RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-22 Thread jonah kasangwawo
Kipenji, how low can you go ? Now you're even using God to tell your lies ! ...Obote(who unfortunately is not as barbaric as that loving King who ordered the massacre of innocent people) What ? Are you talking about the same Obote or you're just ignoring the bwiino posted here by several

Re: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-22 Thread Lutimba Matovu
Yaobang, Why do you day dream? Museveni and the NRM govt are in power by popular mandate. The people of Uganda will decide when that mandate will end not you and your cohorts in UPC. I can tell you this but post 2006, Museveni will still be there kiriza oba gana. You better join the NRMo or you

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-22 Thread J Ssemakula
Mr. Kangwawo: Mr. Kipenji's crass remarks notwithstanding, the issue of the Uganda Martyrs has been debated, and will be debated, for a long time, by people of varying intellectual capital and viewpoints. Unfortunately Uganda's education system does not easily lend itself to preparing the general

Re: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-21 Thread Lisa Toro
Lutimba Matovu, The are many victims, survivors witness who are still in hiding from M7 and the NRM/A, praying for a time when they are safe to talk AND GET JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS!. They are all over the world, and the longest are from doubt are Baganda. They daily recount the most horrific

Re: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-21 Thread emmanuel musaazi
Netters can we please raise the level of the discourse on this forum? Uganda's future is bigger than the Obotes and Amins of this world. People are wasting time defending the indefensible. The facts, whether we want to believe it or not are that Obote and Amin Presided over some of the most

Re: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-21 Thread Y Yaobang
Emmanuel, Many of us are now looking beyond Musevenism, defined here as enjoyment to kill at will and for ever in the interest of personal/family wealth and political power. Soon the Museveni dictatoriship will fall, just like Amin's collapsed like a deck of cards in 1979! y From: emmanuel

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread Owor Kipenji
Yaobang you have just rightly stated it.People like the Ssemakulas of this world are trying to divert attention from what their benevolent government under Mu7 has been and is doing to Ugandans since 1981 hence his rantings about not forgetting the Luwero Trapezium. I personally feel based on the

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread Owor Kipenji
If you have already gone 6 miles to get the truth why on God's good earth stop instead of going the full 9 miles and get that which you have already set out to prove?. I hope you are not being intellectually dishonest and now you want to acquire knowledge passively. Thanks.Kipenji.

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread J Ssemakula
Mr. Y: It is plain as day that Uganda's troubles today are firmly rooted in Obote's abuse of power and office. It was the UPC and Obote who startedUganda on the path of political murder and state inspired violence against the populace. Until and unless wenot only accept that simple but

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread Ed Kironde
Mark these words: We appear to be at different orbitals in addressing the biggest issues that is destroying Uganda by courtesy of the Baganda through Mu7. Thanks. Kipenji. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).

Re: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread Lutimba Matovu
Lisa, Read the facts for yourself what your hero did to Ugandans. The second reign of MILTON OBOTE as President of Uganda (1980-1985) is thought to have even exceeded the brutality of the Amin era. Estimates of civilians killed by Obote's forces in the Luwero triangle around the capital,

Re: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread Lisa Toro
Brother Semakula, Did Obote go to the HRM the queen of England to plead for arms? Before that Buganda had long used guns to gain the Bunyoro Land what later became the lost counties, hence the quest for armsfrom the queen to gain back the land!!! Yours i pathological!! give it a break, you

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread J Ssemakula
Mr. Kipenji, Are you insinuating that the Baganda somehow control Museveni? If so exactly how are we doing this? Why is it so hard for you UPC chaps to accept your responsibility in destroying Uganda? Conversely, why is it impossible for you to recognize Obote's culpability when it is plain to

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread Mitayo Potosi
we appear to be at different orbitals in addressing the biggest issues that is destroying Uganda by courtsey of the Baganda through Mu7. This blanket statement about Baganda is neither true nor fair. A 'few' of us Baganda have always disassociated ourselves from this mu7 monster, and have paid

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread Ed Kironde
If, say, an Acholi NewVision columnist is a mu7 ass-kisser are we also to blame that on Acholis? Mitayo Potosi That might be a wakeup call, even if one is an Acholi ass-kisser, (you know who) and you are a Muganda, you're in cahoots with Museveni - most do believe! --- Outgoing mail is

