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All along there has been no Kony. Kony has been the UPDF and
what if Kazini finds himself in three weeks' time?
When you guys want to make a point in the future, you have to be
consistent. At leaset Kony has been consitent in his agenda in
destablazing some sections of North Uganda and I am sure the military
attache of foreign nations will approve Museveni's budget when it comes to
fighting terrorism and credit goes to Kony
-------Original Message-------
Date: Monday, November
11, 2002 06:37:48 AM
Subject: ugnet_:
Catholics, NGOs Rally to End War in Northern Uganda
Reminder fellow citizens:
Kazini has three
weeks to catch KONY. remember citizens. the man swore that
if by
December of 2002 he had not yet catch KONY, he would most definately
resign!.
If he can not keep his word the stupid idiot should simply
shut the hell UP!!
Matek
Kazini time is ticking three
weeks!!!
Catholics, NGOs Rally to End War in Northern
Uganda
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African Church Information Service
November 8, 2002
Posted to the web November 8, 2002
Crespo Sebunya
Kampala
Civil organizations and the
Catholic Church have intensified their effort to
bring to an end war
in Uganda's northern region as fears of humanitarian
crisis
mount.
As part of its efforts to create awareness about the
economic costs of the
war, MS Uganda, a Danish non-government
organization, has come out with a
study that says the war will cost
the equivalent of US $26 million or 10
percent of the country's
economic output (GDP).
Father John Frazer, a Catholic priest and
director of an FM radio station,
said the church had already met with
the International Rescue Committee and
other NGOs to see what the
alliance can do.
Other NGOs that have agreed to work together
include Help the Children of
Africa Initiative and Justice and Peace
Forum based in Kitgum that has listed
numerous human rights abuses in
the region.
The alliance comes in wake of growing skepticism about
the government's
ability to extinguish the Lords Resistance Army which
has for the last 16
years fought an insurgence war.
As part of
the strategy to destroy LRA, an estimated 30,000 soldiers have
been
deployed in the region. Army Commander, Lt Gen James Kazini says since
last March, LRA has lost nearly half of its troops, its bases in Sudan
and
weaponry worth US $5 million has been captured. It is a matter of
time before
LRA is thrown to the dustbin of history, he
maintains.
However, the Catholic Church and NGOs are skeptical
whether the military
action is the best solution. They have recorded
the number of displaced
people to 500,000. Besides, there are doubts
within UNHCR of its ability to
mobilize 18,000 tones every week for
the displaced population in the wake of
financial constraints faced by
the organization.
The grim situation led to suspension of
relocation of 15,000 Sudanese
refugees from the war zone. "We have
been told even by Museveni (President
Yoweri) of the weakness in the
army," says Bishop Onono Oneng of Gulu diocese
who adds that the rebel
Lord's Resistance Army LRA had no regard to human
life.
Museveni, the Ugandan leader, has responded to the
NGO/Catholic Church
concerns and, on October 14, appointed Eriya
Kategaya,the second deputy Prime
Minister, to head government's
negotiating team.
But the government has given mixed signals. While
on the one hand it has
offered an olive branch to the rebels, its
actions have nonetheless scared
peace facilitators. The detention of
two Catholic priests in September and
the arrest of 20 peace
facilitators who have allegedly been described as
collaborators and
are to be charged with treason has kept some back.
Bishop Onono is
now skeptical about the progress of peace talks especially
now that
LRA has not come up with a peace team of its own.
Still, the
government has taken its anti-LRA war on another front. The recent
grisly photos of beheaded people and cooking pots (which allegedly
contained
body parts that were to be cooked) published in the
state-owned New Vision
newspaper highlighted the determination by the
government to engage in
propaganda campaign to demonize
LRA.
"New Vision is an up market paper which rarely uses such
pictures, but we
wanted to prove to doubting Thomases how bad Kony
(David, leader of the rebel
forces) can be," David Sseppuuya, Deputy
Editor of the newspaper told Monitor
FM radio station.
However,
others did not believe that the strategy was appropriate. "We
already
know how bad Kony is and we have been told on and on. But the
pictures
only added to our grief and they were in bad taste," said Dr Sylvia
Tamale, a senior lecturer in Law at Makerere University, also hosted
on
Monitor FM.
Some observers say that for the war to stop
attitudes must change. Japhet
Biyimba, an officer attached to MS
Uganda says aggressive tendencies in the
society have caused many
problems.
"The major crisis facing Uganda is about leadership We
have grown up in an
environment where we have not established
mechanisms to resolve our problems
peacefully," he
says.
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