From: "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] UPC hits back at Bukenya Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:39:25 -0500
There is one thing I fail to understand from all these people. If Uganda's vice president knows for a fact that UPC has human rights violation, how does banning it from politics help? For a man of Bukenya's standard should know that the only way to fight human rights abuse is to make those abuses public, and we do that by holding public inquiries. Why do we fear to open up this secret and make it public? A public inquirely will allow us to put those responsible to courts and will bring the victims to closure. Why doesn't NRM want to make UPC's human rights violations public?
What I am afraid of, is the years and years we have spent in these forums when a part of us state that UPC has been the worst party in Uganda's history, and there are those of us who want to look at our past governments including NRm if I may add for what good they have done and we base our work on those good things and move on. But we are forced as a society to join a general belief that UPC was a bad party, and we can not ask to back it up, in so doing we even go to Uganda and find national institutions which were built by UPC like hospitals and we destroy them. The difference becomes that our people die of curable diseases when Museveni's daughter goes to Germany for a baby birth.
Vice president, use your good and powerful office and set up an inqurely so that we can know what UPC did? For with out taking that step, I can not help but believe that you have used a blanket statement to run away from a very competitive political party. And by calling for shutting down UPC for ten years, Ugandans must wonder what is in that party that you are scared of. Thank you for campaigning for it. The days are strange indeed.
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: Elum aniap Godfrey Ayoo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Edward Mulindwa Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:57 AM Subject: [Ugandacom] UPC hits back at Bukenya
UPC hits back at Bukenya
The Uganda People's Congress (UPC) has not taken lightly remarks by Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya that the Party be kept out of power for one or two decades.
Prof. Bukenya on Thursday challenged the UPC to apologise for its past poor human rights record and the party has now addressed an impromptu press conference to protest the statements.
Presenting the statement on behalf of the Presidential Policy Commission Chairman James Rwanyarare (above), a member of the Commission Oweyagah Afuna Adhula calls for reconciliation saying that the National Resistance Movement /Army (NRM/NRA) is as guilty as the UPC.
The UPC while acknowledging the violation of human rights during its regimes accuses the NRA of murders in Mukura, Atiak, Kichwamba, Kanungu and the Republic House among others.
"And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities (.) No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream". (Martin Luther King, 1964 Nobel Peace prize laureate, assassinated for his struggle)
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