ugnet_: BUSH RESIGNATION HAILED BY WORLD LEADERS
Bush Resignation Hailed by World Leaders - SatireBy Greg Palast9-11-3 [Washington] The surprise resignation of the forty-third President of the United States, George W. Bush, on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on America, was hailed by chiefs of state throughout the world. Mr. Bush announced that after, "two years of bloodshed, economic devastation, and spreading fear in America and abroad," he saw no choice but to accept that, "I have held a title which I did not win, and for which I have proven unqualified." The text of the former President's September 11 address to the nation follows: "My fellow Americans: I come to you tonight with a heavy heart. Two years ago today, thousands of innocent Americans were murdered by terrorist maniacs. In the script I've been handed, I'm now supposed to tell you that America is safer today, and that the world is kinder and nicer and happier, because of I'm such a brilliant general in the War on Terror. But who are we kidding? Yesterday, Osama released his new hit video. The terrorists are having a picnic ever since I turned over our foreign policy to Saudi Arabia and Exxon-Mobil. And here's the point in my speech where my handlers would have me tell you about how I've been praying hard, making it sound like I just got off the phone with the Lord. I don't know about you, but I find it pretty darn offensive, downright blasphemous, to drag the Lord's name into every cheap campaign speech and chest-pounding war threat. Osama says he talks to God too. Let's leave Him out of the politics from now on, OK? Look, in my speech this past Sunday, I used the word "democracy" about 11 times when talking about Iraq. It's democracy Florida-style, I suppose. Except we're not fixing the vote this time we aren't letting these people vote at all. "Iraqis aren't prepared for democracy." That's what Dick Cheney and Saddam Hussein told me. So we're blowing 100 billion bucks we don't have to colonize a country we don't want. Rummy tries to explain it to me each morning -- oil this and oil that -- but I just don't see it. And one of our kids dying there every day - where are their parents, anyway? My dad didn't let that happen - he got me out of the service. Didn't I look neat in that fly-boy suit? And, let me tell you, I just looked at our nation's piggy bank. Uh-oh. When I arrived, the last guy left me $4 trillion and said, "Be careful with all that cash in this neighborhood." Well, I have to level with you, America: it's all gone. The cupboard's bare and this year alone we blew half a trillion more dollars than we have in our bank account. Man, I can't believe I went through all that dough stone sober. And what did we get for it? A Fatherland Security Department that's trying to read the labels on everyone's underpants. Think about it, all this Total Information Awareness KGB stuff: two years ago Americans were the victims - but my government has made Americans the suspects. I don't know about you, but this guy Ashcroft scares the bejeezus out of me. And today I'm told that over nine million Americans are out of work. That's not so bad: I haven't done much work in my lifetime either. But my mama explained to me that not everyone's daddy can lend them an oil well to tide them over. It's like I can't get anything right. The lights are going out in Ohio and the North Pole is melting. I don't get it. I appointed all those regulators that Ken Lay told me to, and I got rid of all the rules that got in the way of patriotic Polluter-Americans . and what's the upshot? America the Beautiful is looking like she's had a pretty rough night. Won't be long before the whole country smells like Houston. And now the stock market's floating face down in the swimming pool - despite everything I've done for those guys on Wall Street. Even my plan to give every millionaire an extra million seems to have backfired. Greenspam says I've created "business risk." Says I spook investors. But when I asked Greenspam for a solution, all he did was hand me a bag of pretzels. Hey, I can take a hint. OK, I'm over my head on this one. I look back over these last years, and what have I got to show you
ugnet_: JOHN CASH HAS PASSED AWAY (Very sad indeed)
Country Singer Johnny Cash Dies at 71 3 minutes ago NEW YORK - Johnny Cash (news), a towering figure in American music spanning country, rock and folk and known worldwide as "The Man in Black," has died, according to hospital officials in Nashville, Tenn. He was 71. "Johnny died due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure," said Cash's manager, Lou Robin, in a press release issued by Baptist Hospital in Nashville. The release said Cash died at the hospital at 1 a.m. EDT. He was released from Baptist on Wednesday where he had spent two weeks being treated for an unspecified stomach ailment. "I hope that friends and fans of Johnny will pray for the Cash family to find comfort during this very difficult time," Robin said. Cash had battled a disease of the nervous system, autonomic neuropathy, and pneumonia in recent years and was once diagnosed with a disease called Shy-Drager's syndrome, a diagnosis that was later deemed to be erroneous. Dozens of hit records like "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line," and "Sunday Morning Coming Down" defined Cash's persona: a haunted, dignified, resilient spokesman for the working man and downtrodden. Cash's deeply lined face fit well with his unsteady voice, which was limited in range but used to great effect to sing about prisoners, heartaches, and tales of everyday life. He wrote much of his own material, and was among the first to record the songs of Bob Dylan (news) and Kris Kristofferson (news). "One Piece at a Time" was about an assembly line worker who built a car out of parts stolen from his factory. "A Boy Named Sue" was a comical story of a father who gives his son a girl's name to make him tough. "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" told of the drunken death of an American Indian soldier who helped raised the American flag at Iwo Jima during World War II, but returned to harsh racism in America. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
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Re: ugnet_: Muniini; whistling and drinking?
I totally agree. But our deranged friend in Toronto seems to think otherwise. Kasangwawo From: "gook makanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Muniini; whistling and drinking? Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:44:47 + << message3.txt >> _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Ssemakula, This was beautiful! Thanks Gook "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X Original Message Follows From: "J Ssemakula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Muniini; whistling and drinking? Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 00:15:46 + Protect your PC - Click here for McAfee.com VirusScan Online
Re: ugnet_: Buganda; part of the problem or solution?
Mw. Ssemakula, this was but just another of Mulindwa's disjointed, illogical, anti-Baganda renditions and I'm at a loss why the Monitor was in such a hurry to publish it. Could it be that the Monitor has a secret motive for doing this ? That said, does it really matter WHEN the Kabaka or Nnabagereka or Buganda officials started speaking out on the war in northern Uganda ? What is important is that they have done so. Mulindwa and gang should be reminded of the saying that 'you can't have your cake and eat it too'. When the Kabaka says something concerning a national issue, they say he should not intervene in politics. When he doesn't, they still protest. They give the impression that they don't know what they actually want. Kasangwawo From: "J Ssemakula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Buganda; part of the problem or solution? Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:19:29 + << message3.txt >> _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Gook, In addition to my comments of yesterday with regards to Mr. "Mulindwa" 's namby-pamby argument in defence of Mr. Muniini, I'd like to add the following: 1. If it were true that children might be afraid of Luganda speaking soldiers how does change the equation? I do not see how one can conclude that everyone who has a Kiganda-sounding name or can speak some sort of Luganda is a Muganda any more than one can conclude that everyone who speaks the Queen's English a de facto Englishman. 2. Granted that the Nnaabagereka is relatively a recent entrant on the national scene. However this only re-inforces my argument that the Baganda, in particular, care deeply about the suffering of our Northern compatriots: in that brief time on the national scene the Nnaabagereka has chosen to add Her voice to those advocating for peace. 3. Let us suppose that it is true that the Kabaka's funds are derived from Rwakitura. It is all the more remarkable that inspite of this, the Kabaka of Buganda is still sensitive to the pain of our Northern brethren. And by the way, we the Baganda, are perfectly capable of supporting our Kabaka, thank you very much. Our history of, at least, five hundured (500) years is proof enough of that. 4. Speaking of ethnic groups, could you kindly tell us when and what the Banyakigezi (Mr. Muniini being a Munyakigezi) have done or said about this tragic war in Northern Uganda? Ssemakula [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message Follows From: "gook makanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Buganda; part of the problem or solution? Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:28:58 + Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage.
