspire us. Now, what inspiration do we get from reading that MP Ken Lukyamuzi, a Museveni critic, took off from a public rally he had organised in Nateete when he cited Police in the vicinity? And to imagine that the Police were chasing an errant driver!
Thing is, we need heroes and heroines in the political field. We need somebody who can show real leadership and end the insurgency in northern Uganda, now spreading to the east.
We need a leader who can stand up to and

ugnet_: Emulate Mandela, protest Bush visit

Emulate Mandela, protest Bush visit EditorialJuly 3, 2003

The legendary South African elder statesman, Nelson Mandela, will not be in his country when US president George Bush visits on Tuesday next week.
Mr Mandelas absence is already being interpreted as a deliberate action seeing that there is no other diplomatic way in which he could have avoided meeting Bush. Bush, as many people should be aware, is not highly thought of by Mandela.
The US leader has borne the brunt of uncomplimentary reference from the revered South African, who once accused him of not being able to think properly. The two men have disagreed on Americas highly criticised invasion of Iraq. In fact Mandela can be described as a firm critic of the American-led enterprise in Iraq.
Mandelas decision to be out of town when Bush comes knocking should be instructive to Uganda where many of our people were against the Iraq adventure.
We were against that adventure because of its illegality and because of the fact that crimes against humanity were committed there by coalition forces. Even today, the US forces continue to be involved in the killing of civilians as they purportedly search for the elusive weapons of mass destruction.
Only President Yoweri Museveni and a few others wrongly joined the pathetic coalition of the willing in backing the US war.
When Bush arrives here next week we should emulate Mandela and give him the cold shoulder. This is a man who ignored world opinion, unilaterally disregarded the counsel of the United Nations and enthusiastically backed the US forces as they bombed Iraq, killing some women and children in the process.
Bush should be given the same treatment accorded to Burkina Faso President Blaise Campaore when he visited a few years ago. Mr Campaore is held responsible for the murder of the man he overthrew as president, Mr Thomas Sankara, so when he came here we let him know that there is no place for him.
Museveni has recently been schmoozing with the Americans, even going as far as signing that nefarious Article 98 agreement, which gives US soldiers immunity against trial for war crimes and others crimes against humanity.Our disapproval of Bushs foreign policy must be unequivocal.
© 2003 The Monitor Publications

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ugnet_: Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: Britain Allows Suit by Kenyans Accusing Soldiers ofRape


Britain Allows Suit by Kenyans Accusing Soldiers of Rape 

July 2, 2003 
By WARREN HOGE 




The women's lawyer said that the alleged rapes were not 
impulsive but were premeditated by British soldiers on 
assignment in their country. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/02/international/02CND-KENYA.html?ex=1058191264ei=1en=e026e56ac004daad 



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ugnet_: U.S. Suspends Aid to 35 Countries Over New International Court


U.S. Suspends Aid to 35 Countries Over New International Court 

July 2, 2003 
By ELIZABETH BECKER 




Many of the countries affected are considered critical to 
the Bush administration's efforts to bring stability to the 
Western Hemisphere. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/02/international/02COUR.html?ex=1058191155ei=1en=7e01aca98c071651 



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ugnet_: BUGANDA IN UGANDA (The relationship)

2003-07-02 Thread Mulindwa Edward





Netters

As these series are continuing, I want to take a 
minute to make some points clear. We are all here to learn and not to fight. If 
we are to look for a solution to Uganda's problem, we must use all possible 
means available. And studying our history is one of them. If we know why we 
succeeded we will not have a problem doing better, the same way if we know why 
we failed, we might learn from the mistakes and move on.

As usual, educated Ugandans have started to attack 
other netters, purporting to know who is writing in Mulindwa's name. To those 
who know who write for me either state the name or stick it where it 
belongs.

To the rest of Ugandans who feel that our history 
is important, I will say this. I read these notes and they interested me, and I 
thought that as we are in the middle of this crisis in our nation, as the 
federalists are promising to vote Museveni to the third term, as long as he 
gives Buganda federalism. Let us take a look from where we are coming from, for 
it will give us where we are going. 

I am going to post a piece by piece so that we can 
all get a time to read and understand who did what and where in our nation, in 
the end you will know even who wrote it for I have no reason to hide him/her. 
And I would kindly request those on various Uganda groups to forward these 
readings so that we stop arguing from a bubble.

To the Buganda community in the forum, can we look 
at these writings and debate them if they are wrong, even better, let us post a 
better version, than continuing to quarrel and attacks between our selves. We 
have done so since 1600, aren't you tired?

