In my opinion:
It's a stand up comedy in Juba. Acholi folks are as confused as unable to
distinguish whether the bullet that just wizzed over their heads came from the
LRA or NRA kalashnikov. They don't know who wants what in the Juba talks: Kony
and Otii are concerned about saving their aging rears more than rectifying the
Acoli situations they fucked-up; the Juba delegate is just a bunch of
self-seeking nonentities who just realized age was creeping so fast they
haven't achieved a thing in life but envision jumping in the Juba bandwagon
would do; today I read an Ojwang-Otunnu split in the LRA. Hell no...!, is
Otunnu also a registered LRA? I do hope though, that the world doesn't bundle
every dead, living and unborn Acoli as an LRA. I see that anyone missing on the
pizza slizes in Juba wants a yet-so-bigger pie and is reason for such splits.
Well, most pizza makers build shawarma, too. And, by the way, couldn't a
level-headed self-seeker - I mean intelligent and intellectually advantaged
- think of creating and promoting a rebel movement dissociated from the
blood-stained, rape-soiled, lip-slashing, flesh-cooking LRA? For all its nasty
reputation, couldn't these perenial losers think of a better way to access
power - if at all - although I believe the motive is Benjamin, money that is?
Absurd, I must say. I am starting a movement not to topple eMu7 but one that
aims at assassinating - this is cawardly - or should I simply say, killing,
each an every asshole who wants to use Acoli for personal ends. I mean, I will
look into their eyes then shoot each of them in the face. This is not to
enhance eMu7's greedy stances but to put a stop on welfare survivors in the UK
and the Scandinavians who use their wake-up to bed time to ponder nothing
constructive other than how to better use Acoli blood for money and power or
how to join the Juba team.
Ehi, I even don't know who is representing the LRA now. Machar should be
laughing his black ass off seeing Mao leading his team, au contraire Santa Okot
with another, spiced with a not-so-couth uni-idea Mama Kilele called Apira yet
at the end of the day, all will have called Kony and Museveni with their end of
day report, or rather, story to apeas these partners in crime. Ma arse...!,
From Canada, I can see the confusion in Juba and smell the wicked stench of
individual greed on the participants - doesn't smell like Acoli. Then the new
entrant of losers begin to list: Powel Onen p'Ojwang, Okidi-Olal Jaramoi,
Samson Nyekogulu - daiymmnnnn...! Who are these stooges? I would be glad to dig
a knife between their ribs myself if the story on
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/532718 is true
Ehi, let me ask just one more question: Is Otunnu really, truely an LRA
sympathiser? Yikesss...! reminds me Prof. Isaac Newton Ojok throwing exploding
stones and oiling away bullets with Lakwena - a waste of Moo-Yaa as
bullet-proof.
On a serious note, Acoli thugging it out for Kony's freedom is simply a waste
of precious time and resources. I have probbed the ICC deep enuff to conclude
they are going to do him in - whatever the stories you read or hear - and eMu7
knows this too well. Anyway, I don't give a prick about Kony. Dude is a
murderer who deserves a prison stay in an African jail - God forbid they send
him to the comfort of a Euro-jail.. that will be heaven on earth for these
machette-wielding "Jack Rippers Of The North" - a war well-fought to earn the
luxury of a Euro-jail. I have one suggestion though: Sudan and Uganda should
simply contain the LRA in their present hide-out and wait to see them
ring-leaders die away like the setting sun. That hurts.
Share this with me: substract away 20 straight years of the used portion of
your life-span, add to it fear and uncertainty - a celestial blackhole - for
the coming years. That is life in Garamba. In good faith, Kony should be made
to live it through. Many times have I read about Mato Oput. Did you know that
the Labwor and Jie of Karamoja do the same. In fact the Labwor call it Matho
Oputh - being that the lingo has no "t" but a compounded "th" in its alphabet.
