Mulindwa, Please save your breath. Many like Musaazi will be showing up now since it is becoming more and more apparent to them that the NRM party is over and it is time to jump ship. As usual.........
Bwambuga. "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When did Emanuel Musaazi arrive from Mars? > >Em > > The Mulindwas Communication Group >"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" > Groupe de communication Mulindwas >"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "emmanuel musaazi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:34 PM >Subject: Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto > > >> ...as horrible as the northern crisis is, one can't help but notice the >> silence and lack of outrage of notherners (particularly those on this >forum) >> towards Kony and his band of criminals and to me that is surprising. I >would >> hope that this tragedy is not being used by die-hard opponents of the >> government as a political trump card, because that would be a shame and a >> disgrace (petty politics at it's worst). We should also remember that >> hundreds of UPDF soldiers have died trying to protect innocent civilians >in >> the north, they also deserve some sympathy. >> >> >> >From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >CC: "Anne Mugisha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Subject: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 >> >19:11:07 -0400 >> > >> >Ugandans >> > >> >It is very interesting to see Dr Mulera writing this kind of statements >> >today, but I think he is too late to join the rest of Ugandans who have >> >condemned daily these kinds of killings in Northern and eastern. And we >> >must as well remember that Ugandans who are in those areas know full well >> >who have supported their being killed. For let us not kid our selves, >> >killing Northerners was not started yesterday, it has been going on for >the >> >last 20 years, so I will not challenge my friend Mulera to go back into >> >history very long ago, so I will ask him only two very simple questions. >> > >> >1) In the early 80's when Yoweri Museveni stated "Northerners are >> >Biological substances, and many of these people are not fit to live with >> >us" Can Dr Mulera produce where he publicly opposed that statement? >> >2) When Kiiza besigye stated "Acholis and Langis should be eradicated >from >> >Uganda" Can he produce where he opposed it? >> > >> >You see the danger is that today Northern Uganda has become a public >case, >> >and there is no one who has done this apart from the Northerners them >> >selves, and if today in 2003 people like my friend and neighbour Dr >Muniini >> >Mulera can come up with such sentiments, can you imagine if he stood for >> >the population in Northern Uganda from 1984 when he was the best seller >of >> >the NRM government in Canada? >> > >> >There is allot of blood that has been poured in Northern and Eastern >> >Uganda, but we must never delude our selves that it is Museveni alone to >> >blame, for that will be the greatest delusion. >> > >> >Em >> > >> > The Mulindwas Communication Group >> >"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" >> > Groupe de communication Mulindwas >> >"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: gook makanga >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 6:16 PM >> > Subject: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto >> > >> > >> > Letter to A Kampala Friend >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto >> > >> > Northern killings bring out racism of Ugandans >> > August 4, 2003 >> > >> > Dear Tingasiga: >> > On July 22, 2003, a Uganda People's Defence Force [UPDF] >> >helicopter gunship killed nine civilians in Obalanga, Katakwi District. >The >> >victims were attending a funeral ceremony. >> > Two days later, a military helicopter gunship killed 13 >civilians >> >who were tilling their gardens in Acholi-Bur, Pader District. Many others >> >were injured. >> > >> > While these killings were duly reported by the Kampala news >media, >> >there has been little manifestation of our collective outrage at these >> >massacres of unarmed civilians. >> > >> > I have scanned the newspapers from Kampala and around the world. >> >The Kampala paers have told the story. The rest of the world's scribes >have >> >been silent on the matter. >> > >> > I have read postings on UNAANET, an Internet Discussion group >that >> >brings together largely sober-minded and empathetic Ugandans in North >> >America. Silence. >> > >> > Save for statements by a few Ugandan MPs and Prime Minister >Apolo >> >Nsibambi's statement to parliament expressing "the government's sadness" >at >> >the news of the Pader incident, there has been little public expression >of >> >outrage by regular citizens. It is business as usual. >> > >> > Perhaps the explanation is simply that Ugandans have murdered >each >> >other for so long that a few more deaths are neither here nor there. >> > >> > Perhaps we have become a nation of hardened souls, immune from >the >> >pain of losing fellow citizens, viewing violent death as part of doing >> >government business. >> > >> > Yet I doubt that this is the explanation. After all, weren't >> >Ugandans rightly outraged by the killings of innocent Iraqi citizens by >US >> >and British fighter jets during the recent war against Saddam Hussein? >> > >> > Of course it could be that the deaths of Arabs in Mesopotamia at >> >the hands of Americans engendered deeper emotions than the death of >> >Africans at the hands of fellow Africans. Colonialism has had a deep >effect >> >on our self-image. >> > >> > However, I think that the major reason for the lack of public >> >outrage over the massacres of fellow Ugandans in Katakwi [Teso] and Pader >> >[Acholi] is racism. Uganda-style racism; the old north-south divide. >> > >> > The truth is, Tingasiga, the massacres in Katakwi and Pader >> >happened to "them," not to "us." >> > >> > They occurred "over there", in the land of "they" who did it to >> >"us" in the Luwero Triangle and elsewhere before "we" overthrew