ugnet_: 2 AMERICANS HAVE BEEN GUNNED DOWN IN IRAQ
U.S. Soldiers Killed by Attack in Iraq 3 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were killed and another wounded in northern Iraq (news - web sites) early Sunday when their convoy was struck by rocket-propelled grenades and gunshots, the U.S. military said. All three soldiers were rushed to a hospital, where two of them died, said Corp. Todd Pruden, a spokesman for the military in Baghdad. The attack occurred near Tal Afar, just west of the northern city of Mosul and about 240 miles northwest of Baghdad, Pruden said. There were no reported enemy casualties and no arrests were made. U.S. soldiers have come under increasing attacks in recent weeks. The deaths bring to 151 the number of American soldiers killed in action since the March 20 start of the war, four more than the total killed in the 1991 Gulf war (news - web sites). Most of the recent violence has taken place in an area north and west of Baghdad called the Sunni triangle, where some support for Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) remains. Mosul is north of the Sunni triangle and has not been the site of much previous violence 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_: AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY A THREAT TO AMERICA'S SECURITY
United States foreign policy a threat to American security By Dr Muqtedar Khan THE world is becoming anti-American. Not only do most people across the planet look upon the United States with disfavour, they also dislike President George W. Bush, who is not the most popular leader even in America where British Prime Minister Tony Blair is more trusted and admired. More and more people are less keen on co-operating with the US in foreign policy or in the war on terror. Growing anti-Americanism will not only undermine the war on terror, but its extreme manifestations in the Muslim world is attracting new and numerous recruits to the ranks of Al-Qaeda and their associates. Experts are in agreement that the primary reason why people now hate America is American foreign policy. Its exclusively self-regarding outlook, its arrogant unilateralism, its unwise and untrustworthy rhetoric and its belligerent posture, is alienating. A recent poll of peoples perceptions of America taken by the Pew Research Centre in 20 countries, indicates that since last year Americas popularity has declined considerably across the globe. Even in traditional allies such as Turkey, 83 percent of the population views the world negatively. Last year this number was only 55 percent. In Europe, Americas long time ally and cultural mate, majorities of people disfavour the US. According to the Pew study, there are two basic reasons why anti-Americanism is becoming a global culture: They are US Foreign policy and the persona of President Bush. September 11, 2001 essentially identified two goals for American foreign policy eliminating immediate security threats to the nation and its interests and winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. This essentially translated into taking care of Al Qaeda and the Al Qaeda phenomenon. While Al Qaeda posed grave threats in the short term, Al Qaeda phenomenon, the rise of anti-America- nism in the Muslim world, which attracted recruits to Al Qaeda and associates, posed a more severe and long-term challenge. President Bush and his foreign policy team were correct in their initial diagnosis, but unfortunately the policy decisions that they have made since have merely contributed to enlarging rather than shrinking the Al Qaeda phenomenon. The Pew study essentially confirms the claims of most policy analysts outside the government. The war on Iraq has conveyed the impression that the US is determined to exercise force against Arab and Muslim nations more as a revenge for September 11, than as a strategy to prevent more attacks. The problems that Iraqis have faced during the continuing US occupation and the failure to find the huge stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction that Bush claimed Iraq possessed, has hurt American credibility and raised serious questions about its motives and its policy objectives. The continuing chaos in Afghanistan and the post Iraq-war threats to first Syria and then Iran has created a climate of apprehension and resentment. Citizens of Pakistan, Americas primary ally in the war on terror, Nigeria and Indonesia feel that their country is next on the US list. The fear that the US is out to attack other countries makes the global security environment less stable. It discourages co-operation, makes the world unsafe for Americans to travel and do business and radicalises moderates. It increases the flow of material and moral support to militant groups, weakens and places American allies and pro-democracy intellectuals and groups on the defensive. In general anti-Americanism makes it difficult to promote peace and stability and fight extremism. Rather than ensuring American security, it seems that American foreign policy, particularly its invasion and now occupation of Iraq, have created conditions which put the US and its interests at greater risk. President Bush is surrounded by policy hawks that view September 11 as an opportunity to reassert the prerogatives of the American Empire through unilateral use of force. They wish to reshape the world to perpetuate Americas imperial aspirations. Unfortunately for them the world is unwilling to co-operate. The harder they push the more resentment they will generate and the more difficult it will become to save the empire and its interests. l The writer is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institutions Saban Centre for Middle East Policy. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec
ugnet_: Small scale and micro-hydro power production potential
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ugnet_: BOOKS, JOURNALS, FILMS, VIDEOS
DFWA-U has immediate needs for books: We need a lot of video material about the African-American struggle in USA DFWA-U need readable material for party members. Where they can be able to educate themselves, read and debate issues. Books, journals, newspapers, research reports etc., about workers conditions in the world, socialist struggles, technology, agriculture, the economies of the world, the financial world and the environment in general. POST TO : DFWA-U Plot 41 Kololo /Kamwokya P.O. Box 24201 Kampala Uganda. __ bwanika url: www.idr.co.ug Logon & Join in ug-academicsdb discussion list http://www.coollist.com/subcribe.html List ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Email address: ~~ ~~ url: http://uhpl.uganda.co.ug http://pub59.ezboard.com/fugandamanufacturersassociationfrm1
ugnet_: Small scale and micro-hydro power production potential