Em

Toronto

 The 
Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in 
anarchy" 
Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans 
l'anarchie"

ugnet_: BUGANDA IN UGANDA (The Political Parties)

2003-07-02 Thread Mulindwa Edward





In'Continua
 
With the introduction of the bill to hold the referendum, the UPC-KY alliance 
gave way, for, as was mentioned, the remaining KY contingent in parliament 
there-upon crossed the floor to sit with DP on the opposition benches. Untill 
then the alliance had formed another contest in which the struggle between 
Buganda and the rest of the country was carried on, and in which, again, the 
drift of developments was against Buganda. So far as UPC was concerned, KY was 
merely a temporary organisational device for securing, indirectly, the support 
of the Buganda electorate, a view which a number of Baganda national politicians 
also held. The reason for its existence thus came to an end, in this view,with 
the 1962 electro victory,and several voices were raised the time suggesting KY's 
dissolution. The core of KY, however, viewed the party much as they did in the 
constitutional provisions regarding Buganda's federal status, as one of the 
major means available to them for protecting their traditional institution and 
furthering Buganda's interests, and they therefore strongly rejected any 
suggestions that the party be disbanded.

Shortly after independence, its dissolution never 
the less began, for the two of the five Baganda ministers in Obote's cabinet, 
Dr. E.B.S. Lumu, Minister of Health, and Joshua Luyimbazi-Zake, Minister of 
Education, switched from KY to UPC, and did several other Baganda members of the 
National Assembly, including three parliamentary secretaries. Mutesa's election 
to the Presidency of the country in 1963 further undermined the grounds for KY's 
continuing in existence. Strong statements calling for it to be banned were made 
by, among others, Godfrey Binayisa, a Muganda and Attorney General of Uganda, 
John Kakonge, a Munyoro (Westerner) and then Secretary general of UPC, and 
Joseph Kiwanuka, also a Muganda and founder of the old ANC. Their argument- that 
as a tribal party, KY had no place in Uganda's politics- found increasing 
support, among Baganda as well as others,and further defections to UPC occurred. 
These along with several converts from DP gave UPC an absolute majority in the 
national assemblyby the time the "Lost" county bill was to be introduced, 
and UPC therefore could and did, dispense with the alliance. Thus in less than 
two years, KY had lost not only a substantial portion of its representatives in 
parliament but, more important, its usefulness to UPC,and when that went, it 
lost its veto power over national legislation as well. To an increasing number 
of Baganda it thus seemed to be an obviously failing organisation, and pressure 
from within Buganda for it to disband was joinedwith the pressure from 
without for it to be banned. As a result of these pressures, and of certain 
changes within UPC described below, several more leading members of KY joined 
UPC in 1965, mainly during the summer months, and so within three years of 
independence KY found its self with exactly one third of its original strength 
in the National assembly: of the twenty-four members with which it started in 
1962 (Twenty-one in direct elected by the Lukiko plus three specially elected by 
the national assembly), Kabaka Yekka Remained with only eight.

Earlier, foreseeing the inroads UPCor DP 
might make among its members in Buganda, KY had moved to organize followings 
outside Buganda, particularly in the adjacent Bantu-Speaking kingdoms to the 
West (Ankole and Toro) and the District of Busoga to the East, where its main 
theme,"THE NEED TO PROTECT TRADITIONAL AND SEMI-TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS 
FROM RADICAL MODERNISTS" would presumably have an appeal. It mate with little 
success in this endeavour, certainly less than UPC mate with in its efforts to 
recruit within Buganda, but in any case the tactic became a failure when, in 
1965, the local governments of Bugisu, Bukedi, Busoga, and Teso in the East and 
of Ankole in the West, all banned the party (Kabaka Yekka) in their districts. 
By this time KY was under attack from all directions, its original leadership 
had been decimated, and its remaining leadership was quarrelling. It was not 
even clear that it continued to enjoy the Kabaka's support. Hence, when in 
February 1966, the national assembly, following up on Obote's promise in 
December to have KY banned, passed an amendment to an existing law that 
effectively barred the party from operating, at least under the name, the action 
served mainly to confirm what was by then a virtual fait accompli.

Even with DP, a leadership struggle occurred in 
which the principle contestants were a Muganda and a non-Muganda. Here Baganda 
were, in a sense, more successful, for they didretain control of the 
party. But they did so at a considerable cost. Following KY's decisive victory 
in Buganda in 1962 and UPC's success elsewhere, lengthy discussions took place 
within DP concerning the future of the party. Among those who lost their seats 
in the national assembly

ugnet_: God's power struck Museveni Bukenya in 1999 Israel visit






Gods power made me get VP post  Bukenya New Vision -3/7/2003
There was excitement and joy as VP Prof. Gilbert Bukenya proclaimed that the power of God made him get the vice-presidency, reports Nicholas Kajoba. Bukenya was on Sunday receiving blessings from Pastor Samuel Lwandise of Mt. Lebanon Church in Mukono town where he pledged sh2m to complete the church. The blessing, characterised by songs of joy and dance, took over 30 minutes. Mukono resident district commissioner, Charles Mubiru and the LC5 chairman, Godfrey Ddamulira,attended. Lwendise said his Church has been always praying for the Movement government and President Yoweri Museveni to stay in power for long. He hailed Bukenya for believing in God and defending the born-again churches in different fora. Bukenya said in 1999 when they visited Jerusalem, Israel, with Museveni they were struck with the power of God and they nearly fell down. He said he had never experienced such power. 
Published on: Thursday, 3rd July, 2003


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ugnet_: Bush visit to last 4 hours- US team 600 strong