date:20030708

"Ffe akalulu ka Museveni waffe"

Em


The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: ugnet_: Where is everybody!!!


> Matovu,
> Of all people Matovu is also talking of pluralism. I can now beleive that
hell can also break loose. Hell has broken loose here. Matovu and Co now
talking Pluralism.
> Matovu, I will not beleive your pluralism a bit unless you stop and leave
us alone. As long as you and NRM are still forcing it down our throats that
we should register a party (which is our god given birth right) in order to
participate in you pluralism, Matovu count me out. Democracy cannot be
handed to you by some NRA/M lunatic under durace. My freedom of association
is utterly my prerogative and nobody is going to have me sign the
stipulations of my freedom which is within the Laws of Uganda under thw your
1995 constitution. Uganda constitution has already stipulated my contract
with Uganda people. No NRA/M law is legal here since NRA/M itself is already
illegal.
> Museveni's March utterance about multiparty really shook the sh/+?$% out
of your pants Matovu.
> WAIT TILL UGANDA PEOPLES' CONGRESS HITS KAMPALA: EVERYWHERE UPC!
>
> Bwambuga.
>
>
> Matovu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Mulindwa,
> >
> >Who do you refer to as having turned to sing Mengo and
> >Buganda song? I have been busy in Uganda getting
> >involved in the new political transformation.
> >
> >We are getting stronger and we will be a force to
> >reckon with as we have always been.
> >
> >Am wondering why you and all the political exiles are
> >not rushing back to organise politically?
> >
> >Bwambuga,
> >
> >We are busy mobilising. The dawn of political
> >pluralism has come. Those who miss this opportunity
> >should not complain. Bwambuga you'll hear more from us
> >in the coming months.
> >
> >LM
> >
> >--- Mulindwa Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Bwambuga
> >>
> >> I will try to help you in finding your answers.
> >>
> >> Many of them are actually very around, but they have
> >> changed from singing
> >> the Movement song to now singing the Mengo and
> >> Buganda song, many are
> >> actually singing the federalist song under fake
> >> names. And those very same
> >> were singing the UPC song early 80's. So do not
> >> think they went away,
> >> actually some are singing Kiiza Besigye's song
> >> publicly as we speek. (You do
> >> not know the man might be a president one day.)
> >>
> >> Well come to Uganda Politics in these very strange
> >> days we were forced to be
> >> born in.
> >>
> >> Em
> >>
> >> The Mulindwas Communication Group
> >> "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
> >> Groupe de communication Mulindwas
> >> "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
> >> l'anarchie"
> >> - Original Message -
> >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 11:54 PM
> >> Subject: ugnet_: Where is everybody!!!
> >>
> >>
> >> > Netters,
> >> > Not too long ago we had a gazillion movementists
> >> here on this net.
> >> Wherever they have all gone!! Anybody know what I am
> >> saying??
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > He it is Who created for you all that is on
> >> earth...He is the All-knower
> >> of everything.
> >> > Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim.
> >> >
> >> > Michael Bwambuga.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
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> >=
> >LM
> >
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> --
> He it is Who created for you all that is on earth...He is the All-knower
of everything.
> Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim.
>
> Michael Bwambuga.
>
>
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ugnet_: President Bush Finally Admits He Misled the Nation During State of the Union Add

President Bush Finally Admits He Misled the Nation During State of the Union Address
Press Release from Rep. Jan Schakowsky

July 8, 2003

CHICAGO, IL -U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today issued the following statement after the White House finally admitted that President Bush should not have claimed in his State of the Union address that Iraq attempted to buy uranium in Africa to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program:

"After months of denials, President Bush has finally admitted that he misled the American public during his State of the Union address when claimed that Iraq attempted to purchase uranium in Africa. That is why we need an independent commission to determine the veracity of the other so-called evidence used to convince the American people that war with Iraq was unavoidable.

"It is not enough for the White House to issue a statement saying that President Bush should not have used that piece of intelligence in his State of the Union address at a time when he was trying to convince the American people that invading Iraq was in our national security interests. Did the president know then what he says he only knows now? If not, why not, since that information was available at the highest level.

"What else did the Bush Administration lie about? What other faulty information did Administration officials, including President Bush, tell the American people and the world? Did the Bush Administration knowingly deceive us and manufacture intelligence in order to build public support for the invasion of Iraq? Did Iraq really pose an imminent threat to our nation?

"These questions must be answered. The American people deserve to know the full truth."

---

Schakowsky is an original cosponsor of H.R. 2625, legislation authored by U.S. Representative Henry Waxman to create an independent commission - modeled after the September 11 Commission - to examine the intelligence about Iraq and the representations made by executive branch officials about this intelligence.

Re: ugnet_: RE:Sorry Bwana Waziri Afande: Bush visit to last 4 hours- US team 600 strong

2003-07-08 Thread bwambuga

Aa Mulindwa,
Didn't I tell. Huyu amekufa kiofficer. Now that is what we call a man.

Bwambuga.
-



"Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Bwambuga
>
>I have a case in Toronto where a woman threw a flat iron at her husband, he
>called the Police and an officer told the husband "Just take that to the
>hospital and they will fix it up" He got 20 stitches total. They laughed at
>him of how can a woman bit you up.
>
>Em
>
>
>            The Mulindwas Communication Group
>"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
>            Groupe de communication Mulindwas
>"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
>- Original Message -
>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 2:34 PM
>Subject: Re: ugnet_: RE:Sorry Bwana Waziri Afande: Bush visit to last 4
>hours- US team 600 strong
>
>
>> Mzee Mulindwa,
>> Definitely. Oh yeah, the Man has it in full. Even if that means telling
>the whole world how abusive she has been to you. Of course if you will not
>be mistaken for "acting babyish".
>> You know our society does not take a man for granted or literaly. I do not
>mean that we condone "bullies", don't get me wrong. On the contrary, our
>society expects men to "kufa kiofficer". Bite your teeth hard and only then
>do we see that "wammkazza makende mjomba". You know what I mean!!!
>>
>> Bwambuga.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >Mwami Bwambuga
>> >
>> >And Husbands must have the same rights as well.
>> >
>> >Em
>> >
>> > The Mulindwas Communication Group
>> >"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
>> > Groupe de communication Mulindwas
>> >"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >- Original Message -
>> >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 10:53 PM
>> >Subject: ugnet_: RE:Sorry Bwana Waziri Afande: Bush visit to last 4
>hours-
>> >US team 600 strong
>> >
>> >
>> >> Netters,
>> >> I think the Minister should be made to know that this is the best time
>for
>> >the whole world to know through Mr. Bush's visit how undemocratic and
>> >corrupt Uganda is. We should not be ashamed to point out our ills and
>> >shortcomings.
>> >> UPC has done the right thing for the good of all peace-loving,
>democratic,
>> >progressive and good intentioned Ugandans. This issue of telling your
>wife
>> >not to expose how abusive you are is ill conceived. Your wife has the God
>> >given right to let the world know how evil and satanic you are to her.
>Now
>> >if that belittles you, then I think it is the most opportune time to just
>> >think of how belittling your policies are to her.
>> >> Mr. Minister, Ugandans would expect you you to stand for them in good
>> >spirit. We cannot keep shying away while we are dying from Jiggers,
>> >ignorance, illiteracy, poverty, and lack of competent governance. Just
>> >because we want Uganda to look good in the eyes of Mr. Bush. The Minister
>is
>> >talking like (with due respect) a village Primary School teacher.
>> >> Wake up bwana Waziri Afande.
>> >>
>> >> Bwambuga.
>> >> --
>> >> Omar Kezimbira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Bush visit to last 4 hours
>> >> >By Badru D. Mulumba
>> >> >July 3, 2003 -Monitor
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >US team 600 strong
>> >> >
>> >> >US President George W. Bush's visit to Uganda will last four hours,
>the
>> >government announced yesterday.
>> >> >
>> >> >"It is actually four hours. But if we use that time well, it will be a
>> >lot of time," the Information Minister, Mr Nsaba Buturo, told journalists
>in
>> >his office in Kampala yesterday.
>> >> >
>> >> >"It is four hours, but it is actually a lot of time for the
>Americans,"
>> >he said drawing chuckles from his audience.
>> >> >
>> >> >Bush is visiting Africa from July 7-12.
>> >> >
>> >> >Buturo yesterday put the tentative dates for Bush's stopover between
>July
>> >9 and 12 "on his way from South Africa".
>> >> >
>> >> >"We expect him to come with 600 people. [In fact] we expect more," the
>> >minister said. "There will be 600 the day he arrives. But before that we
>> >have had journalists coming."
>> >> >
>> >> >Buturo said that Bush would visit The Aids Support Organisation in
>> >Entebbe.
>> >> >
>> >> >The minister said that the controversial matter of the so-called third
>> >term and politicking should not be big issues during Bush's visit because
>> >"there are legal avenues" for handling such issues internally.
>> >> >
>> >> >He said that if, for instance, the army commits offences in the north,
>> >instead of vilifying and demoralising the troops, the issues should be
>> >resolved calmly outside the international limelight.
>> >> >
>> >> >"This is a very special occasion. This is the most powerful leader in
>the
>> >world," the minister said. "It [the visit] is special in the sense that
>> >international limelight will be focused on Uganda."
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >© 2003 The

Re: ugnet_: Where is everybody!!!

2003-07-08 Thread bwambuga

Matovu,
Of all people Matovu is also talking of pluralism. I can now beleive that hell can 
also break loose. Hell has broken loose here. Matovu and Co now talking Pluralism. 
Matovu, I will not beleive your pluralism a bit unless you stop and leave us alone. As 
long as you and NRM are still forcing it down our throats that we should register a 
party (which is our god given birth right) in order to participate in you pluralism, 
Matovu count me out. Democracy cannot be handed to you by some NRA/M lunatic under 
durace. My freedom of association is utterly my prerogative and nobody is going to 
have me sign the stipulations of my freedom which is within the Laws of Uganda under 
thw your 1995 constitution. Uganda constitution has already stipulated my contract 
with Uganda people. No NRA/M law is legal here since NRA/M itself is already illegal.
Museveni's March utterance about multiparty really shook the sh/+?$% out of your pants 
Matovu. 
WAIT TILL UGANDA PEOPLES' CONGRESS HITS KAMPALA: EVERYWHERE UPC!

Bwambuga.