Small scale and micro-hydro power production potential * Uganda has an endowment; of large, small and medium water bodies namely; lakes, rivers and streams besides smelt water from ice top mountains. http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/html/hydro.html * Professor Nsibambi and Engineer Nasasira ought to have known this fact in a far more detailed manner than we can explain herein. There is no data or ERA do not have it http://www.era.or.ug/default.asp * Should we demand that ERA puts proper data on their website since that data actually exist in their offices. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * The Democratic Farmer Workers Alliance Uganda (DFWA-U) therefore, demands that Minister Syda Bumba should be relieved of the Ministry of Energy. * A competent person with recorded expertise, plus long working or teaching experience in energy systems, hydropower and systems production selected for this job with proper guidelines of future hydropower production using local resources. (NSSF finance, Makerere Kyambogo and Katwe artisans. * In the above respect a US 500 million dollar project must be abandoned henceforth and the money instead used to finance four to five medium scale hydropower projects in four regions of Uganda with proper guideline for future expansion. ( see below) * Dfwa-u demands too that the Ministry of Energy avails its Chairman DFWA-U data on all hydropower potential in regard to river geometrics. and geomorphology * Such data must be readily available from all river measurements in Uganda; Watershed Area, Channel Gradient water flow, water levels all year round. In addition to geological data to determine sediment load, rock structure etc., which must all be readily available for proper assessment of hydropower production. * In regard to the above the Makerere departments; of physical geography, physics and geology must have already compiled the same data for their academics pursuit. * dfwa-u is still making efforts to gather data on the potentiality of water bodies into the country for the production of medium scale hydropower. * So far we have gathered data on potential medium scale hydropower production on the following rivers: Kagera River to supply Kigezi /Mbarara sector. Rivers Ora, Albert Nile, Auyan, Kochi Ome & Achwa in Achwa Game reserve to supply Moyo, Arua, Yumbe Nebbi, Pakwach and parts of Gulu. Rivers Achwa Agago, Kapelepelot, Victoria Nile to supply; Kitgium , Gulu , Lira, Kidepo and West Karamoja sectors. Rivers Okok, Okore, Dopeth, Longiro, kapelepelot to supply the entire region of Karamoja and some parts of Teso. Rivers Mayanja , Lugojo, Lubigi to suply ; Kampala Luwero and sme parts of Bulugi sectors. Rivers Nkusi, Muzizi, Mpongo , Kafo to supply; Lango , Buruli, Hoima and Mubende sectors. Rivers Semliki, Muzizi, Mpanga to supply Bundibujo, Toro, Fort Portal sectors. Rivers Ruizi to suplly Mbarara to Masaka and some parts of Kigezi sectors. River Katonga to Supply Mityana Singo, Kabulasoke Areas around Lake George, Masaka Bihanga and the entire Katongo river line catchment areas. * All the above named water bodies can hold water year round- thus can produce electricity year round. * In the above respect Ugandans are endowed with human resources and technical know-how to manufacture, produce and generate medium and small-scale hydropower. * The above potential cannot all be utilised hence dfwa-u suggestion that four regions power supply centres be started immediately to trigger future expansion. * Secondary that urban and town planning must be the basis on which all future hydropower production must be based. * Thirdly that housing must become a strategic national issue in medium and small-scale hydropower power generation. * dfwa-u studies established the capability of making generators by artisans in sub urban district region of Kampala. In fact these generators could be improved on with turbines to generate electricity on medium and small-scale river streams run by respective communities and studied by respective institutions for upgrading. http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/html/hydro.html * Uganda has several electrical engineering institutions, including high level one like Makerere University (dept. Of Electrical engineering) and Mbarara of Science and Technology. No efforts have been made to venture in this very important field. * It is only less than ten percent (10%) of Uganda population that has access to hydropower generated into the country. In fact the figures from Uganda electricity Board shows a figure less than 500´000 people in a population of twenty five million people. * Notice dfwa-u has categorically stated the proliferation of hydropower production and utilisation into the country will never reach the national desired effects. Unless; (a) collective the modern housing problem is
Re: [FedsNet] Re: ugnet_: Obote's Greed for Power Killed Uganda's Future
Mw. Ssemakula, we know this trick. It is the same old one this gang always attempts to use. Do you remember how they tried to corner Mw. Ssebweze outside of the discussion list when he had just joined FedsNet ? It was just as well that he is a man that can't be intimidated by such machinations. Kasangwawo From: J Ssemakula [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FedsNet] Re: ugnet_: Obote's Greed for Power Killed Uganda's Future Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:30:26 + _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ---BeginMessage--- Dr. "Kapa", Your futile attempt to stuff words in my mouth is duly noted, and treated with the contempt it deserves. Ssemakulaps: let's keep our comments in public as I have no desire to communicate privately with you on matters arising in pulic fora. Original Message Follows From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject : Re: [FedsNet] Re: ugnet_: Obote's Greed for Power Killed Uganda's Future Date : Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:58:56 -0400 (EDT) "that it was none other than your hero, Obote, who knowing and intentionally precipitated chaos in Uganda, and that he did so for purely selfish reasons, namely: greed for power at any cost. James" Oh yeah, James "...that it was none other than your hero, Museveni, who knowing and intentionally precipitated chaos in Uganda, and that he did so for purely selfish reasons, namely: greed for power at any cost.and ...what about Luwero, invassion of Rwanda, invassion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, genocide in the Congo, Mayhem in Ituri, ethnic clensing and genocide in Northern Uganda.these and many others are in James' esteemed opinion, not purely selfish greed-for-power driven adventures..but peaceful spreading the word of the gospel according to ST. James and the word of the Lord M7. Kapa Mr. Opoka-Okumu: I'll address your tangential point with regards to Kiganda etiquette at another occassion. What I'd like from you is a response to the more substantive urgument advanced by Ibingira -- a former Secretary-Generalof the UPC and Cabinet Minister -- that it was none other than your hero, Obote, who knowing and intentionally precipitated chaos in Uganda, and that he did so for purely selfish reasons, namely: greed for power at any cost. James Original Message Follows From: "Chris Opoka-Okumu" Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: , CC: ,, Subject: [FedsNet] Re: ugnet_: Obote's Greed for Power Killed Uganda's Future Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:38:12 -0400 Mr. Semakula, When you dispute a posting offer a better account rather than than otesting too much and thus displaying baseless arrogance. You can educate yourself by reading part of Ian Hancock's article entitled Buganda Crisis 1964 which appears in the Journal of African Affairs Volume 69, Issue 275, April 1970 pages 109 to 123. The page below appears on page 117. As you can see from the last sentence of the second paragraph which begins with " The real objection to Semakula...".that the esteemed Katiikiro indeed prosrtated himself before an empty throne to prove his loyalty to the Kabaka as a result of a motion introduced by a Semakula. I wonder who the Semakula who sowed so much seed of discord in Ganda politics that brought much chaos and broughgt down a Buganda government down in 1964 is. Are you by chance related? Chris Opoka-Okumu - Original Message - From: J Ssemakula To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:12 PM Subject: ugnet_: Obote's Greed for Power Killed Uganda's Future Folks, In the past few weeks we have witnessed an exchange, on Fedsnet between Obote's 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 Buganda's Katikkiro during the period of the Referendum on the so-called 'Lost Counties'. As Buganda's Kamalabyonna and therefore "Kabaka Ow'ebweru", 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
ugnet_: Should foreign journalists film or not film Gulu kids?