Re: ugnet_: IN DEFENCE OF MUNIINI MULERA Responding to Mwami Kironde's
Ha, ha ha ha ! This was funny ! Mulindwa asks: "Have you ever wondered why Obote is the most powerful politician in Uganda today?" Which Uganda are you talking about ? I think you have been out of Uganda so long that you have completely lost any contact to reality. You are still suffering from delusions that we are in early 80s and your man is still lording it out on us. You are right though, when you say: 'you become a killer and population will never forget'. That's exactly what has happened with your man in Lusaka. Kasangwawo From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ugnet_: IN DEFENCE OF MUNIINI MULERA Responding to Mwami Kironde's Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:04:26 -0400 Mwaami Kironde I am very sorry for you have decided to twist my posting to your usual two liners, and this was not the purpose when I responded to Mwaami Ssemakula's posting. First of all I think that if you see that I have come in the defence of my neighbour Munini Mulera, that should be enough to tell you that I have seen that we are taking a wrong road, and Mwami Ssemakula's posting was doing nothing but exactly that. For as you are stating in your own posting, Uganda society has a community, and that community makes decisions depending on what has happened to it, or to what has been done to it. Let us go back to Uganda's history. Have you ever wondered why Obote is the most powerful politician in Uganda today? I mean doesn't it bother you why a man who was over thrown out of power some 20 plus years ago, is still very powerful in Uganda politics today? NRM has made it a point to fight him not factually but by tarnishing his name. You as a member of fednet know full well how DP has used federalism to get the Buganda vote, and they have done that by not discussing federalism but by attacking UPC and Obote day in and day out. As we speak today, Federalists are eating crow, but Obote is still in exile and very quite. When NRM came to power, they knew full well that if they put a free election in Uganda, Ugandans were going to elect several UPC members, so they went into the log book and got a new chapter, let us attack UPC morally and then put all elections in the public. For the record, the reason why NRM's first election was to stand behind your candidate, was to see who will elect a UPC member, and then as in Luwero NRM would come at night and kill you. It was to pin point. It is amazing that to today Obote has more supporters in Uganda than any other political leader. If you do not believe me put a free and fair election in Uganda today and you will be amazed, infact even NRM knows this that is why we will never have a democratic election untill when Museveni gets a kidney stone problem. But it is important for you Mwaami Kironde to understand that this is not due to the hard work of Obote, it is due to the trust Ugandans have in the man. Go home and ask Ugandans, why they go to Kampala road and sing UPC when they know that they are going to be shot by NRM at spot. They will tell you that the man is worth the trust. So population is a very important factor in our nations. You can do good and the population will never forget, you become a killer and population will never forget. And that is why my reasoning last night to Mwami Ssemakula was very simple, if Mwaami Muniini Mulera is wrong, we do not need Mwami Ssemakula to defend Buganda. For the jury of the Ugandan society is out there, and if Buganda has been part and parcel in the sufferings of the population in Northern Uganda, trust me Northerners know. And I can add this as well that if Buganda has been suffering together with the North, Buganda can even make a long term political understanding with North, even in things like federalism creation. But if we got a killer in Kampala and we joined the calling our fellow Ugandans "Biological substance" those are facts which will never go away, and the departure of Museveni will only tell us how much damage we have done to our selves and our nation. So do not even bother defending Buganda, Buganda's defence is only one. Her actions when Ugandans are buried day and night. Let me move quickly, you of all people in these forums know me as a person who respects the dead, and I have gone out of my way to see that Ugandans are buried with respect as much as possible. But one mistake I do not do, I do not clean up people's names. When any body dies his actions go with him. And we must be very careful that we do not turn the respect of the dead into covering the killers. Here I come to your sentence and I quote " As a politician, and am sure you have a handful following in your community, what would be the intention of portraying the late Cardinal Nsubuga as a murderer?" Mwaami Kironde you are destroying this discussion, for what many people in these forums do when th
ugnet_: Surviving the War Zone on the R Train
Surviving the War Zone on the R Train By Sherien Sultan, AlterNet September 10, 2003 "IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. If you see a suspicious package or activity on the platform or train, don't keep it to yourself ... call the Terrorism Hotline at 1-888-NYC-Safe." The words stare at me as I sit on the R train, making my way home to Queens from the Financial District. I turn my gaze only to feel their weight bear heavily on me and I start to fidget in my seat. There should be no reason for me to be so uncomfortable. But as I sit there the only emotion I do feel is absolute terror. I am an Arab-American Muslim woman residing in New York City and spend approximately twenty hours a week riding the subway. For the past couple of months I have been negotiating my existence on a daily basis. It has become almost mandatory for me to do this. If not, I take the risk of becoming absorbed in the current climate of public hysteria where people applaud the American government for its use of violence and clandestine behavior. My "war zone" does not consist of tanks or stealth bombers. There are no soldiers breaking down my door, no land mines threatening to blow me up. My war zone instead consists of symbols that bring comfort to so many others around me. The American flag, which once represented freedom and liberty to me now stands for tyranny and repression. No one knows about the battles I fight and no one will welcome my victories. Regardless, my war zone is quite real and I am in battle everyday. Shortly after Bush declared his intention that "Saddam must go," New York City straphangers who never really read newspapers that often during their commute suddenly were in possession of either The New York Post or The Daily News. I had never seen so many newspapers, so many eager readers. I was bombarded daily with outrageous headlines that provoked hostility towards Arabs and Muslims and gradually found myself feeling out of place. Physically, I began to occupy less space by crossing my arms or legs. I did not want to share a space with the burgeoning readership of The New York Post. I grew more and more frustrated as each day passed and as each headline became more blatantly racist. I remember the day I took out the Koran from my bag in order to read it on the way to work. It was, I am ashamed to admit, my first and last day. It took only a couple of stops for someone to make a comment: "You're making people uncomfortable". I turned to find a man scowling and a couple of people staring blankly at me. I asked the owner of the voice what exactly I was doing that was making people uncomfortable and he told me straight out that it was the Arabic "shit" I was reading and that I should put it away. Anything written in Arabic has to be a threat, of course. I did not quite know how to respond to him. I looked around and saw the clutter of newspapers declaring war on innocent Iraqis (is there even such a thing?). I saw women reading their bibles in English, Spanish, Cantonese, Polish. Were the other commuters going to put away the newspapers that make me as an Arab uncomfortable? Were the women around me going to put away their bibles, symbols of the Christian fundamentalist thought that only a holy crusade would save America from the evil of the Arabs? I was told by friends and family not to read the Koran in public any more. "No sense in provoking people," they said. And as I mentioned before, I am very ashamed to admit that I have not read it in the subway since that day. I have developed a certain kind of self-censorship that I am not proud of and try to fight daily. My war zone scares me because I do not know what I am fighting against. I do not having anything tangible to battle and do not even have allies. How can I protect myself against something I cannot grasp? How can I reclaim my space? I am scared. I will not deny it. A couple of weeks after the incident with my Koran, I found myself on the subway again with another book. This time it was in English and I hesitated to make it public because the title, "Classical Islam," was guaranteed to draw attention. I managed to find the strength to start reading, however, only to have a fellow commuter ask me what I was reading. I froze. I showed him the title and he asked if I was reading it for school. I froze again. Do I legitimize it? Do I give him a valid reason for my reading this book instead of simply claiming that I am interested in learning more about my culture? I cannot quite remember the answer I gave him, but I do know that I tried to give the book some kind of academic credibility by rambling on about how the author was a foremost scholar on religious texts. The gentleman left at his stop and I was left feeling shame once again. What one considers a simple subway ride I have begun to consider a daily struggle. I struggle to maintain my identity, struggle to find the strength to stop hiding
ugnet_: Personal Voices, Dateline California: The Case For Arianna
Personal Voices, Dateline California: The Case For Arianna By Van Jones, AlterNet September 10, 2003 The California GOP is up to no good, as usual. The question is: What should progressives do about it? Should we stand on the sidelines, shaking our heads during this unprecedented fiscal and political crisis? No way. Should we rally, once again, to defend the failed and compromised California Democrats who have presided over unconscionable environmental devastation and a massive incarceration boom? Double no way. We shouldn't stand aside for the power-grabbing Republicans, who initiated the recall attempt. Nor should we defend the broken status quo under failed Democratic Governor Gray Davis and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante. Instead, the time has come for us to recover from our "post-Nader" shell-shock, roll up our sleeves and turn this attempted "right-wing coup" into a successful, bottom-up rescue of the state. GOP Ruining USA, But Dems Are Ruining California Most of us know in our hearts that California's Democratic Party no longer deserves passionate support from progressives, not even in the face of this GOP-led attack. The truth is that leaders of the California Democrats helped create this mess. With Republicans running amok, I know that's hard to hear, but it's true. For one thing, California ain't Texas. And it ain't Washington, D.C. California today is a de facto "one-party state," run by Democrats. The Democrats control both US Senate seats, most US House seats, a majority in both houses of the state legislature, and every single state-wide office (from the Governor's office all the way down to the insurance commissioner). The Republicans may run the country, but they don't run much of anything here in California. To the contrary: California's GOP is just a marginal collection of warring fringe groups, hopelessly divided between so-called "moderates" and Neanderthals. Even in the midst of the recall, three major GOP candidates are in the race, mainly fighting each other. Because most California voters are pro-choice, the only Republicans who stand a chance in state-wide races are "moderates" like Arnold Schwarzenegger (who says he is pro-choice, pro gay rights, pro-gun control and who is willing to court people of color). True right-wingers like Bill Simon and Tom McClintock simply cannot win here. Period. So while progressives rightfully fear the national GOP, we have little to fear from these state-level clowns. More important, we must not let our outrage at the national GOP blind us to the California Democrats' unconscionable crimes. Cal Dems' Awful Record Under Davis/Bustamante Conservatives have attacked Davis (hypocritically) over the budget shortfall and the energy crisis. But progressives have our own reasons to shun him: He takes the prize as the king of corruption in California's shockingly corrupt political system. A shameless "pay-to-play" politician, he shakes down his contributors and openly sells his support (and veto) to the highest bidder. He has helped turn the state government into a giant vending machine for big-money interests. And until he got into hot water, he was best known for shooting down progressive legislation and fanatically funding prisons. Davis is a disgrace. And he is not alone in his party. Sure, the GOP is main home of the state's open racists, anti-gay bigots and anti-abortion fanatics. But the California Democratic Party has its share of big polluters, profiteering incarcerators and corporate power-abusers. In fact, those forces now dominate the Party. And Davis and Bustamante represent those forces, to the hilt. Democrat Davis in Pocket of Incarceration Industry Take, for example, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (the prison guards' union). It makes hefty campaign contributions to politicians willing to pass draconian laws. The tough laws require longer sentences, which require more prisons, which then require more guards, who then pay more union dues, which then buy more tough laws. And on it goes. As a result, California's prison budget has exploded by more than 600 percent in the past 20 years. We are now the nation's number one spender on prisons. In fact, we spend more on prisons than colleges. Like you, I support organized labor. But the CCPOA isn't just defending its members. It actively twists laws to ensure that lots of human beings (mostly Black and Latino) are locked in cages. It profits by trafficking in human flesh, and gobbles up billions of dollars in the process. So you would think that the "liberal" California Democrats and the CCPOA would be enemies, right? Think again. Pay Hikes for Prison Guards ... Pink Slips for Teachers? The CCPOA gave Democrat Davis $3.4 million in the past two election cycles. In exchange, Democrat Davis has given the guards three pay raises since 1998 including a gigantic 7.5 percent pay hike this year. That's right: I
