[Ugnet] 6.AMAHORO CELEBRATIONS PRELUDE.(By Jackie JURA, Rwanda 2006)
www.orwelltoday.com 6. AMAHORO CELEBRATIONS PRELUDE The culminating event of my visit to Rwanda was to be present with Rwandans at the Amahoro stadium for the combined celebration of their Independence and Liberation Days. As readers of my Rwanda writings know, I became bonded to Rwanda the day I heard on the radio that Hutus were butchering Tutsis with machetes in broad daylight in the African country of Rwanda while soldiers under the command of a Canadian general were doing nothing to stop them. It turned out that there weren't really very many Canadian soldiers there, other than the General, as this was a typical United Nations operation made up of soldiers from various nations, all following the insane orders of incompetent bureaucrats in New York with names like Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Booh-Booh and Kofi Annan, none of who had a track record of honesty or integrity and who had at their unaccountable disposal billions of dollars and millions of human beings. And so the slaughter of Tutsis (and any Hutus who refused to particpate in the slaughter) continued unihibited for three months until finally the killing was stopped by a so-called "rebel" army from Uganda - the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) - who scared the killers so bad that they ran by the millions into neighbouring nations where they were provided a million dollars a day in humanitarian aid from the same United Nations that had refused to help the people they'd been killing - the Tutsis in Rwanda. From then on the story of Rwanda, to the western world, was all about these so-called "refugee" camps which were in reality "perpetrator" camps, and not a word was reported about the after-effects in Rwanda. No mention was made that the cities, towns, villages, huts and countryside of Rwanda were littered with mutilated bodies that were being eaten by dogs, rats and REAL cockroaches, the name the Hutu-Power always slurred at the Tutsi in the years leading up to the Genocide. No mention was made that the entire infrastructure of the nation was in ruins and that, quoting from WE WISH TO INFORM YOU by Philip Gourevitch, "the fleeing Hutu Power mobs grabbed every bit of portable property they could lay their hands on and every wheeled vehicle that still rolled to carry themselves and their cargo. What they could not take with them, they systematically looted and laid to waste: government offices, factories, schools, electrical pylons, homes, shops, tea and coffee plantations. They tore away roofing and ripped out windows, slashed water lines and ate or carted off all they could that was edible." Quoting from the report TEN YEARS ON by Alfred Ndahiro, "July 1994 found Rwanda on its deathbed. The air was filled with the stench of death: heaps of corpses were on every inch of the land while others floated freely on lakes and rivers...On fleeing, the refugees, who included government officials, officers and men of the national army, private individuals and the rest of the peasantry, fled with the entire infrastructure: money out of the banks, vehicles, military tanks and arms, as well as all the ammunition...When the Government of National Unity was set up in July 1994, the whole country was shattered and was in a state of utter anarchy. Its social and economic infrastructure was in a state of collapse. The whole population was greatly divided, deeply traumatised and needed healing if life was to go on. Law and order had completely broken down. Large-scale atrocities were still going on in parts of the country. The judicial infrastructure had either been damaged or destroyed. All national law enforcement agencies and judicial institutions had ceased to exist and the system of administration of justice had come to a complete standstill. Neither schools nor hospitals were functioning. The civil service had been decimated or its membership had fled into exile. Public utilities such as electricity, water and telephones were not functioning. The fleeing genocidaires had run away with practically all the money and the little money left in the banks lay in vaults whose location was unknown to the newcomers. There were no functioning banks, factories, shops or even open-air markets. Commercial and residential buildings stood in an eerie silence, shattered or intact but almost all invariably containing dead bodies. Instruments of death lay everywhere: guns, grenades and all the other crude implements. Genocide survivors were still scattered all over the country, deeply traumatized. The genocide had greatly divided and polarized the country. Most worrying, however, was that a cloud of insecurity hung over the country, as former soldiers and militia groups reorganized across the border in the DRC..."So this was the Rwanda the government led by the Rwandese Patriotic Front - the liberators from tyrants and genocide - inherited. And this was the Rwanda that no one was helping - including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund who w