Gulu kids fall prey to faje journalists -Sunday Vision, 20th July 2003 BEDTIME: Children asleep at Gulu taxi park where they spend nights for fear of abduction by Konys LRA rebels By Henry Lubega BOGUS foreign journalists are beginning to cash in on the misery of Gulus school children. The greedy journalists are reportedly peddling pictures and videos of kids, who sleep on the streets of Gulu for fear of being abducted from their homes by LRA rebels, as those of child soldiers. The army recently held five such journalists and blocked them from further filming. Military sources say the UPDF is now seeking the deportation of the five scribes, all of them Danes. The five were found in Gulu town taking photographs of Acholi children sleeping in the taxi park and on the verandas. An officer from the 4th Division said the five were taking video footage of the children to peddle claims that UPDF uses child soldiers. The street with the sleeping kids is what the newsmen seek to portray as a UPDF camp, the Division officials said. In the middle of this week the police chased away another Spanish female journalist. She was in the park to film the sleeping children without permission. For some time now children staying in the suburbs of Gulu have been flocking to the main town to escape possible abduction by the LRA rebels. Thousands of children mostly aged between five and fifteen years of age leave their homes in the evenings and spend the night in open places in town where they feel more secure from the rebels. Some of them walk from as far away as seven kilometres every evening to come to the city centre for the night. They repeat the journey in the morning. This age group has been the most vulnerable to abduction by the rebels. Queues of young children both boys and girls start to form towards town as early as 5:00pm. On a bad night like the one I spent in Gulu it rained. Despite the heavy downpour which lasted over four hours the children are not deterred. They scramble for the only open building with a roof. Just a few metres away from the suffering children is the Alobo night club. With music coming from there the children at least have something to keep them company over night. The brave ones get out into the open and dance to the Lingala tunes. The few who are attending school carry their books to the park and do their revision at the park. With free lighting unlike at home they can read at leisure. The majority of them have resigned to the fate of sleeping in the park. David Onen, a 12-year-old boy, is a primary five pupil at Gulu Public School. He has been spending his nights in the taxi park for one and half years and he is looking forward to the end of the war. Coming from Lacor area he prefers to sleep in town. It is safer here that at Lacor Hospital. It is not in the city centre. It can be attacked anytime. But the rebels have never attacked the town. They cannot get here. Three of my brothers were abducted and I never saw them again. Now Im the only son left in the family. I have to make sure am safe from the rebels, he says. Onen is the second last-born in a family of five. Six in the morning is time for the children to start the long journey home. Unfortunately, some men have taken advantage of these children, mostly the girls by approaching them under the guise of trying to help give them a better accommodation for the night. They end up being sexually abused by these men. This introduces more danger to the children: that of HIV/AIDS and early pregnancies. Some of the girls confess to the presence of such people. The Gulu Resident District Commissioner, Max Omeda, says such people are believed to be in town and the authorities have deployed security personnel to deal with the situation. Last week Johan Van Hecke, a Belgian member of the European Parliament, who is also the chairman of Friends for Uganda Association in Belgium, paid a visit to the children in the park and promised to spend a night with them. Van Hecke says that he has requested the district authorities to grant him permission spend a night with the children for a night next month. Van Hecke has been instrumental in tabling the issue of the northern Uganda in the European Parliament which has resulted in the passing of three resolutions. The most recent was passed three weeks ago in Brussels and it was agreed that the European Parliament asked the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution on the crisis in northern Uganda. The parliamentarian says the aim of his sleeping there will be to raise awareness that this is not only political disaster but a humanitarian one too. Van Hecke says when the European Parliament returns from recess he is going to ask it to ensure that the international community stops using double standards. When fighting terrorism, other parts of the world like Iraq gets action while for Africa it is just declaration, he says. Enda Published on: Sunday, 20th July, 2003 Email
ugnet_: Kanyeihamba on the Phantom Arms ofthe1960s, Ibingira and theConspiracies
Omw Ssemakula, As I await the evidence which you expect me to dispute in defense of Milton Obote and his part in the 1960s developments, I have been reading Justice Prof Dr GW Kanyeihamba; LLB, LLM, PhD, JSC, SC 's recently released book: Constitutional and Political History of Uganda: From 1984 to the Present. I found a section on what he refers to as the Dramatic Years, 1962-1966 and The Conspiracies therein particularly relevant to the issue of the phantom arms. I have attempted to reproduce sections of the book for the edification of those who may not have got hold of the book yet. I apologise for any mistakes that I may have made in the process but are willing to correct them as the discussions proceed. The quotes are taken from pages 88-94. ...By 1965, the divisionist and traditionalist elements had penetrated the party, and acquired active supporters within the rank and file of the party followers**. The party was torn by confusion because many of those voices belonged to some of the most influential leaders of the party* After the successful referendum and successful transfer of the two Lost Counties to Bunyoro in 1964, the animosity of Buganda towards the Obote government and UPC escalated. Buganda traditionalists at Mengo begun to exploit all possible political angles with the aim of undermining and eventually removing Obote from power. A political alliance between the Kabaka, his ministers and disgruntled elements within UPC was reached. The latter included and was led by the then Minister of Justice, Grace Ibingira, who was at the same time, the Secretary General of UPC. He had **Balaki Kirya, George Magezi and Dr Emmanuel Lumu, who were also Cabinet Ministers in Obote's government*.. In conjunction with the Mengo traditionalists and with the consent of the President, Edward Mutesa II, the King of Buganda, the conspirators approved the contents of a letter which was sent to Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth, requesting her government to supply them with guns so that they could fight and overthrow Milton Obote***.. Her Majesty declined the request. The conspirators next turned to the British High Commission in Uganda and requested it to get in touch with British private firms of gun manufacturers and ask them to supply guns. Gailey and Roberts**.. were contacted but they too declined to assist the conspiracy, but somehow through some other means, which have not been revealed by anyone, the conspirators managed to get hold of some guns and ammunition. This first part of the conspiracy, which was purely military was then truly set. The next stage of the conspiracy was political. King Mutesa and the first group of conspirators began to persuade others from Central Government, Parliament and the opposition groups to join them in the mission of overthrowing the Obote government. Part of the plans to discredit that Government was for the Opposition group in Parliament to bring charges and allegations of corruption and abuse of power against Obote and his close associates so as to debate a motion of a Vote of No Confidence in Obote and pass it in Parliament. An interesting phenomenon developed*** People who had been entrusted with maintenance of the Westminster model of democracy in Uganda were now dissenting from their own party policies..They would eat their cake and have it a the same time. They kept their ministerial portfolios thus flattering the Prime Minister, while at the same time working secretly for his downfall. The feudalists and traditionalists who joined the conspiracy had thought that they had lost so much under Obote. The dignity and grandeur of traditionalism required a government that respected the rulers, chiefs and the proprietary rights of the privileged few in the country. The Obote Government was radical; at least it claimed to be***..the Obote Government was putting common people above the traditional rulers and their henchmen. This trend had to be stopped by the creation of a government which would owe allegiance to the country's traditional groups rather than to the masses. The third conspiracy was supposed to be inspired and led by the Prime Minister himself. According to his accusers, who included Mutesa himself, this group had as their motives, the destruction of the Independence Constitution, the establishment of a leftist dictatorship, the undermining of Uganda's ancient traditions and customs and the take-over by the state of personal property which had been built through individual private enterprise. A study of the events at that time reveals sufficient evidence to suggest that the first and second conspiracies existed in one form or another. We shall discuss the third conspiracy first. There is no doubt that the UPC always claimed to be radical and socialist**the party claimed to represent the masses of Uganda rather than
ugnet_: Let us also listen to what we DO NOT hear!
