Re: [Ugnet] THE LATEST OF THESE I TOLD YOU's
What did you tell us about these people?? You have been busy attacking these people like an idiot you are, left, right, and centre so Ugandan opposition parties like the UPC, don't work closely with them to bring about change!! Any smart politician looking to bring the much needed change would have worked closely with these NRA/M defectors, not only to lure more defectors and speed the process of bringing into the country, change, but too, gather important information. You attack these people to keep Mu7 in power, and now turned around and claim "I told you"?? What did you tell us?? You are not dealing with idiots here; if you were before in your life, take serious note. Ocii ^^ Edward Mulindwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Netters For several hours now we have been grumbling with information coming our way via the web, and failing to get a very reliable source of verification until about five minutes ago. As by five minutes ago, we are in position to state that both Colonel Samson Mande and Kyakabaale have found mercy from Uganda government and received an amnesty. The source continue to indicate that the two gentlemen are in process to leave Sweden and head back to Kampala. And that is all the information we will post for now. Watch that story developing as Uganda continues to be a very funny place. And yes I told you ! EM Malmo 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. --- - All new Yahoo! Mail - Get news delivered. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page.___ 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] THE PASSING OF ANDREW MWENDA'S FATHER.
Ugandans With great condolences we mention the passing of Mzee Philip Muhangazima, father to Hon. Margaret Muhanga and Andrew Mwenda, who died after suffering a stroke Monday morning. There has been a funeral service for him at All Saints Church in Kampala today. Mzee Philip Muhangazima will be laid to rest tomorrow Wednesday in Kabarole at 12.00 noon. Our prayers with the family at this hard time. EM Malmo 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] 'It is as if Chavez is Allende'
'It is as if Chávez is Allende'John Pilger
27 August 2007 11:59DisplayDCAd('220x240','1','');
I walked with Roberto Navarrete into the national stadium in Santiago, Chile.
With the southern winters wind skating down from the Andes, it was empty and
ghostly. Little had changed, he said: the chicken wire, the broken seats, the
tunnel to the changing rooms from which the screams echoed. We stopped at a
large number 28. This is where I was, facing the scoreboard. This is where I
was called to be tortured.
Thousands of the detained and the disappeared were imprisoned in the stadium
following the Washington-backed coup by General Pinochet against the
democracy of Salvador Allende on September 11 1973. For the majority people of
Latin America, the abandonados, the infamy and historical lesson of the first
9/11 have never been forgotten. In the Allende years, we had a hope the
human spirit would triumph, said Roberto. But in Latin America those
believing they are born to rule behave with such brutality to defend their
rights, their property, their hold over society that they approach true
fascism. People who are well dressed, whose houses are full of food, bang pots
in the streets in protest as though they dont have anything. This is what we
had in Chile 36 years ago. This is what we see in Venezuela today. It is as if
Chávez is Allende. It is so evocative for me.
In making my film, The War on Democracy, I sought the help of Chileans such as
Roberto and his family, and Sara de Witt, who courageously returned with me to
the torture chambers at Villa Grimaldi, which she somehow survived. Together
with other Latin Americans who knew the tyrannies, they bear witness to the
pattern and meaning of the propaganda and lies now aimed at undermining another
epic bid to renew both democracy and freedom on the continent. Ironically, in
Chile, said to be Washingtons model democracy, freedom waits. The
Constitution, the system of electoral control and the designer inequality are
all Pinochets gifts from the grave.
The disinformation that helped destroy Allende and give rise to Pinochets
horrors worked the same way in Nicaragua, where the Sandinistas had the
temerity to implement modest, popular reforms based largely on the English
cooperative movement. In both countries the CIA funded the leading opposition
media, although they need not have bothered. In Nicaragua, the fake martyrdom
of the opposition newspaper, La Prensa, became a cause for North Americas
leading liberal journalists, who seriously debated whether a poverty-stricken
country of three million peasants posed a threat to the United States. Ronald
Reagan agreed and declared a state of emergency to combat the monster at the
gates. In Britain, whose Thatcher government absolutely endorsed US policy,
the standard censorship by omission applied. In examining 500 articles that
dealt with Nicaragua in the early 1980s, the historian Mark Curtis found an
almost universal suppression of the achievements of the Sandinista
government -- remarkable by any standards -- in favour of the falsehood of
the threat of a communist takeover.
The similarities in the campaign against the phenomenal rise of popular
democratic movements today are striking. Aimed principally at Venezuela,
especially Hugo Chávez, the virulence of the attacks suggests that something
exciting is taking place; and it is. Thousands of poor Venezuelans are seeing a
doctor for the first time in their lives, their children immunised and drinking
clean water. On July 26 Chávez announced the construction of 15 new hospitals;
more than 60 public hospitals are currently being modernised and re-equipped.