ugnet_: Religious Debate
Several centuries ago, the Pope decreed that all the Jews had to convert or leave Italy. There was a huge outcry from the Jewish community, so the Pope offered a deal. He would have a religious debate with the leader of the Jewish community. If the Jews won, they could stay in Italy, if the Pope won, they would have to leave. The Jewish people met and picked an aged but wise Rabbi, Moishe, to represent them in the debate. However, as Moishe spoke no Italian and the Pope spoke no Yiddish, they all agreed that it would be a "silent" debate. On the chosen day, the Pope and Rabbi Moishe sat opposite each other for a full minute before the Pope raised his hand and showed three fingers. Rabbi Moishe looked back and raised one finger. Next the Pope waved his finger around his head. Rabbi Moishe pointed to the ground where he sat. The Pope then brought out a communion wafer and a chalice of wine. Rabbi Moishe pulled out an apple. With that, the Pope stood up and declared that he was beaten, that Rabbi Moishe was too clever and that the Jews could stay. Later, the Cardinals met with the Pope, asking what had happened. The Pope said, "First I held up three fingers to represent the Trinity. He responded by holding up one finger to remind me that there is still only one God common to both our beliefs. Then, I waved my finger to show him that God was all around us. He responded by pointing to the ground to show that God was also right here with us. I pulled out the wine and wafer to show that God absolves us of all our sins. He pulled out an apple to remind me of the original sin. He had me beaten and I could not continue." Meanwhile the Jewish community were gathered around Rabbi Moishe. "What happened?" they asked. "Well," said Moishe, "First he said to me that we had three days to get out of Italy, so I said to him, Up yours! Then he tells me that the whole country would be cleared of Jews and I said to him, we're staying right here." "And then what," asked a woman. "Who knows?" said Moishe, "He took out his lunch so I took out mine." This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: A tribute to Thomas Risley Odhiambo (1931-2003)
A tribute to Thomas Risley Odhiambo (1931-2003) Rachel Galun and Onesmo K. ole-MoiYoi11 September 2003Source: Thomas R. Odhiambo died of liver cancer in Nairobi, Kenya, on 26 May this year. His legacy lies not only in his work as an entomologist, but in the enduring achievements that stemmed from his promotion of scientific development across Africa. Rachel Galun and Onesmo K. ole-MoiYoi pay tribute to Odhiambo, noting that since his student days in Makerere University in Uganda, he continually agonised over the status of science in Africa. Odhiambo believed that scientists such as himself could be instrumental in changing the scientific conditions across the continent. To this end, he launched together with Carl Djerassi in the United States the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Endocrinology (later changed to Ecology), ICIPE, in Nairobi, Kenya. Today, ICIPE remains a centre of scientific excellence and training, a testament to Odhiambo's vision and dedication. Link to full obituary in Nature F.N. Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
ugnet_: I Survived Rape, Says Legislator-MP
If the Sudan refugees are now raping people around Kampala why would anyone want to send them to West Nile? Is it that Ugandans in West Nile deserve to be raped or that they dont mind? There was this Indian who was visiting Toronto. We were having a chat and he wanted to make sure that me and my friend were Baganda because he had a 'secret' to share with us. So, in a consipiratorial manner he asked, "I guess both of you are Baganda?". Yes; we replied. He then continued, "I tell you, Mr Museveni is a fantastic man. You never see a single soldier loitering anywhere in the South, as was the case with the passed regimes. He has relocated all the soldiers to very far away. Up there in the North. And the South is the most peaceful place you have ever seen" This Indian was all smiles; but then he realised that me and my friend were not smiling but horrified. He tried to change the story but it was too late. There are many times when it is assumed that 'Baganda' are conceited, self-centred and arrogant. This is a stupid viewpoint, as universally, each social group has its share of the bad apple. So if Sudanese are raping with impunity then we have to throw them out of the country. First it was the Rwandese Tutsis who looted our country and proceeded to ignite a genocide in Rwanda. Now it is the Sudanese? For how long are we going to 'offer' our country for abuse to British/American/Israel imperialism? Mitayo Potosi From: "gook makanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: I Survived Rape, Says Legislator-MP Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:52:04 + I Survived Rape, Says Legislator By Milton Olupot and John Odyek PARLIAMENT was yesterday shocked when Workers MP Teopista Nabulya Ssentongo reported that she narrowly survived being raped by Sudanese Refugee at her home in Namasuba, near Kampala. Nabulya told Parliament presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, that her house-girl was raped by the same group that she described as armed and dangerous. She said she reported the matter to the authorities but no action had been taken. Nabulya said four other cases of rape by the Sudanese refugees in the same area are pending with the Police. The MPs were debating the Prime Ministers report on the relocation of Sudanese refugees to West Nile. They wondered why the Government was reluctant about the refugees who were loitering all over the city and its suburbs. These people have become very dangerous, they rape women, I was almost a victim and my house-girl was raped. We are scared and if no action is taken, these people will take charge of the city, she said. MPs criticised the government for failure to secure the Sudanese refugees and keep them in the camps as required by the law on refugees. They said areas like many suburbs north of the city were insecure because of the armed Sudanese refugees. First deputy Premier Lt Gen. Moses Ali asked Nabulya to meet him. Ends Published on: Friday, 12th September, 2003 Email this article to a friend. Gook "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X Mitayo Potosi _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Gaetano's lesson to our politicians
The Long View By Mary K. Okurut Gaetano's lesson to our politicians September 13, 2003 When I first watched Big Brother Africa, it was, unfortunately, the day that Uganda's new found hero Gaetano Kaggwa appeared to be having sex with South Africa's Abby. Uganda's new found hero Gaetano (Photo by Eddie Chicco).Nay, not 'seemed', on second thoughts. All the evidence was that they were having sex and it was all live on television. Some may argue, of course, that it was all highly mitigated by the fact that it was taking place under the blanket. True, but it may well have been without the blankets, given the fact that nothing could be hidden. It is one thing for one to have sex behind a curtain of blankets. It is another when the blanket is simply covering their bodies. I was watching with two of my nieces - one in primary five and the other in primary six. They were, of course, excited by the telling movements under the blanket and started clapping wildly. Terribly embarrassed, I switched off the television. The young people almost gorged out my eyes, demanding that I switch the telly back on. But I was adamant. I definitely was not going to allow minors to watch what was, for all intent and purposes, something far worse than a blue movie. That did not deter them too much and they kept shouting, "Gae oyee"; something that clearly told me they had found a new role model to hang on to.I was like "Oh, my God. What a tragedy!" Then next time I switched on, there were the housemates bathing naked, something I could not understand - or stand. I thought the reality show had gone too far. To make it worse, the only person who insisted on bathing with her panties on became the first one to be evicted. From then on I completely lost interest in the BBA show; and for a long time I never bothered to watch it again. I had had enough. Later on - on one of those days when there is nothing much to look at on the screen - I ventured to watch BBA again. For some reason, I got emotionally involved. Somehow I started hoping that Gaetano would not get evicted. You see, as far as I was concerned, he had stopped being just Gaetano; he was much more than that. He had become Uganda's flag-bearer; somebody who was keeping Uganda's flag flying high in South Africa and in the eyes of all Africa. When he became the first to be evicted - among the finalists - I became like a deflated tyre for a while. But later on, taking a closer look at the proceedings, I decided there was something good to look at, despite the loss. The thing is not whether or not Gaetano brought the money home. What matters is that he was a finalist and therefore one of the overall winners. One important thing that some of our friends about town will want to learn from Gaetano is that he accepted the verdict. When asked whether he lost fairly, he said he had no objections to the verdict and even congratulated the winner, Cherise from Zambia. That is a different story from some of our friends that I am talking about here, who have never learnt the art of being a good loser. They have never appreciated the fact that however highly one thinks of himself or herself, other people - the ones who vote - may not share the same views. That is why they keep on screaming foul play just because they lost an election they had dreamt of winning. All because they thought they were unbeatable. Even when the case is taken to court, and they lose; they still claim they won anyway. So tragic! The thousands of Ugandans that came out to meet Gaetano on his return once again sent out a very strong signal to the political elite. I am talking about those politicians who want the Uganda menu to be nothing else but politics of opposing even the ideas most noble. Those who swore after the 2001 elections that they would make sure they finished President Museveni both nationally and internationally; a feat that we shall not allow them achieve. The point those crowds who welcomed Gaetano are making is that all they need is peace for them to do their own thing. They obviously do not have all they want in terms of needs but they want their space so that they can do their thing. It's just like when we saw crowds streaming to Munyonyo to watch the Miss Uganda thing. Peace is all they want so that they can live. Live as in 'live', and not merely exist, eking out a miserable subsistence. The President did say at one time, that people should not eat politics all the time. That was after some people had started campaigning against the so-called third term (something the President hadn't even talked about and still hasn't up to now) - a few days after the President had been sworn in to begin his second term! I think the President had a point: for starters Ugandans need a break from politics. More importantly, Ugandans are increasingly demonstrating that they want a break from politics. That is why we see so many people increasingly embracing the issues and events that have noth
ugnet_: Fwd: 'Live' radio broadcasts from Gulu
Link to 'live' radio broadcasts from 102.10 Mega FM, Gulu: http://www.km-net.org/ Ochan
ugnet_: Some good from the Big Brother show
Some good from the Big Brother show By AuthorSeptember 13, 2003 In the ongoing story of Big Brother Africa, easily the most captivating social event of 2003, there are matters unfinished. Many religious leaders and some politicians in Uganda frowned upon the show and discouraged the people from showing up at the airport to welcome Uganda's Gaetano. Yet the crowd still came and in fact gave Gaetano one of the most rousing welcome of anybody in recent years. What these disapproving leaders did not know was that for the most part, the television show was generally entertaining and carried scenes from everyday life. The 12 housemates engaged in activities such as cooking, sports, drawing and painting, cleaning up the house, and staging singing competitions.One aspect of morality and the new technology that is rarely ever talked about is electronic mail or e-mail. Everyday, millions of people open their Hotmail or Yahoo mail addresses only to find themselves bombarded by mass adverts on viagra, links to sex websites, and the like. By virtue of the fact that one has an e-mail address whatever their character, (priest, pastor, politician, layman, school child) they will receive this "junk mail". How will religious leaders prevent children with e-mail addresses from receiving this type of mail? The reality is that no amount of preaching or cautioning can prevent people from watching "dirty" films, visiting pornography websites or listening to lewd rap lyrics. It is up to the individual to choose to watch or discard any such material that they deem immoral and corrupting. No person, not even the religious Big Brothers, can prevent a person from doing what they set their hearts on, if they want to. © 2003 The Monitor Publications East African | About Us | Feedback | Site Map | License | Monitor MailWant to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger
ugnet_: The Road map to Peace-Kampala style.