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ugnet_: Introduction
Hello everyone, I am Ture Askia Aliku, a Ugandan from West Nile. Currently, I am visiting friends in Milwaukee and I hope to tour other U.S. cities before heading back home. T.A.A. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
ugnet_: Diversity in the Workplace
For some time, Mr Stephen Kamuhanda was the Principal of Ntare HS, but now he is not on the list. Was he promoted to some other job or he left public service? In the last 30 years, Mr and Mrs Kamuhanda have educated a great number of Africans, from both Uganda and Southern Africa. They have invested a good part of their lives in the youth. And at times, in very difficult circumstances. If anything they diserve a pat on the back. Mitayo Potosi From: Owor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Fwd: Diversity in the Workplace Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:33:39 +0100 (BST) Mr Stephen Kamuhanda underwent a transgender Operation I think. Did you have any other plausible explanation?. Just Food for thought. Thanks. Kipenji. = Mitayo Potosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Ntare list includes Mary Kamuhanda (Mrs). What happened to Mr Stephen Kamuhanda ? Mitayo Potosi From: J Ssemakula Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Fwd: Diversity in the Workplace Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:48:16 + _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 From: J Ssemakula To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Fwd: Diversity in the Workplace Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:48:16 + http://www.ntareschool.sc.ug/Staff.htm - The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* - Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
Re: ugnet_: Should foreign journalists film or not film Gulu kids?
Could this be an attempt by our government to hide the truth from foreign eyes? Subject: ugnet_: Should foreign journalists film or not film Gulu kids? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gulu kids fall prey to faje journalists -Sunday Vision, 20th July 2003 BEDTIME: Children asleep at Gulu taxi park where they spend nights for fear of abduction by Konys LRA rebels By Henry Lubega BOGUS foreign journalists are beginning to cash in on the misery of Gulus school children. The greedy journalists are reportedly peddling pictures and videos of kids, who sleep on the streets of Gulu for fear of being abducted from their homes by LRA rebels, as those of child soldiers. The army recently held five such journalists and blocked them from further filming. Military sources say the UPDF is now seeking the deportation of the five scribes, all of them Danes. The five were found in Gulu town taking photographs of Acholi children sleeping in the taxi park and on the verandas. An officer from the 4th Division said the five were taking video footage of the children to peddle claims that UPDF uses child soldiers. The street with the sleeping kids is what the newsmen seek to portray as a UPDF camp, the Division officials said. In the middle of this week the police chased away another Spanish female journalist. She was in the park to film the sleeping children without permission. For some time now children staying in the suburbs of Gulu have been flocking to the main town to escape possible abduction by the LRA rebels. Thousands of children mostly aged between five and fifteen years of age leave their homes in the evenings and spend the night in open places in town where they feel more secure from the rebels. Some of them walk from as far away as seven kilometres every evening to come to the city centre for the night. They repeat the journey in the morning. This age group has been the most vulnerable to abduction by the rebels. Queues of young children both boys and girls start to form towards town as early as 5:00pm. On a bad night like the one I spent in Gulu it rained. Despite the heavy downpour which lasted over four hours the children are not deterred. They scramble for the only open building with a roof. Just a few metres away from the suffering children is the Alobo night club. With music coming from there the children at least have something to keep them company over night. The brave ones get out into the open and dance to the Lingala tunes. The few who are attending school carry their books to the park and do their revision at the park. With free lighting unlike at home they can read at leisure. The majority of them have resigned to the fate of sleeping in the park. David Onen, a 12-year-old boy, is a primary five pupil at Gulu Public School. He has been spending his nights in the taxi park for one and half years and he is looking forward to the end of the war. Coming from Lacor area he prefers to sleep in town. It is safer here that at Lacor Hospital. It is not in the city centre. It can be attacked anytime. But the rebels have never attacked the town. They cannot get here. Three of my brothers were abducted and I never saw them again. Now Im the only son left in the family. I have to make sure am safe from the rebels, he says. Onen is the second last-born in a family of five. Six in the morning is time for the children to start the long journey home. Unfortunately, some men have taken advantage of these children, mostly the girls by approaching them under the guise of trying to help give them a better accommodation for the night. They end up being sexually abused by these men. This introduces more danger to the children: that of HIV/AIDS and early pregnancies. Some of the girls confess to the presence of such people. The Gulu Resident District Commissioner, Max Omeda, says such people are believed to be in town and the authorities have deployed security personnel to deal with the situation. Last week Johan Van Hecke, a Belgian member of the European Parliament, who is also the chairman of Friends for Uganda Association in Belgium, paid a visit to the children in the park and promised to spend a night with them. Van Hecke says that he has requested the district authorities to grant him permission spend a night with the children for a night next month. Van Hecke has been instrumental in tabling the issue of the northern Uganda in the European Parliament which has resulted in the passing of three resolutions. The most recent was passed three weeks ago in Brussels and it was agreed that the European Parliament asked the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution on the crisis in northern Uganda. The parliamentarian says the aim of his sleeping there will be to raise awareness that this is not only political disaster but a humanitarian one too. Van Hecke says when the European Parliament returns from recess he is going to ask it to ensure that the international community
Re: ugnet_: Introduction
Hello Ture: Pleasure to hear from you. Hope you are enjoying yourself in the USA. We are here in Saint Paul, Minnesota, not too far away from you. We hope you will be in our neighborhood so that we can meet and chat about our great West Nile. Hope to hear from you soon. Dr. John Wathum-Ocama --- Ture Aliku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I am Ture Askia Aliku, a Ugandan from West Nile. Currently, I am visiting friends in Milwaukee and I hope to tour other U.S. cities before heading back home. T.A.A. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
ugnet_: GEORGE BUSH AND ADLOF HITLER
Bush And Hitler - Compare And ContrastA Response to the WSJ's James TarantoBy Dave Lindorff, CounterPunch7-19-3 Is George W. Bush another Hitler? James Taranto, http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110003753writing in the Wall Street Journal , offered up an offhand dismissal of Counterpunch as "an outfit whose staple is stuff comparing Bush to Hitler," which seems to suggest he thinks the very notion is beyond the pale of civil discourse. But stay. As one of the first to notice some similarities between Bush II and the early Hitler, I didn't actually say that George and Adolf were joined at the hip. Indeed, I suggested in http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff02012003.htmlmy Counterpunch article back on Feb. 1 , during the high-pressure White House drive to war in Iraq, that our unelected president was surely no Hitler, since "Bush simply is not the orator that Hitler was." More importantly, I didn't equate Bush with Hitler because there are some other big differences between the two. So far, for example, while he has rounded up some Arab and Muslim men purely because of their ethnicity or religion, Bush has not started gassing them--at least not yet. What I did say, however (and I think subsequent events have proven me even more correct than did the events that had occurred prior to Feb..1), is that some of the tactics of the Bush administration resemble those of Hitler and his Brownshirts. I would go further and add that Bush's attorney general, John Ashcroft, a man who has pointedly praised the old Confederacy, would probably feel