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread Ed Kironde
. Whatever the case, nothing can alter the fact that Obote massacred Ugandans, just as did Idi Amin. For me this is a sufficient reason to do everything possible under the sun to ensure that the UPC never holds power again in Uganda as we know it today, for they'd do exactly the same

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread Lugemwa FN
Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "If, say, an Acholi NewVision columnist is a mu7 ass-kisser are we alsoto blame that on Acholis?"Mitayo PotosiThat might be a wakeup call, even if one is an Acholi ass-kisser, (youknow who) and you are a Muganda, you're in cahoots with Museveni - mostdo believe!

ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-20 Thread Mulindwa Edward
As we who were young at those times Did UPC come to power for individuals did everything possible to bring it to power, or because Ugandans elected it? For knowing the answer to that question, one can know the strength of Mwaami Ssemakula's statement, or its you know what!! Em The

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-19 Thread Owor Kipenji
Mwaami Ssemakula,did Nelson Mandela also state that the first travel document(Passport) that he used to travel outside South Africa et Africa was a Ugandan passport that was recommended by this samesome Obote?. Lets always talk facts not figments of our imaginations that obscure whatever we

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-19 Thread J Ssemakula
Mr. Kipenji, Provide facts: if you have any credible documentation about Obote providing Mandela with a passport by all means provide it, instead of grand-standing. However, even if it were true, I fail to see how this would redeem that barbarian. --- Owor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-19 Thread Owor Kipenji
Barbarians brought about what we have come to call Uganda Matyrs.Those poor souls lost their lives because of the barbarians who claimed to be leaders when only they were killers.To this day the blood of those close to 40 innocent lives murdered/massacred/butchered at the behest of the loving

ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-19 Thread Mulindwa Edward
Mwaami Ssemakula Just a word of caution do not argue on that one. You know it is so amazing that through hate, many people do not take the time to find out exactly what our leaders do, or even believe it. The death of president Amin has proved this. Having stated that, it is interesting

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-19 Thread Ed Kironde
Mulindwa and all This is in reference to Obote giving Mandela a passport as alleged or stated as fact. I am asking these questions just to learn, not refuting the allegation. Having said that, Obote, I believe gave Mandela a passport in his capacity as Prime Minister of Uganda, Mandela

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-19 Thread J Ssemakula
Mr. Kipenji: Your puny attempts to transplant moral standards and norms from one era to another notwithstanding, it is an indisputable fact that Obote is a mass murderer, quite on par with Idi Amin. In Obote I, at least 10,000 Ugandans -- mostly Baganda -- were killed by his government. In

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-19 Thread Y Yaobang
J Ssemakula, Give it a rest, man! Or are you getting paid to divert attention from what is happening in Uganda right now, as we speak, with: * Dictator Museveni's gunships mowing down innocent Ugandans in a funeral procession in Teso mistaking them for 'rebels'? * Dictator Museveni now

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-18 Thread J Ssemakula
Mr. Fugee, I see that you have no substantive rebuttal to Mr. Ibingira's expose' of Obote as a conniving power-hungry megalomaniac. As for the bit about Obote's attempts to bar the ANC from the OAU's pre-cursor, it is from an impeachabe source: Mr. Mandela himself. Original Message

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-16 Thread Ed Kironde
Futher Evidence: U.A stands for Uganda Argus and the year is 1967 1 Turning to civil liberties, our rights could be suspended summarily under the proposals and there was no recourse to the courts to find out why they had been suspended. This was the biggest indication of autocracy. The

RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-16 Thread The Fugee
Ssemakula, Many of us have decided to leave you to your rabid hatred of Obote. You seem to be so confused by your hatred that you would absolve everyone, including yourself, of any responsibility in ensuring that Ugandans and Uganda gets what it truly deserves. As such I find it very

ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

2003-08-14 Thread J Ssemakula
Well boys n gals, last-time we saw evedence of Obote's hunger for power and to what extents he is willing to go to satiate that hunger. Here are more details on how he did this, according to his former confidant. Grace Stuart Ibingira 1980 African Upheavals Since Independence (emphasis added,