[Ugnet] Our Towns , Africans & Our Ways
To Professor Balibaseka Bukenya Professor Nsibambi Apollo Professor Kiddu Makubuya Hon. Omara Atubo Mr. Mayanja Nkanji Joswa Our Towns, Africans & Our Ways There are two articles, both appearing in the New Vision in a space of a week. One written by former conservative party leader, NRM Economic Planning and Finance Minister, Buganda Prime Minister, Attorney General and currently Uganda Land Commission chairman Mayanja Nkanji Joswa. The Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Hon. Omara Atubo wrote another article. Mayanjas article appeared in Julys week 30 and Atubos article in week 32. The articles are a violation of the Town and Country Planning and Public Health Acts and other laws. The articles are circuses and absurdities, defending allocation of land and justifying government acts, which is politically all right for the authors and professionally, morally and ethically, erroneous and silly to the public. The two government officials widely refer to the land act. However, laws do not work in isolation of other laws hence The Uganda Land Act Rev. Ed. 2000, under the Functions of the Commission Sec. 49 clause (d) states clearly; PERFORM SUCH OTHER FUNCTIONS AS MAY BE PRESCRIBED BY OR UNDER THIS ACT OR ANY OTHER ENACTMENT. That clause, gives the above authorities including the two officials, sweeping powers to call on the other laws including cancellation of illegal allocation of land including its misuse. Other laws are; the road act, water act, local government act, forest act, NEMA regulation and statute, building regulations, town and country planning act, criminal laws etc. Bye way the above laws are not considered in any of the injudicious allocation of land some of, which was offered to Uganda government by the Buganda Kingdom for PROPER USE. I therefore, challenge Mr. Atubo and Mayanja lawyers by profession, instead of writing rudimentary and biased articles in the national media to mislead the public, to instead point to studies including; HYDROLOGICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, HEALTH & SANITARY, TRAFFIC FOLLOW STUDIES & NETWORK, ECONOMICAL, UTILITY PLACEMENT, AESTHETICAL, LANDSCAPE, DEMOGRAPHICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, INFRASTRUCTURAL, ENGINEERING, ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL, TOPOLOGICAL etc, that were made in regard to allocation of land for the establishment of the following premises; a. Garden City placement b. Hilton Hotel localisation on Nakasero Hill c. ShopRite Game placement at Lugogo d. Relocation of Shimoni TTC and a Primary school e. Allocation of Kitante school land f. Karim Hotel behind Serena Hotel g. Sudir Kabira Club h. Numerous Car Washing bays in Kampala i. Motor garages placement in and around Kampala j. Mukwano soap Industries k. Design and construction of Nakivubo channel l. Battery industry on Luthuli avenue m. Allocation of land on Luthuli avenue the green belt n. A building on the traffic island on Wilson, Johnsson, Ben Kiwanuka streets o. Placement of the State House at Nakasero p. Location of numerous petrol stations in the capital q. Location of the New Taxi park r. Allocation of URC land on Entebbe road s. Buildings in the miniprice corridor and that in the former Local Bus park t. Etc, All the above premises are in total violation of the law reform newly released SANITATION and HOUSING laws page 6118 Cap 281 sec. 55, 57,70,71 and so on. Uganda has A WATER STATURE 22ND DECEMBER 1995. Kampala being a Lake Victoria wetland, anyone draining water must apply for easement rights section 35 (1). All the above named premises do not have permits allowing them to create the buildings on land deemed to contain water resources. Under the RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, Ugandans, have a right to see those respective studies in detail from the institution you lead. Now, that we have an information and communication technology ministry go ahead and append them on the internet. Ive got in my possession, an aerial hydrological study image of GAME shopping department location. If Kampala get higher levels of rainfall as the case was in the past, the facility will have to relocate or the entire Jinja road will have to be redesigned to accommodate water levels from as far as Ntinda, Nakawa and Naguru areas. Alternatively, there will be excavation to realign the entire drainage system including draining subterranean streams and springs flowing underground with devastating consequence on Lake Victoria. Moreover the SOUTHERN BYPASS was designed to start from here that has not been affected for over quarter a century because NRM people built in the road reserve, expecting to cash in on compensation funds! Get data who built expensive buildings in the road corridor. Buganda and Baganda want the government to relocate and leave Buganda alone, we are tired of hypocritical and self- deceptive politicians, destroying and p