quite comfortable in brown with a hakenkreuz tacked to his sleeve. What are some of the Nazi-like tactics of the Bush administration? Let's start with war-mongering. The American Heritage Dictionary, no bastion of leftism, defines fascism as "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." Now we may not yet have a dictatorship, but we do have the extreme right with a solid lock on power in Washington today, and a glance at the top echelon of the Bush administration makes it clear that there is not just a merger, there's a thorough melding of state and business leadership in this administration. As for belligerent nationalism, what else is one to call a war of aggression like the one against Iraq, especially now that it's clear what most thinking people realized before the war even started--that Iraq had no significant offensive military capability, much less weapons of mass destruction. It was all a massive lie deliberately designed to scare the living crap out of an already nervous American public, so that they would accept the ongoing assault on the Bill of Rights being masterminded by Ashcroft. That strategy was vintage Goebbels. Then there's the suspension of habeas corpus, right to counsel, and a host of other civil liberties. When American citizens like Jose Padilla can be clapped into prison--a military prison at that--with no charges filed, no access to friends or relatives, and no right to talk to a lawyer, we have crossed a line into fascist territory. Maybe we haven't reached the point of wholesale mass arrests and concentration camps (though even that, reportedly, is being contemplated by the proto-fascist Ashcroft, and we know who appointed that right-wing religious zealot and racist to his post), but once the principle of arrest without charge or trial is accepted by the courts, the move to camps is a quantitative, not a qualitative step. I would note that, Guantanamo, where hundreds of Afghan combattants have been languishing in horriffic conditions, is being turned into a concentration camp, and Bush has ordered the establishment of a kangaroo-court military tribunal assemblyline that ends with a gas chamber and execution, so maybe even that parallel will prove prescient. What is particularly troubling about the Bush administration's enthusiastic foray into preventative detention and arrest without charge is that it is also appointing wholesale a group of federal judges at all levels who have little or no respect for such niceties as habeas corpus or the right to face one's accuser. Eventually, if this process continues, victims of
Re: ugnet_: TRUTH ON AGE and MARRIAGE
In Uganda too we should reflect on our irrational ageism. We have put a bar on the age for eligibility to stand for the Presidency of Uganda (72). We have put a bar on the age for eligibility for Chancellor of Makerere University (70 ? ) ; ( I was shocked and saddened that a World Icon like Mzee Prof Ssenteza-Kajubi is barred ). Even in the Federalist Constitutional Proposals, they have put in some arbitrary age limits. I asked one of the authors the rational of these limits and even he himself agreed that there is none. We have to abandon the oppressive aspects of our culture and embrace enlightenment. We wish Compatriot and Freedom fighter Mrs Wambui and her new husband Mr Peter Mbugua happy times and lots of fun. Congratulations. Mitayo Potosi From: Owor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: TRUTH ON AGE and MARRIAGE Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 02:02:39 +0100 (BST) Editorial Sunday, July 20, 2003 - Truth on age and marriageMrs Wambui Otieno, former Mau Mau fighter - and most times just a fighter - has bucked the trend, rebelled against the common values about age and marriage. She has done so not just by taking a husband 42 years her junior, but being thoroughly pleased with herself when the social norms suggest that she should be hanging her head in mortification. But this is not just the story of a 67-year-old lonely widow reaching out in search of affection and attention. It is a mirror to society and its values about age, sex and marriage. In our African traditions, a 67-year-old woman is supposed to have retired not only from work but from life. Hers is a sad, in the case of widows, lonely game of waiting for death; a dependent and basically useless existence. But these are the values of a young population, a society made up of young people whose outlook in life is basically ageist: That it is only the young, energetic and beautiful who have a right to happiness and life. As Kenyans discuss and pass judgment on Wambui and her young husband, their eye must stray to the clock: Our population must age, there will increasingly be more affluent and liberal people in their 60s and 70s. These are independent people who want to retire from neither work nor life. Equally, society is hypocritically sexist. When an elderly man marries a young girl, the eyebrow is only ironically raised. In truth, the man is the object of his agemates' secret admiration and the younger men's jealousy, but rarely is the union regarded as repulsive or unnatural. Is it really sustainable to have one rule for men and another for women? At the end of the day, everyone is entitled to their own views. Just like Wambui and her husband have a right to live their lives in a fashion of their own choosing. Comments\Views about this article - Copyright ©2002, Nation Media Group Ltd. All rights reserved. Front Page | News | Comment | Letters | Sports | Cutting Edge | Feedback - Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
Re: ugnet_: TRUTH ON AGE and MARRIAGE
Pictures of newly-wed comrades Wambui and Peter Mbugua. http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/19072003/index.html http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/Today/ Mitayo Potosi From: Mitayo Potosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: TRUTH ON AGE and MARRIAGE Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:49:34 + In Uganda too we should reflect on our irrational ageism. We have put a bar on the age for eligibility to stand for the Presidency of Uganda (72). We have put a bar on the age for eligibility for Chancellor of Makerere University (70 ? ) ; ( I was shocked and saddened that a World Icon like Mzee Prof Ssenteza-Kajubi is barred ). Even in the Federalist Constitutional Proposals, they have put in some arbitrary age limits. I asked one of the authors the rational of these limits and even he himself agreed that there is none. We have to abandon the oppressive aspects of our culture and embrace enlightenment. We wish Compatriot and Freedom fighter Mrs Wambui and her new husband Mr Peter Mbugua happy times and lots of fun. Congratulations. Mitayo Potosi From: Owor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: TRUTH ON AGE and MARRIAGE Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 02:02:39 +0100 (BST) Editorial Sunday, July 20, 2003 - Truth on age and marriageMrs Wambui Otieno, former Mau Mau fighter - and most times just a fighter - has bucked the trend, rebelled against the common values about age and marriage. She has done so not just by taking a husband 42 years her junior, but being thoroughly pleased with herself when the social norms suggest that she should be hanging her head in mortification. But this is not just the story of a 67-year-old lonely widow reaching out in search of affection and attention. It is a mirror to society and its values about age, sex and marriage. In our African traditions, a 67-year-old woman is supposed to have retired not only from work but from life. Hers is a sad, in the case of widows, lonely game of waiting for death; a dependent and basically useless existence. But these are the values of a young population, a society made up of young people whose outlook in life is basically ageist: That it is only the young, energetic and beautiful who have a right to happiness and life. As Kenyans discuss and pass judgment on Wambui and her young husband, their eye must stray to the clock: Our population must age, there will increasingly be more affluent and liberal people in their 60s and 70s. These are independent people who want to retire from neither work nor life. Equally, society is hypocritically sexist. When an elderly man marries a young girl, the eyebrow is only ironically raised. In truth, the man is the object of his agemates' secret admiration and the younger men's jealousy, but rarely is the union regarded as repulsive or unnatural. Is it really sustainable to have one rule for men and another for women? At the end of the day, everyone is entitled to their own views. Just like Wambui and her husband have a right to live their lives in a fashion of their own choosing. Comments\Views about this article - Copyright ©2002, Nation Media Group Ltd. All rights reserved. Front Page | News | Comment | Letters | Sports | Cutting Edge | Feedback - Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: ugnet_: Should foreign journalists film or not film Gulu kids?