He keeps us awake in the wee hours of the morning Neighbours --- By Evelyn Lirri September 13, 2003 There are some things that people have to learn. For example, getting up in the night when people are still sleeping is a bad habit. My neighbour is one such person. I wish my neighbour could resolve that waking up at 4 a.m. is a bad idea and that he would not do it again. I wish he could also resolve that he would say less and very quietly if he must at that hour. The man gets up at an awkward hour and reads a verse from the Bible in a voice that suggests that God might not hear him if he speaks softly. He ignores the fact that the wall between his muzigo and mine is very thin and that we are also affected by the noise. He also ignores the fact that making noise at such a time when the spirits of Bujagali are still dreaming is a bad idea. The worst of my neighbour's bad habits was committed last week. This time he got up earlier than usual, opened his Bible and in his usual loudspeaker- voice read it for about a minute. After that he started preaching, to whom I cannot tell, because to the best of my knowledge all of us had been sleeping. He prayed for all the people of Uganda and for the end of the famous Big Brother show. I could hear him say that Big Brother was an evil show and all those watching it were doing the devil's work. Since last week, my neighbour's habit is getting more disastrous than before. I think at this point in time, the man needs prayers himself. Being the good neighbour that I have always been, I have accommodated this man's strange ways. But if he continues to act like this till next year, I might be compelled to sue him in the courts of law along with the mayor of Kampala, Mr John Ssebaana Kizito. Ssebaana's crime is simple. Breach of promise. I recall that he had promised to stop all noise in the city up to a certain time. I call that 'supplying air' because to date no law has been put in place to stop noise beyond a certain time. © 2003 The Monitor Publications East African | About Us | Feedback | Site Map | License | Monitor MailWant to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger
ugnet_: Museveni Convinced of Logic for GM Food-BBC
Last Updated: Thursday, 11 September, 2003, 17:06 GMT 18:06 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version Uganda's push for GM By Orla Ryan Kampala, Uganda President George W Bush has said Africa is losing out by not adopting GM, as his government battles with Europe over the sale of genetically modified products there. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has also made clear that he is convinced of the logic for GM food. The Ugandan president is convinced of the need for GM foodAlready, steps are underway to put a law in place. But can GM solve the problems the country's farmers face? In Uganda, there isn't even a word for gene in the local language, laughs Dr Charles Mugoya of the National Council for Science and Technology. Millions of Ugandans might have a very poor understanding of what genetically modified foods are, but - in one form or another - it looks like GM foods are coming their way. Testing the ground Last month, a national committee presented a draft policy on biotechnology and bio safety to government. This was the first stage of creating a law to govern the introduction, application and commercialisation of GM products in Uganda. GM is not the total panacea, it is one technology among many, if we brought GM, it would contribute Dr Charles MugoyaNational Council for Science and Technology In reality, GM is unlikely to be on the Ugandan market for another three to five years, Consumer Education Trust's Henry Kimera says. He is on the committee which drafted the national policy. Once this law has been approved, Monsanto and other companies can sell GM products if they submit an application to the National Council for Science and Technology. If it is approved, their products will then be tested before they can be sold on the Ugandan market. How a plant is genetically modified In picturesStephen Matovu, country manager for Monsanto in Uganda, says that such is the negative perception of GM, that huge consumer awareness would have to be done before it could sell those products in Uganda. Political pressure is high for the process to move quickly and the fear is that Uganda could be left behind. Debate In Africa, South Africa has led the way, while Egypt, Nigeria and Zimbabwe are all developing frameworks, which would allow the use of GM products. Its proponents say GM products could increase food security, raising the income of cash crop farmers and reducing the risk of disease. GM could make bananas fungus-resistantOthers say GM foods have health and environmental risks, which we do not yet know about. The most practical and immediate concern for Uganda and other African countries is that if it does pursue GM, it could alienate its biggest export partner, Europe, currently engaged in a trade dispute with America over its reluctance to buy its GM foods. America has already pressed Uganda to join its side in this battle. A question of resources A copy of Uganda's draft policy shows that biotechnology could be used to develop industry and agriculture, for example in the production of drugs and pharmaceuticals. The policy aims are to build and strengthen national capacity in biotechnology through research and development, and promote biotech as a tool for national development. Most of the problem is that these countries are poor, biotech is something which involves a lot of investment Dr John AlumaNARO The policy also aims to legislate on it, ensuring safety in development and application. On top of that, the policy will develop measures to assess risk and manage biotechnological applications. To implement this, there will be a National Biotechnology Advisory Committee, secretariat, centre and committee. The draft policy might talk the right language but it is not clear whether there are really the resources to back this up. A panacea? Dr Mugoya from the National Council for Science and Technology admits there is a resource issue and that research and development institutions need to be set up. "Most of the problem is that these countries are poor, biotech is something which involves a lot of investment. Before you get involved, you need a lot of outlay," he says. Resources may be few, but he says it is a "Catch 22", the real risk is they are left behind, not that they move too fast. When it comes to speed, political and trade issues are the key pressures. Dr John Aluma from the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) says: "There has never been pressure on any other technology... When it came to GM, the whole US government is behind it. That is how it has attained a political pressure." One real danger is that GM is neither as risky or as advantageous as the players contend. Little research has really been done to develop products which would specifically help poor farmers, for example, more productive cassava or fungus-resistant bananas. "GM is not the total panacea, it is one technology
Re: ugnet_: IN DEFENCE OF MUNIINI MULERA Responding to Mwami Kironde's
Mulindwa you attribute a lot of statements, occurances and situations to people without proof or evidence, like saying that Cardinal Nsubuga reached some agreement with President Museveni on Catholics' participation in Mengo affairs...what rubbish. You seem to be impling that Catholics cannot participate in Mengo affairs on their own merit. About your proposed UPC and Buganda aliance...you seem to conveniently forget, that once upon atime in Uganda's history, such an alliance was concocted and we of course know the unfortunate resultsthe Baganda ended up with the short end of the stick and the subsequent murderous rein of the UPCtalk about lightning striking twice, GOD FORBID. From: "jonah kasangwawo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: IN DEFENCE OF MUNIINI MULERA Responding to Mwami Kironde's Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:22:37 + Ha, ha ha ha ! This was funny ! Mulindwa asks: "Have you ever wondered why Obote is the most powerful politician in Uganda today?" Which Uganda are you talking about ? I think you have been out of Uganda so long that you have completely lost any contact to reality. You are still suffering from delusions that we are in early 80s and your man is still lording it out on us. You are right though, when you say: 'you become a killer and population will never forget'. That's exactly what has happened with your man in Lusaka. Kasangwawo From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ugnet_: IN DEFENCE OF MUNIINI MULERA Responding to Mwami Kironde's Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:04:26 -0400 Mwaami Kironde I am very sorry for you have decided to twist my posting to your usual two liners, and this was not the purpose when I responded to Mwaami Ssemakula's posting. First of all I think that if you see that I have come in the defence of my neighbour Munini Mulera, that should be enough to tell you that I have seen that we are taking a wrong road, and Mwami Ssemakula's posting was doing nothing but exactly that. For as you are stating in your own posting, Uganda society has a community, and that community makes decisions depending on what has happened to it, or to what has been done to it. Let us go back to Uganda's history. Have you ever wondered why Obote is the most powerful politician in Uganda today? I mean doesn't it bother you why a man who was over thrown out of power some 20 plus years ago, is still very powerful in Uganda politics today? NRM has made it a point to fight him not factually but by tarnishing his name. You as a member of fednet know full well how DP has used federalism to get the Buganda vote, and they have done that by not discussing federalism but by attacking UPC and Obote day in and day out. As we speak today, Federalists are eating crow, but Obote is still in exile and very quite. When NRM came to power, they knew full well that if they put a free election in Uganda, Ugandans were going to elect several UPC members, so they went into the log book and got a new chapter, let us attack UPC morally and then put all elections in the public. For the record, the reason why NRM's first election was to stand behind your candidate, was to see who will elect a UPC member, and then as in Luwero NRM would come at night and kill you. It was to pin point. It is amazing that to today Obote has more supporters in Uganda than any other political leader. If you do not believe me put a free and fair election in Uganda today and you will be amazed, infact even NRM knows this that is why we will never have a democratic election untill when Museveni gets a kidney stone problem. But it is important for you Mwaami Kironde to understand that this is not due to the hard work of Obote, it is due to the trust Ugandans have in the man. Go home and ask Ugandans, why they go to Kampala road and sing UPC when they know that they are going to be shot by NRM at spot. They will tell you that the man is worth the trust. So population is a very important factor in our nations. You can do good and the population will never forget, you become a killer and population will never forget. And that is why my reasoning last night to Mwami Ssemakula was very simple, if Mwaami Muniini Mulera is wrong, we do not need Mwami Ssemakula to defend Buganda. For the jury of the Ugandan society is out there, and if Buganda has been part and parcel in the sufferings of the population in Northern Uganda, trust me Northerners know. And I can add this as well that if Buganda has been suffering together with the North, Buganda can even make a long term political understanding with North, even in things like federalism creation. But if we got a killer in Kampala and we joined the calling our fellow Ugandans "Biological substance" those are facts which will never go away, and the departure of Musev
ugnet_: Big Brother Winner Charms Africa
Saturday Review - Daily Nation - Nairobi - Kenya Saturday, September 13, 2003 The lady who charmed Africa By DAN TENG'O Cherise with Mandela Once a small-town girl in Kitwe, Zambia, Cherise Makubale flew back to her country this week to a multi-millionaires welcome, characterised by fanfare and drum-beating by jubilant crowds. Richer by US$100,000 (Sh7.5 million), she was grandly welcomed by the countrys top government officials and religious leaders, who had earlier petitioned the Zambian government to remove Big Brother Africa from state television, arguing that the reality TV show was immoral and went against African values. The excited Cherise, 24, was hosted on Wednesday in the VIP lounge of the countrys State House by the President, Levy Mwanawasa, who commended her thus: "We were very proud of you, Cherise. You showed only what is good for Zambia." Added the President: "Your conduct was exemplary, you were extremely hardworking. A Zambian woman must sweep and cook, and you did exactly that. I am not surprised that you have received so many marriage proposals." He immediately gave Cherise ambassadorial status and announced that she would represent Zambia at a youth conference in Australia because of her achievement. Donations and offers flowed her way thick and fast. Celtel, a mobile phone company, gave her a cell phone with talk time worth millions of Zambian Kwacha and a 50-country roaming facility. A local musician presented her with a CD of a song she had composed in her honour. The Holiday Inn chain of hotels offered her one-year free accommodation in all African countries where it is located, while a milling company promised to give her US$5,000 for her shopping whilst in Australia. Barclays Bank Zambia offered Cherise free Prestige banking services for one year and free banking advise, both locally and internationally, and a further US$1,000 to be donated to her choice of charity. The National Airports Corporation in Zambia promised a year's free airport departures whenever she was flying out of the country, while the Zambia State Insurance Corporation offered her insurance for sickness and injury during her reign. The Zambian government also honoured Cherise with a diplomatic passport and urged her to visit all the other 11 countries that participated in the contest. It also offered to extend tax exemption from her US$100,000 prize money should she apply for such a facility. For her