Or yes, one more thing. I may be young but my present Acoli elders are simply
wrong. Mato Oput is not justice. I have often seen it referred to as Acoli
justice. Mato Oput is reconciliation/forgiveness/a never-again. That beeing
said, Kony, Otii and them rest of murderers, must still be dealt justice. Acoli
justice is compensation in the the form of cows/goats and crops; done before
the Mato Oput reconciliation. My God...! even if eMu7 donated all Rwakitura
long-horns to help his brother, Kony, the cows will not be
enough for the thousands maimed, raped, and killed.
One last thing: Is it a case of blood being thicker than wine? - ooosh, thanks
for not comparing it to my Coors Lite. Is there any reason for an Acoli to
advocate Kony's amnesty, or are the Acoli equating Acoli Peace to Kony
forgiveness. That is sad/pathetic. There is some amount of peace in the north
now, which has nothing to do with Kony's forgiveness or ICC indictment but
because the LRA has been isolated and pushed away from its prey, the Acoli,
Langi, Madi and Southern Sudanese. In fact, humans do not inhabit his present
domicile but him and his befitting kins, the park animals. Now, don't tell me
that if the urge to maim, cut or slice an ear, lips, limps or rape comes, the
LRA can get satisfaction meting upon the poor lions and hyenas. That will be a
tough fight, though. So, I say, fence the LRA in and witness them simply rot
away.
Seriously, is Otunnu an LRA camp leader or just Kabushenga's spin?
Did you read everything I just wrote? I pitty you. It was a dream entitled "If
I Did It"
___________________________
Gunya
Remember: "Even a small dog can piss on a tall building" Jim Hightower
www.ottawaocg.org/gpr-mantis
----- Original Message ----
From: Okuto del Coli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ugandanet@kym.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 4:17:44 AM
Subject: RE: [Ugnet] Uganda: LRA Demands Hold Truce to Ransom
Well Simon, "Federo" or not Federo is a match for the national political arena.
First thing first. First peace in the whole of Uganda. Then, together and with
equal voice along democratic path we decide on the fate of "FEDERO".
Like I once said, we do not want no ready made democracy or Federo type
democracy fed to us. We want equal participation. You tickle my back; I tickle
yours, so to say.
I am more into Justice for the innocent Ugandan. Kony is not in the position to
place those demands.
Best regards
noc'l
--- On Wed 11/15, Simon Nume < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Simon Nume [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ugandanet@kym.net
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:02:45 -0800 (PST)
Subject: RE: [Ugnet] Uganda: LRA Demands Hold Truce to Ransom
Okuto
Do you want 'Kony' to just accept ONLY what M7 is offering, for the sake of
peace ?
Without some sort of self governance another 'rebel' could start in the same
area again, plunging the area into more mayhem.
Maybe federo, with Acholi RDC's and LC's in charge, would ensure that no
shadowy figure starts a war which will take the victorious and strong M7
another 20 years to NEGOTIATE away while based in a foreign country.
M7's arguments about this war are shallow, hollow and repetitive and some new
proposals are in order here.
Nume.
Okuto del Coli wrote:
Seems to me like a typical case of derailment. THE INITIAL MOTIVE FOR THE LRA's
ARMED RESISTANCE as we have often known, was not FEDERALISM.
In any case, the method of fighting they have employed thus far does not
suggest any thing in that direction, They have never taken control of any bit
of Uganda. Which they would have been expected to, if FEDERALISM was part of
their motive.
Some interest else is hi jacking and the innocent Ugandan perseverance
persists!!
noc'la gaumoy
--- On Tue 11/14, Matek Opoko < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Matek Opoko [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ugandanet@kym.net
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:51:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Ugnet] Uganda: LRA Demands Hold Truce to Ransom
Reacting to THE EAST AFRICAN ARTICLE BELOW , MANY POLITICAL OBSERVERS WOULD SAY
That LRA demands , which includes the call for federalism in Uganda , are
genuine and must be addressed if any agreement will be reached in the so called
Juba peace talks. Refusing to address those demands in Ernest is indeed a
recipe for more wars and more Human Suffering.