Matovu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Mulindwa,
>
>Who do you refer to as having turned to sing Mengo and
>Buganda song? I have been busy in Uganda getting
>involved in the new political transformation.
>
>We are getting stronger and we will be a force to
>reckon with as we have always been. 
>
>Am wondering why you and all the political exiles are
>not rushing back to organise politically?
>
>Bwambuga,
>
>We are busy mobilising. The dawn of political
>pluralism has come. Those who miss this opportunity
>should not complain. Bwambuga you'll hear more from us
>in the coming months.
>
>LM 
> 
>--- Mulindwa Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Bwambuga
>> 
>> I will try to help you in finding your answers.
>> 
>> Many of them are actually very around, but they have
>> changed from singing
>> the Movement song to now singing the Mengo and
>> Buganda song, many are
>> actually singing the federalist song under fake
>> names. And those very same
>> were singing the UPC song early 80's. So do not
>> think they went away,
>> actually some are singing Kiiza Besigye's song
>> publicly as we speek. (You do
>> not know the man might be a president one day.)
>> 
>> Well come to Uganda Politics in these very strange
>> days we were forced to be
>> born in.
>> 
>> Em
>> 
>>             The Mulindwas Communication Group
>> "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
>>             Groupe de communication Mulindwas
>> "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
>> l'anarchie"
>> - Original Message -
>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 11:54 PM
>> Subject: ugnet_: Where is everybody!!!
>> 
>> 
>> > Netters,
>> > Not too long ago we had a gazillion movementists
>> here on this net.
>> Wherever they have all gone!! Anybody know what I am
>> saying??
>> >
>> > --
>> > He it is Who created for you all that is on
>> earth...He is the All-knower
>> of everything.
>> > Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim.
>> >
>> > Michael Bwambuga.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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>
>
>=
>LM
>
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He it is Who created for you all that is on earth...He is the All-knower of everything.
Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim.

Michael Bwambuga.

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ugnet_: EU calls for action

2003-07-08 Thread bwambuga

Europe calls for action on Kony
By Richard M. Kavuma
July 9, 2003

The European Parliament has added its voice to calls for international action on the 
war in northern Uganda. 
In a resolution passed on July 3, the EU legislators urged the United Nations Security 
Council to intervene to protect civilians.

The parliamentarians challenged the council to authorise deployment of a UN force in 
the north under Chapter VII of the UN Charter “whenever a request to this effect is 
submitted by its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan”.

The 17-year-long war between government and the Joseph Kony-led Lord’s Resistance 
Army has condemned a million people to camp life, with some 10,000 abducted children 
still in rebel captivity.

The conflict, originally confined to the northern districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, 
has now spread further southwards to the districts of Lira, Apac, Kaberamaido and 
Katakwi. 

Religious leaders in northern Uganda last month slept on the streets of Gulu for four 
nights to attract international attention to the plight of children affected by the 
insurgency.

The parliamentarians also urged the European Union Council to consider ways in which 
the EU could intervene to guarantee the security of populations eligible for the 
humanitarian aid.

Also being considered is the appointment of a special representative to support the 
peace initiatives presently being made, such as the one by the Acholi Religious 
Leaders Peace Initiative.

The EU Parliament also urged the Uganda government to introduce good governance and 
political pluralism in order to remove all reasons for resorting to armed combat.

While “condemning serious human rights violations by all parties to the conflict”, 
the parliament instructed its president to forward the resolution to the 
secretaries-general of the United Nations and the African Union, the Government of 
Uganda and the Government of Sudan, among others.

© 2003 The Monitor Publications
-- 
He it is Who created for you all that is on earth...He is the All-knower of everything.
Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim.

Michael Bwambuga.


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ugnet_: Re: "LRA Rebels" Murder Lc3 Boss in Katakwi

Lamik GI CHIKO KEDE NYANG


LRA Rebels Murder Lc3 Boss in Katakwi


New Vision (Kampala)

July 8, 2003 
Posted to the web July 8, 2003 

Kampala 

REMNANTS of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Sunday night killed the LC chairman of Asamuk sub-county in Katakwi district.

John Omoding in Soroti reports that the Resident District Commissioner, Ndiwa Chemasuwet, yesterday confirmed Lawrence Epedu had been killed.


Chemasuwet said the rebels also wounded Epedu's wife but did not give details of the attack. "It is true we received the report this morning that the chairman LC3 of Asamuk was killed by the LRA rebels before they retreated," Chemasuwet said.

He said he had visited Acowa, Oditel, Asamuk and Amuria after getting reports that some LRA remnants were still in hiding there.

He said he had not got details of the attack since Katakwi has no telephone facilities.

The rebels on Saturday broke into the Red Cross store in Oditel camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and stole foods stuffs, drugs and other supplies meant for the IDPs.

The Government has recruited former Uganda People's Army (UPA) fighters to rid Teso of the rebels.

Several volunteers have been armed to fight the rebels and protect their localities.

Kony rebels attacked Katakwi and Soroti recently. They abducted dozens of girls from Lwala Girls School but most of the girls were rescued.

ugnet_: Re: UGANDA STILL ARMING DRC MILITIA... HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

In a message dated 7/8/2003 9:46:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

However, the Uganda army spokesman, Maj. Shaban Bantariza, dismissed the report as "wild and untrue".

"That is another wild report by the Human Rights Watch people. Ask them where and when we supported those groups militarily," Bantariza said.

The report also accuses the Kinshasa government of training and arming the Lendu, Ngiti and Mai Mai militia against the Hema minorities.


netters and fellow citizens:

This bloody Bantariza ought to realize that   Human Rights watch did  deploy it's researchers in  Ituri region who actually conducted a thorough  research ( investigation if you want) into watch is exactly happening in the Ituri Region of Eastern DRC.  For Bantarazi to claim that Human Rights report was a quote  " wild report on the part of Human Rights Watch really shows how stupid this   idiot who call himself UPDF armmy spokeman is !!!  Please  if you are an Idiot   do not think that all of us are stupid!!

Matek

ugnet_: UGANDA STILL ARMING DRC MILITIA... HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

"It says that Uganda is still supporting and arming a rebel group called the People's Armed Forces of Congo (FAPC) led by Commander Jerome Kakawave Bakonde."

Uganda 'Arming' Congolese Militia

The Monitor (Kampala)

July 8, 2003
Posted to the web July 8, 2003

Frank Nyakairu
Kampala

The New York-based Human Rights Watch has accused Uganda of arming militia groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Human Rights Watch names Rwanda and the DR Congo as the other countries still arming rival groups in the war-torn Ituri region of eastern DR Congo.

The report, Covered in Blood, was released yesterday but embargoed until midnight.

It says that Uganda is still supporting and arming a rebel group called the People's Armed Forces of Congo (FAPC) led by Commander Jerome Kakawave Bakonde.

"Agreements between governments don't do much good when the government armies are just passing their guns on to local militias," Ms Alison Des Forges, a senior official at Human Rights Watch, said.

However, the Uganda army spokesman, Maj. Shaban Bantariza, dismissed the report as "wild and untrue".

"That is another wild report by the Human Rights Watch people. Ask them where and when we supported those groups militarily," Bantariza said.

The report also accuses the Kinshasa government of training and arming the Lendu, Ngiti and Mai Mai militia against the Hema minorities.

The report accuses Rwanda of supporting the RCD-Goma rebel faction that in turn backs the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), a Hema militia in Bunia.

The report covers the past 12 months.

It cites civilian massacres at Nyakunde in September 2002, where Lendu fighters slaughtered 1,200 Hema.

For more than 10 days, the killers dragged victims from their homes and murdered patients found in beds at a missionary hospital in Ituri.

Uganda occupied the mineral-rich Ituri region from 1998 to May 2003 when it withdrew its troops under international pressure.

The international human rights watchdog called on the UN Security Council to ensure security for civilians after the French-led Operation Artemis that was sanctioned by the European Union expires on September 1.

ugnet_: Onyango Obbo's Ear to the Ground on Mu7 the President or the AIDS NGO leader?

2003-07-08 Thread Owor Kipenji

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Ear to The Ground

By Charles Onyango-Obbo Which Museveni will Bush meet; the NGO leader, or president?July 9, 2003

Did US President George Bush tell or not tell President Yoweri Museveni during our mans recent visit Washington to forget any plans to cling on to power beyond the present legal two terms?
The press, in this case The Monitor in its long thankless role as the pesky torchbearer who shines the light where the government would rather have darkness, said Bush had.
The government, beginning from the good Foreign Affairs minister James Wapakabhulo, to several eminent state scribblers, swore that Bush couldnt surely have told Museveni that.
Well, let us hear it from Bush himself. He says he acknowledged Musevenis wonderful works, especially in the fight against Aids, then elbowed him in the ribs about straying off the democratic path (mine, not Bushs words). The Monitor was right. And what an easy goal!
Of course, not many people are impressed. The pro-government elements hold that Museveni is a strong ally of the Americans. Both they, and the cynics who hold that the American Establishment doesnt genuinely support freedom anywhere in the world any more, think that Bushs anti-third term noises are mere posturing.
However, both sides could be wrong. Is there a possibility that the US is changing its practice of canoodling with strongmen as long as they are pro-Washington? The US might be shifting, even if it is doing so to protect its changing global interests. We have seen very acrimonious verbal skirmishing between US Secretary of State Colin Powell, and the autocratic Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
The Americans are piling pressure on South Africa to lean on Mugabe, whos wrecked his once prosperous nation, to go back to the village and grow maize on the land he has grabbed.
I cannot remember when an American government last called on an elected African leader, even one who had stolen elections, to step down (if for nothing else, because it would mean condemning some of their best friends whom we all know but will not name). Bush demanded more forthrightly that Liberias warlord President Charles Taylor relinquishes power and go into exile the same thing he demanded of Iraqs Saddam Hussein. Taylor is now packing his bags.
The US can afford to tell Mugabe and Taylor to go home, and to wag a finger at Museveni over his third term plot, because the price of doing so has fallen dramatically. The fear past US administrations used to have that a leader who was unhappy with them would run into the embrace of the communist bloc, is of course long gone. More importantly though, in recent years, the civilian opposition, rebels, and governments in Africa all fight for the backing of the US in particular, and the West in general.
The conduct of African leaders has also encouraged the US. A visit to America by an African ruler is the highest endorsement, and presidential functionaries will crow about it until the next visit even if its five years away.
Thus while the US is busy haggling with its NATO partners to exempt its servicemen from what it claims could be politically motivated prosecutions in the International Criminal Court, Museveni eagerly signed them the waiver on his last visit. Of course, the Americans are smart enough to notice that there was no debate of the issue inside Uganda. This zeal, while designed to win American support, also emboldened it to make more demands and encourages it to lecture others.
Ugandas case, however, has some peculiarities. Bush is coming to Uganda as the backdrop for him to tout his $15bn aid to fight Aids in Africa and the Caribbean.
Uganda and Senegal have had Africas most successful campaigns against Aids. Ten years ago, Uganda had one of Africas highest Aids infection rates, and the disease was laying waste to areas like Rakai. Today infection rates have fallen to lows of below 6 per cent.
While perhaps the Museveni government does not deserve all the credit in the fight against Aids (initially it took a narrow tribal view on the disease), it deserves every commendation for its boldness and creative energy in tackling the scourge once it opened up.
However, that is also Musevenis undoing. In terms of what he has to show off, he has become a one-issue leader the Aids president.
Nearly all international conferences where Museveni is invited to are because hes an example on how to fight Aid

ugnet_: Parliament Wants South African Mercenaries to 'Eliminate' Rebels

Parliament Wants South African Mercenaries to 'Eliminate' Rebels

African Eye News Service (Nelspruit)

July 8, 2002
Posted to the web July 8, 2003

Andrew Kaggwa
Kampala

Uganda's parliamentary defence committee has proposed hiring South African mercenaries to "eliminate" rebels who are destabilising parts of the country.

