The dictatorship in Kampala needs to be sincere with the rebels as it conducts the negotiations in Juba. Lose talk by Museveni himself and other top ranking members of the MRM military dictatorship , many of which have been posted in The Monitor News Paper or "THE NEW VISION" , has not help matters at all!!!!
Museveni and the NRM cannot be talking of "crashing the rebels" and yet at the sometime expect to conduct a meaningful peace negotiations with the rebels.
Kaguta cannot be preparing for war "under the table " by deploying troops to surround the rebels... and yet at the some time engage in peace talks with the rebels. The two, as statisticians would say, are are mutually exclusive!...it is either or situation!!!..
The fact is, fellow
citizens, either Museveni wants the wars in Northern and eastern Uganda to continue or he does not period.
And if he or his regime wants war , his regime will further bear the consequences of such wars ..as in more human suffering in the camps of northern Uganda.
Matek
Uganda's Museveni aims to boost troubled peace talks with LRA rebels
by Vincent Mayanja Wed Oct 18, 2:10 PM ET
KAMPALA (AFP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is to visit troubled peace talks between the government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in a bid to boost the faltering negotiations.
Even as Kampala accused the rebels of killing a military officer in the latest in a series of allegations by both sides of violations in a landmark truce, officials said Museveni would travel to the talks' venue in south Sudan.
"He will be in Juba on Saturday for meetings," Ugandan Deputy Defense Minister Ruth Nankabirwa told AFP, referring to the capital of southern
Sudan, whose autonomous regional government is mediating the talks.
Museveni has in the past expressed interest in attending the negotiations that began in July and are believed by many to represent the best chance ever to end northern Uganda's brutal, two-decade war.
But his weekend visit will come at a critical time in the talks, which have been largely stalled since producing a historic truce in August, with both sides accusing the other of repeated violations.
Uganda's deputy foreign minister, Okello Oryem, said details of Museveni's trip were still being planned but that he would definitely see Sudanese Vice President Salva Kiir, also the president of autonomous southern Sudan.
"They will be assessing the progress of the talks as well as the impact on the security of southern Sudan and the region if the talks fail," he told AFP.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and nearly two million displaced
since the LRA and its elusive supremo Joseph Kony took leadership of a regional rebellion among northern Uganda's ethnic Acholi minority in 1988.
Allegedly fighting for a government based on the Biblical Ten Commandments, they are accused of horrendous atrocities, for which Kony and four top aides have been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court.
Those charges have become a major sticking point in the Juba talks. The rebels demand they be quashed before a peace deal and Kampala refuses to implement an offer of total amnesty until a pact is actually agreed.
However, they are just one of many hurdles mediators are confronting, with both the LRA and government at deep odds over power-sharing, the size and composition of a new military and the truce violations.
On Wednesday, Kampala said the rebels were guilty of a "blatant" breach of the truce by ambushing three soldiers in southern Sudan as they were
walking to rejoin their unit near Juba, killing one.
"This is a blatant violation of the cessation of hostilities agreement which is a major concern to the Ugandan government and the people of Uganda," Nankabirwa told reporters in Kampala.
Paddy Ankunda, the spokesman for Uganda's delegation to the talks, said a complaint had been filed with the mediators but stressed Kampala hoped the incident would not derail the negotiations.
"We think that the talks should continue," Ankunda told AFP.
Members of the LRA delegation in Juba were not immediately available for comment but this week accused the government of launching two attacks on its fighters in southern Sudan in violation of the truce.
On Tuesday, the LRA said its forces would not return to two neutral camps in southern Sudan that they are to occupy for the duration of the talks unless Ugandan troops in the region were also similarly quarantined.
They said last weekend their fighters had left the camps because the Ugandan military was encircling them in preparation for an offensive, a charged denied by Kampala, which admitted to mistakenly moving troops too close to the sites.
The conflict is regularly described by the United Nations and relief agencies as one of the world's worst and most-forgotten humanitarian crises
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