George Okello
"Increasingly, the importance of organizing in the diaspora, amongst the second
and the third generations cannot be gainsaid. I think salvation for Africa will
come from the diaspora, not from inside the country." -George Okello
On record, your father also believed into that very same stupidity, a very
reason he piled up Acholi to boats that died as insects. Uganda is our country
and unlike many of you as Acholi and Langi its salvation will come from its
self-sir.
There is no single country that has ever been saved from the outside when the
inside is capots sir.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika
machafuko"
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[mailto:ugandans-at-hea...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of George Okello
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 4:03 PM
To: ugandans-at-hea...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [UAH2] The great exodus
Comrade Robukui,
This is a tragedy for the continent of Africa. We cant have millions of our
young people dreaming of migrating to Europe. They have to dream of changing
our continent for the better. Eritrea has lost so many of its young talents, so
who is going to replace the ageing leaders? This is a similar scenario we have
in Uganda. I would write off the generation that has grown up under Museveni.
This is the most unfortunate generation in Uganda's entire history and the most
intellectually and politically confused. Increasingly, the importance of
organising in the diaspora, amongst the second and the third generations can
not be gainsaid. I think salvation for Africa will come from the diaspora, not
from inside the country.
George Okello
On 5/3/15, Robukui <robuku...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gopo,
> National service doesn't equate perpetual slavery to the State.
>
> Viele Grube
> Robukui
>
>> On Apr 29, 2015, at 4:14 PM, George Okello <opal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Comrade Robukui,
>>
>> I listened to a programme on the BBC World Service this morning at
>> 6AM and it was on this subject. A team of journalists went to Eritrea
>> to find out why so many people are running out of the country. It was
>> really shocking what they reported back. Very few of these immigrants
>> are actually refugees in the sense that most of them are threatened by the
>> government.
>> They detest national service, that is for certain, but thats not a
>> reason for going into exile. What the BBC found out is that there is
>> now such an over-powering aspiration and ambittion to migrate abroad
>> that no matter what the dangers, these youing men (16-30 years old)
>> are prepared to risk everything to achieve their dreams. They have
>> set up all their dreams, all their aspirations, everything they have
>> in the world on migrating to Europe. This may take three or five
>> years, but they are determined to make it. Europe is their nirvana,
>> their promised land, and that is where they want to get to, no
>> matter what the odds. Every village has three or four young men and
>> women in advance stages of mobilising resources for their epic
>> journey. No matter what the elders tell them, it has no impact
>> whatsoever. They are shown pictures of people who have drowned in the
>> Med Sea, but that has no impact whatsoever. Instead they show you
>> pictures and letters from those who have made it to Europe- and this
>> strengthens their resolve. They say openly that it is better to die
>> trying than to die of poverty in their own country.The most
>> frightening thing for me really is that these young men nolonger
>> care at all for or about their country. They don't care that the
>> government is a dictatorship and that somehow they have a role to
>> change the situation. They are not bothered. They simply want to
>> reach the promised land. This is the most frightening thing for me as a
>> socialist. It means, we will to increasingly rely on the diaspora in order
>> to change the situation back home.
>>
>> George Okello
>>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Robukui . <robuku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The great exodus
>>> Every day, thousands of refugees head for Europe. Their hopes for a
>>> new life are greater than their fear of the passage across the
>>> Mediterranean Sea, writes DW's Alexander Kudascheff.
>>>
>>> It's springtime, and again, refugees are making their way to Europe.
>>> The reasons are manifold: poverty - often abject poverty -, no
>>> education, no chance of a job. Then there are dictatorships,
>>> despots, torture, persecution, oppression, civil wars, regular wars
>>> and often a failed state where marauding gangs reign.
>>> Sheer hardship and a sense of hopelessness are what drives people to
>>> flee their homes; to try for a new life in a foreign country, hoping
>>> for a modicum of luck. They come from many countries, including
>>> Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan - that's not
>>> even mentioning the internal migration in crisis areas.
>>>
>>> Alexander Kudascheff is DW's editor-in-chief A cynical business An
>>> estimated 50 million refugees are on the move. Their odyssee is
>>> perilous and often ends in death because they don't try to undertake
>>> the journey on their own but rely on smugglers to take them to the
>>> land of their hopes. The routes are often anything but
>>> straightforward, say from Syria via Turkey to Algeria, across the
>>> desert to Libya, and then on a boat to the continent of hope:
>>> Europe. Unless they are abandoned by the boat's crew and drown. This
>>> modern-day slave trade has become a billion-dollar business - brutal and
>>> cynical.
>>> The refugees that make it to Europe are crammed into emergency
>>> shelters, sometimes they receive medial care, and often they face
>>> deportation within just a short period of time. Or they go
>>> underground and try to survive and even feed their families by
>>> taking on illegal, often dishonorablejobs and unskilled labor.
>>> Some receive support and help from their own families, others are
>>> backed by volunteers who come to the newcomers' aid. Yet others
>>> depend on the goodwill of the states that grant them asylum. And
>>> many, very many, must return to the poverty and hopelessness they fled.
>>> Small victories, major setbacks
>>> DW presents a thematic week with an in-depth look at refugee
>>> movements - from people's departure from their homes to the actual
>>> journey and their arrival. We will portray the countries that
>>> refugees want to leave behind. We will portray the long, perilous
>>> and often deadly journey. And we will describe what refugees and
>>> asylum-seekers can expect in Germany and in Europe.
>>> The reports will show the reality, the hopes, disappointments, the
>>> small victories and big setbacks, presenting people as well as politicians'
>>> helplessness. Taking in refugees, saving them from distress at sea -
>>> these are natural human duties. But it's just as true that not
>>> everyone who wants to come to Europe can do so. The right to asylum
>>> is a sacred right. But in real life, it's currently being pummeled and
>>> overextended.
>>> For hundreds of thousands of refugees on North Africa's shores, only
>>> one thing counts: the next boat to Europe. For them, it's all about
>>> arrival and surviving the passage.
>>>
>>> Viele GruBe
>>> Robukui
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