The committee said mercenaries should be used to track and eliminate Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony in a bid to end 17 years of bloody guerrilla war in northern Uganda.

The public recommendation, to Uganda's internal affairs minister Ruhakana Rugunda and state minister Kezimbira Miyingo , comes in apparent response to LRA's abduction of over 56 rural schoolgirls in Soroti in eastern Uganda last week and the earlier kidnapping of 44 trainee priests.

Uganda's army has managed to rescue 34 of the girls, but believe the rest have already been spirited out of the country.

Ugandans fear that the kidnapping marks the spread of LRA's religious-based terror campaign into previously untouched regions of the country.

Defence committee member Patrick Apuun said this week Uganda needed to learn to "cut the head off the snake" like governments had in other strife-torn African nations such as Angola.

"Angola also faced a never-ending war and growing civilian casualties. They only turned the tide by hiring South African mercenaries, people like Executive Outcomes, to retrain their army and help eliminate the rebels," said Apuun.

"In fact, Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi would probably still be alive today if it wasn't for these mercenaries." Apuun added that Uganda would probably be able save on its growing military expenditure by paying a "one-off" fee to mercenaries to assassinate Kony and other LRA leaders.

"It would be a good investment even if we had to borrow the money to finish this Kony nuisance," said Apuun.

Fellow committee member Aggrey Awori said that the mere threat of using South Africa mercenaries might curtail LRA activities because of the mercenaries reputation from places like Angola and Sierra Leone.

The inflammatory proposals, which have been described as "panicked thinking" by Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, have been publicly praised.

The LRA, whose political ideology is vague but which includes claims the Kony is a spirit medium with supernatural powers, is notorious for abducting children for training as combat soldiers, and mutilating villagers suspected of 'collaborating' with government forces. The most common mutilations include cutting off lips, noses, and limbs.

Young girls abducted by the LRA are forced into prostitution for its combat squads, or as sex slaves for its militia commanders. The United Nations estimates that 10 000 children have been abducted by the rebels and taken to bases in southern Sudan.

Uganda's military has, however, also been accused to atrocities against villagers believed to harbour or aid LRA fighters.

"The suggestion that we hire mercenaries is simply panicked thinking, and betrays a lack of confidence in our won army," said Museveni.

South Africa's high commissioner too Uganda, Bavumille Vilikazi, described the committee's suggestions as "extremely disturbing" and warned that south Africa had outlawed mercenaries.

"South Africa has legislated against mercenaries because of their bloody record for destabilising African economies. These people are vultures, who profit off war and death," said Vilikazi.

"If Uganda does need assistance, then South Africa would only be able to contribute by assisting with official peace keepers like we have in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo." Although Museveni did not comment on Vilikazi's apparent offer, he did reject a counter-proposal by local Catholic bishops calling for UN 'blue berets' to be deployed in northern Uganda to stabalise the region and secure the country's borders.

Uganda accuses neighbouring Sudan of arming and providing bases for the LRA. Sudan in turn accuses Uganda of supporting John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army.

The tensions have, however, eased since Sudan gave Uganda's army permission to pursue LRA cross-border raiders back to their mountain camps in Sudan.

It is these strikes which, local pundits believe, sparked the LRA's offensive into Soroti. At least three 50-men bands of rebels under the command of LRA brigadier Otti Lagony attacked the town's high school and carried off 56 girls.

The Uganda People's Defence Force's third division gave chase, under the command of Colonel Andrew Gutti, and managed to rescue 34 of the girls during a series of running gun-battles. The rebels rear guard is believed to be in the Kotido district in Karamoja, but military officers fear the remaining girls have already been spirited across the border into Sudan.

LRA fighters claim to be trying to impose a biblical regime in Uganda, and believe bullets fired by Ugandan soldiers are harmless as long as LRA rebels have sprinkled themselves wi

ugnet_: "LRA Rebels" Murder Lc3 Boss in Katakwi

LRA Rebels Murder Lc3 Boss in Katakwi


New Vision (Kampala)

July 8, 2003 
Posted to the web July 8, 2003 

Kampala 

REMNANTS of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Sunday night killed the LC chairman of Asamuk sub-county in Katakwi district.

John Omoding in Soroti reports that the Resident District Commissioner, Ndiwa Chemasuwet, yesterday confirmed Lawrence Epedu had been killed.


Chemasuwet said the rebels also wounded Epedu's wife but did not give details of the attack. "It is true we received the report this morning that the chairman LC3 of Asamuk was killed by the LRA rebels before they retreated," Chemasuwet said.

He said he had visited Acowa, Oditel, Asamuk and Amuria after getting reports that some LRA remnants were still in hiding there.

He said he had not got details of the attack since Katakwi has no telephone facilities.

The rebels on Saturday broke into the Red Cross store in Oditel camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and stole foods stuffs, drugs and other supplies meant for the IDPs.

The Government has recruited former Uganda People's Army (UPA) fighters to rid Teso of the rebels.

Several volunteers have been armed to fight the rebels and protect their localities.

Kony rebels attacked Katakwi and Soroti recently. They abducted dozens of girls from Lwala Girls School but most of the girls were rescued.

ugnet_: Bush to Tell Museveni: No Third Term, Stop Congo Meddling

...or else Museveni should be treated like Charles Taylor... OUT!!!

Bush to Tell Museveni: No Third Term, Stop Congo Meddling

The East African (Nairobi)

July 7, 2003
Posted to the web July 8, 2003

Kevin J. Kelley
Nairobi

GEORGE W. Bush will use his scheduled four-hours visit in Uganda this week to urge President Yoweri Museveni not to extend his stay in office and not to interfere with efforts to bring peace to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

President Bush made his intentions clear in a White House meeting with journalists a few days prior to the July 8 start of his five-nation Africa tour. The American leader went farther than his lieutenants had previously gone in spelling out Washington's opposition to a third term for President Museveni.

Bush noted that he had already spoken to Museveni "about ongoing democracy in Uganda" when the two heads of state held talks at the White House on June 10.

On that occasion, Mr Bush revealed last week, "We talked about transfer of power. We talked about the fact that he's been a remarkably good leader on many fronts, and that we would hope that he would adhere to the concept of having any democracy with a peaceful transfer of power at the appropriate time."

Under Uganda's Constitution, Museveni must step down when his current term as president expires in 2006. But political groups loyal to Museveni have recently urged that the Constitution be amended to lift term limits for the president.

During his visit to the US last month, Museveni repeatedly sidestepped questions about his intention to seek another term. "That is speculation," the Ugandan leader said in response to one such question. "We have a constitution, and we go by it. So I do not want to be involved in speculation."

Bush also indicated in his July 3 remarks to reporters that he would press President Museveni to abide by agreements to help bring about peace in eastern Congo.

The US president recalled that in his discussions with his Ugandan counterpart last month, Museveni "listened very carefully to our admonition that we expect for people to honour the agreements that are being forged. And I will continue to discuss that with him when I go to Uganda," Bush said.

Human Rights Watch is calling on President Bush to publicly urge the Rwandan and Congo-Kinshasa governments - as well as Uganda - not to provide military or financial assistance to any armed groups in the Ituri region of eastern Congo. It now appears that Bush may do just that during his stop over at Entebbe.

But the US leader will surely temper any implied criticisms of Museveni with praise for his achievements, particularly in limiting the spread of HIV/Aids. Bush has hailed Uganda's success in that regard on several previous occasions.

Bush's own efforts to help Africa combat Aids will be at the forefront of his public pronouncements in Senegal, South Africa, Botswana and Nigeria as well as in Uganda.

The US president will highlight his proposed five-year, $15 billion initiative to prevent and treat Aids infections in 14 African and Caribbean countries.

The White House has continually called attention to this plan in recent months as part of its efforts to demonstrate that President Bush's global agenda involves more than military offensives against alleged terrorists.

Critics at home, however, are scoffing at the anti-HIV/Aids initiative.

At a press briefing last week on US-Africa policy, the leader of a Washington advocacy group called Bush's Aids plan "a cruel hoax." Salih Booker, director of Africa Action, said that none of the promised $15 billion was being made immediately available. Mr Booker said: "Faced with this most deadly global threat, the Bush administration continues to stall and its empty promises are costing thousands of African lives every day."

Many analysts in Washington meanwhile, expect that Bush will have ordered the deployment of at least several hundred US troops to Liberia prior to the start of his African tour. According to this view, the American president will want to be seen as evenhanded in his willingness to respond militarily to murderous regimes - whether in Liberia or in Iraq.

Princeton Lyman, a former American ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa, said that if the US refused to intervene, "We will look as if we do more talking than acting in Africa."

But even if he does send US troops into Monrovia, Bush will face pressures in Africa to respond more forcefully to the continuing mayhem in Congo, Ambassador Lyman predicted.

"The real question - and the question that President Bush is going to hear when he travels in Africa - is whether the US is prepared to support a more robust peacekeeping force in Congo.

"If the US agrees, it would mean a lot more money and pressing a lot of countries to send troops into a very hostile situation."

ugnet_: British MPs Signing Resolution On Kony

British MPs Signing Resolution On Kony

The Monitor (Kampala)

July 8, 2003
Posted to the web July 8, 2003

Mwanguhya Charles Mpagi
Kampala

British MPs are signing a resolution condemning the 17-year-old insurgency led by Mr Joseph Kony in northern Uganda.

Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has been fighting the government since 1988.

The MPs are asking the British government to use its influence to force a political solution to the conflict.

The British Parliament's Web site says that MP Thomas Simon moved Resolution No.1475.

The Web site yesterday reported that 39 MPs had so far signed the resolution.

The MPs want the British government to influence "a political solution to the war in order to end the unspeakable suffering by the civilian population" in northern Uganda.

In moving the motion, Simon said that the British parliament is "appalled by reported deaths of several civilians who were killed in government helicopter attacks in the towns of Lira and Soroti on 23rd and 24th June".

The resolution was debated on June 25 and MPs are still signing in support.

The resolution notes that the military option appears to be failing.

"The LRA insurgency appears to be escalating and spreading to other regions? [This parliament] notes with regret that this has forced the Uganda Government to divert over 20 percent of its expenditure including that on education and health to defence."

The LRA rebels have recently stepped up attacks in the northeast after being engaged by government troops in northern Uganda.

