[Ugnet] A KENYAN HELD IN AN AXE ATTACK
Kenyan held in the US for axe attackStory by JEFF OTIENOPublication Date: 07/23/2006A Kenyan is being held in the United States after slicing his colleaguewith an axe. Elijah Tanui was arrested by police after he slit the forehead of hisgirlfriend, Tecla Cheruiyot, during a confrontation that lasted almostfour hours in a motel in Maryland. According to a report in The Patriot News, also appearing on PennLive. Comsite, Tanui, who is from Wilmington, has since been charged with twocounts of kidnapping, two counts of false imprisonment and two counts ofconcealing a deadly weapon.He is being held there in lieu of $500,000 (Sh35 million) bail awaitingextradition to Pennsylvania. Tanui, Ms Cheruiyot said, sliced her with an axe. The axe cut her foreheadin an L-shape. Another blow severed her ear, from the top of the ear tothe tube leading into the inner part, she said. Susquehanna police whose jurisdiction includes the area where Mr Tanui andMs Cheruiyot lived, have also charged him with attempted homicide, twocounts of kidnapping, aggravated assault, robbery of a motor vehicle, andterroristic threats. The report said the kidnap ordeal started at Cheruiyot's home inSusquehanna, Pennsylvania, where Mr Tanui had gone to collect hisbelongings after breaking up with the former who had been his girlfriendfor two years. The lady and her sister, Helen Jepkorir, live with their uncle and arestudying nursing at Harrisburg Area Community College.A struggle between them began after an argument. "I struggled with him for a long time and I cried for help. There wasnobody around here so there was nobody who could hear," Ms Cheruiyot said.She said Tanui had another time asked her to kill him.___ Kenyan held in the US for axe attack Story by JEFF OTIENO Publication Date: 07/23/2006 A Kenyan is being held in the United States after slicing his colleague with an axe. Elijah Tanui was arrested by police after he slit the forehead of his girlfriend, Tecla Cheruiyot, during a confrontation that lasted almost four hours in a motel in Maryland. According to a report in The Patriot News, also appearing on PennLive. Com site, Tanui, who is from Wilmington, has since been charged with two counts of kidnapping, two counts of false imprisonment and two counts of concealing a deadly weapon. He is being held there in lieu of $500,000 (Sh35 million) bail awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania. Tanui, Ms Cheruiyot said, sliced her with an axe. The axe cut her forehead in an L-shape. Another blow severed her ear, from the top of the ear to the tube leading into the inner part, she said. Susquehanna police whose jurisdiction includes the area where Mr Tanui and Ms Cheruiyot lived, have also charged him with attempted homicide, two counts of kidnapping, aggravated assault, robbery of a motor vehicle, and terroristic threats. The report said the kidnap ordeal started at Cheruiyot's home in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, where Mr Tanui had gone to collect his belongings after breaking up with the former who had been his girlfriend for two years. The lady and her sister, Helen Jepkorir, live with their uncle and are studying nursing at Harrisburg Area Community College. A struggle between them began after an argument. "I struggled with him for a long time and I cried for help. There was nobody around here so there was nobody who could hear," Ms Cheruiyot said. She said Tanui had another time asked her to kill him. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] Civil societys role is key in the succ ess of Juba talks
Comrade Vukoni, You say that "The people in the marginalised areas of Uganda, including the long-suffering Acholi, showed their anger against Museveni's stone-deaf government with a stunning vote for the opposition during elections this year. " Yes but there is this notion, peddled sometimes with undercurrents of tribal animosity, that while the North voted against m7 the South voted for him. In my home area, you may not believe this but, Speaker Edward Ssekandi of the NRM lost the vote. DP and a Mr Mbabali clearly were the choice of this Masaka area. M7 and the electoral commission rigged Ssekandi in. The strange part is that DP itself dissuaded Mr Mbabali from contesting the unfortunate theft of the people's vote. Their motivation was the usual cant. That Ssekandi is their buddy. A "good man". "A Catholic". etc. I am sure there are other areas in the "South" where votes were robbed. The pattern of stealing was designed to indicate that while the North rejected m7 at least he obtained his majority, and mandate, from the South. It would be tragic for us to swallow this lie. Comrade Vukoni we rely on patriots like you to use your column to keep truth in the face of Ugandans. Lest they drift off into the tribal bickering trap that m7 so clearly set. Mitayo Potosi === OPINIONS & COMMENTARIES THIRD EYE OPEN | Vukoni Lupa Lasaga ... Civil societys role is key in the success of Juba talks July 25, 2006 The peace talks went into recess without any significant breakthough. No, the photo op between Chief of Military Intelligence Col. Leopold Kyanda and LRA commander Lernard Bwone Lubwa at the Saturday cocktail party at Jubas Raha Hotels doesnt count.If history is anything to go by, our self-serving politicians and the soldiers who for one reason or the other continue to kill and die for them have a disquieting penchant for eating from the same bowl on