fellow countrymen, Cherises win was a victory for their country, and while motorists drove on the streets of the capital blowing their hooters, hundreds of people poured into the streets singing, and firecrackers were heard all over the country. Cherise was caught up in a whirl of media attention as news of her victory and arrival in the country was headlined by Zambian newspapers. It even overrode a strike by the countrys 120,000 civil servants, which had badly affected the economy. For Cherise, the 106-day stay in the Big Brother Africa house in South Africa was a long ride that paid off. "When I first heard about the Big Brother Africa show, I did not give it much thought," Cherise said in an interview with Review. Coming from a small town in Zambia, she thought nobody would notice her. But her gung-ho attitude and her boss at an imports and exports trading company urged her on. So she gave it a shot and the dainty beauty who was last year the first runner-up in the Miss Independence contest in Zambia was chosen to represent her country in the reality show. Cherise, a forthright and caring personality, was seen in the first half of the reality TV game largely as an outsider. But her hardworking streak and her Tumba dances eventually caught viewers' attention. Slowly, she developed relationships with the rest of the housemates. Her sisterly affection for Angola's Bruna Estevao was evident when she shed copious tears upon Bruna's eviction. Her unrivalled naturalness was not easily noticeable at first, and it was only when five housemates remained in the game that her popularity was reflected on the reality show's website popularity poll. Her natural ability in front of the camera, aided by a bubbly personality, propelled the young starlet to continental popularity. She livened up the house with her loud voice and the numerous times when she jiggled her hips to the sinuous rhythm of the Tumba dance from Zambia and beats from other parts of Africa. She proved to be a very popular player with nearly all the housemates, tackling tasks with as much vigour as she did the housework and much of the cooking. Having lost her father at an early age, Cherise got used to austerity and hardship at an early age, and the years had taught her how to handle hectic situations. She took in her stride every tough situation that reared its head in the house. "In the house, I balanced the image of a fun-loving modern woman with that of a traditional, hardworking woman," says Cherise. Sh
ugnet_: Gaetano: The Most Popular Man In Uganda
Saturday Review - Daily Nation - Nairobi - Kenya Saturday, September 13, 2003 The most popular man in Uganda By CAROLYNE NAKAZIBWE You do not have to bring heaven to earth to attain celebrity status, and Gaetano Jjuuko Kagwa has proved just that. When television channel MTN Uganda on May 25 disclosed the identity of the countrys 30-year-old housemate in the Big Brother Africa house, no one could place the face in the popular social columns. "And what kind of name is Gaetano anyway?" several people wondered, skeptical about Multichoice's pick. A few days into the reality TV show, the skepticism among Ugandan viewers grew as the Makerere Law student refused to take a shower in front of the cameras, even as other housemates stripped and bared all. He came across as very laid back those first days, something that had many doubting his chances of lasting until the second eviction. But then his luck began to change. Within weeks, a witty, intelligent and sexy Gaetano emerged, to the thrill of Africans across the continent. When he was chosen to go to the Big Brother UK house for three days while Cameron went to South Africa, he put up an even better performance, hooking millions of viewers in Africa and beyond. Newspapers in the UK suddenly had something interesting to write about their Big Brother show as the Ugandan insulted a housemate and kissed another. What swelled the numbers in his fan club, made up mainly of women, was what Gaetano unveiled when he finally decided to take a shower. Viewers gasped at his arguably generous endowment, at least compared with what the other housemates had displayed, and in no time, 10.00 am in Uganda the shower hour had become a favourite TV time for many. During the weekly eviction shows after that, women interviewed in Zimbabwe, Nigeria and elsewhere wanted Gaetano to win. And then his mother of all blunders - or was it, for him, the jackpot? - Gaetano fell for the charms of the South African housemate, Abergail Plaatjes, and before long, the two were busy under the blankets. This turn of events brought out mixed feelings among the viewers as he lost the support of some due to his immorality, while others loved him even more as he was believed to have made the show a very romantic one. In an exclusive interview with The Monitor, the Daily Nation's sister paper in Uganda, Gaetano said minutes after arrival in Kampala that Abbys humour, intelligence and outspokenness are what had attracted him to her. But the odds are that the weeks the two spent frolicking under the bedcovers and basically playing married in the house blew their chances of winning the $100,000 (Sh7.5 million), which Zambias Cherise Makubale scooped. Instead of the anticipated win, he came fifth out of the five finalists, an announcement that shocked Kampala and drew tears from some fans. But Gaetano did not leave South Africa empty-handed. With Abby safely at his side, he stepped off a South African Airlines flight in Entebbe at 1.32 pm on Wednesday to a celebrity welcome. Just 109 days since the day he left the same airport with no one giving him as much as a glance, he came back to find what looked like the whole of Uganda waiting. At a press conference later, he mused that he may not be much richer moneywise, but he certainly was 24.6 million Ugandan friends wealthier. The Kampala-Entebbe highway unofficially became a one-way road as thousands of fans raced to the capital behind Gaetano in more than four lanes of traffic. Even the Minister of State for Transport, Andruale Awuzu, was caught up in the melee as he tried to travel to Entebbe, and sat helplessly in his four-wheel drive as screaming fans sped past in his lane. The crowd could only be compared to that which turned up to receive former Kampala Mayor Nasser Ntege Ssebagala, when he returned from an American prison in 1999. And when President Yoweri Museveni asked MPs on Tuesday who this man was who was even making women shed tears, almost every Ugandan had a ready answer: "Our Gae!" Many interpreted the presidents remarks as a jealous outburst when he started wondering where the Gaetanos of this world were when other Africans were fighting for South Africas freedom. No one really cared. More cars streamed to Entebbe to give him a heros welcome, one of them carrying an ambitious placard saying, "Gaetano for President!" The new star was obviously overwhelmed. At the sight of the ecstatic crowd, he grabbed his head and stared on in amazement. The thickness and rowdiness of the multitude watered down Spear Group of Companies' Executive Director Gordon Wavamunnos efforts to bring a fleet of Mercedes Benzes for Gaetanos homecoming. The car he was supposed to ride in a convertible Mercedes Benz with Gaetanos personalised plates suddenly seemed so far away at about ten metres, and he ended up being stuffed into the nearest car. And a journey that could have lasted not more than 45 minute
ugnet_: Genomics gives new insights into leprosy
Genomics gives new insights into leprosy A former leprosy patient in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Katie Mantell12 September 2003 Researchers have identified which genes are 'turned on' in different forms of leprosy. Their findings may help diagnose and treat the disease, which affects half a million people, mainly in developing countries. The severity of leprosy depends partly on how a person's immune system responds to the bacterium that causes the disease, Mycobacterium leprae. In this week's issue of Science, an international team of scientists report that they have identified the genes behind these varying immune responses. The authors say that their data support the view that modern genomics can reveal the sets of genes that correlate with immune responses leading to disease progression and tolerance. "Genomics can provide unanticipated insights into pathogenesis and targets for therapy," they write. Link to research paper in Science Reference: Science 301, 1527 (2003) --- F.N. Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
Re: ugnet_: I Survived Rape, Says Legislator-MP
Mitayo, I couldn't have put it better. I was afraid no one would notice the seriousness of that posting ! Thanks and rgds Gook "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X Original Message Follows From: "Mitayo Potosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: I Survived Rape, Says Legislator-MP Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:35:53 + If the Sudan refugees are now raping people around Kampala why would anyone want to send them to West Nile? Is it that Ugandans in West Nile deserve to be raped or that they dont mind? There was this Indian who was visiting Toronto. We were having a chat and he wanted to make sure that me and my friend were Baganda because he had a 'secret' to share with us. So, in a consipiratorial manner he asked, "I guess both of you are Baganda?". Yes; we replied. He then continued, "I tell you, Mr Museveni is a fantastic man. You never see a single soldier loitering anywhere in the South, as was the case with the passed regimes. He has relocated all the soldiers to very far away. Up there in the North. And the South is the most peaceful place you have ever seen" This Indian was all smiles; but then he realised that me and my friend were not smiling but horrified. He tried to change the story but it was too late. There are many times when it is assumed that 'Baganda' are conceited, self-centred and arrogant. This is a stupid viewpoint, as universally, each social group has its share of the bad apple. So if Sudanese are raping with impunity then we have to throw them out of the country. First it was the Rwandese Tutsis who looted our country and proceeded to ignite a genocide in Rwanda. Now it is the Sudanese? For how long are we going to 'offer' our country for abuse to British/American/Israel imperialism? Mitayo Potosi From: "gook makanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: I Survived Rape, Says Legislator-MP Date: Fri, 12 Se p 2003 06:52:04 + I Survived Rape, Says Legislator By Milton Olupot and John Odyek PARLIAMENT was yesterday shocked when Workers MP Teopista Nabulya Ssentongo reported that she narrowly survived being raped by Sudanese Refugee at her home in Namasuba, near Kampala. Nabulya told Parliament presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, that her house-girl was raped by the same group that she described as armed and dangerous. She said she reported the matter to the authorities but no action had been taken. Nabulya said four other cases of rape by the Sudanese refugees in the same area are pending with the Police. The MPs were debating the Prime Ministers report on the relocation of Sudanese refugees to West Nile. They wondered why the Government was reluctant about the refugees who were loitering all over the city and its suburbs. These people have become very dangerous, they rape women, I was almost a vict im and my house-girl was raped. We are scared and if no action is taken, these people will take charge of the city, she said. MPs criticised the government for failure to secure the Sudanese refugees and keep them in the camps as required by the law on refugees. They said areas like many suburbs north of the city were insecure because of the armed Sudanese refugees. First deputy Premier Lt Gen. Moses Ali asked Nabulya to meet him. Ends Published on: Friday, 12th September, 2003 Email this article to a friend. Gook "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X Mitayo Potosi _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail This service is hosted on t he Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Ssempebwa CRC report was 'stolen'
Ssempebwa CRC report was 'stolen'By Ssemujju Ibrahim NgandaSeptember 13, 2003
KAMPALA - A draft report of the Constitutional Review Commission was 'stolen' and prematurely leaked to the Movement Secretariat and the Cabinet.
Information available to The Monitor indicates that the draft report was prematurely leaked by an over-enthusiastic pro-Movement commissioner.
On reading the leaked draft report, President Museveni and the Cabinet were reportedly unhappy with some of the recommendations.
Sources say that the contents leaked to the Cabinet - allegedly by Commissioner Festus Byarugaba - caused uneasiness and tension between members of the CRC and the government.
As a result, the sources said, the National Political Commissar Dr Crispus Kiyonga told a news conference at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel on August 22, that the Cabinet would reject any recommendations by the CRC which it deemed inconsistent with its own findings.
The Cabinet instituted a sub committee chaired by the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Hajat Janat Mukwaya to draft its own proposed amendments to the Constitution.
The resultant political scandal from the stolen Ssempebwa report has generated a lot of anger.
Senior Movement leaders who are opposed to amending Article 105 (2) of the Constitution to enable President Yoweri Museveni run for another term in 2006 met at Parliament on Wednesday evening to discuss this latest development.
Article 105 (2) of the Constitution limits the tenure of the president to two five-year terms.
It is not clear which particular recommendations angered the Cabinet, but insider sources say that the Commission has formed a strong opinion against the third term.
On realising that its draft recommendations had been 'stolen' and prematurely leaked to the government, the CRC reportedly reacted by stopping the Cabinet team - led by Ms Mukwaya - from meeting them and submitting their rather late proposals.
They reasoned that since the CRC would have to hand over its final report to Mukwaya, it was not proper for her to be part of the Cabinet team sent to meet the Commission.
The Cabinet team will now be led by the Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya.
