The move by the Bush Administration to resume military aid to Uganda as a matter of Washington's policy is totally bankrupt and must be condemned in the strongest term possible. Washington UPC Bureau condemns such tactics in the strongest term possible.
The US administration is fully aware that US Military aid to Yoweri Museveni's dictatorship has been and continues to be used to suppress the Fundamental Human Rights of the People of Uganda.
In the past the US has used war mongering tactics to support repressive regimes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Chili, Bolivia, Peru, Nicaragua, Colombia, Honduras e.t.c .
All too often we have seen the result of US war mongering policies which has resulted to numerous mass murders and destruction's in Latin America.
This Latin American US supported Stooges (who pass as leaders) have committed horrendous Human Rights violations of citizens in their respective countries...thanks to arms and military training offered by the US in the so called School of the Americas.
What the people of Uganda, in particular, and the people of the Great Lakes region, in general need,â is a means ...a way.... Through which we can resolve issues of our time peacefully. We do not need the overseers George Bush in the back ground arming and supporting African Military dictators to start wars or to continue with on going wars.
Matek
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US resumes military aid to Uganda
Kampala - The United States has resumed military aid to Uganda after a four-year suspension over the government's deployment of troops in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the US embassy said on Monday.
"We have resumed assistance following American President George Bush's meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and following the pullout of the Ugandan troops from the DRC," embassy spokesperson Michael Gonzalez told.
Bush met his Ugandan counterpart during a visit to Uganda in July.
Uganda and Rwanda sent troops into the DRC in 1998 to fight alongside rebel forces then bent on ousting the government in Kinshasa but agreed to withdraw under the terms of a peace agreement.
Kampala announced in April that it had withdrawn its troops from the DRC.
Rwanda officially announced its military withdrawal from the DRC a year ago in exchange for the Ugandan government's pledges to disarm and repatriate extremist Rwandan Hutu groups and former Rwandan soldiers who fled to the DRC after Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
Washington's decision to resume military assistance to Uganda is aimed at improving the East African country's military capacity through training, Gonzalez said. - Sapa-AFP
