Ochan Otim This is from infidels.org In 1989, the twenty-five year old Joseph Kony rose to the forefront of the Acholi People's struggle against Museveni's government. Kony's rebels managed to curb atrocities committed against the Northerners by Uganda's military, but soon the rebels began committing their own war crimes. Not surprisingly, Mr. Kony had been tutored by his aunt, the Acholi Priestess, Lakwena, who herself had engaged in brutal kidnappings (forced conscriptions) into her Holy Spirit Army.[6] From the start, Joseph Kony exhibited a ruthlessness in war noted for an arrogant flaunting of the 1949 Geneva Convention. In one decade alone, over 8,000 children were kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army. Most of these unfortunate children are now presumed dead, killed either in combat or in the murderous crossfire of warring sides. Tragically, these prisoners of war are transported, tied in columns by rope as slaves, to LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) camps.[7] When shooting breaks out, the conscripts often are unable to escape. If the kidnapped children survive the long journey to the LRA camps, they are forcefully indoctrinated into the LRA's grand vision of an Acholi nation based on the Ten Commandments--savage beatings are meted out to all nonbelievers. The child captives are taught the rebel leader's belief in an apocalyptic arrival of "The Silent World." Joseph Kony believes there will be a time in history when all guns worldwide will fall silent and only those knowing how to use crude weapons, like stones, spears, and machetes, will prevail against their enemies.[8] (LRA members are obsessed with the idea of supernatural intervention and battlefield odds favoring the use of primitive weapons.) LRA military indoctrination consists of beatings, rapes, and the severing of limbs by machete--all based on selected Biblical passages--no doubt some of the harshest found in the pages of the Old Testament. Joseph Kony subjects his child soldiers to an odd blend of Christianity, primarily the fundamentalist kind, mixed with African animistic beliefs which include the practice of witchcraft. Of course, the Biblical passages forbidding engagement in witchcraft are overlooked by Mr. Kony and his entire LRA command structure. Anyone who resists LRA indoctrination, or who attempts to escape, is executed--often savagely beaten to death by those newly abducted into Kony's Spirit Army.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ochan Otim Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Fwd: RE:UPC/LRA I am waiting to 'hear' you out after you read this, Ed Kironde. Ochan >Greetings to all, > >And to Mukulu Kironde I purposely ask: Are you fine? not as a formality, but >as a greeting question that seeks to know that all is and was well when you >published the ten point list! > >You write, "Former Acholi soldiers fled to the north to be re-integrated in >the Acholi society, but because of the difficulties of re-integration, they >soon raped and plundered the local population." I would be of great >importance if you could tell us what the "difficulties of re-integration" >were, and why couldn't the Acholis (my god) settle at home. Gen. Saleh >recently revealed some of the causes of the northern war. I fortunately, >though actually unfortunately happened to be in Namukora on 5th October >1986, when a special contingent of NRA soldiers arrived and arrested all >former FEDEMU and retired UNLA officers in the area. Loaded them in trailer >containers and shipped them to Mbuya; you know the rest of the story. If >there is any reason why the war in the north started it was as a result of >the activities of this day. > >I can understand the way you feel about UPC, for I suffered at the hands of >some of its operatives in ways I hate to recall. However I find it >reprehensible that some one who is seeking the highest office of the land >has chosen to view, Obote, UPC, LRA and "the Acholi" as one! > >Blanket condemnation of ethnic groups or political organizations, Yes, >including UPC is wrong. If some elements within UPC are sponsoring LRA, have >it know to the world as such. > >The other issues you bring up again in your ten-point programme is your >continued well-orchestrated campaign against the political opposition in >Uganda. And here I put it to you that with malice aforethought and >ingrained hate you have found it in your faculties to link DP and LRA. (Wano >ndabawo ettima, effutwa, effubitizi, obukyayi n'enge oba n'ensaalwa >[emapndiika]) > >It is also unbecoming of you to suggest that the Reform Agenda has been >making overtures to Kony. Unless you are one of the contact persons, how are >you privy to this information? Or you have just swallowed you master, M7's >lies? > >You highlight the term that you were just thinking, with the danger of >sounding uncivilized I would reluctantly say that, if this is the way you >perform when thinking, you better stop thinking and just hallucinate. > >I sincerely believed that your time at this very educating board had shade >some light in your mind and divorced you from "tribal" bias. But alas! I was >wrong. > >May the lord heal your soul? > >Kiwanuka Lawrence nsereko --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.495 / Virus Database: 294 - Release Date: 6/30/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.495 / Virus Database: 294 - Release Date: 6/30/2003
