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>From: megan anyira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Publicity Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: UPCUSA SECONDS WEGULO
>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:56:02 -0700 (PDT)
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>"Can UPC show us the people who ran to them for protection like the people of the north are running away from the LRA? Opondo asked.
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>Members, If my memory serves me right, there is time around 1985 as M7 was being beaten into exile, his organisation unlished the most vicius attack on the people of Luwero as a farewel. Those who escaped run into Bombo Barracks. The UPC Government asked the Red Cross to help in asertaining the safety of these Ugandans who had run for safety into the barracks of the army that Ofwono is now accusing. Iam sure there are poeple in this Organisation who recognise and recall this episode and can put an accurate time to it thereby being able to fish out the actual report from the Ugandan papers of the time. If Iam not mistaken, I think even the bbc carried a caption.
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>Mr Ofwono Opondo, said, There is no need for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and we shall not have one anyway.
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>Opondo has never entertained any concept of truth. If he had, he would come to terms with the fact that the people in the North never run into M7's barracks. They took shelter in Townships, sleeping on the verrandas. It is from there that they were herded into the so called camps that were used to guard the barracks from Kony.
>I am very supportive of the call for this kind of inquiry. It is not the first time this suggestion has been made, by the way. We just have to keep hammering at it.
>Megan.
>Publicity Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Comms,
>UPC USA seriously seconds Mr. Wegulo's suggestions about the truth and reconciliation, and International Inquiry into the massacres in Luweero.
>I think this is serious business here.
>Read On.....
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>Wegulo said there is need for the country to be told the truth about who fired the first bullet and who killed which people.
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>Probe Luweero massacres - UPC
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>CHARLES MWANGUHYA MPAGI
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>KAMPALA
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>The Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) has challenged President Yoweri Museveni to institute an international inquiry into the killings in Luweero Triangle during the bush war between 1981-1986.
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>They also challenged Museveni to allow a public debate to get to the depth of the massacres, which according to the government estimates resulted in the death of about 300,000 people.
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>The chairman of the UPC Constitutional Steering Committee, Mr Badru Wegulo, told journalists yesterday that Museveni has a habit of digging up the skulls of Luweero whenever an election nears. He said Museveni uses this as a scarecrow to win votes.
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>If the government is concerned about Ugandans, we demand that an international commission be set up to investigate who is responsible for the killings in Luweero, Wegulo said.
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>He said UPC wants the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and a public debate with Museveni at a time and venue of his convenience so that we can deal with these matters once and for all.
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>The Movement Spokesman, Mr Ofwono Opondo, said, There is no need for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and we shall not have one anyway. The MP for Samia Bugwe North, Mr Aggrey Awori said, We are tired of Luweero and the demonisation of UPC. They have stretched us far enough. How many deaths can we pin on Museveni? he said.
>Awori said he would also move a motion in Parliament to block unending compensations to alleged victims of the war.
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>Opondo dismissed UPCs call for international investigators.
>We do not need the international community to come and tell us who killed the people in Luweero either. The survivors are there and they can tell us who destroyed their homes. Can UPC show us the people who ran to them for protection like the people of the north are running away from the LRA? Opondo asked.
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>Wegulo said there is need for the country to be told the truth about who fired the first bullet and who killed which people.
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