Given that I made no comment but merely asked a question about an article
that appeared in a local daily, how can you tell 'how' or what I think? And,
how does Buganda come into this?
FYI here is the article. You might even notice that I did not write it and
that it was written by one Dennis Ojwee, a name that is unlikely to be a
Kiganda name.
You may want direct your vitriol elsewhere. It'd also be best to comment on
those threads that you have followed, rather than making unwarranted remarks
mid-stream, so to speak.
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By Dennis Ojwee
JOSEPH Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
massacred
34 civilians using pangas and sticks at Biwang near
Gere-gere,
Omot sub-county, Agago county in Pader
district on Tuesday night.
A witness said one of the dead was chopped into pieces
and put in
a big pot to be cooked.
The rebels wanted the villagers to eat the body
parts
as a punishment for allowing one of their captives to
escape into
Lalur-Onywal village with their gun.
Fortunately, the UPDF arrived in
armoured cars and
dispersed the rebels.
The UPDF overall intelligence
officer for the northern
operations against Kony, Lt. Col. Charles
Otema
-Awany, told journalists in his Gulu office on Tuesday
that the
motive of the massacre had not been
established. He said the rebels were
about 30.
This brings to 49, the number of civilians massacred.
Eight
were killed using pangas and others
beaten into ‘pulp’ by the LRA before
and soon after
Joseph Kony ordered mass killing of the Acholi on
October
20 in a message intercepted by the UPDF.
Kony ordered the massacre of the
Acholi starting with
his own relatives in Palaro parish, Odek sub-count! !
y in
Omoro, east of Gulu town.
On the same day, the LRA killed eight
civilians by
hitting them on the heads at Coo-Pil.
Two more civilians
were killed at Corner Ojaa, about
60km on Gulu-Moroto road, 4km to Acet
camp in Odek
sub-county in Gulu. The two were said to be students
of
Pajule Technical School, Aruu county in Pader.
Following the massacre in
Pader, local security
sources said one rebel escaped with a gun and
the
rebels trailed him to his village at Biwang. Rebels
also killed a
pastor at Lalogi recently.
The army spokesman, Maj. Shaban Bantariza, said
the
army had asked civilians to leave the villages and go
to areas with
UPDF protection to avoid such killings
by the LRA, but that the plan had
been bogged down by
some area MPs in Pader.
He said the MPs were
advising civilians against moving
into safe camps.
In July, the rebels
killed 52 civilians at Mucwini in
Kitgum on similar claims that some rebe!
ls! had fled to
the villages with guns.
Published on: Thursd ay,
24th October, 2002
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:44:50 +0100
Vukoni,
That shows how semakula and many Ugandans who think like him does
not know
much about Uganda as AS A COUNTRY But knows UGANDA ONLY AS BUGANDA.
I remember being told during my school age that there were man
eating
communities on Mt. Elgon!!!. You are dum right it scares one stiff.
Even in
later years when i went to school there, i was very careful about
my
friendships and i would not venture our of the school gates without
familiar
company. But later i found it to be pure rubbish because other
students were
escaping going into mountains and coming back having enjoyed
themselves with
drinks, fruits etc courtesy of the locals who should have eaten
them!!!
For people who know more about cultures, they will tell you that it
was a
common way of keeping childern in check and caucious about what
they do,
especially going to new and unfamilar places. There were stories of
man
eaters even from Rwenzori, the "zimamotor" who would drain your
blood if you
enter their car!. Just last week there was an article of a corpse
eater in
Buganda or Busoga? Lets open our minds before we jump blowing
goffio.
This is the second war M7 and NRA/M are said to be fighting
DECEPTION!!! The
great NRA/M weapon on ignorant population mixed of the so call
elites and
illiterates. But people who are facing for donkey years it are not
stupid,
they have worked out the scrumble mess and knows exactly what
message it is
carrying.
Toro
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> Mw. Ssemakula,
>
> To the best of my knowledge, cannibalism has not been a
> practice in the rituals and diet of the peoples of northern
> Uganda.
>
> However, back in the days, it was common for parents to keep
> their children in line or scare them from straying too far
> into the unknown with tales of man-eating communities hailing
> from what is today southern Sudan. I remember clearly how my
> elders used to show us a mountain named Kanyabadrilatra
> (literally, the two-headed-cannibal), across the border in
> Sudan, where the flesh-eaters allegedly dwelled.
>
> You bet we were scared stiff. Years later, I lived in Sudan,
> and had the opportunity to travel through the so-called
> cannibal territory, including the eponymous mountain. I
> found no saber-toothed Nearndathal there. If this practice
> existed at all, even in the margins of our societies, it was
> possibly in the far distant past.
>
> vukoni
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:03:09 +0000
> >From: "J Ssemakula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> culture of the region?
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> >
>