Besides this being an attempt by the Museveni junta to hide the truth about these concentration camps from foreign eyes, I take exception to the language of this imbecile New-Vision reporter, Henry Lubega, when he talks about these victims reading at leisure. i.e. The few who are attending school carry their books to the park and do their revision at the park. With free lighting unlike at home they can read at leisure. Mitayo Potosi From: Ture Aliku [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Should foreign journalists film or not film Gulu kids? Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Could this be an attempt by our government to hide the truth from foreign eyes? Subject: ugnet_: Should foreign journalists film or not film Gulu kids? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gulu kids fall prey to faje journalists -Sunday Vision, 20th July 2003 BEDTIME: Children asleep at Gulu taxi park where they spend nights for fear of abduction by Konys LRA rebels By Henry Lubega BOGUS foreign journalists are beginning to cash in on the misery of Gulus school children. The greedy journalists are reportedly peddling pictures and videos of kids, who sleep on the streets of Gulu for fear of being abducted from their homes by LRA rebels, as those of child soldiers. The army recently held five such journalists and blocked them from further filming. Military sources say the UPDF is now seeking the deportation of the five scribes, all of them Danes. The five were found in Gulu town taking photographs of Acholi children sleeping in the taxi park and on the verandas. An officer from the 4th Division said the five were taking video footage of the children to peddle claims that UPDF uses child soldiers. The street with the sleeping kids is what the newsmen seek to portray as a UPDF camp, the Division officials said. In the middle of this week the police chased away another Spanish female journalist. She was in the park to film the sleeping children without permission. For some time now children staying in the suburbs of Gulu have been flocking to the main town to escape possible abduction by the LRA rebels. Thousands of children mostly aged between five and fifteen years of age leave their homes in the evenings and spend the night in open places in town where they feel more secure from the rebels. Some of them walk from as far away as seven kilometres every evening to come to the city centre for the night. They repeat the journey in the morning. This age group has been the most vulnerable to abduction by the rebels. Queues of young children both boys and girls start to form towards town as early as 5:00pm. On a bad night like the one I spent in Gulu it rained. Despite the heavy downpour which lasted over four hours the children are not deterred. They scramble for the only open building with a roof. Just a few metres away from the suffering children is the Alobo night club. With music coming from there the children at least have something to keep them company over night. The brave ones get out into the open and dance to the Lingala tunes. The few who are attending school carry their books to the park and do their revision at the park. With free lighting unlike at home they can read at leisure. The majority of them have resigned to the fate of sleeping in the park. David Onen, a 12-year-old boy, is a primary five pupil at Gulu Public School. He has been spending his nights in the taxi park for one and half years and he is looking forward to the end of the war. Coming from Lacor area he prefers to sleep in town. It is safer here that at Lacor Hospital. It is not in the city centre. It can be attacked anytime. But the rebels have never attacked the town. They cannot get here. Three of my brothers were abducted and I never saw them again. Now Im the only son left in the family. I have to make sure am safe from the rebels, he says. Onen is the second last-born in a family of five. Six in the morning is time for the children to start the long journey home. Unfortunately, some men have taken advantage of these children, mostly the girls by approaching them under the guise of trying to help give them a better accommodation for the night. They end up being sexually abused by these men. This introduces more danger to the children: that of HIV/AIDS and early pregnancies. Some of the girls confess to the presence of such people. The Gulu Resident District Commissioner, Max Omeda, says such people are believed to be in town and the authorities have deployed security personnel to deal with the situation. Last week Johan Van Hecke, a Belgian member of the European Parliament, who is also the chairman of Friends for Uganda Association in Belgium, paid a visit to the children in the park and promised to spend a night with them. Van Hecke says that he has requested the district authorities to grant him permission spend a night with the children for a night next month. Van Hecke has been instrumental
Re: ugnet_: Let us also listen to what we DO NOT hear!