[Ugnet] THANK GOD THE JEWS REJECTED UGANDA
We should be grateful that Jews rejected Uganda We in Uganda should at least have something to celebrate about. This is because we came so close to the ordeal that the Palestinians are going through. In 1903, The British Colonial Office set up a commission to look into the possibility that Uganda could be the site of the Jewish State. However, on August 19, 1903, delegates to the sixth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, clashed over the proposal. Theodor Herzel, the founder of the Zionist movement, said that he considered Palestine the best place for a Jewish State. He, however, said that he was prepared to consider the option of Uganda as a haven for persecuted Jews. It soon became clear that most Jews were not in favour of Uganda. Delegates from Russia, especially from Kashinev, who at the time were faced with violent persecution, said that they would not accept going anywhere other than Palestine - the ancient home of the Jews. Somehow, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, after Israels bitter wars with the Arab world, Tel Aviv realised that Uganda had actually been a viable and strategic place from which to fight Egypt. In fact one member of the Knesset [Israeli Parliament] was later to remark thus: "We could have ignored all the Nile Water treaties by diverting the water for more commercial and development uses in the East and Central Africa regions." Mike Aziz,Vancouver, Canada. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] THIS HAS TO MAKE EVERY JAW DROP
UK To Bury 47,000 Tons Of Deadly Nuclear Waste?Green Party in England & Wales8-6-6 Nuclear Waste: 'Let's bury the bodies' The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) has today published its final recommendations for dealing with the UK's radioactive waste - advocating burying it deep underground, after decades of 'interim storage' to allow for intensified research to address 'uncertainties.' (1) Green Party Principal Speaker Keith Taylor commented: "The UK has been creating radioactive waste for 50 years, and today's report shows that we still don't know what to do with it. Quite simply, they have decided out of sight, out of mind is the best option. The term disposal is misleading - it would be more honest to talk about disguising the problem through burying the bodies. "Nuclear waste must be stored in above ground facilities to allow easy access for when things go wrong - and to ensure close monitoring. Burying toxic waste deep in the earth is not a sustainable or predictable route to follow. He also highlighted the impact the committees findings would have on the government's enthusiasm for a new generation of nuclear power "It is ludicrous to embark on a new round of nuclear power build whilst we are still stumped with what to do with the present 47 000 tonnes of dangerous radioactive material our current nuclear power stations will produce. How many 'host communities' will the government need to buy off in the future - 'providing the community with a package of measures to support participation' - to deal with the ever increasing mountains of radioactive waste they plan to create in the future? "Presumably this is why the government were so careful to complete their enegy review BEFORE CoRWM had reported - the committees failure to find a 'solution' to the dangerous problem of nuclear waste, with only exorbitantly expensive 'management' proposals to offer, would have silenced many of the advocates of a new generation of dirty, dangerous and uneconomic power stations. (2) "CorRWM have not provided a solution, because there are none that provide any certainty of safety and containment. The committee's findings will be seized as a way forward by the nuclear lobby, when the only guaranteed things they offer is continuing liability and risk. "For the future, the best way of dealing with nuclear waste is not to create it in the first place." The key elements of the recommendations are: - In the long term, disposal of radioactive waste deep underground, an option known as geological disposal. - Robust interim storage, in recognition of the fact that the process leading to the creation of suitable facilities for disposal may take several decade - An equal partnership between government and potential host communities based on a willingness to participate - The immediate creation of an oversight body to begin the process of implementation Notes for Editors: (1) http://www.corwm.org.uk/content-0 (2) The Government's report on the Energy Review was released on 11 July 2006: http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/review/ Green Party Press Office 020 7561 0282 http://www.greenparty.org.uk Published and promoted by Jim Killock for the Green Party, both at 1a Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ. 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] *DHR* RWANDAN TV OVER THE INTERNET.
