Museveni Stop Passing the Bucket
By Okot NyormoiJuly 14, 2006
The latest peace buzzword is Juba, the capital of South Sudan. This started when South Sudan offered to mediate peace talks between the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) and the government of Uganda. The latest episode is that Museveni has offered full amnesty to the LRA. However, the International Criminal Court (ICC), the USA, Britain and the UN have rejected giving amnesty to the top LRA leaders. Meanwhile, the LRA has confounded Museveni by accepting the amnesty offer. Museveni now finds himself in the awkward position of having to ask the ICC to drop the case that he brought to the ICC in the first place. This peace initiative has presented a lot of people with a serious moral dilemma of whether to support the peace dialogue or the prosecution of LRA leaders. Lost in all this is the voice of the victims on whose behalf each group claims to be fighting, literally or figuratively.
It is legitimate to ask whether this is still the same old yoyo game Museveni has been playing before. To address this question, it is instructive to review Musevenis history of negotiation in the last 20 years or so1......
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