Thousands of people, especially children, have been abducted, killed or maimed since 1988.

A further one million people have been displaced from their homes and are now forced to live under the most squalid conditions in the "protected villages" set up by the government and local authorities.

ugnet_: All of Uganda Should Be Safe

All of Uganda Should Be Safe

The Monitor (Kampala)

EDITORIAL
July 8, 2003
Posted to the web July 8, 2003

Kampala

Politicians from Teso organised a rally in Soroti last week to celebrate what they said was a successful defeat of the Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the sub-region.

Had it been true, this would have been extremely good news for the hundreds suffering in Katakwi's Internally Displaced People's camps.

After that rally, all people of goodwill were happy that the terror that had spread over this part of the country since June 15 had been brought to a merciful end. Part of the celebration was that the local people had made it clear that Joseph Kony's rebels were not welcome in their area.

Sadly, the celebrations were short-lived considering the painful events of the weekend when the rebels went on the rampage in Katakwi district, pillaging emergency relief items and abducting in "big numbers".

It would appear that the ordinary people have become victims of propaganda from several quarters. There are politicians who have been encouraging displaced people to return home before it was really safe for them to do so.

Even the Army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza has been giving the impression that the rebels have been flushed out.

As we have said already, this would have been the most exciting news if it were based on an accurate assessment of what is on the ground. Unfortunately the rebels appear to still be able to abduct, kill, and sow mayhem across northern and northeastern Uganda.

With such sad realities, everybody involved in trying to resolve this unhappy situation has to be very careful. It is imperative that the authorities (military and civil) do not give misleading information just to score temporary political points. By so doing, they are risking the lives of ordinary civilians who look up to them for support and guidance.

It is irresponsible and criminal for anyone to place political expediency above the innocent lives trapped in this cruel conflict.

There is also that dangerous viewpoint emerging from some politicians; that as long as the rebels have been pushed out of Teso and back into the north (read Acholi) then things are okay. The rebels would be back to where "they belong"!

This, in our view, is suicidal. No part of Uganda deserves to be in pain at any one time. Neither can any part of Uganda ever feel completely safe when another region or district is hurting.

ugnet_: BUGANDA IN UGANDA (The religious bodies Part two)




As we promised
   
Even under normal conditions, UPC's educational policies may make the 
tensions once again a salient feature of Uganda's politics. All education in 
Uganda was initially in the hands of the two missions, and although the 
protectorate government eventually played an increasingly important role through 
financial grants-in-aid and curricular reform, practically all elementary 
schools and a good many high schools were still under mission control at the 
time of independence. It is largely through the school system, however, that 
national sentiments are inculcated, and to national leaders it seemed obvious 
that the more Uganda's schools concentrated on turning out good Catholics and 
good Anglicans and good Muslims, "good" precisely because they saw them selves 
as basically different from hose believing in other religions, the less they 
would be turning out good Ugandans. Shortly after the elections  the 
Minister of Education, Dr Luyimbazi-Zake, broached publicly the possibility of 
secularization by pointing out that the process had in fact been begun a decade 
earlier, when Sir Andrew Cohen was a governor. The reaction to this idea was 
strong and negative, as anticipated, but the Anglicans stood to loose much less 
than the Catholics, since they in fact gave much less religious instructions in 
their schools, and as they came to realize this their opposition to the program 
weakened. About a year letter, in August 1963, the government considered it 
possible to begin a gradual secularization of the schools. Although strong 
Catholics were almost all opposed, as were some strong Anglicans, the response 
was a good deal more muted than some had thought it would be,And the program 
having fared relatively well has been continued. It has not ceased to be in 
dispute, however, and infact the Catholic church's antagonism has probably 
increased, as well it might, since each step forward from the government's point 
of view is yet another step backwards from the church's. Thus in May 1966 
the hierarchy issued possibly its strongest statement so far in defence of 
religious instructions in Schools and implied that Catholics might have to 
resist the government actively should Dr. Zaake attempt to enforce a suggestion 
he had made a few weeks earlier, to the effect that such instructions be 
discontinued entirely. 
 
To be continued
 
How did the Political elites affect this 
relationship? (Do you know?)
 
    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_: Fighting Continues in Burundi's Capital

Fighting Continues in Burundi's Capital

By ALOYS NIYOYITA
.c The Associated Press

NGOZI, Burundi (AP) - Thousands of people fled their homes Tuesday as heavy fighting between Hutu rebels and the Tutsi-dominated army using mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles continued for a second day in southern neighborhoods of Bujumbura.

It was not clear how many people had been killed in the fighting, but an army officer, who did not want to be identified, said he had seen more than 50 corpses in the neighborhoods of Musaga, Kinindo and Kanyosha.

Army spokesman Col. Augustin Nzabampema said government troops had killed 15 insurgents since the fighting erupted early Monday when rebels of the largest faction of the National Liberation Forces, or FNL, attacked the central African nation's capital.

He said two soldiers had been wounded, but gave no details of civilian casualties.

Rebel spokesman Pasteur Habimana said six insurgents had been killed.

The army said it had driven the rebels to the outskirts of Bujumbura late Monday, but the rebels appeared to have moved back into southern parts of the city early Tuesday.

``No one can move, we are stuck inside our houses, only soldiers and rebels can move,'' Aime Nkurunziza, a resident of Musaga neighborhood, said by telephone.

The insurgents also fired mortars on the capital from the hills surrounding Bujumbura.

The army retaliated by attacking rebel positions with helicopter gunships.

Vice President Alfonse Kadege rejected rebel demands for negotiations. He told civilians at a meeting hall in Bujumbura to use ``all necessary measures'' to work with the security forces to drive the rebels out of the capital.

Habimana said the rebels would remain in Bujumbura until the Tutsi-dominated army agreed to hold immediate talks.

The rebel attack was the first on the capital since April, when insurgents fired dozens of rockets at Bujumbura.

The main market was closed Tuesday as thousands of people fled into the town center. Two main highways leading out of the city were also closed.

The civil war erupted in October 1993 after Tutsi paratroopers assassinated the country's first democratically elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, a member of the Hutu majority.

At least 200,000 people, mostly civilians, have died in the conflict.

Despite being in the minority, Tutsis have effectively controlled the tiny nation for all but a few months since independence in 1962.

A transitional administration took office Nov. 1, 2001, after Hutu and Tutsi political parties signed a power-sharing accord that was supposed to end the war. But the rebels did not take part in that peace process and fighting continued.

Two small rebel factions signed cease-fire agreements last October, but the main faction of the FNL, which operates in the hills surrounding Bujumbura, has refused to halt fighting.

The largest rebel group, the Forces for the Defense of Democracy, signed a cease-fire in December, but it has also continued fighting.

The three-year transitional government entered its second and final phase on May 1 when Domitien Ndayizeye, a Hutu, took over the presidency from Pierre Buyoya, a member of the Tutsi minority.

The main rebel factions said the transition would not affect their positions.

07/08/03 18:41 EDT

Re: ugnet_: Iranian twins die in surgery

2003-07-08 Thread Owor Kipenji

Mutukufu Njuki,it sad that those two girls by a twist of fate chose a day
they could depart from this World.They indeed wanted to live apart from each other and have only achieved that in death.May their souls rest in peace.
What was disturbing to me however was the heightened chances of surviving the operation that the Surgeons put to the girls.Any one in their state if given such probability would have taken the risks.From what I have come to know of the German Surgeons,it is becoming increasingly evident that what the daring Surgeons in Deutschland have turned down should never be touched by others who may be on a course to gaining some fame that in this instance has unfortunately backfired.
Surgeons,of all the health professionals should exercise extra caution in circumstances where others with more technological and even first hand experiences have chosen to chose the St.Elsewhere strategy,for that one blot in this Surgeon's audit will take long to go.Forget the enormous risks that were known to be associated with this procedure at that age.
The statement :"What the Angels have Rejected,the Devil Dare Not Touch"should have been the guiding principle and left the girls to live as they were.
The Hippocratic Oath of not cutting for stone where the disease is already manisfest,apparently was buried with Hippocrates.
That is the the World of Globalisation and the global village.
Thanks.
Kipenji.
===Njoki Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Iranian twins die in surgeryThere were unexpected delays during the first phase of the surgery Both the conjoined Iranian twins have died during a marathon operation to separate them. Ladan Bijani was the first to succumb, shortly after surgeons separated her head from that of her sister. Laleh died an hour and a half later, hospital officials have confirmed. In a statement they said: "Raffles Hospital regrets to announce that the Bijani twins, Ladan and Laleh, have both passed away during surgery to separate them." Earlier, hospital spokesman Dr Prem Kumar explained that the 29 year-old sisters had both lost a lot of blood during the operation and were in a critical state. A team of 28 doctors and 100 medical assistants were involved in the surgery to separate the twins. Look at an
illustration of the operation As the operation progressed, it became clear the brains had fused together after 29 years sharing the same skull cavity, and the separation would not be as straightforward as anticipated. Surgeons spent some 21 hours cutting the twins' brains apart "literally millimetre by millimetre" - something that they had not expected to have to do. The final moment of separation came after 53 hours of the complex operation. The procedure was further complicated because the blood circulation between the twins was unstable. Dr Loo Choon Yong, chairman of Raffles Hospital, said that at one stage the specialists had stopped to consult the twins' next of kin. Choice He said there was the choice of taking the twins into intensive care and off anaesthetic while the next stage was planned. This would have carried a risk of infection or even losing the twins in intensive care. The
alternative option was to continue with the final stages of separation which would also be risky. If God wants us to live the rest of our lives as two separate independent individuals, we will Ladan Bijani Message from Bijanis Surgeons' sorrow "The team wanted to know once again what were the wishes of Ladan and Laleh," said Dr Loo. "We were told that they wanted to be separated under all circumstances." Half an hour after surgeons completed the separation, Ladan's circulation began to fail and, despite the efforts of the team, she died. Surgery continued on Laleh but her circulation also started to fail and she died 90 minutes later. Dr Loo said: "When we undertook this challenge we knew the risks were great and one of scenarios was that we might lose both of them. "Ladan and Laleh knew that it too." The twins were warned that they had only a 50-50 chance of survival,
but said they were willing to risk death for the chance to lead separate lives. Iranians living in Singapore had gathered at Raffles Hospital to pray for the Bijani sisters during the marathon surgery. After the news of Ladan's death, a group of weeping Iranian women were escorted away by friends. "I was shocked. I still don't believe it. Ladan was very friendly, she always liked to joke," said Hossein Afkami, 42. Quality of life The operation marked the first time surgeons had tried to separate adult craniopagus twins - siblings born joined at the head - since the operation was first successfully performed in 1952. German doctors had turned away the Bijanis in 1996, deeming the operation to be too risky. The 29-year-old sisters were well-known in their home country for their courage and academic success - both graduated after studying law. Iranian government spokesman Abdollah
Ram

ugnet_: Wakiso Polygamists Taxed More (WHY?)