Matek
Uganda: LRA Demands Hold Truce to Ransom
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The East African (Nairobi)
November 14, 2006
Posted to the web November 14, 2006
BARBARA AMONG
Nairobi
Lopsided demands and dis-agreement over the terms of a revised truce accord
between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have
held up peace talks between the two sides in the southern Sudanese city of
Juba, officials said last week.
Talks aimed at ending the two-decade-old war in northern Uganda between the
government and Lords Resistance Army rebels have now dragged on for three
months with no achievement on any of the five agreed-upon agenda items.
Rapidly unfolding events, especially the reported killing of more than 40
civilians by LRA rebels, the ambush of an SPLA truck by the Uganda army,
continuous ferrying of food to the rebels by the Government of Southern Sudan,
suggest that an outbreak of renewed hostilities is imminent.
The two sides renewed the truce two weeks ago, giving the rebels a month to
assemble, but the LRA rebels are yet to show up in the two assembly areas of
Owiny-Kibul and Ri-kwangba in Southern Sudan.
Further hurting the talks is the constant stream of new demands raised by the
rebel political wing (LRM) in the talks. The team last week presented a new set
of refined demands, including special protection for its fighters and the
establishment of a fully-fledged ministry in which the rebels would have a
stake, a proposal the government has flatly rejected.
The Uganda government has said it is fast growing impatient with the talks and
has within a period of three weeks, written twice to the mediator and
Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) expressing its disappointment at the pace
of the talks.
GoSS is hosting the stop-start peace talks between the Uganda government and
the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels who have long been accused of
committing atrocities against villagers across the two border regions.
Unlike past talks, where the perceived reluctance of both the government and
the LRA rebels to engage with one another in political dialogue emerged
consistently, this time round, the peace talks started in high gear and the two
sides had shown increased commitment.
However, the often-articulated government view that the LRA lack a
comprehensive political objective and is therefore a "common criminal" seems to
be coming back on the table.
The repeated argument by the government that the rebels are using the talks to
reorganise is quickly resurfacing. The army has on five occasions in the past
month engaged rebels trying to cross the Nile into Garamba in Congo.
While the rebel political wing constantly raise new demands, leaving old ones
unresolved, LRA leader Joseph Kony and his top lieutenants have consistently
focused on the withdrawal of the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment.
The 26-page document, spelling out fresh LRA demands, surfaced after the LRM
was joined by a fresh team from the US and UK. Okidi Jaramogi, now based in
Southern Sudan, and Onen Ostraco, based in Nairobi, have brought a new twist to
the talks by introducing it.
The rebel political wing is known for squandering past international peace
talks, most notably the 1997 Rome peace talks, initiated by the Sant'Egidio
group.
The LRA delegation presented the 26-page document to the chief mediator, Dr
Riek Machar, on Monday night at the Juba Raha Hotel, containing demands 80
percent of which Kampala has rejected.
The parties have since August been debating comprehensive solutions to the
conflict, a path that could lead to the signing of a comprehensive peace
agreement.
The document demands that the parties adopt special security measures including
a designated assembly area in Northern Uganda, to be elaborated in subsequent
agreements.
The LRA also wants Masindi district in western Uganda included in districts
affected by the war, which should then be declared "disaster areas."
The LRA also demands that a referendum be held in 12 months after signing the
agreement, a move the rebels say will show that there is genuine demand for a
federal form of government as the only way for guaranteeing the political
stability of the country.
The Uganda government has rejected the above demands, maintaining that it is
only offering a "soft landing" for the rebels.
The government also argues that the new demands were not raised by the rebels
when presenting earlier papers for discussion on the five agreed upon agenda
items nor were they presented during the reviewing of the Cessation of
Hostilities agreement.
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The visit by Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni, to Juba last month has not
boosted the talks as was earlier expected.
The Juba talks, the latest in many attempts to end the LRA insurgency, have
been plagued from the start by profound mistrust on both sides, which spiked
earlier last month with the military and rebels both accusing the other of
initiating hostilities.
Because of this mistrust, the LRA moved out of the two assembly points and are
now heading towards Garamba forest in DR Congo.
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