one day and massacring each other and luckless civilians on the next. So, the jury is still out on how the worm will turn. But this isn't to say that no progress is being made. The interesting thing is that unlike in past peace talks, civil society, represented by religious and traditional leaders, is playing a more prominent role. To a certain extent, the initiator of the peace effort, Dr Riek Machar, vice president of the southern Sudanese government, was responding to pressure from wananchi in his own backyard when he convened the talks in Juba. Not much is known in Uganda about how religious and community leaders in southern Sudan have, in the course of over 20 years of enduring war, repeatedly confronted the SPLA/M leadership over human rights violations.That same spirit of courage apparently came into play when local leaders made it known to the southern Sudanese government that they did not want to see Joseph Kony and Yoweri Musevenis fighters continuing to kill, loot, rape and maim their people in a senseless war..Quite independent of the southern Sudanese development, a similar groundswell of revulsion has built up among the civilian population in northern Uganda and the rest of the country against the human cost of a war in which more non-combatants are dying than the belligerents. The result has been the extraordinary mobilisation of the residents of the internally displaced peoples camps and other concerned Ugandans. The unflinching leadership of Catholic Archbishop John Bosco Odama of Gulu and retired Anglican Bishop Macleod Baker Ochola and traditional chiefs and politicians from the war ravaged areas eventually managed to pierce national and international apathy. In the past year alone, these men of the cloth, former top UN civil servant Olara Otunnu, and concerned nongovernmental organisations bore witness to the suffering of millions and drew the attention of the media, diplomats, politicians, and increasingly ordinary people in the Western countries -- Museveni's traditional allies. Externally, the UN raised the ante by labeling the northern crisis, the worlds worst neglected humanitarian disaster. Oprah Winfrey, on at least two occasions, delivered footage of the plight of at-risk northern Ugandan children, directly into the living rooms of tens of millions of viewers of her talkshow. Young North American activists took up the cause of the night commuters making and screening documentaries of the heartrending stories of innocent people, two generations of them, being wasted physically and psychically in virtual concentration camps. Two months ago, thousands of citizens in the United States and Canada started walking for miles and sleeping out in solidarity with the night commuters. Many more called their senators and congressmen, asking what they were doing about the appalling conditions in northern and eastern Uganda. But by and large, the rise in the level of consciousness about the northern war is a collective achievement of ordinary Ugandans: med
[Ugnet] Uganda threatens to attack rebels in Congo
" Minister Ruth Nankabirwa " comments exhibit yet a another twisted logic; citizens the fact of the matter is that UPDF forces have been fighting "konny rebels" for NOT 2 years, of 5 years but Twenty years!!!. .. Now any military strategist will tell you that if you have been fighting an enemy for close to twenty years !!.. and you have not succeeded in defeating the said enemy , then it is time to explore different avenues in a move contain the situation ( ie through peace talks).. indeed this is precisely what the people of Uganda want...a peaceful avenue to resolve the Northern and Eastern Uganda Museveni created crises. Issuing threats to the so called "rebels in Gambara Forest.. mbhu that you are getting ready to attack them, cannot bring about peace in Uganda and for that matter in the great lakes region of Africa. Suppose "kony" like Dubia, says bring in on... then what?.. indeed, based on the facts and intelligence on the ground in Uganda, Museveni cannot afford to massively re-deploy UPDF trooops into DRC Congo, to fight "kony".. if Museveni as much as tries to deploy his forces in DRC congo, that would spell the end of NRM.. the population in Uganda are tired of wars which has been on going for twenty years!!!.. that said, the population is much likely to turn against the NRM military dictatorship, if once agian the regime initiates yet another war by massively deploying UPDF troops... MK Uganda threatens to attack rebels in Congo Published: Monday, 24 July, 2006, 12:25 PM Doha Time KAMPALA: Uganda said yesterday it might still attack Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels camped in Congo if peace talks hosted by neighbouring southern Sudan fail to end fighting in one of Africas longest wars.Tentative discussions with representatives of the LRA began a week ago, but have advanced little beyond the government offering amnesty in return for total LRA surrender, and the rebels demanding compensation and power-sharing.While the talks continued, Ugandas Deputy Defence Minister Ruth Nankabirwa said Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) still had legal obligations to disarm militia groups like the LRA that posed a threat to regional security.Because of peace talks you cannot paralyse all these other efforts, she told reporters. If these talks fail, what next? Will Uganda jump into DRC? That is a possibility.Kinshasa and the UN have refused repeated