 
Wakiso Polygamists Taxed More 
By Christopher Kiwawulo POLYGAMISTS in Wakiso district are to pay a higher graduated tax, the district council has recommended. This follows a recent inauguration of the Revenue Mobilisation Team by the district council, as a new tax collecting body. The district finance officer, Sulpisio Ssemwogerere, said the team and every village chairman and parish chief, would move from house to house and levy taxes according to the property one owns. Polygamists will have to pay more tax in comparison to others. Each home they possess, will be assessed separately, Ssemwogerere told the Nangabo sub-county executive recently. The system, that starts with Nangabo, is aimed at increasing the tax base and reducing the money spent on hunting tax defaulters in the district. Ends
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ugnet_: United States, Uganda In Talks On 2006 Transition (with link)

 
United States, Uganda In Talks On 2006 Transition
By Nathan Etengu THE United States government is holding talks with the Government of Uganda to ensure a democratic transition in 2006, peaceful presidential elections and an immediate end to the conflict in northern Uganda. A conflict consultant at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Randolph Harris, recently said the democratic transition and the north conflict were the major challenges facing the Uganda. Uganda has made remarkable achievements in economic growth, international trade and the fight against HIV/AIDS. However, it still faces on the challenges of democratic transition as enshrined in the Constitution, the conflicts in the northern parts of the country and the insecurity in the Karamoja, Randolph said. He was inaugurating a $16m HIV/AIDS programme of the International Relief Committee, at Nakapiripirit district headquarters. He said US assistance of $65m was being channelled towards economic growth, health, education HIV/AIDS, conflict resolution and human development. He said USAID had also channelled $60m in form of humanitarian food aid to Uganda. Ends
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ugnet_: United States, Uganda In Talks On 2006 Transition

 
United States, Uganda In Talks On 2006 Transition
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ugnet_: Experts Warn On Fish Stocks

Experts Warn On Fish Stocks

By Charles Ariko EXPERTS have warned that over-fishing in Lake Victoria might lead to the depletion of fish stocks in Africas largest lake. The country director Icelandic International Development Agency (ICEIDA), Arni H. Helgason, recently said the issue should be addressed seriously because it would have severe consequences for the fisheries sector. Speaking at the launch of the Uganda Fisheries Laboratory at Entebbe, Helgason said, Experts are raising concerns about possible over-fishing and predict that a crash is inevitable in the near future. If this is indeed true, it must be taken seriously. I know from our own painful experiences that it can take a long time for the fish stocks to recover from such a situation and sometimes that simply does not happen. The Commissioner for Fisheries, Dick Nyeko, said the Government was already addressing the issue of over-fishing in the country by preventing the catching of immature fish. He said Operation Save Samaki was launched to check excesses of individuals in catching fish. He, however, said there was laxity in enforcing some of the laws by neighbouring countries with whom Uganda shares several lakes. We have put in place tough management measures but some of our neighbours have not done so as agreed at regional level, Nyeko told participants at the launch. Ends
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ugnet_: Bush Isn't Serious, He Won't Eat Matooke

2003-07-08 Thread Omar Kezimbira

Opinion -EastAfrican-Nairobi-Kenya Monday, July 7, 2003

Bush Isn't Serious, He Won't Eat MatookeBy CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO
US President George Bush will stop in Uganda this week on his African tour. He will spend, well, four hours in the country.
Thats not a lot of time by any reckoning. Former president Bill Clinton hung around a little longer. He even, according to accounts in the press at time, managed to shop in the arcade of the hotel where he was spending the daytime hours.
And he showed up in the shops as only Bill the charmer could in shorts and open sandals.
Bush will have no time for such niceties, given the length of his stop.
The one thing Clinton didnt do was to be photographed eating. And he probably didnt eat any Ugandan food probably out of health concerns.
Clinton is not alone. Most Western leaders usually travel with their own kitchens and chefs when they venture into the Third World.
The other group of citizens from the industrialised West whose fragile stomachs cant handle local food are soldiers.
In the huge 1996 humanitarian operation they mounted in eastern Congo that was based at the Entebbe airport, the local item they bought in the largest quantities was mineral water. (The present French-Canadian enterprise in the same region, has also seen a sharp increase in the consumption of mineral water.)
We dont have the final statistics, but it appears the next two most consumed items were bottled booze and pleasure women. It seems, then, that they didnt eat local food.
It wouldnt have mattered if this werent Africa. To most Africans nothing speaks of more eloquently of your affection for them, or can forge a bond with them more quickly, than having a meal in their homes, or offering them something to eat.
Many of the few modern ones arent bothered, but the majority who are still humble working folk and peasants care a great deal.
Clearly, given the length of his stay, Bush is unlikely to be caught eating matooke. And with bare hands, not a fork.
Ugandan politicians understand the electoral value of food. With a few days to go before the last election for Kampala mayor, John Ssebaana and his handlers went to a rundown part of the city and huddled in a dingy restaurant.
They ordered, washed their hands, and went to work with their fingers. By that time, of course, the photographers who had been tipped off had arrived.
The next day, the pictures made the front pages. Ssebaana literally didnt get out of bed to go campaigning after that. He romped home by a wide margin.
Ahead of the Clinton visit in 1998, the governments spin-doctors called editors for a background briefing. The subject then turned to how to position Clinton for a photo that would make it on the front page of the worlds major newspapers and TV prime time news.
We were all aware that, with Clinton visiting several other African countries, the stop that would win the day would be the one where he got the best photo op.
Someone suggested that a press conference be organised near a kraal, with cattle visible in the background. And Clinton and Museveni would sit on traditional stools. It would have all the exotic elements: Danger, in case one of the sharp-horned cows attacked the dignitaries; and a bit of unspoilt Africa, with the bush and the smell of cow dung in the air, which journalists could recount with colourful flourish.
It didnt happen. Still, another thing you can do for many a Ugandan if you want to win their heart is touch their cow or bull and praise it. Perhaps no Ugandan cares more about that than President Yoweri Museveni, who is believed to own the countrys largest herd of cattle.
So, while Clinton stayed for about two days, and Bush will barely have time to clear the airport, to the "original" Ugandan, none of them can be said to have visited "seriously" because they both bade farewell without eating our food, or stroking our cows.

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ugnet_: NORWAY HEADS QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX





Norway Heads Quality of Life Index; Canada Miffed
By Evelyn Leopold 
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Norway, Iceland, Sweden, 
Australia and the Netherlands ranked as the best countries in which to live in 
the 2003 U.N. Human Development report on Tuesday but Canadians were miffed. 



  
  

 
The United States ranked seventh and Canada was eighth in the report that 
seeks to go beyond per capita income and include such factors as educational 
levels, health care and life expectancy in measuring a nation's well-being. 

The report also gives a separate index for women's participation in political 
and economic fields, with surprising results. It says that women fare better in 
Botswana, Costa Rica and Namibia than they do in Greece, Italy and Japan. 

But Canada, which had been in first place in the overall index of 175 
countries for seven years until 2001, conducted its own poll, apparently timed 
to the U.N. report. 

Canadian media reported that 89 percent of the country had an "absolute 
conviction that we have a better quality of life than the United States." 

Canada's seven years of first place ratings had prompted Ontario province and 
others to use the U.N. index in its advertisements. Last year, Canada slipped to 
the third place. 

Mark Malloch Brown, head of the U.N. Development Program that produces the 
index, said there was little difference among the top 10 rated nations. The 
change in Canada's status was due to new methods of calculating educational 
standards. 

The overall index shows a decline in 21 nations in the 1990s while in 1980 
only four countries among the 175 tracked by UNDP showed similar decade-long 
decline. South Africa, now in 111th place, fell 28 ranks from 1990 because more 
people died younger from AIDS (news 
- web 
sites)-related illnesses. 

Roughly half the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean recorded either 
a decline or stagnation in income during the 1990s. In Eastern Europe and 
Central Asia per capita income also fell, with steep drops in Russia, Moldova, 
Tajikistan and Ukraine. 

The top ranked nations were: Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Australia, Netherlands, 
Belgium, United States, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, 
Finland, Luxembourg, Austria, France, Germany, Spain and New Zealand. 

Those with low development rankings, from 156th to 175th place, were: 
Senegal, Guinea, Rwanda, Benin, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, 
Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, 
Ethiopia, Mozambique, Burundi, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Sierra Leone. 

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ugnet_: Bush to Tell Museveni: No Third Term, Stop Congo Meddling

2003-07-08 Thread Omar Kezimbira

Regional -EastAfrican-Nairobi-Kenya Monday, July 7, 2003

Bush to Tell Museveni: No Third Term, Stop Congo MeddlingBy KEVIN J. KELLEY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
GEORGE W. Bush will use his scheduled four-hours visit in Uganda this week to urge President Yoweri Museveni not to extend his stay in office and not to interfere with efforts to bring peace to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
President Bush made his intentions clear in a White House meeting with journalists a few days prior to the July 8 start of his five-nation Africa tour. The American leader went farther than his lieutenants had previously gone in spelling out Washingtons opposition to a third term for President Museveni.
Bush noted that he had already spoken to Museveni "about ongoing democracy in Uganda" when the two heads of state held talks at the White House on June 10.
On that occasion, Mr Bush revealed last week, "We talked about transfer of power. We talked about the fact that he's been a remarkably good leader on many fronts, and that we would hope that he would adhere to the concept of having any democracy with a peaceful transfer of power at the appropriate time."
Under Ugandas Constitution, Museveni must step down when his current term as president expires in 2006. But political groups loyal to Museveni have recently urged that the Constitution be amended to lift term limits for the president.
During his visit to the US last month, Museveni repeatedly sidestepped questions about his intention to seek another term. "That is speculation," the Ugandan leader said in response to one such question. "We have a constitution, and we go by it. So I do not want to be involved in speculation."
Bush also indicated in his July 3 remarks to reporters that he would press President Museveni to abide by agreements to help bring about peace in eastern Congo.
The US president recalled that in his discussions with his Ugandan counterpart last month, Museveni "listened very carefully to our admonition that we expect for people to honour the agreements that are being forged. And I will continue to discuss that with him when I go to Uganda," Bush said.
Human Rights Watch is calling on President Bush to publicly urge the Rwandan and Congo-Kinshasa governments as well as Uganda not to provide military or financial assistance to any armed groups in the Ituri region of eastern Congo. It now appears that Bush may do just that during his stop over at Entebbe.
But the US leader will surely temper any implied criticisms of Museveni with praise for his achievements, particularly in limiting the spread of HIV/Aids. Bush has hailed Ugandas success in that regard on several previous occasions.
Bush's own efforts to help Africa combat Aids will be at the forefront of his public pronouncements in Senegal, South Africa, Botswana and Nigeria as well as in Uganda.
The US president will highlight his proposed five-year, $15 billion initiative to prevent and treat Aids infections in 14 African and Caribbean countries.
The White House has continually called attention to this plan in recent months as part of its efforts to demonstrate that President Bushs global agenda involves more than military offensives against alleged terrorists.
Critics at home, however, are scoffing at the anti-HIV/Aids initiative.
At a press briefing last week on US-Africa policy, the leader of a Washington advocacy group called Bushs Aids plan "a cruel hoax." Salih Booker, director of Africa Action, said that none of the promised $15 billion was being made immediately available. Mr Booker said: "Faced with this most deadly global threat, the Bush administration continues to stall and its empty promises are costing thousands of African lives every day."
Many analysts in Washington meanwhile, expect that Bush will have ordered the deployment of at least several hundred US troops to Liberia prior to the start of his African tour. According to this view, the American president will want to be seen as evenhanded in his willingness to respond militarily to murderous regimes whether in Liberia or in Iraq.
Princeton Lyman, a former American ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa, said that if the US refused to intervene, "We will look as if we do more talking than acting in Africa."
But even if he does send US troops into Monrovia, Bush will face pressures in Africa to respond more forcefully to the continuing mayhem in Congo, Ambassador Lyman predicted.
"The real question and the question that President Bush is going to hear when he travels in Africa is whether the US is prepared to support a more robust peacekeeping force in Congo.
"If the US agrees, it would mean a lot more money and pressing a lot of countries to send troops into a very hostile situation."
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ugnet_: THE CONGO WAR IS INTERNATIONAL