Mr. Lugemwa, I see much sense in Uganda managing its diversity through a federal system of government. But I have some questions for you: How did you demarcate the 13 districts? I ask this question because if commonality of language and other cultural attributes are the basis, as you carefully explain in the 148-page document appended, you have broken you own rules. E.g. in West Nile and Madi, a proposed state I am most familiar with, the Alur, Lendu, Lugbara, Kakwa, Madi, and Okebu are the main inhabitants. Of all these groups, the Madi and Lugbara are the closest linguistically, although a Madi will find it very difficult to read, write, and speak Lugbara and vice versa. Alur is a Lwo language closer to Acholi, Lango, Kumam, and Jopadhola than any other language in the proposed West Nile and Madi state. Similarly, Kakwa is a member of the Bari cluster of languages found in Sudan and D.R. Congo. Lendu and Okebu are also very different languages. While the communities of a multilingual state would probably strike a compromise in what language to use in common, it is dangerous to presume that they will merely because you have lumped them together. Come to think of it, the Madi and Lugbara may easily resolve their linguistic differences, but what stops the Alur, Kakwa, Okebu, and Lendu from wanting to be in their own or other proposed states? My second question is, among the listed officials and members of the committee of Ugandans that has put this brilliant solution together, who is the representative for the so-called West Nile and Madi state? I would like to communicate to him or her. T.A.A. Read, critic and read again, then advise! http://successisthekey.tripod.com F.N. Lugemwa __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: ugnet_: Introduction
Dear Dr. Wathum-Ocama, Thank you for the warm welcome. If I manage to reach Saint Paul, Minnesota, I will make sure that I inform you before hand. I am glad that there are West Nilers on Ugandanet. T.A.A. --- John Wathum-Ocama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ture: Pleasure to hear from you. Hope you are enjoying yourself in the USA. We are here in Saint Paul, Minnesota, not too far away from you. We hope you will be in our neighborhood so that we can meet and chat about our great West Nile. Hope to hear from you soon. Dr. John Wathum-Ocama --- Ture Aliku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I am Ture Askia Aliku, a Ugandan from West Nile. Currently, I am visiting friends in Milwaukee and I hope to tour other U.S. cities before heading back home. T.A.A. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com = T.A.A. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
ugnet_: Going Home, to Red Ink and Blues
Going Home, to Red Ink and Blues By Nicholas D. Kristof New York Times Saturday 19 July 2003 YAMHILL, Ore. - Across the nation, state and local leaders have been forced to slash more than $100 billion in spending, laying off thousands of employees, cutting off health insurance for roughly one million people, and lowering America's standard of living. Washington is not just aloof from the pain out here in real America, but is making matters worse. People across America will pay the price for Washington's indifference in lower-quality schools, fewer chances to go to college, less police protection and diminished medical care. The unlucky ones among us, like Douglas Schmidt, will never recover. A 37-year-old epileptic, he depended on drugs that cost $13 a day and were paid for by the state. State budget cuts meant he lost that benefit, and he ran out of pills in late February. A week later, he had a severe seizure, his heart stopped, and he suffered permanent brain damage, leaving him in what doctors called a persistent vegetative state. He's very impaired, said his domestic partner, Werth Sargent. He can't talk. He does not respond to commands. But his eyes do move, and they do constrict when light shines in his pupils. That's on his better days. The bills so far for treating Mr. Schmidt? About half a million dollars, borne by taxpayers. When Arthur Schlesinger wrote his Age of Roosevelt history books about the Great Depression, his work emphasized that history is not just what Washington decides but also what Main Street endures. While this is no Depression, I came to measure the impact of the fiscal crisis in this little farm town of Yamhill, Ore., population 970. I chose Yamhill not because it is unusually traumatized but because it is a place I know and love - it's where I grew up. The schools here were not forced to close early, as in nearby Hillsboro, and as one drives through Yamhill on Maple Street, from one end of town to the other past the single flashing yellow light, there aren't any signs of economic distress. Yamhill even has a new business - a used car lot, with four cars for sale. But still, there is a real, measurable drop in the quality of life here. The schools in Yamhill have had to lay off teachers, a bitter and divisive process in a small town like this, so classes - which averaged 20 students last year - will be significantly bigger this year. At the high school, the average class in the fall will have 29 students, and there could be 40 in English classes. We'll only have two English teachers in the high school, frets the schools superintendent, Dennis Hickey. We need at least four. I don't know how we're going to do it. In the 1970's, Yamhill offered not just Spanish but also French (the teacher didn't really speak French but was a good sport and gamely agreed to teach by staying a couple of chapters ahead of us). Next year, Yamhill will be down to just Spanish, and many would-be Spanish students will be turned away. We still have a librarian, Mr. Hickey said brightly. Some schools don't have that any more. Oregon has been proud of its schools, and it has ranked among the top states in SAT scores. But schools have been hit particularly hard, and universities have been gutted. It's very scary, said Mary Stern, a county commissioner. I have a 4 1/2-year-old, and I'm petrified about what might happen in the schools. The county commissioners have been forced to slash programs for teenage mothers, mental health, prenatal care, drug abuse. The county jail's drug program was very successful, but it was dropped - how could the county help criminals when it cut help for teenage mothers? A man indicted for stealing and fencing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property locally was recently detained in Missouri, but Oregon couldn't pay to bring him back for trial - so he was freed. In Yamhill's old football rival, the nearby town of Dayton, the entire police department has been eliminated. The hub of Oregon is Portland, a gem of a city that has always felt very safe. But Mark Kroeker, the police chief, worries that word is getting out to criminals that because of four consecutive years of police budget cuts, crime pays in
ugnet_: General Kagame of Rwanda has committed genocide, Newsweek magazine says
USA: General Kagame of Rwanda has committed genocide, Newsweek magazine saysBy AfroAmerica Network. Baltimore, Maryland, USA July 17, 2003. General Kagame of Rwanda has committed genocide, Newsweek magazine says.According to an article published by Tom Masland in July 14, 2003 issue of Newsweek magazine, Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), led by General Kagame, has been conducting a campaign against hutu which has already amounted to a counter-genocide, but the world is unwilling or unable to stop it.The article titled "Wars Without End Man-made catastrophies in Congo, Liberia and other war zones also cry out for action. A glimpse in the abyss" adds that the Tutsi-led government morphed into one of Africa's most repressive regimes. Assassination squads liquidated dissidents and even skinned the victims alive. Nearly after a decade, 80,000 Rwandans swelter in overcrowded and filthy jails. The RPF regime has systematically killed Hutus in Congo. The massacres have reached more than 350,000 Hutu refugees."For years, Rwanda mercilessly pursued Hutu refugees on the run in Congo. This campaign, still ongoing in some areas, amounted to a counter-genocide, but the World was unwilling or unable to stop it. During the overthrow of Mobutu in 1996, Rwandan troops systematically went to Congolese villages killing all the Hutus they could find. They massacred as many as 350,000 Hutu refugees, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Herman Cohen estimates, " the article says.This was done, according to Newsweek Magazine, with the diplomatic backing and covert aid from the United States and Britain. When these two countries provided the support, the leaders of the countries of Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia and Eritrea were seen as a new generation of more democratic, honest African patriots who would rule on Africa as proxies of the West.Now leaders from some of these countries, especially General Kagame of Rwanda, have become an embarrassment for Great Britain and the Unites States. General Kagame is about to be indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, French courts and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha. "The embarrassed USA and Great Britain are seeking a way out but are worried the removal of Kagame may interfere with the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or lead to another genocide in Rwandan and Eastern DRC, " a Western diplomat in Kinshasa told AfroAmerica Network. ©AfroAmerica Network, July 2003.