them from >> >power in 1986. >> > >> > That the vast majority of people of Acholi and Teso had >absolutely >> >nothing to do with the crimes committed by the pre-Museveni regimes is a >> >truth that must not be allowed to interfere with such prejudices. >> > >> > That the people of Acholi and Teso are our brothers, our >kinsmen, >> >fellow Africans, bound together by a history that we cannot undo, fated >to >> >a common destiny, is a detail that must not be accorded room in our >> >consciousness. >> > >> > To do so would ruin the great illusion of being different from >> >"them" who are from "over there." It would make it hard for us to say, >with >> >a smile, that "they" deserve it. >> > >> > Whether it is the Kanungu massacre or the violence in Bunyoro, >the >> >violent cattle-rustling in Karamoja and Teso or the abduction of girls >from >> >Lango and Acholi, many Ugandans see these crimes as purely local matters, >> >of concern to members of the relevant "tribes." It is "their" problem, >not >> >"ours." >> > >> > This is the same attitude that has been shown by many people >from >> >the southern parts of Uganda, especially from Buganda and the Western >> >Region, in response to the long nightmare that has gripped the Acholi >> >people for nearly two decades. >> > >> > While few would openly admit to such racist attitudes, many have >> >expressed in private conversations that the nearly one million Acholi in >> >concentration camps deserve the dehumanizing fate that has been theirs >for >> >more than a decade. >> > >> > This is the attitude that almost certainly informs the reaction >of >> >many people from south of Lake Kyoga to the recent massacres in Katakwi >and >> >Pader. >> > It is "them," not "us." >> > >> > Another possible explanation for this reaction is that these >> >killings were perpetrated by a UPDF gunship which was presumably hunting >> >for anti-government rebels. >> > >> > Ours is a society where we ration condemnation of injustice and >> >crime. >> > >> > Opponents of President Yoweri Museveni's government find it hard >> >to condemn criminal acts by the regime's armed opponents. "The enemy of >my >> >enemy is my friend." >> > >> > Some even celebrate the brutality of crazed fellows who butcher >> >fellow citizens in the name of the Lord. >> > >> > On the other hand, supporters of President Yoweri Museveni and >his >> >government feel duty-bound to remain silent in the face of the most >> >indefensible crimes of the state against the citizens of Uganda. Citizens >> >massacred and terrorised by the state in Acholi, in Teso, in Rukungiri, >in >> >Kinkizi. Silence from supporters of the regime. Solidarity even in crime. >> > >> > That is why the latest high profile son of Teso, Minister of >State >> >for Health Mike Mukula, is unlikely to condemn the actions of the UPDF >> >which killed "his people." >> > >> > Mukula, who has taken to playing an army officer complete with >> >military fatigues and a bayonet, may even appoint himself chief defender >of >> >the UPDF, in the mistaken belief that to do otherwise would be >unpatriotic. >> > >> > How one wishes that that other son of Teso, the highly >principled >> >Cuthbert Obwangor, was still active in politics! Not for him the antics >of >> >the Mukulas of this world. >> > >> > The question for Mukula and other good Movement cadres is >whether >> >mass murder by the state is any less horrifying and less reprehensible >than >> >mass murder by, say, Mr Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army [LRA.] >> > >> > Is mass murder by the UPDF somehow more tolerable than that >which >> >was committed by the "rogue armies of the buffoon regimes" which governed >> >Uganda before 1986? >> > >> > Does this murder by the state, albeit unintended, not warrant >the >> >same degree of anger and moral outrage that similar incidents would >> >generate if they occurred in, say, Buganda, Ankole or Busoga? >> > >> > God forbid, but if similar bombings occurred in Kyazanga, Masaka >> >or Rushere, Nyabushozi, I bet you Tingasiga, all of you folks from south >of >> >Lake Kyoga, would react swiftly and angrily. >> > >> > There would be very loud voices of protest and demands for the >> >immediate resignation of the army commander and the minister[s] >> >responsible. >> > >> > People would demand the arrest of the trigger-happy pilots of >the >> >bird-of-death? >> > >> > Yet when these massacres occur in Acholi, Teso or Lango the >> >citizens from the southern half of the country carry on with their >business >> >as if the country has not suffered terrible loss of lives. >> > >> > Likewise, one is not surprised that there has not been a word of >> >condemnation emanating from Ottawa, London or Washington D.C. >> > >> > Had the massacres occurred in President Robert Mugabe's >Zimbabwe, >> >the condemnations from these major western capitals would have been very >> >swift and hard-hitting. >> > >> > It would have been Mugabe killing his people. >> > >> > But this is Uganda. Museveni's Uganda, temporary darling of >London >> >and Washington D.C. The dead civilian citizens are victims of friendly >> >fire. Mere collateral damage in a fight against "terrorism." >> > >> > One is also not surprised that the church leaders in Kampala, >the >> >same spiritual leaders who were quick to oppose Museveni's "third term" >> >project, have been silent on the latest massacres of the peasants in Teso >> >and Acholi. >> > >> > I think we should all hang our heads in shame. >> > >> > Our collective silence and the remarkable ease with which our >> >business has continued as usual, even before the blood of Ugandans has >> >dried in the killing fields of Katakwi and Pader, speaks volumes. >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > © 2003 The Monitor Publications >> > >> > >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Gook >> > >> > "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace >> >unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- >> > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. 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