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2011-01-02 03:44:00
Report Acts Of Violence In Kenya Editor's Note: We stand in solidarity with the Kenyan people at this time of crisis. The graphic above is a link to a website created to document election violence and provide information about the incidents. More about Kenya's election troubles and Uganda's involvement 21 Years and Running, Writing Campaign We invite you to join us in highlighting the
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Video Link: Two sides of the same coin: the LRA and Ugandan Government
2008-04-11 02:18:00
In the wake of what could be the collapse of recent peace talks between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government, discussion has focused on the peace talks, the way forward and the millions of displaced Ugandans who were left unprotected by their government. The story of forcible displacement has been eclipsed by the atrocities of the LRA, but it is the people in the
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Did UPDF officers sell arms to Kony?
2008-04-01 06:25:00
ALEX ATUHAIRE / KAMPALA REVELATIONS that some UPDF 4 Division commanders could have sold arms to Joseph Kony's LRA rebels shocked the committee that investigated the presence of ghost-soldiers on the army payroll. Sources close to the committee chaired by Mr Amama Mbabazi, then minister of Defence, told Daily Monitor that several testimonies gathered from the Fourth and Fifth Divisions in
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Africa Wins One
2008-02-20 01:12:00
[Africa : Editorial, BlackStarNews.com, February 18, 2007] The United States’ plans to create AFRICOM, a so-called U.S. Africa command, collapsed in ruin today with the announcement that the Americans will maintain the base in Germany. It’s a resounding victory for Africa, thanks primarily to South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki. He was vociferous in denouncing Washington’s plans. He had also urged other
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US Trains Ugandan "Anti-Terror" Unit
2008-02-05 01:37:00
What's the U.S. up to in Uganda? Training anti-terror units, and establishing a central command center in northern Uganda. With Ugandan troops already doing its dirty work in Somalia, the U.S. is lending a further hand in destabilizing the Great Lakes region by bolstering an army which has been convicted for war crimes. -XUG Editor KASENYI, Uganda – The Soldiers of the U.S. Army’s Delta
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Write CHOGM!
2008-01-10 10:31:00
WRITE CHOGM! RESOURCES 1. Letter Writing Tips & Talking Points2. Be a Global Witness3. Where to Send Your Letter4. Facts: CHOGM 2007, UgandaBe an active witness. Set aside 21 minutes, Write CHOGM! The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) was held November 23-25th, 2007 in Kampala, Uganda. Nearly all Commonwealth heads of state, including the Queen of England attended the meeting

Uganda Gun Men Shot Kenya Rioters
2008-01-10 10:15:00
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, EMOJONG OSERE & RISDEL KASASIRAKAMPALAKENYAN opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Tuesday that he had called President Yoweri Museveni to protest what he called the presence of Uganda n gunmen in the lakeside city of Kisumu, where riots erupted in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election. The gunmen "have killed quite a number of civilians in Kisumu", Mr Odinga said
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Vigilance: The Antidote for Tyranny
2008-01-06 16:58:00
Issues Of Principle Professor Amii Omara-Otunnu There is an adage among the Central Lwo-speaking people in Africa that calamities make people patch up if not transcend their differences. The adage is more often than not applied to question of leadership: that it is in times of crises that the quality of leaders can be gauged and appreciated. In Uganda, in the past two decades, both
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Fact Sheet on Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni
2008-01-01 02:31:00
What you need to know about President Museveni and Uganda under Museveni's rule1. Crimes Against Humanity I: The Ugandan government failed to protect northern Ugandans when they needed it most. President Museveni is responsible for orchestrating genocide in Northern Uganda, where he has incarcerated nearly two million people in concentration camps, euphemistically known as ?protected villages.? Read a report by the Govt. of Uganda, WHO, UNICEF and others (pdf version).At the height of the crisis, (circa 2005), more than 1,000 people per week were dying from preventable diseases in these modern day concentration camps. More people have died from conditions in the camps themselves than at the hands of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) or government forces, and over 20,000 children have been abducted.2. Crimes Against Humanity II: In 2005, Museveni?s government was found guilty by the International Court of Justice for committing grave war crimes in the DRC, including: the invasion an...