requests from Uganda to be allowed to send its troops into Congo to hunt down the rebels themselves.Congolese leaders were watching the talks in Juba closely, Nankabirwa said, and would be called to account by their own people who might remain at risk from the LRA if they failed.LRA leader Joseph Kony is believed to be hiding in remote northeastern DRCs Garamba forest, where he crossed late last year from hideouts in southern Sudan.South Sudans regional government says it wants to broker an end to Konys two-decade insurgency, which has killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted nearly 2mn in northern Uganda alone and destabilised southern Sudan.But Kony and his deputies are wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, and have so far stayed hidden in Congo during the negotiations being mediated by southern Sudans Vice-President Riek Machar.In a bid to coax Kony out of the bush, Machar will lead about 60 LRA relatives - including Konys mother Nora - local religious leaders and elders from the rebels northern Acholi tribe to meet the LRA leaders this week on the border. Reuters Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] Opinion of some US Citizens about the talks in Juba Sudan
The Myth of U.S. Engagement In Uganda Disengagement isnt just the Bush administrations strategy for the Arab-Israeli conflict. At a recent press roundtable following her visit to Northern Uganda, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer claimed that the U.S. is indeed committed to peace in Northern Uganda:Question: Ambassador Frazer, you said in London that the Bush Administration was going to insure that the LRA [Lords Resistance Army] rebellion ends by the end of the year. How do you think that is going to happen? Frazer: What I was saying is that is our goal that seems to be a good time frame in which we can focus our actions and that of other international partners and countries to try to end what are clearly the atrocities of the war. Frazer further enumerated the importance of resolving a conflict that has displaced 1.5 million, abducted 38,000 children, and whose rates of violent death are three times higher than those reported in Iraq following the 2003 invasion: I think that in terms of assisting the government of Uganda President Bush has been trying to do that since 2001. I was sent here by Secretary Rice to look into the conditions in northern Uganda, so that I could come back with additional recommendations on how the president and she can assist in bringing this war to an end. However, the State Departments Uganda Desk Officer Barbara Yoder has confirmed that the US has no presence at potentially ground-breaking peace talks in Juba between the Lords Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. When asked who is representing the US, the officer replied:Were not involved. Were watching it but we are not involved in that, in the talks themselves. Thats between the LRA and the [Government of Uganda]. Yoder offered thoughts on the peace talks suggesting her level of knowledge was less than stellar:Were watching everything with this, but its a daily changing thing, so there are a number of elements that are going into this. There is UN action and other things where we are setting the development of things. The Government of Uganda as a sovereign nation is basically taking the lead on this and we support their right to try to solve the problem. Thats really been one of our talking points for a while. Its to the governments in the region to try and solve this problem. Its very fluid that conflict is a day-to-day thing. We have not come out on any strong position on anything other than let the process unfold and were watching it. The only thing clear is that neither the President nor his administration is serious about fulfilling their pledges to help Uganda end its twenty-year war. Caroline Andresen and Chrissie Coxon Filed under: Africa, Human Rights Posted by Guest July 24, 2006 9:01 pm Permalink | Comment (15) 15 Comments » The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://thinkprogress.org/ 2006/ 07/ 24/ uganda-us/ trackback/ sorry uganda has no oil reservesthey are on their own. the usa does not need what they have: Small deposits of copper, cobalt, iron-ore, limestone, and salt as well as less viable fields of tungsten, beryl, columbo-tantalite, gold, bismuth, tin, limestone and phosphates. Comment by james risser July 25, 2006 @ 12:45 am As I recall Clenis was the last superleader to have an impact on the genocidal African continent. He of course looked the other way hell there wasnt any lube, man. Now, in the tradition of true selective humanitarian intervention, the Great President Boo$h considers this shit as a mere inconvenience to his cunning empire building abilities. D. or R., youre failing like a bitch. Satan is indeed the God of this sytem of things. Comment by beavercleaver July 25, 2006 @ 12:47 am I concur with posts 1 and 2..Now, just where did I put that thingy, you know, that one, no, not that one, the other thingy, you know . Comment by agua fiero July 25, 2006 @ 1:16 am Continuing on # 1 Bush only cares when the the color black is in the ground and not on the faces of the participants. Think Iraq and New Orleans! Comment by ocdemocrat July 25, 2006 @ 1:20 am sorry uganda has no oil reservesthey are on their own.Comment by james risser July 25, 2006 @ 12:45 am Luckily for them. Lets see some examples of countries that have received the altruist assistance of US: Nicaragua 2nd poorest country in Latinamerica (better than Haiti, which also received some nice gesture of a US landing) Chile and Argentina more than 30,000 missing persons abducted by dictatorships supported and trained in Fort Benning, Georgia. Vietnam, East Timor, Bosnia, Grenade, Panama, etc, etc, etc. Comment by Juan C July 25, 2006 @ 1:27 am Bush really does not care about most of Africa, except for any African nations that have oil! Uganda as far as I know does not have oil, or diamonds like the Congo, so this is for show! Comment by Jay Randal July 25,
