Museveni's General Katumba ....( see the New Vision article of 03/13/2006: Kony's command disintergrates)
Asked why the war has taken so long, the army commander replied, "Fighting terrorism is different from fighting a conventional war. Look how long it took the British to fight the IRA (Irish Republican Army). Look at how difficult it is to capture Osama Bin Laden, even with all the high-tech technology the Americans have at their disposal.
Terrorism does not survive without local support. The LRA could not survive all that long without local collaboration, some call it coercion. Consider all the airtime, gumboots and other necessities sent to them." General Katumba is more hopeful than ever that the conflict will end in the foreseeable future.
"The guerrilla war has basically degenerated into banditry activities, which can still be dangerous. We will see less abductions but more ambushes, looting and stealing of property.
Fellow citizens:
General Katumba should be reminded that the issue at hand is NOT when or how long it will take the UPDF to defeat "kony Rebels";
Rather the issue is: at what cost to the People of Uganda , in terms of Human Suffering , death and destructions of property, can General Katumba's UPDF and Museveni take in a move to "defeat Kony"? That is the issue at hand. Must the people of Uganda die at the tune of 4,000 month in the camps, bare unspeakab
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suffering, walk naked, eat nothing but leafs for close to 20 years..so that Museveni and his UPDF can defeat Kony.
Citizens, even Yoweri Museveni's friends in the WEST, now realize that Museveni and his UPDF cannot defeat "kony Rebels" militarily in twenty years of fighting. they probably do realize that oin another five to ten years..still Museveni and his UPDf cannot defeat "kony Rebels"..and that the only weapon the UPDF has deployed against "kony Rebels" is none other then propaganda warfare.
That said, Must the people of Uganda wait for another 20 years for Museveni to defeat
"kony rebels" before total peace return to our people now living a very miserable live in the camps of Eastern and Northern Uganda?