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No-peace-no-war in Uganda
2007-12-28 02:46:00
Northern Uganda has been afflicted by war since 1986. The situation in the region has been described by a high-rank UN representative as one of the worst humanitarian crises of today. Yet, recently there have been developments which have encouraged some commentators to speak about a ‘post-war’ situation. In this brief commentary, I warn against declaring a post-war situation too soon.By: Sverker Finnström, Researcher and lecturer, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden, and affiliated to the Centre for Conflict Management and Peace Studies, Gulu University, Uganda. In 1981, Yoweri Museveni and the National Resistance Movement/Army launched a guerrilla war in central Uganda with the objective of replacing Milton Obote’s second government (1980–85). Museveni took to arms with the argument that the 1980 elections that brought Obote back to power were rigged. In his book Uganda since independence: A story of unfulfilled hopes (1992) Mutib...

Renaissance Leader Runs Out of Steam
2007-12-28 02:16:00
By William Wallis, FINANCIAL TIMESPublished: November 20 2007 06:27 | Last updated: November 20 2007 06:27Much hope for Africa’s emergence was invested until relatively recently in a new generation of leaders from Ethiopia, via Uganda to the Cape.African countries, so the thinking went, had a better chance of emerging from poverty and conflict with tough visionaries, who believed in self-reliance, at their command. Uganda has been one example of how that thinking has, in less than a decade, been turning on its head.In the mid-1990s Yoweri Museveni, the president, was at the heart of a group of leaders lauded in Washington, the UK and parts of Africa itself, as the vanguard of an “African renaissance.� If there is talk this week of another African dawn, when 54 heads of state descend on Kampala for the Commonwealth’s biennial summit, it will be for different reasons.Hopes for Uganda today – as for other parts of the continent – are less bound up in its leadership. Instead...
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The Acholi "Final Solution"
2007-12-23 20:16:00
[Black Star News Editorial]By Milton Allimadi, December 21, 2007For more than 20 years critics of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni contended that his government?s policy of confining nearly two million Acholis in squalid concentration camps amounted to mass death sentences?that the regime was intent on depopulating Acholi in order to seize fertile lands.Such talk was often dismissed as ?conspiracy theory.? Now the assertions are coming to fruition right before our eyes.Since the Museveni government was aware that people were dying in the thousands through hunger, thirst, diseases, and sexual abuse, and still continued to maintain the concentration camps, critics saw the mass deaths as deliberate policy.The Museveni regime and international relief agencies referred to the camps euphemistically as ?internally displaced people?s? camps (IDPs). The Museveni regime claimed the 200 or so death centers were intended to ?protect? Acholis from the vicious attacks of Joseph Kony?s Lord?s Res...
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Danger: US Militarization Of Africa
2007-11-27 14:45:00
[Issues Of Principle] Professor Amii Omara-OtunnuThe Bush Administration, over the past several months, has engaged in a high-level campaign to retail to Africa n leaders its scheme to establish combatant US Military Command Headquarters in Africa, commonly referred to as AFRICOM.As the Administration makes its push for the scheme, it is imperative for all concerned to know some of the basic facts, and probe into the significance of AFRICOM for Africa, not least because the establishment of AFRICOM has the potential to dramatically affect prospects for democratic governance, the rule of law, sustainable development and enjoyment of human rights in the continent.How has the scheme been marketed? General William Ward, the designated commander of AFRICOM, appearing at a meeting with African Union (AU) leaders in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa in early November, made a strong case for establishing military bases, or the stationing of troops on the continent by the USA on the grounds ...
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Commonwealth leaders overlook civil war in northern Uganda
2007-11-26 15:23:00
Mike Blanchfield, CanWest News ServicePublished: Saturday, November 24, 2007Despite the two decades of fighting in northern Uganda that enslaved tens of thousands of child soldiers and drove two million people from their homes, it remained, for many years, Africa's forgotten war. But, as this neatly scrubbed Ugandan capital plays host to leaders from 53 Commonwealth countries for their weekend summit, this 21-year-old conflict - now Africa's longest - has been transformed into something else: an invisible war. There has been virtually no mention of the ongoing conflict at this summit. Canada's silence comes despite its modest $1.5-million contribution that makes it the leading donor to the Juba Peace Process, named after the south Sudanese town where the peace talks aimed at ending the war have been held periodically since the spring. As far as Uganda's human rights watchdogs are concerned, all of this amounts to a missed opportunity to push Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni...
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Pakistani, Ugandan leaders both ruthless and autocratic
2007-11-23 03:27:00
Mike BlanchfieldCanWest News ServiceThursday, November 22, 2007CREDIT: REUTERS/Euan DenholmUgandan President Yoweri Museveni addresses participants during the opening of the Commonwealth Business Forum, ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Kampala, November 20, 2007. Museveni urged Commonwealth members on Tuesday to break down trade barriers preventing poor countries from exporting processed, value-added exports instead of raw materials.KAMPALA - Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, may be the pariah of the Commonwealth over his continued imposition of emergency rule.But he shares one significant anti-democratic characteristic with the Ugandan leader, who is playing host to Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and four dozen fellow Commonwealth leaders at a summit to open here today: A disregard of his country's courts and judges.Like Musharraf, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni believes his country's judiciary should never challenge his ulti...