DRC: War is international, not just local, says 
rights groupNAIROBI, 8 July (IRIN) - Fighting in Ituri District of 
northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been misdescribed as a 
local ethnic rivalry when in fact it represents an ongoing struggle for power at 
the national and international levels, international NGO Human Rights Watch 
(HRW) said in a report released on Tuesday.The 57-page report, "'Covered 
in Blood': Ethnically Targeted Violence in Northern DR Congo", provides evidence 
that combatants in Ituri had slaughtered at least 5,000 civilians in the past 
year because of their ethnic affiliation. But the combatants were armed 
and often directed by the governments of the DRC, Rwanda and Uganda, HRW 
said."Agreements between governments don't do much good when the 
government armies are just passing their guns on to local militias," Alison Des 
Forges, senior adviser to the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, said. "The 
crisis in Congo won't be resolved without addressing all levels of this 
conflict.""The majority of the population in Ituri are neither Hema nor 
Lendu, the ethnic groups whose militias are responsible for much of the current 
violence," HRW said. "But all inhabitants of Ituri have been forced to choose 
sides, and are subject to attack because they are thought to be associated with 
either Hema or Lendu groups."In recent months, human rights workers have 
not had access to rural Ituri or been able to provide information about specific 
massacres of civilians. But HRW said its report presents evidence of, among 
others, a civilian massacre at Nyakunde in early September 2002, where Lendu 
combatants slaughtered some 1,200 people of the Hema and related groups. 
"Over a 10-day period, the killers dragged victims from their homes and 
murdered patients found in beds at a missionary hospital," HRW said. "The 
Nyakunde massacre claimed significantly more victims than has previously been 
known.""Violent death is now an everyday occurrence in Ituri," Des 
Forges added. "Killers have resorted to cannibalism to terrorise people they 
want to control."The report charges that all groups recruit children, 
some as young as seven years old, for military service.Militias have 
driven some half a million people from their homes, and looted and burned the 
dwellings. To weaken their enemies, various militias have impeded deliveries of 
food or other forms of humanitarian aid to displaced people and others in need, 
increasing the number of civilians dead because of the war, the report 
indicated, adding that in some 30 cases in recent months, humanitarian workers 
have been threatened, beaten and expelled.In September, the UN Observer 
Mission to the DRC, due to be strengthened by several thousand more soldiers, 
will be the only international force present in the country. The UN Security 
Council will soon consider the size and mandate for the force."The 
Security Council must ensure that civilians in Bunia and elsewhere will be 
protected after the interim force leaves," Des Forges said. "They must provide 
the peacekeepers and the mandate necessary to prevent further ethnic 
killing."[For the complete report, go to http://hrw.org/reports/2003/ituri0703/]
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Re: ugnet_: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN NORTH UGANDA

2003-07-08 Thread Chris Opoka-Okumu

Mr. Lutimba Matovu,

Stop your nonsensical propaganda. You wrote: "To finish kony once for all,
we need the local people
to support UPDF. This support is largely lacking. "

Moreover the government of Uganda has never implemented any "immediate
measures to guarantee the protection
of all civilians and all aid workers from abduction
and other violations of their fundamental rights,"

Instead the government of Uganda is a serious violator of the fundamental
rights of these people
and other Ugandans.

The UPDF has always been informed by the local people whenever they hear of
impending attacks by LRA but what does the UPDF do? They do not engage LRA.
They are a "No" show and only come after the LRA are gone. They don't come
before even when the attack is around the corner from  their detaches. And
what does Akonda or "A" something who is their spokesman for Northern
Brigade say? Only that the UPDF is "pursuing the rebels."

We the victims of course know why UPDF is not finishing Kony. You want this
war of attrition to continue so that you steal the land from the Northerners
and the Iteso to allocate to the new wealthy capitalists from the south and
south western Uganda who will lease it to the expelled whites from Zimbabwe
for commercial farming.  Museveni is being told that he has the perfect
excuse now to confine the Acholis in their pitiable little slavery camps as
IDPs and develop them as ghettos for the biological substances who only
deserve little plots around the camps to toil for their livelihood so that
their former homes are freed up for commercial farming to move the rest of
Uganda towards modernity while they step back towards darkness and
backwardness. If only you knew the insidous  plots in which your government
is conniving..

My friend, the war is just beginning.

Chris Opoka-Okumu
==

To finish kony "

- Original Message - at does
From: "Lutimba Matovu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: ugnet_: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN
NORTH UGANDA

> Chris Opoka-Okumu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The European parliament - continues the text -
> > "encourages the government and Ugandan military to
> >adopt immediate measures to guarantee the protection
> > of all civilians and all aid workers from abduction
> > and other violations of their fundamental rights,
> >as well as creating a safe environment for the
> > assistance work of humanitarian groups consenting
> > them to save lives".
>
> Chris, the EU legislators have just reaffirmed what
> the Government has done for years.
>
> Its for this reason that our government sought
> permission to launch operation Iron Fist in sudan. The
> UPDF is guarding IDP's and have continuously persued
> LRA rebels whenever they are.
>
> If it was not for our dedicated UPDF, Kony will be
> ruling supreme in Northern Uganda but there is no
> single village even after all these years which is
> controlled by Kony.
>
> To finish kony once for all, we need the local people
> to support UPDF. This support is largely lacking.
>
> I however dot believe Kony will listen to the EU.
>
> LM
>
> =
> LM
>
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ugnet_: Fwd: RE:UPC/LRA

2003-07-08 Thread Ochan Otim

I am waiting to 'hear' you out after you read this, Ed Kironde.

Ochan

Greetings to all,

And to Mukulu Kironde I purposely ask: Are you fine? not as a formality, but
as a greeting question that seeks to know that all is and was well when you
published the ten point list!
You write, "Former Acholi soldiers fled to the north to be re-integrated in
the Acholi society, but because of the difficulties of re-integration, they
soon raped and plundered the local population." I would be of great
importance if you could tell us what the "difficulties of re-integration"
were, and why couldn't the Acholis (my god) settle at home. Gen. Saleh
recently revealed some of the causes of the northern war. I fortunately,
though actually unfortunately happened to be in Namukora on 5th October
1986, when a special contingent of NRA soldiers arrived and arrested all
former FEDEMU and retired UNLA officers in the area. Loaded them in trailer
containers and shipped them to Mbuya; you know the rest of the story. If
there is any reason why the war in the north started it was as a result of
the activities of this day.
I can understand the way you feel about UPC, for I suffered at the hands of
some of its operatives in ways I hate to recall.  However I find it
reprehensible that some one who is seeking the highest office of the land
has chosen to view, Obote, UPC, LRA and "the Acholi" as one!
Blanket condemnation of ethnic groups or political organizations, Yes,
including UPC is wrong. If some elements within UPC are sponsoring LRA, have
it know to the world as such.
The other issues you bring up again in your ten-point programme is your
continued well-orchestrated campaign against the political opposition in
Uganda.  And here I put it to you that with malice aforethought and
ingrained hate you have found it in your faculties to link DP and LRA. (Wano
ndabawo ettima, effutwa, effubitizi, obukyayi n'enge oba n'ensaalwa
[emapndiika])
It is also unbecoming of you to suggest that the Reform Agenda has been
making overtures to Kony. Unless you are one of the contact persons, how are
you privy to this information? Or you have just swallowed you master, M7's
lies?
You highlight the term that you were just thinking, with the danger of
sounding uncivilized I would reluctantly say that, if this is the way you
perform when thinking, you better stop thinking and just hallucinate.
I sincerely believed that your time at this very educating board had shade
some light in your mind and divorced you from "tribal" bias. But alas! I was
wrong.
May the lord heal your soul?

Kiwanuka Lawrence nsereko

Re: ugnet_: Where is everybody!!!

2003-07-08 Thread Lutimba Matovu

Mulindwa,

Who do you refer to as having turned to sing Mengo and
Buganda song? I have been busy in Uganda getting
involved in the new political transformation.

We are getting stronger and we will be a force to
reckon with as we have always been. 

Am wondering why you and all the political exiles are
not rushing back to organise politically?

Bwambuga,

We are busy mobilising. The dawn of political
pluralism has come. Those who miss this opportunity
should not complain. Bwambuga you'll hear more from us
in the coming months.

