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CONCLUSION
When we evaluate General Museveni's sustain media campaign of ethno-xenophobia and official racism jointly with the UPDF war strategies, we must characterized the trajectory of the NRM/A regime as a genocide revolution, with the complicity of western donor governments and the United Nations. The regime of General Museveni intentionally provided the structure and agency for genocide. It constructed and sustained it by [a] creating a genocide state, [b] demonizing the Acholi, as a people, [c] infusing the UPDF with ethno-xenophobic hate, [d] deploying artillery bombardments and helicopter gunship strafing to terrorize and forcibly induce exodus of civilian population into concentration camps, [e] encouraging rape by HIV/AIDS infected soldiers, [f] enforcing starvation and [g] entrapping the population in unsanitary and disease ridden concentration camp environments where the synergy of deadly agencies bring about genocide. While the LRA war strategy of child abduction, enforced sexual liaison with commanders and concubinage, which is similar to the NRM/A strategies against the southern/western Uganda population in the 1980s, is crime against humanity. With a combination of such negative and deadly
synergies intentionally imposed upon the Acholi population by General Museveni
and associates, it would not be farfetched to accurately say, according to an
NGO relief worker in Acholiland, that the "Acholi, as a people, face extinction"
unless a stinging indictment of regional and global political alliances that
routinely put ideological and strategic agendas before international law, moral
accountability and plight of the victims is exposed and shamed. Most important
of all, the United Nations unanimous endorsement of the "responsibility to
protect" during the World Summit in 2005 will remain hollow and sham. Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, made the commitment very clear: "For
the first time at this Summit we agree that states do not have the right to do
what they will within their own borders, but that we, in the name of humanity,
have a common duty to protect people where their own government will not." The
genocide by General Museveni and associates against the Acholi people provides a
test case of the UN commitment to protect in the name of humanity. The United
Nations must without delay exercise the common duty to protect in the name of
humanity, the Acholi people from the ongoing genocide now!
Onek Adyanga
(a PhD candidate in History, the University of
Connecticut, Storrs, USA)
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" |
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