[Ugnet] Luwero Genocide and ICC
Prime Minister Professor Nsibambi Apollo Speaker of Parliament Ssekandi Edward Head of the European delegation in Uganda European Ambassadors in Uganda Ugandas Members of Parliament Luwero Genocide and ICC Allow me to address you on genocide in Luwero in this open letter. The issues of genocide in Luwero Triangle, will never go away and finally will be arbitrated, by the International Criminal Court. Amazingly the European Ambassadors in Uganda, who recently visited the mass graves could only look and not assist government to apprehend those who perpetuated to mass murder of innocent civilian. The act of being terribly silent, given the European experiences of Adolf Hilter in Germany, Rwanda genocide smacked of an anti democratic stance untypical of European culture. The era of impunity has passed world over and those who committee atrocities against peoples of the world, for power and their glory, history judge them harshly. In fact Europeans would have understood right away that governments action of inviting them onto the scene of mass killing, was a cry for assistance. We residents of Luwero who bore the brunt of a primitive war we are kin to see the European Community ambassadors in Uganda, who have visited the mass grave of our beloved sisters, brothers, friends and parents, encourage criminal investigation into the genocide. Impunity has been the sole impediment to social justice and a grand design by politicians, to entrench authoritarianism and inflict misery on to their own citizens. Donor fund cutting does not go further for it penalise those it intends to support living under unbearable circumstances. The rule of law should therefore prevail over conformity. NRM prides itself that thousands of people were massacred and they were there to witness the annihilation, helplessly. It is then quite surprising, for over 20 years, NRM has done nothing to investigate or made any attempts to apprehend those who ordered and carried out the massacre! Rwanda did start criminal proceedings into the genocide, to show and prove to the entire world the wrong and right in black and white. Why has Uganda failed to do the same? Those who peddle lies and try to pervert the truth about mass murder in Luwero, will have their day in the courts of law. Luwero, a piece of land sandwiched between two army barracks Nakasongola in Buruli county and Bombo in Bulemezi county, its only where NRM was operating, massacres took place and one finds mass graves. I visited Nakasongola in Buruli in the 80s, shockingly Nakasongolas Kanyonyi barracks and the entire surrounding in Buruli areas, never saw village to village carnage of citizens as the case was in Luwero! We people coming from Luwero, who lost lots of people in that war, are committed to bringing the perpetuators to justice, whatever the cost. We have a right to do so. The policy of elimination of the people who rejected or opposed the war started in Luwero. The concept of savage torture i.e. tying peoples hands (kandoya) behind their backs, straining to rapture their chest muscles, started with in Luwero. Burning people with molten plastic was exercised in Luwero with such merciless savagery. You only need those who went through the experience to realise the enormous suffering people went through. In this forum, with an intention of getting more information about the murders in Luwero, I once posted tens of names, of people who disappeared in Luwero, picked from their homes or churches. Some of these people disappeared never to be seen again. Others, their legs were shattered with bullets since they had a different opinion of the war. Can it justice the terrible suffering the people went through? A mass murder is a mass murder it doesnt matter where s/he comes from. The issue of Luwero will never be silenced even if it means all of us dying. There are hundreds of parents who cant tell where their children disappeared in Luwero bushes for fear of retribution. There are women who dont know the fate of their husbands. NRM/A must fully account for the following; a. What happened to the people who opposed NRM/A war in Luwero. b. Account for all people in Luwero forced to join NRM/A war in Luwero and died in combat, who 20 years are still unaccounted for. c. To openly show the people of Buganda where all Luwero combatants who died in the war are buried. d. List names of all civilians those who directly or indirectly died in that war and what they died of. e. Explain what happened to people who fell victims to NRA disguise as Uganda Peoples Congress supporters? f. Set up an independent investigation by ICC into the murder of Luttamaguzi. g. Release Nagenda commission of inquiry report. MPs in the 8th parliament should fully understand the implication of the war in Luwero or get educated on those issues. Their ineptness into the matter will not absolve