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[Ugnet] THE IDF SHOULD DO THE NUMBERS
The IDF Should Do The NumbersBy Terrell E. Arnold8-3-6 In the past few days, Israel's IDF forces have begun moving deeper into Lebanon. While Israeli announcements of this plan did not include details, the goal is to clear the area of south Lebanon up to the Litani River of any Hezbollah fighters. Israeli officials have said that already some 300 of an estimated 2,000 Hezbollah fighters have been killed. According to a New York Times report, Brigadier General Shakar of Israel's Northern Command indicated that the IDF is forming a "Red Line" along both sides of the Litani River--which runs pretty much east to west after it leaves the Lebanon range--and that a force amounting to around six brigades or 10,000 men would be fielded for this task. An overall objective, according to the Times, is to clear a two to three mile wide zone of land north of the Lebanon-Israel frontier of all Hezbollah fighters, explosives, mines, outposts, storage areas, barracks and other infrastructure, so that an international force can be deployed there without itself having to engage Hezbollah. Couched in the jargon of military maneuver, the plan sounds plausible. However, the numbers are, to say the least, challenging. As a practical matter, delivery on the plan would require a scorched earth sterilization of roughly 60 to 100 square miles of southern Lebanon, while maintaining effective occupation of roughly 400-500 square miles of Lebanon to north of the Litani River. That averages out to roughly 20 men per square mile. Such a force is equivalent to a large hunting or foraging party, but hardly a substantial fighting force when scattered over the whole region. The rejoinder to that observation is likely to be: But those forces will be assembled into fighting units according to the needs of identified battle zones. Right, as Sun Tzu or Clausewitz might say, but where is the battle? Here guerrilla warfare, as practiced by Hezbollah, has proven to be a baffling ordeal. After three weeks Israelis are asking why the best army in the region, the one that beat three national armies in six days, has been unable to beat a ragtag bunch of insurgents in three weeks. The second embarrassing question is: Having bombed poor Lebanon for several weeks with impunity, without resistance, and with the best equipment on the planet, why haven't IDF forces found and destroyed the battlefield? Here the IDF really needs to do the numbers. To start with, how many Hezbollah are there? At last count (estimate), Lebanon had almost 4 million people. Roughly 60% of the population is Islamic. An estimated 40% of the population is Shi'a, and roughly half (who knows exactly) of the Shi'a population appears to be Hezbollah. In effect, that means as many as 20-25% of the Lebanese (700,000-800,000 people) could be associated with Hezbollah. However, clouding that number even more is the fact that recent polls indicate that as many as 80-85% of all Lebanese now strongly favor Hezbollah. Both of the above percentage sets pose major problems for engaging a guerrilla war in Lebanon. The State Department estimates Hezbollah fighting strength at "several thousand," while the International Institute for Strategic Studies suggests the fighting force, including actives, backups and reserves, could exceed 15-20,000. Even if the fighting element of Hezbollah is on the low side of those numbers, the asymmetrical nature of guerrilla war, the ease with which such forces can hide in and receive support from the general population, and the fact that battle grounds are more than likely to be chosen by Hezbollah than by the IDF, would commend a much larger force than Israel has deployed or has talked about. Meanwhile, interdicting Hezbollah re-supply, not only from Iran and Syria but offshore sources, is a major challenge, and the Lebanese know their coast line and mountains far better than the Israelis. The numbers suggest that a prudent Israeli/US objective would be to stop soon and not risk the likely failure of an effort to eliminate Hezbollah as a fighting force. At the moment, the prospect is for a war that will be very costly in Israeli blood and treasure, to say nothing of the costs to Lebanon. The most likely outcome appears little better than a draw. And that says nothing of the political
[Ugnet] AN ENTIRE LEBANESE KILLED IN ISRAEL ATTACK