Ssempebwa's view
The CRC chairman, Prof. Fredrick Ssempebwa, confirmed to The Monitor on Thursday that the Commission had indeed started compiling the report by the time Kiyonga made his remarks about rejecting any disagreeable recommendations.
Ssempebwa said that the drafting process is ongoing despite the Cabinet's desire to submit its own views.
He said that the compilation had only stalled due to financial constraints, since no money would be released at the time.
Parliament was considering a new budget then. Prof. Ssempebwa has now formally asked the Cabinet to extend the Commission's life by at least one more month to make up for the lost time.
The Commission was expected to wind up next month but the report is now expected at the end of November.
According to Mukwaya, the views of the executive were to be submitted last week. However, Bukenya has been away in China and North Korea. This will delay the process.
Prof. Ssempebwa now expects the Bukenya team to meet the CRC by end of this month.
Kiyonga insists
Kiyonga told The Monitor on Thursday evening that he did not convene the conference to talk about the Ssempebwa Commission.
He said that he only talked about the Commission when reporters asked him to comment about an earlier Monitor story published on August 21, which said the Cabinet had approved federo and the third term.
He said that it is unlikely that the Cabinet would reject the whole report, adding that Ssempebwa and the other commissioners are credible people.
Kiyonga said that in a situation of conflicting views, the Cabinet would sustain and defend its position in Parliament at the time of amending the Constitution.He said that the Cabinet has the 'real feel' because it has been implementing the Constitution.
Kiyonga also dismissed reports that another member of the Ssempebwa Commission, Ms Zam Zam Nagujja, had attended a working Cabinet meeting.
The meetings were reportedly conducted by former Prime Minister and now presidential adviser Mr Kintu Musoke at his residence. Kiyonga defended Nagujja, a director at the Movement Secretariat, saying that the Cabinet doesn't operate like that.
Anti third MPs
Meanwhile, the anti-third term Movement politicians ('Malwa Group') meeting at Parliament on Wednesday evening expressed disappointment that the Cabinet was manipulating and rigging the Constitutional amending process.
Former Inspector General of Government Mr Augustine Ruzindana, one of its leaders, told The Monitor yesterday that like many concerned Ugandans, the group had discussed Cabinet's decision to appear before its own Commission. "It is procedurally an absurdity," Ruzindana said.
He said that the so-called 'Malwa Group' is not an organisation but a collection of leaders who support a tendency.
He said that the Movem
ugnet_: Ssempebwa CRC report was 'stolen'
No change! Do what I say, not what other people want! Ruhanga wange!
Too much power at the center. Munakola ki? Did U fight?
F.N. Lugemwa
gook makanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ssempebwa CRC report was 'stolen'By Ssemujju Ibrahim NgandaSeptember 13, 2003
KAMPALA - A draft report of the Constitutional Review Commission was 'stolen' and prematurely leaked to the Movement Secretariat and the Cabinet.
Information available to The Monitor indicates that the draft report was prematurely leaked by an over-enthusiastic pro-Movement commissioner.
On reading the leaked draft report, President Museveni and the Cabinet were reportedly unhappy with some of the recommendations.
Sources say that the contents leaked to the Cabinet - allegedly by Commissioner Festus Byarugaba - caused uneasiness and tension between members of the CRC and the government.
As a result, the sources said, the National Political Commissar Dr Crispus Kiyonga told a news conference at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel on August 22, that the Cabinet would reject any recommendations by the CRC which it deemed inconsistent with its own findings.
The Cabinet instituted a sub committee chaired by the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Hajat Janat Mukwaya to draft its own proposed amendments to the Constitution.
The resultant political scandal from the stolen Ssempebwa report has generated a lot of anger.
Senior Movement leaders who are opposed to amending Article 105 (2) of the Constitution to enable President Yoweri Museveni run for another term in 2006 met at Parliament on Wednesday evening to discuss this latest development.
Article 105 (2) of the Constitution limits the tenure of the president to two five-year terms.
It is not clear which particular recommendations angered the Cabinet, but insider sources say that the Commission has formed a strong opinion against the third term.
On realising that its draft recommendations had been 'stolen' and prematurely leaked to the government, the CRC reportedly reacted by stopping the Cabinet team - led by Ms Mukwaya - from meeting them and submitting their rather late proposals.
They reasoned that since the CRC would have to hand over its final report to Mukwaya, it was not proper for her to be part of the Cabinet team sent to meet the Commission.
The Cabinet team will now be led by the Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya.
Ssempebwa's view
The CRC chairman, Prof. Fredrick Ssempebwa, confirmed to The Monitor on Thursday that the Commission had indeed started compiling the report by the time Kiyonga made his remarks about rejecting any disagreeable recommendations.
Ssempebwa said that the drafting process is ongoing despite the Cabinet's desire to submit its own views.
He said that the compilation had only stalled due to financial constraints, since no money would be released at the time.
Parliament was considering a new budget then. Prof. Ssempebwa has now formally asked the Cabinet to extend the Commission's life by at least one more month to make up for the lost time.
The Commission was expected to wind up next month but the report is now expected at the end of November.
According to Mukwaya, the views of the executive were to be submitted last week. However, Bukenya has been away in China and North Korea. This will delay the process.
Prof. Ssempebwa now expects the Bukenya team to meet the CRC by end of this month.
Kiyonga insists
Kiyonga told The Monitor on Thursday evening that he did not convene the conference to talk about the Ssempebwa Commission.
He said that he only talked about the Commission when reporters asked him to comment about an earlier Monitor story published on August 21, which said the Cabinet had approved federo and the third term.
He said that it is unlikely that the Cabinet would reject the whole report, adding that Ssempebwa and the other commissioners are credible people.
Kiyonga said that in a situation of conflicting views, the Cabinet would sustain and defend its position in Parliament at the time of amending the Constitution.He said that the Cabinet has the 'real feel' because it has been implementing the Constitution.
Kiyonga also dismissed reports that another member of the Ssempebwa Commission, Ms Zam Zam Nagujja, had attended a working Cabinet meeting.
The meetings were reportedly conducted by former Prime Minister and now presidential adviser Mr Kintu Musoke at his residence. Kiyonga defended Nagujja, a director at the Movement Secretariat, saying that the Cabinet doesn't operate like that.
Anti third MPs
Meanwhile, the anti-third term Movement politicians ('Malwa Group') meeting at Parliament on Wednesday evening expressed disappointment that the Cabinet was manipulating and rigging the Constitutional amending process.
Former Inspector General of Government Mr Augustine Ruzindana, one of its leaders, told The Monitor yesterday that like many concerned Ugandans, the group had discussed Cabinet's decision to appear before its own Commiss
Re: ugnet_: IN DEFENCE OF MUNIINI MULERA Responding to Mwami Kironde's
Mwaami Musaazi Not only my heart, but the hearts of all understanding Ugandans, goes for the Baganda who have got nothing out of Uganda but to be victims. 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: "emmanuel musaazi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 4:36 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: IN DEFENCE OF MUNIINI MULERA Responding to Mwami Kironde's > Mulindwa you attribute a lot of statements, occurances and situations to > people without proof or evidence, like saying that Cardinal Nsubuga reached > some agreement with President Museveni on Catholics' participation in Mengo > affairs...what rubbish. You seem to be impling that Catholics cannot > participate in Mengo affairs on their own merit. About your proposed UPC and > Buganda aliance...you seem to conveniently forget, that once upon atime in > Uganda's history, such an alliance was concocted and we of course know the > unfortunate resultsthe Baganda ended up with the short end of the stick > and the subsequent murderous rein of the UPCtalk about lightning > striking twice, GOD FORBID. > > > >From: "jonah kasangwawo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: ugnet_: IN DEFENCE OF MUNIINI MULERA Responding to Mwami > >Kironde's > >Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:22:37 + > > > >Ha, ha ha ha ! This was funny ! > > > >Mulindwa asks: > >"Have you ever wondered why Obote is the most powerful politician in Uganda > >today?" > > > >Which Uganda are you talking about ? I think you have been out of Uganda so > >long that you have completely lost any contact to reality. You are still > >suffering from delusions that we are in early 80s and your man is still > >lording it out on us. You are right though, when you say: 'you become a > >killer and population will never forget'. That's exactly what has happened > >with your man in Lusaka. > > > >Kasangwawo > > > > > >>From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: ugnet_: IN DEFENCE OF MUNIINI MULERA Responding to Mwami > >>Kironde's Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:04:26 -0400 > >> > >>Mwaami Kironde > >> > >>I am very sorry for you have decided to twist my posting to your usual two > >>liners, and this was not the purpose when I responded to Mwaami > >>Ssemakula's posting. First of all I think that if you see that I have come > >>in the defence of my neighbour Munini Mulera, that should be enough to > >>tell you that I have seen that we are taking a wrong road, and Mwami > >>Ssemakula's posting was doing nothing but exactly that. For as you are > >>stating in your own posting, Uganda society has a community, and that > >>community makes decisions depending on what has happened to it, or to what > >>has been done to it. Let us go back to Uganda's history. > >>Have you ever wondered why Obote is the most powerful politician in Uganda > >>today? I mean doesn't it bother you why a man who was over thrown out of > >>power some 20 plus years ago, is still very powerful in Uganda politics > >>today? NRM has made it a point to fight him not factually but by > >>tarnishing his name. You as a member of fednet know full well how DP has > >>used federalism to get the Buganda vote, and they have done that by not > >>discussing federalism but by attacking UPC and Obote day in and day out. > >>As we speak today, Federalists are eating crow, but Obote is still in > >>exile and very quite. When NRM came to power, they knew full well that if > >>they put a free election in Uganda, Ugandans were going to elect several > >>UPC members, so they went into the log book and got a new chapter, let us > >>attack UPC morally and then put all elections in the public. For the > >>record, the reason why NRM's first election was to stand behind your > >>candidate, was to see who will elect a UPC member, and then as in Luwero > >>NRM would come at night and kill you. It was to pin point. It is amazing > >>that to today Obote has more supporters in Uganda than any other political > >>leader. If you do not believe me put a free and fair election in Uganda > >>today and you will be amazed, infact even NRM knows this that is why we > >>will never have a democratic election untill when Museveni gets a kidney > >>stone problem. > >> > >>But it is important for you Mwaami Kironde to understand that this is not > >>due to the hard work of Obote, it is due to the trust Ugandans have in the > >>man. Go home and ask Ugandans, why they go to Kampala road and sing UPC > >>when they know that they are going to be shot by NRM at spot. They will > >>tell you that the man is worth the trust. So population is a very > >>important factor in our nations. You can do good and the popu
ugnet_: Rwandan Doctor "Picked" by "crooks" (as in Chieftancy of Military Intelligence)
Rwandan Doctor Held in Uganda The Monitor (Kampala) September 12, 2003 Posted to the web September 12, 2003 Mwanguhya Charles Mpagi Kampala A Rwandan medical doctor has been arrested in Uganda. Dr Patrick Fred Karangwa was arrested in Fort Portal on Monday. The cause of the arrest is not yet known. According to his family, which lives in Fort Portal, Karangwa was picked by armed people at around 10 a.m. The Director of Criminal Investigations Department, Ms Elizabeth Kuteesa, said the police are investigating Karangwa's arrest. "I do not seem to have that person in my custody, but we are trying to find out where he is," she said. Karangwa works at Nyagatare Hospital in Rwanda, about 70kms from Mirama near Uganda's border. Kuteesa said Karangwa could have been kidnapped by crooks. "These days, we have so many crooks who might have guns and pretend to be police. You know these people in Rwanda are having a lot of their own problems, so I would not want to conclude that it is security holding him," she said. Karangwa's wife, Ms Elizabeth Nyakwera, is a Ugandan. She told The Monitor by telephone from Fort Portal that four men travelling in a white Toyota Corolla car arrested her husband. "He was kidnapped on Monday by men who were armed with pistols. They bundled him into the car and took him away," she said. She said that Karangwa came to Uganda last Saturday to arrange for their wedding which is due in December. "He had actually gone to Kyebambe Secondary School to book a venue for the party when he was arrested," she said. She said that her husband later called her at around 1.30 p.m. on Monday to say he had been arrested, but that he was safe. "He said that he was at Kampala Central Police Station, but I did not believe that... " she said. She said it was inconceivable that her husband had reached Kampala at the time he called. "... He [Karangwa] kept pausing and I think people were telling him what to say," Nyakwera said. Kabarole Resident District Commissioner Mr Ben Rullonga confirmed Karangwa's arrest but did not have details. The army spokesman, Maj. Shaban Bantariza, said that the army was not involved in the arrest. "He was not arrested by the army or the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence," he said. Karangwa becomes the third doctor to be arrested in recent weeks. Mr Lyene Masereka, a principal pharmacist at Mulago Hospital, and Dr Aggrey Byamukama from Fort Portal Hospital were arrested recently and have been charged with treason. Another doctor at Mulago, Gideon Rukundo, fled the country ahead of an impending arrest. The three were accused of supplying drugs to the People's Redemption Army, a rebel group that government says is led by Lt. Col. Samson Mande, Lt. Col. Anthony Kyakabale and Col. Edison Muzoora. All three are former UPDF officers who fled the country.