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Commonwealth Protests in Uganda
2007-11-23 03:14:00
Ugandan Police Clash With Anti-Commonwealth Demonstrators-AFP November 23, 2007KAMPALA, Uganda (AFP)--A rally by Uganda's main opposition party urging Commonwealth sanctions against the host government turned into violent clashes with police, witnesses said. Scores of police descended onto a group of supporters of the Forum for Democratic Change after they left a zone where demonstrations are permitted, the witnesses said. One civilian and one police officer sustained serious injuries. The trouble erupted after a speech by FDC leader Kizza Besigye. A crowd of dozens of supporters started cheering and dancing as they filed onto a street outside the zone where demonstrations are allowed during the summit which started Friday. "The policemen started beating me as I was walking home," said Abdul Karim, as he lay on the sidewalk covered in blood. Protestors threw rocks at a riot police squad that clubbed several men and women. "This is n...
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Pictures of the Moment
2007-11-22 17:50:00
XUG Coalition: Expose Uganda's Genocide http://www.exposeugandasgenocide.blogspot .com Learn the truth, witness the suffering of the innocent, create change today.
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XUG Coalition Statement on CHOGM
2007-11-16 16:50:00
Questioning the "Common Wealth"November 18, 2007 It is a great shame that an organization like the Commonwealth, which professes to stand for the rule of law, respect for human rights, democratic pluralism and peaceful co-existence with neighboring states, is rewarding a military dictator with chairmanship of the Commonwealth, concluding the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), November 23-25th in Kampala, Uganda. The record of President Yoweri Museveni’s rule in Uganda since he shot himself to power in 1986 indicates that he has consistently violated, and continues to disregard, all of the principles and ideals of the Commonwealth. In light of this, we question the criteria used by the Commonwealth Heads of Government in selecting Uganda as the host country for CHOGM and the appointment of General Museveni as Chair. Democracy? Uganda has been ruled by a military dictator clothed in flimsy civilian attire for the last 21 years. President Lt. Gen....
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United States Media (Newspaper, TV, Radio, Wire)
2007-11-13 22:25:00
NewspaperRocky Mountain News letters@denver-rmn.comWashington Times letter@twtmail.comSan Francisco Examiner letters@sfexaminer.com San Jose Mercury News letters@sjmercury.comUSA Today editor@usatoday.com fax: 703-854-2165 7950 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, VA 22108 Phone: 800-872-0001 or 703-854-3400 Give feedback to USA TodayKansas City Star letters@kcstar.comLos
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Does the US envoy see these abuses?
2007-11-12 03:40:00
"You, as an individual can make a personal choice to make a difference in the lives of Ugandans by exposing the truth." Monitor (Kampala) November 12, 2007 Beti Kamya Your Excellency, the USA Ambassador to Uganda, Sunday Vision of November 4, 2007 reported Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying that the USA is ?convinced that Uganda has for the last two years performed excellently in governance, in fighting corruption, guaranteeing freedom of expression and improved education accessibility?. Your Excellency, did you pass this (mis)information to the American people, who so generously share fruits of their toil with us, on condition that Ugandans are governed according to principles of democracy, rule of law and good governance? Or does Ms Rice have sources of inf...

Where to send your letter
2007-11-11 12:55:00
A few suggested destinations for your letter:Local, national and international media outlets (also send letters in response to news coverage and articles on CHOGM/Uganda)Representatives of Commonwealth member states and Uganda's key donorsThe Commonwealth SecretariatA partial, in-progress list of key contactsLocal, National, International Media OutletsAfrican News MediaUS News MediaCommonwealth SecretariatAttn: Don McKinnon, Secretary General (info@commonwealth.int) Official Spokesperson and Director of CommunicationsEduardo del BueyTel:+44 (0)20 7747 6380Email: e.delbuey@commonwealth.int Media & Public Affairs Enquiries:Phone: +44 (0)20 7747 6385Fax: +44 (0)20 7839 9081 Government RepresentativesBRITAIN Attn: Francois Gordon, British High Commissioner email: bhcinfo@starcom.co.ugwebsite: http://www.bba-uganda.org/british_high_co mmission.htm phone: (256) (31) 2312000 political affairs phone:(256) (31) 2312267 British High Commission4 Windsor L...