Re: ugnet_: Introduction
Hello Ture! Welcome aboard Ugandanet! You forgot to tell us your expertise, so we if we need them we would know to ask you. We are looking forward to your contributions on the net. Wishing you an enjoyable ride as well Mary --- Ture Aliku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I am Ture Askia Aliku, a Ugandan from West Nile. Currently, I am visiting friends in Milwaukee and I hope to tour other U.S. cities before heading back home. T.A.A. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: ugnet_: Introduction
The very introduction Ugandans use. Hello how are you, where were you Kisubi or Buddo? We really have a very long way to go in our Uganda. Ture Askia kindly tell us how many degrees you have so that we can move on. Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Assumpta Kintu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 4:22 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Introduction Hello Ture! Welcome aboard Ugandanet! You forgot to tell us your expertise, so we if we need them we would know to ask you. We are looking forward to your contributions on the net. Wishing you an enjoyable ride as well Mary --- Ture Aliku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I am Ture Askia Aliku, a Ugandan from West Nile. Currently, I am visiting friends in Milwaukee and I hope to tour other U.S. cities before heading back home. T.A.A. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
ugnet_: YARI YARI YARI YARI !!!!!
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_: PRESIDENT IDDI AMIN HAS DIED
Netters Reliable sources reaching the Communication group are informing us that President Iddi Amin has died in a Jedda Hospital this Sunday. By this posting it is not clear if Uganda Government will allow his body to be flown home for the funeral. May The president of Uganda rest in peace, and may his family find solaceat the time of his death. We will post more information as we get it. Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: Kony renames 3 Teso villages
Kony renames 3 Teso villages By Patrick Elobu Angonu July 21, 2003 No emergency relief - Kiyonga The LRA rebels have started renaming villages in Katakwi, Amuria MP, Mr Ben Etonu, has said. The rebel leader, Mr Joseph Kony, reportedly gave the orders. Etonu told the visiting National Political Commissar, Dr Crispus Kiyonga, at the weekend that the Lord's Resistance Army have renamed Aojakitoi, Olwa and Obalanga in Katakwi as Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, respectively. Kiyonga was holding closed-door meetings with the religious leaders and elders in Soroti on Saturday. The agenda included the LRA invasion and the closure of the local Kyoga Veritas FM radio. Etonu said that the rebels have reoccupied Aojakitoi and Olwa, where they camped when they first invaded Teso on June 15. "The LRA must be decisively dealt with because they are not only committing atrocities but they are also renaming our villages," Etonu told Kiyonga at the Soroti council chambers. The meeting also resolved that Teso should be declared a "disaster area". Kiyonga, however, said that even if Teso or the entire northern region were declared disaster zones, there would be little emergency aid to go their way. © 2003 The Monitor Publications Gook "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8.
ugnet_: Africa did not gain from that Bush visit
Africa did not gain from that Bush visitBy Abdul karim kaliisa July 21, 2003 A lot of arguments have been advanced for or against the recently concluded tour of Africa by US President George W. Bush. Bush visited only five countries including Uganda where he spent less than four hours but White House chooses to call the visit an African tour. It is because of this and not any other reason that analysts should begin examining whether the visit left Africa as it was before or it added anything. The main argument against Bushs July 7- 12 visit stems from his unilateral decision to invade another sovereign country, Iraq, against a backdrop of worldwide condemnation. Even in the US there was disapproval of the invasion. Those who welcomed and hosted Bush hoped that his $15 billion would help Africans fight the AIDS scourge. I was, however, dismayed that very few people raised the issue of Bushs negative attitude towards Africa. You recall that during the US elections that brought Bush to the helm of power, the man paid no attention to the African continent. It was, therefore, necessary for us Africans to sit back and think deeply about what has happened since then to make Bush change his attitude. Bush showed no respect for African leaders when he invaded Iraq against their will. I mean the will of the African Union. The central organ of the African Union on February 3, at the heads of state, level opposed the invasion of Iraq without a fresh United Nations mandate but Bush did not pay heed. The African Union spokesman, Desmond Orjiako, emphasised this point in March when he said that, If the [weapons] inspectors had continued with their work, Africa believes that some other peaceful means could have been found in disarming Iraq instead of going to war. Orjiako said war kills innocent people and destroys infrastructure. So, the AU opposed the option of war because this would bring about catastrophic consequences. The African continent pleaded with the US to instead channel the billions of dollars and pounds being expended for the war towards solving Africas many problems including HIV/Aids, civil strife and natural disasters. Bush spent billions of dollars destroying human beings in Iraq but came to Africa with mere promises of $15 billion. This exposes what the man really thinks about Africas problems. I think what Africa needs is not endless aid but respect of its and an end to US and European sponsored conflicts that have ruined our various economies. That is why when President Yoweri Museveni was reported to have accused Americans of having sparked off conflicts in the DR Congo by killing that countrys former prime minister, Patrice Lumumba some of us concurred with him. Since the death of Lumumba a lot of Congos wealth has been looted sometimes by the rich Western countries or their agents in Africa. Today, Congo alone would have been holding billions of dollars in reserve that would have been used in fighting Aids. The conflicts in Angola, Liberia and Sierra Leone have all been sponsored and nurtured by these so called democrats. The oil struggles in Sudan and in the Horn of Africa are all foreign sponsored. We want all these ended conflicts. We do not need American dollars to fight Aids. Besides the $ 15 billion, which has already been slashed by the US Congress, would be consumed by the so-called experts yet our children would have to pay back. Let us stop this nonsense of clapping when a superpower is laying us a trap. People ought to understand that US promises are rarely actualised. The reconstruction of Iraq may consume the countrys oil but in the end ordinary Iraqis would be made to pay for the damage inflicted on their country by a superpower that allegedly came to liberate them. In Afghanistan there are more stories of death than of schools being built as the world has been made to believe. So, the promised dollars may actually be costs of travel, accommodation and other expenses incurred by Americans who will flock Africa to carry out research. That is why I welcome the proposal by Libyan President, Col. Muammar Gadhafi that African countries should use their resources to construct a modern laboratory where we would also do our own research and treat our people. Qathaffi made the proposal during the African Leaders summit in Maputo, Mozambique on July 8 - 11 Let us stop the dependency syndrome. Finally, I was perturbed when the Uganda government blocked the planned peaceful demonstrations against Bush. Refusing people to use civil means to express their grievances breeds radicalism which is destructive. It was wrong for the police to storm the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) headquarters and the eventual clobbering of youths who attempted to demonstrate outside the US embassy in Kampala. Former South African president, Nelson Mandela, refused to meet Bush and that was his civil right. Of course, Mandelas attitude towards Bush is understandable and this is what many African