ugnet_: Teso Residents Displaced By Rebel Fighting Reach 200,000
Teso Residents Displaced By Rebel Fighting Reach 200,000 The Monitor (Kampala) September 13, 2003 Posted to the web September 12, 2003 Carolyne Nakazibwe Kampala Government is worried about the health conditions in Teso as numbers of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) shot up tenfold in just two weeks. The Commissioner Health Services Dr Sam Okware said the number of displaced people had gone up from the planned-for 20,000 to 200,000 posing a threat to the existent health services. He said this at a function where the Minister of State in charge of Primary Health Care, Dr Alex Kamugisha, was receiving supplies worth Shs 20 million from the WHO Country Representative, Dr Walker Oladapo, at the WHO offices yesterday. Kamugisha said the ministry could not predict how many more IDPs would come up as the insurgency in the east continues. For the last two months rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have been fighting in Teso, killing and abducting civilians, while other IDPs are living in over 14 camps in Soroti and Katakwi districts. The global health body donated anti malaria drugs, antibiotics and oral rehydration salts to the people displaced by the insurgency in the east. Oladapo also handed over jerry cans, hoes, 100 latrine slabs, pick axes and machetes among other supplies for the IDPs in Teso. He announced that WHO will next year install communication equipment to provide free Internet services to the ministry and international calls at Shs 200 a minute.
ugnet_: MUSEVENI TO "TEACH SUDAN A LESSON"!!
"Members of parliament also quoted Museveni as saying in a closed-door speech to parliament that Sudan had resumed the support and he would teach Khartoum a "lesson" if it persisted." Uganda openly accuses Sudan army of backing rebels By Paul Busharizi BOMBO, Uganda (Reuters) - Uganda for the first time openly accused Sudan Friday of resuming support for northern rebels in violation of a border cooperation pact, but said it would talk to Khartoum next month to resolve the matter. "Our information is that the rebels have set up new camps near and beyond Sudan army lines," Uganda's military intelligence chief Colonel Noble Mayombo told reporters, referring to the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels. "This intelligence we did not get from them (Sudanese authorities). If the intelligence exchange had been there, the LRA may have been defeated by now." One of Africa's strangest rebel movements, the LRA has fought a 17-year insurgency against the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and is feared for its habit of abducting children for use as child soldiers and sex slaves. In March last year Uganda and Sudan signed a protocol allowing Ugandan troops to hunt LRA fighters in southern Sudan, marking an end to Khartoum's support for the rebels which included permission for the rebels to have bases in Sudan. But earlier this week former child soldiers who gave themselves up to the army told members of parliament that LRA leaders had moved their headquarters to southern Sudan from northern Uganda and had been receiving arms and supplies from the Khartoum government in recent months. Members of parliament also quoted Museveni as saying in a closed-door speech to parliament that Sudan had resumed the support and he would teach Khartoum a "lesson" if it persisted. The Sudanese embassy in the Ugandan capital Kampala denied the accusations, which they said were based on hearsay. Uganda's state defense minister Ruth Nankabirwa told a news conference officials of the two countries would discuss the matter at a meeting in Khartoum in October. More than 14,000 Ugandan troops backed by tanks, artillery and helicopter gunships were deployed in the north last year to fight the rebels but have so far failed to defeat them. 09/12/03 13:32 ET
ugnet_: Peace mediators urge Burundi rebels to demobilise
Peace mediators urge Burundi rebels to demobilise (Knowing HUTUS, that is not going to happen !!) BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuters) - Foreign peacekeepers will only finish deploying in Burundi when rebels join demobilization camps in accordance with a peace plan aimed at ending a decade-long war, South Africa's defense minister said. Rebels from the Hutu majority have been fighting the Tutsi-led army in Burundi in a conflict that has killed some 300,000 people. South Africa has brokered peace talks aimed at shoring up a widely ignored cease-fire signed last year. "We think in so far that the various parties have signed for peace, it is to their responsibility to tell their combatants to go to the demobilization centers so that the peace process can proceed," South Africa's Mosiuoa Lekota told Reuters late on Thursday at the end of a one-day visit to the central African country. "We can't just bring a large number of people if the ex-combatants come in small numbers," he said. Three rebel groups have agreed to a truce including the main Hutu rebel Force for Defense of Democracy (FDD), whose fighters have repeatedly violated the cease-fire. Analysts say rebels will never stop attacks unless they are disarmed, put in barracks and demobilised, all of which are supposed to happen under the terms of the cease-fire. Only one demobilization center has been set up at Muyange, 19 miles northwest of the capital, Bujumbura. To date only 191 former fighters from splinter groups of the main rebel factions have reported to the site, which had been set up to accommodate up to 3,000. Lekota said that the young former fighters should be trained. "We think that there is a need to move very quickly, to move these people either to go and be trained or to proceed on to civilian life," he said. Lekota and Mozambique's Deputy Defense Minister Henrique Banze were in Burundi to discuss funding for the peacekeeping mission with the African Union. He said donor countries were expected to attend a conference in South Africa to discuss funding, but gave no date. Of a total of some 3,000 peacekeepers, only 1,600 South Africans have been deployed. Mozambique has agreed to supply more than 200 troops, but has yet to deploy them. "We hope that at least at the end of September that part of the contingent will be here in Burundi," Banze said. The country's second largest rebel group, the National Liberation Forces (FNL) remains outside the peace process. 09/12/03 11:25 ET
ugnet_: BUSH AND TERRORISTS- They need each other
Bush And Terrorists - They Need Each OtherBy Brian WhitakerThe Guardian - UK9-12-3 LONDON -- Politicians have a habit of declaring war on all sorts of intangible enemies - war on crime, war on drugs, war on whatever. These are only wars in a manner of speaking and we donât normally expect aircraft carriers to be dispatched and missiles readied in order to deal with them. Five days after the Sept. 11 suicide attacks on New York and Washington, President George Bush declared his intention to retaliate. "This crusade, this war on terrorism," he said, "is going to take a while". The word "crusade" proved an immediate own-goal, alarming Muslims with its historical allusion, and White House officials hastily back-tracked, making clear that "crusade" was only a figure of speech. But the "war" on terrorism was not a figure of speech. As the world soon discovered, George Bush meant it literally. From the very beginning, the war on terrorism was ill-conceived. Amid the trauma of Sept. 11, that was understandable and to some extent excusable, but the US has done little or nothing over the last two years to refine its concept and the objectives of the war are even more muddled today than they were in 2001. The war on terrorism, almost by definition, is infinite and unwinnable. No political leader is ever going to claim "victory" because that would be tempting fate. The best we can hope for is that it will eventually fade to more manageable proportions. It is also a war against an undefined, nebulous enemy. Bush insists, in the war on terrorism, that we are either for him or against him - and yet there is no international consensus on what the word "terrorism" means. Russia, China, and many other countries, have their own ideas about terrorism and have been happy to step up internal repression in the pretence of helping Bush. The war, as conceived by Bush, also treats terrorism in a vacuum, as a phenomenon that is simply evil and not the product of history or circumstance: Never mind the injustices or the violence committed by governments - all that the suicide bombers want is a business-class ticket to paradise. The result is a war that tries to deal with the symptoms - by making terrorism more difficult - while ignoring the factors that turn people toward violence. This is rather like the crime prevention strategy of fitting extra bolts to your windows and doors in the hope that burglars will rob your neighborâs house instead: It may be worth doing, but donât expect it to cure the underlying problem. During the first year of the war on terrorism, according to the US State Departmentâs annual report, Patterns of Global Terrorism, there appeared to be some progress in dealing with the symptoms. The number of international terrorist incidents (as defined by the State Department) fell to 199 in 2002 from 355 the year before. But a closer look shows that the reduction occurred almost entirely in South America, which is hardly a hotbed of Islamic militancy. If the South American figures are excluded, the war on terrorism reduced the number of year-on-year attacks by only five. Worldwide casualties reported by the State Department in 2002 were 2,738 compared with 5,431 in 2001 (the year of Sept. 11). If the exceptionally high toll of Sept. 11 is excluded, the total for 2001 was slightly less than half of last yearâs figure. The casualty totals for 2000 and 1999 were 1,211 and 940 respectively - a lot lower than last yearâs figure - though 1998 was a bad year with 6,695 casualties. Counting the terrorist attacks for this year is likely to give the State Department a headache because of the situation in Iraq. Attacks on US troops, for instance, are not regarded as terrorism if a "state of hostilities" exists, but George Bush officially ended "major hostilities" on May 1. Maybe they will be counted, maybe not. While the progress made by the United States in tackling the symptoms of terrorism is at best debatable, there are signs that the broader anti-terrorism project is running into trouble, along with the associated wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and may even be worsening the problem. The war on terror is not diminishing
ugnet_: WHAT CAN $87 BILLION BUY?