LM 
 
--- Mulindwa Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bwambuga
> 
> I will try to help you in finding your answers.
> 
> Many of them are actually very around, but they have
> changed from singing
> the Movement song to now singing the Mengo and
> Buganda song, many are
> actually singing the federalist song under fake
> names. And those very same
> were singing the UPC song early 80's. So do not
> think they went away,
> actually some are singing Kiiza Besigye's song
> publicly as we speek. (You do
> not know the man might be a president one day.)
> 
> Well come to Uganda Politics in these very strange
> days we were forced to be
> born in.
> 
> Em
> 
> The Mulindwas Communication Group
> "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
> Groupe de communication Mulindwas
> "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
> l'anarchie"
> - Original Message -
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 11:54 PM
> Subject: ugnet_: Where is everybody!!!
> 
> 
> > Netters,
> > Not too long ago we had a gazillion movementists
> here on this net.
> Wherever they have all gone!! Anybody know what I am
> saying??
> >
> > --
> > He it is Who created for you all that is on
> earth...He is the All-knower
> of everything.
> > Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim.
> >
> > Michael Bwambuga.
> >
> >
> >
>
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ugnet_: Obote's Greed for Power Killed Uganda's Future

Folks,
In the past few weeks we have witnessed an exchange, on Fedsnet between Obotes supporters as they have attempts to foist upon us their revisionist history and others who would have nothing to do with this nonsense. One of the ignorami had the temerity to pontificate about things he clearly has no idea about, e.g. No amount of laying prostrate before the empty Nnamulongo could save Kintu. Kintu, you will recall, was Bugandas Katikkiro during the period of the Referendum on the so-called Lost Counties. As Bugandas Kamalabyonna and therefore Kabaka Owebweru, he was one of handaful of Baganda who did may not prostrate, much less, kneel before the Kabaka no matter what his transgression (if any), according to Kiganda etiquette, custom and tradition.
Rather than boring you with my opinions, I thought it might be enlightening to see what had been written about the events by more informed and authoritative sources. I turned to a book:
Grace Stuart Ibingira (GSI) 1980 African Upheavals Since Independence. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
GSI, a trained lawyer, was an insider who witnessed some of the events he writes about first hand -- having been MP, the UPCs Secretary General, cabinet Minister (Justice, State) before being detained and imprisoned, along with other UPC Ministers, for about 5 years by Obote. He later served in the Amin government as Ambassador to UN (resigning in Jan. 1974). His better-known book The Forging of An African Nation was written before his detention. These two books should be read by anyone who wants to understand the workings of the UPC, what happened, when & why it happened, and just how ruthless & power-drunk Obote is.
In many ways this fairly well referenced book, uncannily, applies to the present regime; at time so much so that one would only have to replace Obote with Museveni and UPC with Movement to describe the current situation. Yet, it was written and published before the Movement had become a reality (I hear Museveni, Kategaya et al started plotting its existence much earlier, possibly in their pre-Tanzania days, but that is another story).
The book has 3 parts:
Part 1: Nature of the Colonial Legacy (ch. 1-4)
Part 2: The Politics and Practices of Winner-Take-All and Their Consequences (ch. 5-10)
Part 3: The Future: Some Lessons and Some Basic Principles (ch. 11-13).
Chapters that are especially important for Uganda are (sections are not numbered in the book, and sub-sections are not given here for brevity): -
Ch. 2 Uganda
a. Colonization and Consolidation
b. The Approach of Independence and Its Problems
c. The Independence Settlement
Ch. 6 Uganda: Fundamental Causes of the 1966 Revolution
a. The UPCs Resolute Determination to Obtain and Exercise Absolute Power
b. Efforts to Impose a One-Party System
c. Parliamentary Battles for Reform of Electoral Law
d. Monopoly and Misuse of the Security Forces
e. Efforts to Monopolize Government Power
f. The revival of Primordial Fears
Ch. 7 Uganda: The Immediate Causes of the Revolution
a. The Exposure of Clandestine Involvement in a Foreign Conflict
b. Accusations of Profiteering from the Conflict
c. The Likely removal of Idi Amin and Its Consequences
d. The UPC Stand on Ochiengs Motion
e. The Constitution and Its Restraints
f. The Seizure of Absolute Power
g. The Unrestrained Executive and Its Effect on National Unity
h. The 1971 Coup Detat
Chapter 2, perhaps because it deals with pre-independence events, is rather brief. Nevertheless, it attempts to lay the foundation of the post-independence conflicts, if only in passing esp. in 2 (c).
Ch. 6 begins thus (my emphasis is italicized, original emphasis will be underlined, as in the original text.):
Apolo Milton Obote, as leader of UPC, inherited the independence government on 9 October 1962. On February 22 1966, he abrogated the constitution and concentrated power in his own hands. His declared reasons for this seizure of power are considered in detail later. However, they were allegedly to forestall Kabaka Muteesas attempt to employ foreign troops to overthrow the government and to prevent a number of his leading colleagues, whom he arrested, from promoting instability in the party and country. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is wisely said in jurisprudence that a case should never be decided without hearing both parties (audi alteram partem). The case for Obotes seizure of power, which unleashed Ugandas instability, has been exhaustively stated by him and his supporters since 1966 in the press, in the Parliament, in court cases, and in varied literature1. But there has been to date no coherent explanation or alternative interpretation of what truly happened.
In 1967 while in exile, Fredrick Muteesa II, the former Kabaka of Buganda and president of Uganda, wrote a book giving a sketchy explanation of what

Re: ugnet_: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN NORTH UGANDA

2003-07-08 Thread Lutimba Matovu

Chris Opoka-Okumu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The European parliament - continues the text -
> "encourages the government and Ugandan military to
>adopt immediate measures to guarantee the protection
> of all civilians and all aid workers from abduction
> and other violations of their fundamental rights,
>as well as creating a safe environment for the
> assistance work of humanitarian groups consenting
> them to save lives". 

Chris, the EU legislators have just reaffirmed what
the Government has done for years.

Its for this reason that our government sought
permission to launch operation Iron Fist in sudan. The
UPDF is guarding IDP's and have continuously persued
LRA rebels whenever they are.

If it was not for our dedicated UPDF, Kony will be
ruling supreme in Northern Uganda but there is no
single village even after all these years which is
controlled by Kony.

To finish kony once for all, we need the local people
to support UPDF. This support is largely lacking. 

I however dot believe Kony will listen to the EU.

LM 

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ugnet_: Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: Rhodes Scholars Are Split on New South African Awards


Rhodes Scholars Are Split on New South African Awards 

July 6, 2003 
By ALAN COWELL 




The creation of a fund to help educate South Africa's poor 
has sparked some postcolonial wrestling with guilt and redemption. 


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ugnet_: Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: Nixon on Bush


Nixon on Bush 

July 7, 2003 
By WILLIAM SAFIRE 




Reached by cellphone in Purgatory, Richard Nixon agreed to 
give an analysis of the political strategy of the present occupant of the Oval Office. 


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ugnet_: Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: What I Didn't Find in Africa


What I Didn't Find in Africa 

July 6, 2003 
By JOSEPH C. WILSON 4th 




The author concluded that it was doubtful that Niger sold uranium to Iraq. The question now is how that conclusion was or was not used by the administration. 


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ugnet_: Underground peat fires found in Mali (and no, not from Osama's caves)




www.nature.com/nsu/030630/030630-10.html
 

This phenomenon also exists in the environs of Nairobi, Kenya; where locals have observed subterranean fires that often survive rainfall and can be used to choma maize. Naturallay, they are ascribed to some Kenyan (Gikuyu) Lubaale. A version of it is likely responsible for the fires that gut slums like Mathare Valley on a fairly regular basis (Their frequency is almost predictable, and the fires themselves may be due to methane released in natural decomposition of the mounds of trash in or near the slums) 



 
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ugnet_: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN NORTH UGANDA

2003-07-08 Thread Chris Opoka-Okumu

UGANDA  8/7/2003 18:03
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN NORTH UGANDA
 Politics/Economy, Standard


The European Parliament today condemned "the serious and repeated human
rights violations perpetrated by all the parts involved" in the conflict
that has been devastating the districts of North Uganda for over 15 years,
calling for "an immediate cessation of the atrocities such as slavery,
torture, rape, killings" and all the other forms of abuse the civil
population is systematically subjected to. On initiative of the
Euro-parliamentarian Mario Mauro (Ppe-De/FI), the legislative body of the 15
member nations approved a resolution which in particular deplores the
offensive of the rebel LRA (lord's Resistance Army) for its violence against
the defenceless people, "for the continuing abductions of children to
transform them into soldiers or for sexual exploitation" and for "the
growing number of attacks perpetrated against Catholic missions, as also the
recent order issued by the LRA leader - Joseph Kony - to destroy Catholic
missions and kill all the priests and missionaries"!
 . The European parliament - continues the text - "encourages the government
and Ugandan military to adopt immediate measures to guarantee the protection
of all civilians and all aid workers from abduction and other violations of
their fundamental rights, as well as creating a safe environment for the
assistance work of humanitarian groups consenting them to save lives". The
resolution therefore urges the government of President Yoweri Museveni to
"apply good administration and political pluralism as to eliminate any
motivation of resorting to armed conflict; calling also that it sanction
abuse committed by its forces and more precisely that recently committed
against civilians by the VCCU anti-crime unit". In the same resolution, the
European Parliament also welcomes "the pledge by Sudan to not provide
ulterior support" to the LRA, exhorting the government of Khartoum to
respect and implement the pledge in its territory. The international
community, foremost the Office for !
 Humanitarian Aid of the European Union (ECHO), in the text is urged "t
o promptly intervene in face of the incumbent humanitarian crisis,
reinforcing emergency aid for the displaced, in particular food and medical
assistance, also instituting support programmes for the freed prisoners to
ensure their reintegration into society". The United Nations Security
Council is called to "study possibilities of intervention of the
international community for the protection of the civil populations of North
Uganda, including an eventual application of Chapter VII of the UN Charter
if requested by its Secretary General Kofi Annan". The EU Council is in
conclusion called to "study the possibilities of a European intervention in
the optic of the Mutual Political and Security Policies (PESC) to monitor
the security of the populations admitted to the humanitarian aid distributed
by the ECHO", while the EU is exhorted "to consider the nomination of a
special representative to support current peace efforts, such as the Acholi
Religious Leaders Peace Initiative) a!
 nd carefully monitor the situation of minors affected by the armed conflict
in the region". [BO]

ugnet_: President Bush,s visit

2003-07-08 Thread Abayombo

Tuesday Reflection With Kintu Nyago

Bargain with Bush we must
July 8, 2003

That two sitting American presidents with varying ideological inclinations, Democratic liberal William Jefferson Clinton and right leaning Republican, George Walker Bush, visited Uganda within less than five years, is something we should pat ourselves on the back for as a country.

It is, indeed, our achievement as a people, under the leadership of President Museveni. To get the required perspective, let us remember the early 1980s when then US President Jimmy Carter compared Uganda’s situation to ‘a car with all its tyres punctured, stuck in mud, and yet fully engaged in reverse gear!’

Times have drastically changed since, to the extent that Uganda now symbolises economic recovery and progressive policies aimed at social economic empowerment, poverty reduction and the reduction of HIV/Aids.

Without the willingness of Ugandans to adopt these policies and implement them, usually through various forms of sacrifices, they would never have succeeded, and it is for that reason that they deserve to be congratulated.

To fully appreciate President Bush’s visit to Uganda this week, it is best that we bear in mind that it is based on well thought out political considerations, for all parties concerned.

In November 2004, next year, the US will be holding presidential elections. Though some commentators have questioned Mr Bush’s cerebral capacity, do not be bluffed; he is an ambitious and consummate politician with a clear strategy to hold on to power.

