[WestNileNet] ICC RACISM IS GOOD FOR AFRICA'S FUTURE.
President Museveni is fighting the so-called ICC racism selective prosecution again. Indeed the ICC should do its job with war criminals even in Western capitals. But I still stand by what I said in June 2013 (see Daily Monitor link below). If the International Criminal Court is racist, that racism is at least protecting the African people. Have a read: monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/ International-Criminal-Court-s--racism--is-goo d/-/689364/1872176/-/ujk3lfz/-/index.htm -- Hussein Juruga Lumumba Amin Kampala, Uganda ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet 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. ___
[WestNileNet] OMBACHI MASSACRE: A MURDEROUS OBOTE'S GENOCIDE POLICY.
One of the most well documented massacres in West Nile was the infamous Ombachi Catholic Mission slaughter. The mission compound also doubled as an ICRC safe haven hosting thousands of displaced civilians. In June 1981, the UNLA attacked the mission, allegedly searching for insurgents and, in a frenzy of indiscriminate shooting, killed scores and injured several of those sheltering in the compound. The ICRC gave this incident wide publicity and was subsequently expelled form Uganda (Pirouet, 1988; MRG, 1989:10). Following the massacre at Ombachi, the genocidal policy of Obote’s regime in West Nile was summed up by the Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff, Oyite Ojok, who in communicating the official UNLA response to the survivors is reported to have been dismayed at the large number of people still living, and further stated that he intended to clear the region and leave it as a game reserve, a statement that was to spark off an exodus of refugees to neighboring Sudan and Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Ojok reportedly remarked that he could only smile upon seeing a dead Lugbara, and not a live one (Refugee Law Project, 2004:6). Within a short time, approximately 500,000 residents of West Nile (about 80% of the population of the region) had fled into exile. According to the Minority Rights Group, up to 30,000 people may have been killed by the government forces (MRG, 1989:10). A missionary working in the area was to note that, We thank God that Zaire and Sudan were so near otherwise the slaughter might have been greater than it was (Uganda Church Association Newsletter, 1981:7). Extract: State-Inspired Genocidal Persecution in Uganda, 1980-85 ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet 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. ___
[WestNileNet] Thank World Bank/IMF For Uganda's Democracy.
Thank World Bank/IMF For Uganda's Democracy. Posted: Today 1:00 am Summary: Democracy? That's the latest Sheep Skin 2.0 that best hides dictatorship, cronyism, outright theft and Kaguta's clinging to power. Share Uganda's democracy is a World Bank/IMF product. A pillar demand on the same level as their insistance in a free market economy and privatization, all included in their Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) originally handed as instructions to Obote in the early 1980's. After resisting it for 10 years (1986 to 1996), a military dictator Museveni finally bowed to Western order to begrudgingly abandon his initial, outdated socialist dogma's and ideologies, create a liberal constitution (1995) and the first elections during his rule (1996). An NRM economic or political ideology never existed once they were in power and had mismanaged and ruined all state assets including cooperatives and parastatals. That is when the only option for getting any new substantial funds came with the World Bank/IMF (just as it is now with oil). These two institutions had then been insisting on something that clearly wasnt a socialist Museveni's idea: Capitalism. Somehow, the opportunism in him has tried to credit himself with the advent of a free market economy and privatization. But surely he recalls when expat advisors were relentlessly bombarding him with their capitalist advice in vain. Including American cowboy Ronald Reagan who unreservedly spoke his mind on Ugandan governance/economic matters during Museveni's first visit to the US in October 1987. Pan-Africanism? Only in utterance. Otherwise we wouldn't have plundered Congo and killed their president. Nor would we have sought to control Kagame's Rwanda after the genocide. Mr. Kagame only survived because of the tightest security and army command structure. Democracy? That has become the latest Sheep Skin 2.0 that best hides dictatorship, cronyism, outright theft and Kaguta's clinging to power. Ask Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Gen. Sejusa or Amama Mbabazi. So if you want to recognize anyone for ushering in elections, thank the World bank/IMF. Without them, you would today be under the real military dictator/Commander in Thief Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is hiding under Democracy. The writer is an independent politician. ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet 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. ___
[WestNileNet] OBOTE MASSACRED IN MASAKA - ACHOLI SOLDIERS STAB MOTHER, MURDER HER CHILDREN. (Testimonies)
Extrajudicial Killings Horrific Barbarity By An Acholi Military. Lucy N. [Witness] “ I was married to Anthony Hannington Nsereko of Masaka. He was killed by liberation soldiers during the 1979 war and left me with eight children. Then in 1982, Obote soldiers murdered five of my children who ranged from 8 to 19 years old. One day these Acholi soldiers came, and one child who was out playing tried to escape. They stopped him and started shouting at us as bandits and shooting at people around. My son Nalumuso was the first victim, then Rebecca and others in sequence. When they shot the fourth child I begged them to kill me before killing the other one. I was holding my grand daughter, Nalumuso’s four months old daughter, her mother had been abducted previously at Kalasa and she has never returned home since. In the meantime, I started pleading with the Acholi soldiers for mercy. They instead stabbed the baby on the cheek. Her name is Susan Tebukasa. Up to now her ear emits pus because of that. Before removing her from my lap another soldier stabbed me in the chest using the bayonet on his gun. Then they killed my fifth child. After that we heard gunshots and then I fell unconscious. I was removed by some people and when I recovered I was somewhere where they had taken me. I asked about my children but they would tell me they are out to fetch water. Until I realized they were dead”. -- ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet 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. ___