New universities have opened their doors to the poor, breaking the privilege of
competitive institutions effectively controlled by a middle class in a
country where there is no middle. In Barrio La Linea, Beatrice Balazo told me
her children were the first generation of the poor to attend a full days
school and to be given a hot meal and to learn music, art and dance. I have
seen their confidence blossom like flowers, she said. One night in
barrio La Vega, in a bare room beneath a single light bulb, I watched Mavis
Mendez, aged 94, learn to write her own name for the first time.
More than 25 000 communal councils have been set up in parallel to the old,
corrupt local bureaucracies. Many are spectacles of raw grassroots democracy.
Spokespeople are elected, yet all decisions, ideas and spending have to be
approved by a community assembly. In towns long controlled by oligarchs and
their servile media, this explosion of popular power has begun to change lives
in the way Beatrice described. It is this new confidence of Venezuelas
invisible people that has so enflamed those who live in suburbs called
Country Club. Behind their walls and dogs they remind me of
[Ugnet] As the last British lives Basra...
As British leave Basra, militias dig in By Sam Dagher The last contingent of British soldiers based in the center of this southern city will leave by Friday, says a senior Iraqi security official, adding that a deal has been struck with leaders of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army to ensure their safe departure. As they pull back to a base outside Basra, the British will leave a vital provincial capital in the throes of a turf battle between Shiite factions one that Mr. Sadr's militia appears to be winning. "By the end of August, there will be no presence for British forces at the palace or at the joint coordination center. Both will be in the hands of the Iraqi government," says the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the matter. "I think it's best if they leave, because they did nothing to stop the militias, which were formed in the womb of their occupation." A spokesman for the British military in Basra confirmed that a small force left the Provincial Joint Coordination Center (PJCC), site of a British-Iraqi security task force, Saturday. He declined comment on the timing of the pullout of 500 soldiers from a compound of four Saddam Hussein-era palaces that are located on the strategic Shatt al-Arab River. The buildings have been occupied by coalition troops since the start of the war in 2003. Ahead of the pullout, an agreement between British and Iraqi authorities resulted in the transfer of more than two dozen Mahdi Army prisoners from British to Iraqi custody, according to the security official. They were then released by an Iraqi court in an attempt to pacify the militias during the highly symbolic handover of the palaces to Iraqis, he said. The British did not comment on any arrangements. The departing force will join 5,000 soldiers at the Shaibah air base, about 10 miles southwest of the city, also home to the US and British consulates. Unlike their US counterparts elsewhere in Iraq, British forces have been gradually trimming their presence in the south since May 2003, when they numbered 18,000. The Iraqi official says the palaces will be handed over to an Iraqi force dispatched from Baghdad and will not be given to the controversial provincial authority, which is embroiled in a power struggle between rival Shiite political parties. This 3,000-strong Iraqi force will consist of two Army battalions and elements from the Ministry of Interior's commando unit. The Mahdi Army, which according to one estimate, numbers about 17,000 in Basra and is divided into about 40 sariyas (company-size military unit), is the strongest among its rivals in the militia-infiltrated police force and it has influence over vital sectors such as health, education, power distribution, and ports. Although Basra, an economically important port city in a province with some of the largest oil deposits in the world, is considerably calmer and less violent than Baghdad, it faces a low-intensity, yet vicious, battle between the Mahdi Army and its many competitors that has spread fear and apprehension among many of the city's estimated 1.8 million residents. One local official says about 5,000 assassinations have occurred inside the city in the past two years. It was at a Friday night meeting when two Mahdi Army commanders and a lawyer tied to Sadr came to an Iraqi government official's home to ask about one of their senior leaders. They wanted to know if Sajad was among 26 detainees released by British forces. Their cases were recently transferred to the Iraqi judicial system. Half had already been freed because the court deemed the evidence submitted by the British side insufficient to prosecute them. The rest have been released on bail, according to the lawyer, Yahya al-Taie. One commander, who asked not to be named, carefully looked over a list of detainees until he found Sajad's name. He commands fighters in the city's Garmat Ali section. His arrest last year was hailed as a coup by British forces during their offensive against militias in the city as part of Operation Sinbad that lasted from September 2006 to March 2007.Now, as the British prepare for departure, Sajad was freed. "The arrests did not stop the rockets, nor did the rockets defeat the British," said the security source. "We needed to find an alternative solution that would calm things down a bit." The palaces that the British will vacate have been the target of constant rocket and mortar attacks, which have declined over the past 10 days. The British military in Basra denied interview requests. In an e-mail, spokesman Maj. Mike Shearer did not comment on whether the military was aware of, or involved in, a prisoner release in exchange for a suspension of attacks. He said that British forces have held more than 2,250 Iraqi suspects since Jan. 1, 2004, including the 26 transferred to the Iraqi court system. They have released all but 80 prison