Robert Fisk: Entire Lebanese family killed in Israeli attack on hospital Published: 03 August 2006 An attack on a hospital, the killing of an entire Lebanese family, the seizure of five men in Baalbek and a new civilian death toll - 468 men, women and children - marked the 22nd day of Israel's latest war on Lebanon. The Israelis claimed that helicopter-borne soldiers had seized senior Hizbollah leaders although one of them turned out to be a local Baalbek grocer. In a village near the city, Israeli air strikes killed the local mayor's son and brother and five children in their family. The battle for Lebanon was fast moving out of control last night. Lebanese troops abandoned many of their checkpoints and European diplomats were warning their colleagues that militiamen were taking over the positions. Up to 8,000 Israeli troops were reported to have crossed the border by last night in what was publicised as a military advance towards the Litani river. But far more soldiers would be needed to secure so large an area of southern Lebanon. The Israelis sent paratroopers to attack an Iranian-financed hospital in Baalbek in the hope of capturing wounded Hizbollah fighters but, after an hour's battle, got their hands on only five men whom the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, later called "tasty fish". The operation suggests what Hizbollah has all along said was the purpose of the Israeli campaign: to swap prisoners and to exchange Hizbollah fighters for the two Israeli soldiers who were captured on the border on 12 July. Hizbollah continued to fire dozens of missiles over the border into Israel, killing one Israeli and wounding 21, with Israeli artillery firing shells back into Lebanon at the rate of one every two minutes. For the first time, a Hizbollah rocket struck the West Bank as well as the Israeli town of Beit Shean, the longest-range missile to have been fired so far. Yet still the West seems unable to produce an end to a war which is clearly overwhelming both Hizbollah and the Israelis. Hizbollah obviously has far more missiles than the Israelis believed - there is not a town in northern Israel which is safe from their fire - and the Israeli army apparently has no plan to defeat Hizbollah other than the old and hopeless policy of occupying southern Lebanon. If Hizbollah had planned this campaign months in advance - and if the Israelis did the same - then neither side left room for diplomacy. The French have wisely said they will lead a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon only after a ceasefire. And to be sure, they will not let this become a Nato-led army. France already has a company of 100 soldiers in the UN force in southern Lebanon, whose commander is himself French, but Paris, after watching the chaos in Iraq, has no illusions about Western armies in the Middle East. Outside the shattered Dar al-Hikma hospital in Baalbek yesterday stood two burnt cars and a minivan, riddled with bullet-holes. Hizbollah, it seems, fought the Israelis there for more than an hour. The hospital, which includes several British-manufactured heart machines, was empty when the Israeli raid began and was partly destroyed in the fighting. The Lebanese army, which has tried to stay out of the conflict - heaven knows what its 75,000 soldiers are supposed to do - was attacked again by the Israelis yesterday when they fired a missile into a car which they claimed was carrying a Hizbollah leader. They were wrong. The soldier inside died instantly, joining the 11 other Lebanese troops proclaimed as "martyrs" by the government from a logistics unit killed in an Israeli air raid two weeks ago. The obscene score-card for death in this latest war now stands as follows: 508 Lebanese civilians, 46 Hizbollah guerrillas, 26 Lebanese soldiers, 36 Israeli soldiers and 19 Israeli civilians. In other words, Hizbollah is killing more Israeli soldiers than civilians and the Israelis are killing far more Lebanese civilians than they are guerrillas. The Lebanese Red Cross has found 40 more civilian dead in the south of the country in the past two days, many of them with wounds suggesting they might have survived had medical help been available. An attack on a hospital, the killing of an entire Lebanese family, the seizure of five men in Baalbek and a new civilian death toll - 468 men, women and children - marked the 22nd day of Israel's latest war on Lebanon. The Israelis claimed that helicopter-borne soldiers had seized senior Hizbollah leaders although one of them turned out to be a local Baalbek grocer. In a village near the city, Israeli air strikes killed the local mayor's son and brother and five children in their family. The battle for Lebanon was fast moving out of control last night. Lebanese troops abandoned many of their checkpoints and European diplomats were warning their colleagues that militiamen were taking over the positions. Up to 8,000 Israeli troops were