Remember his reaction to Al-Qaeda’s dreadful September 11 attacks, and how this enabled him to drastically enhance his legitimacy, which the Florida electoral debacle had denied him during the last presidential elections?

Bush’s Africa visit is aimed at putting him in good light before the American electorate next year. Uganda would offer him the opportunity to identify with progressive social policies, success in Africa! More particularly, successful policies aimed at combating HIV-Aids and poverty eradication.

>From a geo-political perspective, Uganda is proving to be a reliable partner in the war against international terror, and reports from Washington indicate that the Pentagon would like Kampala to offer the US Air Force privileged refueling rights.

>From the Ugandan perspective, Museveni’s administration stands to benefit tremendously from the American president’s visits. And this is something they have worked hard to achieve. Remember our joining the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and this government’s controversial decision to side with Washington’s demand that US troops on foreign mission be exempted from the jurisdiction of the International War Crimes Tribunal?

President Bush’s four-hour visit will be extremely important in boosting his Ugandan host’s profile in the region, and indeed the world! Few world leaders would ever get the opportunity to meet with a sitting US president for more than 30 minutes! Four hours at Entebbe is like a lifetime!

It is also significant that the visit is coming at a time when Bush is still serving his first term. He is no ‘lame duck’ president. Consequently, he is in a better position to effect any commitments and promises his delegation makes during this visit. What we require from our leaders is hard bargaining to enable us gain concessions in five main areas.

First, our access to the Millennium Challenge Account, as this would accord Uganda further privileged US economic assistance and collaboration. Second, we should be allowed to manufacture inexpensive non-generic HIV-Aids drugs.

Third, the US administration should remove the subsidies it offers its agricultural sector, as this would enable our agricultural products to be more competitive on its lucrative market. Fourth, there is need for further reduction of Africa’s clearly unsustainable debt burden. And lastly, the US should enhance Uganda’s capacity to counter terrorism in all its manifestations.

ugnet_: New Site for State House

2003-07-08 Thread Edward Baliddawa









We have improved on the State House Web Site to reflect
President Bush’s visit to Uganda.

 

Please do visit at www.statehouse.go.ug

 

 

Edward

Re: ugnet_: President Bush,s trip to Africa

2003-07-08 Thread Abayombo

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Kabonero,

  

Another report syas in part:

  

“By mentioning AIDS in almost every speech and carrying the campaign into every village, Mr. Museveni has gone far to destigmatize the disease. That has helped reduce the infection rate by two-thirds, a remarkable life- saving achievement. Mr. Museveni's leadership would be far more impressive if he permitted opposition parties and free elections, a point Mr. Bush should insist on.”

  

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Akena,
I guess you did not receive the news in Lusaka but political parties are permitted.As for elections we have had three free ones since your old man left.

ugnet_: Bush in the Bush

2003-07-08 Thread dbbwanika db

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"Christian men and women became blind to the clearest commands of their faith and added hypocrisy to injustice. A republic founded on equality for all became a prison for millions. And yet in the words of the African proverb, "no fist is big enough to hide the sky." All the generations of oppression under the laws of man could not crush the hope of freedom and defeat the purposes of God". 

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2003-07-08 Thread Y Yaobang

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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:24:11 EDT

President Bush's Africa Trip

merican presidents do not travel to Africa often. President Bush's 
five-day,
five-nation visit, starting today, marks a significant step in America's
deepening relations with the continent. For too long, Washington and other 
Western
capitals treated Africa as if it were condemned to war, poverty and
preventable epidemics. Mr. Bush understands that Africans are entitled to a 
better
future, and that America can help them achieve it.

Turning that vision into reality will take more than whirlwind tours and
inspiring speeches. Mr. Bush must press Congress to provide ample financing 
for
his multiyear AIDS and development initiatives. He should also speak 
plainly
with African leaders about steps they themselves need to take. More than 11
percent of the world's people live in sub-Saharan Africa. Their future 
depends on
how well their countries handle the intertwined problems of H.I.V.-AIDS, 
ethnic
and civil conflict, corrupt and abusive government and economic growth too
feeble to provide jobs for rising populations. In each of the countries Mr. 
Bush
is visiting — Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria — one 
or
more of these issues belongs high on the agenda.

Senegal is a strong democracy, though plagued by a low-grade separatist
insurgency in the Casamance region. Despite this, Senegal has set a healthy 
example
in a deeply troubled neighborhood and has participated in efforts to
negotiate peace in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Liberia.

South Africa has one of the continent's most developed economies and 
biggest
H.I.V.-AIDS problems. President Thabo Mbeki is sub-Saharan Africa's most
prestigious leader. But his failure to confront the AIDS pandemic has 
caused public
health damage at home and hurt efforts elsewhere to overcome the
stigmatization that undermines effective prevention and treatment. If Mr. 
Bush can
persuade Mr. Mbeki to follow a more enlightened course, America's AIDS 
assistance
programs will save more lives. Mr. Mbeki has also failed to do all he 
should to
help resolve the crisis in neighboring Zimbabwe, where President Robert 
Mugabe
has clung to power through repression and fraud.

Botswana is blessed with mineral wealth, a relatively small population,
vigorous democracy and enlightened environmental policies. But it is cursed 
with
Africa's highest H.I.V. infection rate, with two of five adults affected. 
In
contrast to Mr. Mbeki, President Festus Mogae has worked hard to contain 
the
disease. Even more energetic steps could be taken, modeled on the anti-AIDS
campaign led by Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni. By mentioning AIDS in 
almost
every speech and carrying the campaign into every village, Mr. Museveni has 
gone
far to destigmatize the disease. That has helped reduce the infection rate 
by
two-thirds, a remarkable life-saving achievement. Mr. Museveni's leadership
would be far more impressive if he permitted opposition parties and free
elections, a point Mr. Bush should insist on.

The Bush visit concludes in Africa's most populous country, Nigeria.
President Olusegun Obasanjo has been a consistent opponent of military 
dictatorship,
but his first term as an elected civilian ruler was extremely 
disappointing. He
has failed to crack down on corruption and army human rights abuses,
neglected the economy and done little to heal dangerous religious and 
ethnic
divisions. Now Mr. Obasanjo has become actively involved in efforts to 
bring peace and
a transitional administration to Liberia. Yesterday the Liberian leader,
Charles Taylor, said he would accept Nigeria's offer of safe haven. Mr. 
Bush needs
to tell Mr. Obasanjo that he would be a more credible advocate of good
governance abroad if he did more to practice it at home.

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Fwd: ugnet_: NYTimes.com Article: Rhodes Scholars Are Split on New SouthAfrican Awards


Rhodes Scholars Are Split on New South African Awards 

July 6, 2003 
By ALAN COWELL 




The creation of a fund to help educate South Africa's poor 
has sparked some postcolonial wrestling with guilt and redemption. 


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ugnet_: Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: Poor and War-Weary, Africa Turns Eyes to Bush for Help


 
Poor and War-Weary, Africa Turns Eyes to Bush for Help 

July 6, 2003 
By SOMINI SENGUPTA with MARC LACEY 




As President Bush begins his first official trip to the 
continent on Monday, African eyes are on America as never before. 


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/international/africa/06AFRI.html?ex=1058605865&ei=1&en=a0383d31f94c4e44 
 


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ugnet_: Iranian twins die in surgery

2003-07-08 Thread Njoki Paul

Iranian twins die in surgery
 
 
There were unexpected delays during the first phase of the surgery 
Both the conjoined Iranian twins have died during a marathon operation to 
separate them. 

Ladan Bijani was the first to succumb, shortly after surgeons separated her 
head from that of her sister. 

Laleh died an hour and a half later, hospital officials have confirmed. 

In a statement they said: "Raffles Hospital regrets to announce that the Bijani 
twins, Ladan and Laleh, have both passed away during surgery to separate them." 

Earlier, hospital spokesman Dr Prem Kumar explained that the 29 year-old 
sisters had both lost a lot of blood during the operation and were in a 
critical state. 

A team of 28 doctors and 100 medical assistants were involved in the surgery to 
separate the twins. 

 


Look at an illustration of the operation  

As the operation progressed, it became clear the brains had fused together 
after 29 years sharing the same skull cavity, and the separation would not be 
as straightforward as anticipated. 

Surgeons spent some 21 hours cutting the twins' brains apart "literally 
millimetre by millimetre" - something that they had not expected to have to do. 

The final moment of separation came after 53 hours of the complex operation. 

The procedure was further complicated because the blood circulation between the 
twins was unstable. 

Dr Loo Choon Yong, chairman of Raffles Hospital, said that at one stage the 
specialists had stopped to consult the twins' next of kin. 

Choice 

He said there was the choice of taking the twins into intensive care and off 
anaesthetic while the next stage was planned. This would have carried a risk of 
infection or even losing the twins in intensive care. 

The alternative option was to continue with the final stages of separation 
which would also be risky. 


 If God wants us to live the rest of our lives as two separate independent 
individuals, we will 

Ladan Bijani 


Message from Bijanis 
Surgeons' sorrow  

"The team wanted to know once again what were the wishes of Ladan and Laleh," 
said Dr Loo. 

"We were told that they wanted to be separated under all circumstances." 

Half an hour after surgeons completed the separation, Ladan's circulation began 
to fail and, despite the efforts of the team, she died. 

Surgery continued on Laleh but her circulation also started to fail and she 
died 90 minutes later. 

Dr Loo said: "When we undertook this challenge we knew the risks were great and 
one of scenarios was that we might lose both of them. 

"Ladan and Laleh knew that it too." 

The twins were warned that they had only a 50-50 chance of survival, but said 
they were willing to risk death for the chance to lead separate lives. 

Iranians living in Singapore had gathered at Raffles Hospital to pray for the 
Bijani sisters during the marathon surgery. 

After the news of Ladan's death, a group of weeping Iranian women were escorted 
away by friends. 

"I was shocked. I still don't believe it. Ladan was very friendly, she always 
liked to joke," said Hossein Afkami, 42. 

Quality of life 

The operation marked the first time surgeons had tried to separate adult 
craniopagus twins - siblings born joined at the head - since the operation was 
first successfully performed in 1952. 


German doctors had turned away the Bijanis in 1996, deeming the operation to be 
too risky. 

The 29-year-old sisters were well-known in their home country for their courage 
and academic success - both graduated after studying law. 

Iranian government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh said that the nation was 
in "deep sorrow" following their deaths. 

"We were praying for them to be successfully separated, since that was their 
ultimate wish, " he told French news agency AFP. 

Iranian television went live to Singapore to bring the nation the sad news. 

The BBC's Frances Harrison, in Tehran, said many people said they would be in 
mourning because the twins were like family figures after their lives had been 
charted by the Iranian media. 

 


\\\"Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate 
version of someone else.\"

Njoki Paul 
University of Pretoria

ugnet_: BUGANDA IN UGANDA (The religious bodies Part one)