What Can $87 Billion Buy?Tom Paine.com9-12-3 The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute based in Washington, D.C. On September 7th, President Bush asked Congress for an additional $87 billion for the war in Iraq, acknowledging that the engagement in Iraq is going to cost many hundreds of billions of dollars. This was a surprise considering that prior to the war, the administration dismissed such estimates, and even fired its top economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, for suggesting those estimates were correct. To get some perspective, here are some real-life comparisons about what $87 billion means. $87b Is More Than The Combined Total Of All State Budget Deficits In The United States The Bush administration proposed absolutely zero funds to help states deal with these deficits, despite the fact that their tax cuts drove down state revenues. [Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities] $87b Is Rougly The Total Of Two Years Worth Of All U.S. Unemployment Benefits The U.S. spends about $50 billion a year on unemployment insurance. At least 1.1 million people have exhausted all of their unemployment benefits without finding a job, and yet Congress has refused to extend benefits. [Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities] $87b Is Enough To Pay The 3.3 Million People Who Have Lost Jobs $26,363 Each The unemployment benefits extension passed by Congress at the beginning of this year provides zero benefits to "workers who exhausted their regular, state unemployment benefits and cannot find work." All told, two thirds of unemployed workers have exhausted their benefits. [Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities] $87b Is More Than Double The Total Amount The Government Spends On Homeland Security The U.S. spends about $36 billion on homeland security. Yet, Sen. Warren Rudman (R-N.H.) wrote "America will fall approximately $98.4 billion short of meeting critical emergency responder needs" for homeland security without a funding increase. [Source: Council on Foreign Relations] $87b Is 7 Times What The Government Spends On Title I For Low-Income Schools President Bush proposed a budget of just $12 billion for Title I, leaving a $6.2 billion hole in what he promised to spend on Title I in his No Child Left Behind Bill. [Source: House Appropriations Committee] $87b Is 87 Times The Amount The Federal Government Spends On After School Programs President Bush proposed a budget that reduces the $1 billion for after-school programs to $600 million -- cutting off about 475,000 children from the program. [Souce: House Appropriations Committee] $87b Is About 9 Times What The Federal Government Spends On Special Education Legislation authorizes the federal government to pay 40 percent of the cost of special education, but because of budget shortfalls, it only pays roughly 18 percent (or $9.9 billion), driving up local property taxes. [Source: House Appropriations Committee] $87b Is More Than 10 Times What The Government Spends On All Environmental Protection The Bush administration requested just $7.6 billion for the entire Environmental Protection Agency. This included a 32 percent cut to water quality grants, a 6 percent reduction in enforcement staff, and a 50 percent cut to land acquisition and conservation. [Source: Natural Resources Defense Council] $87b Is 8 Times The Total For Pell Grants -- The Major College Program In The U.S. In 1975, when the Pell Grant program was established, it financed about 84 percent of the cost of attending a four-year public college. Today, that share is down to about 40 percent, and under Congress,s current proposal to freeze Pell Grant funding at about $10 billion, it would drop to 38 percent. [Source: House Appropriations Committee] $87b Is More Than The Total Cost Of The First 3 Years Of The Medicare Pres. Drug Proposal [Source: Congressional Budget Office] $87b Is Enough To Give Every Man, Woman And Child In America $300 "[We] want to control spending. And I hope Congress lives up to their words. When t
ugnet_: Fwd: Re: [UNAANET] An Opinion defending Muniini -curiousity killed rat!
Original Message Follows From: james ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Buganda Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [UNAANET] An Opinion defending Muniini -curiousity killed rat! Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Ms. Mugisha, I do not envy your job of trying to pacify warring factions, but I do appreciate the effort. Your labors as an arbiter would have been more fruitful had you adopted a neutral stance, if only for appearances. However, anyone who can read between the lines can see whose side you are on. Be that as it may. My, oh, my! Am I just imagining things or did you just deny, in writing, and in you official capacity, that Mr. Muniini is not a member of the Reform Agenda (RA)? It seems wonders never cease, the Pope doesn't have to be Catholic! Ok. Now, I must admit that all this time, I have under the mistaken impression that Mr. Muniini was/is a member of the RA. I doubt that I am alone in this belief. For one, folks who were at UNAA Detroit, which was attended by both Mr. Muniini and Dr. Besigye the RAs leader, came away with an impression close to mine. Also, during the last presidential elections, I seem to recall that Mr. Muniini was deeply involved on the RAs side. But this might be to a faulty memory. Perhaps there is something nasty in the water or the air in my neck of the woods. That said, if I went to the RA website, would I see the names of all RAs officials, i.e. is the list inclusive and/or exhaustive? Let me assure Ms. Mugisha, I stand by what I wrote about Mr. Muniini in the article I submitted to The Monitor. Let me also assure you that I have absolutely zero motivation to slander, libel or otherwise defame Mr. Muniini, and I have nothing to gain in engaging in the assassination of his character. However, Ill continue to hold his feet to the fire for his unexplained efforts to malign us, the Baganda: we are not amused! And, by withdrawing my support for the RA I am saying to you, politicians, in my feeble way, that we the lowly people, the masses are fed up of being manipulated, and set against each other. That is, there is a political price to pay for your folly and/or irresponsibility. There is a limit to how much abuse the populace can bear. Obote set up the Acholi right from the 1960s, perhaps even earlier. See Ibingiras book African Upheavals Since Independence. And now, the RA is continuing, even before they have set foot in the State House. My laymans understanding of slander is: utterance in the presence of another, false statements damaging to the third persons character or reputation. Libel is the written form of slander. And to defame is to injure or attack the reputation or honor by false and malicious statements, malign, slander or libel. But then again, you are the legal scholar, while I am illiterate in those matters. Nonetheless, Mr. Muniini may sue me for a lot of things: slander wont be one of them (If he is threatening to sue me through you, please inform him I am not fazed). In you defense of Mr. Muniinis solid reputation as columnist, I was struck by your disregard for the harm and hurt he caused us the Baganda. Just in case you missed it, here is what Mr. Muniini wrote in his August 4, 2003 column (in part): == However, I think that the major reason for the lack of public outrage over the massacres of fellow Ugandans in Katakwi [Teso] and Pader [Acholi] is racism. Uganda-style racism; the old north-south divide. The truth is, Tingasiga, the massacres in Katakwi and Pader happened to "them," not to "us." They occurred "over there", in the land of "they" who did it to "us" in the Luwero Triangle and elsewhere before "we" overthrew them from power in 1986. That the vast majority of people of Acholi and Teso had absolutely nothing to do with the crimes committed by the pre-Museveni regimes is a truth that must not be allowed to interfere with such prejudices. That the people of Acholi and Teso are our brothers, our kinsmen, fellow Africans, bound together by a history that we cannot undo, fated to a common destiny, is a detail that must not be accorded room in our consciousness. To do so would ruin the great illusion of being different from "them" who are from "over there." It would make it hard for us to say, with a smile, that "they" deserve it. Whether it is the Kanungu massacre or the violence in Bunyoro, the violent cattle-rustling in Karamoja and Teso or the abduction of girls from Lango and Acholi, many Ugandans see these crimes as purely local matters, of concern to members of the relevant "tribes." It is "their" problem, not "ours." This is the same attitude that has been shown by many people from the southern parts of Uganda, especially from Buganda and the Western Region, in response to the long nightmare that has gripped the Acholi people for nearly two decades. While few would openly admit to such racist attitudes, man
ugnet_: Buganda; part of the problem or solution?
Mwaami Kasangwawo Monitor does not control flow of information and that is the difference between Monitor and your self. And on your comments about Buganda, I will use the only weapon which has never deluded me, time. Let us wait we will see. Be well my Ugandan friend. 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: jonah kasangwawo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:03 AM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Buganda; part of the problem or solution? Mw. Ssemakula,this was but just another of Mulindwa's disjointed, illogical, anti-Baganda renditions and I'm at a loss why the Monitor was in such a hurry to publish it. Could it be that the Monitor has a secret motive for doing this ?That said, does it really matter WHEN the Kabaka or Nnabagereka or Buganda officials started speaking out on the war in northern Uganda ? What is important is that they have done so.Mulindwa and gang should be reminded of the saying that 'you can't have your cake and eat it too'. When the Kabaka says something concerning a national issue, they say he should not intervene in politics. When he doesn't, they still protest. They give the impression that they don't know what they actually want.Kasangwawo>From: "J Ssemakula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: ugnet_: Buganda; part of the problem or solution?>Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:19:29 +>><< message3.txt >>_Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Gook, In addition to my comments of yesterday with regards to Mr. "Mulindwa" 's namby-pamby argument in defence of Mr. Muniini, I'd like to add the following: 1. If it were true that children might be afraid of Luganda speaking soldiers how does change the equation? I do not see how one can conclude that everyone who has a Kiganda-sounding name or can speak some sort of Luganda is a Muganda any more than one can conclude that everyone who speaks the Queen's English a de facto Englishman. 2. Granted that the Nnaabagereka is relatively a recent entrant on the national scene. However this only re-inforces my argument that the Baganda, in particular, care deeply about the suffering of our Northern compatriots: in that brief time on the national scene the Nnaabagereka has chosen to add Her voice to those advocating for peace. 3. Let us suppose that it is true that the Kabaka's funds are derived from Rwakitura. It is all the more remarkable that inspite of this, the Kabaka of Buganda is still sensitive to the pain of our Northern brethren. And by the way, we the Baganda, are perfectly capable of supporting our Kabaka, thank you very much. Our history of, at least, five hundured (500) years is proof enough of that. 4. Speaking of ethnic groups, could you kindly tell us when and what the Banyakigezi (Mr. Muniini being a Munyakigezi) have done or said about this tragic war in Northern Uganda? Ssemakula [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message Follows From: "gook makanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Buganda; part of the problem or solution? Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:28:58 + Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage.