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CHOGM-Uganda 2007 >> Facts & Articles
2007-11-11 05:18:00
A huge amount of resources have been spent preparing for the three-day CHOGM meeting, none of which improves the lot of those who are so desperately poor and dying in Uganda ."The streets of Kampala are clean!" A Kampala resident told an expatriate Ugandan over the phone recently. Beggars and the usual elements of unsightliness of the Kampala landscape have reportedly been removed in an effort to CHOGM-ize the city.Picture source: www.ugpulse.comCHOGM Perspectives: Facts & Articles Human Rights Activists Prepare for Commonwealth Peoples Forum"As the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala approaches (November), the attention of the Commonwealth should turn to the massive human rights violations that are being perpetrated in Uganda by police and security forces. The Ugandan Government is not simply directing the police to clamp down on criminal and terrorist activities. ...

tips, topics and talking points
2007-11-11 04:11:00
LETTER WRITING TIPSChoose an area which is important to you that needs be highlighted and write on that.Keep letters and articles short. You will have a better chance of being published or for the piece of writing to reach its target.Please read the information provided on this website.Time is of the essence. Seize the moment, do not wait!(Pictured: a young girl carrying a sibling at Pabbo IDP camp. Source: Diocese of Northern Uganda, Willy Akena.)TALKING POINTSRead this op-ed from a Ugandan Minister of Parliament on the State of Uganda TodayCommonwealth Countries> Ask that Heads of Government or ministers who will be attending this meeting bring pressure to bear on the Government of Uganda to live up to its responsibilities as a member of the Commonwealth.> Encourage them to take the time to visit the north and see for themselves how donor money has been misused and misappropriated because of the corruption of the Museveni regime.Donor Countries (51% of Uganda's Budget--Britain,Un...
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A Reflection on Real Security for Uganda
2007-11-11 03:45:00
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Newsletter Gudrun Dewey Intern, Access to Justice Programme, CHRI On 1 March 2007, President Museveni's Black Mamba squad raided the Uganda n High Court in Kampala. The Black Mamba is the sinister heavily armed anti-terrorism division of Ugandan government security. They are cloaked in secrecy and take orders from the President. During the raid 25 Black Mamba members and 20 prison officers forcibly rearrested five People's Redemption Army (PRA) suspects who had just been released on bail after being charged with treason and terrorism. The Human Rights Network in Uganda states that the Black Mamba 'unleashed brutal violence against the suspects' and their lawyers, leaving one lawyer 'bleeding after he attempted to intervene in the unlawful arrest'1. The following day the five suspects were charged with new allegations of murder and presented before a military court. In a display of outrage at the ar...
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What is the Commonwealth/CHOGM?
2007-11-11 03:25:00
The Commonwealth is a 53 member confederation of states known as the Commonwealth of Nations ? the "British Commonwealth" most were formerly members of the British Empire.CHOGM ("sho-gum"), Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is the annual meeting which brings together leaders of commonwealth member states. This year CHOGM is being held in Uganda. Members of the Commonwealth Antigua and Barbuda Australia Bahamas Bangladesh Barbados Belize Botswana Brunei Cameroon Canada Cyprus Dominica Fiji1 Gambia Ghana Grenada Guyana India Jamaica Kenya Kiribati Lesotho Malawi Malaysia Maldives Malta Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Nauru² New Zealand Nigeria³ Pakistan4 Papua New Guinea Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Gre...

Militarism in Uganda
2007-11-08 01:47:00
War on terrorism leads to rights abuses: watchdog By Tim CocksMon Nov 19, 9:25 AM ET Torture, beatings, executions, racist stereotyping and intrusive surveillance are among the abuses countries are committing in the name of fighting terrorism, a rights watchdog said on Monday. The Commonwealth Human Rights Commission said since the 9/11 attacks, many nations had been using the military for police work in the so-called "war on terror," leading to brutal policing techniques, including extra-judicial killings. The Commission made the allegations in a report which reviews human rights in the 53-nation body before the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). "Until recently, torture was condemned as a gross violation of human rights ... fear of terrorism and the desire to respond to it is steadily undermining this absolute prohibition," the report said. Among the offenders it named was Pakistan, which risk...
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Satellite Photos of Uganda's Death Camps
2007-11-07 08:14:00
High-altitude photos of northernUganda's campsThe latitude and longitude coordinates are given in one of the filenames. I got this by downloading Google Earth, telling it to go to Gulu then Kitgum, Uganda, and cruising around at 1.000 to 2.000 feet 'til I saw something. Most of the region is lower resolution and you can't see anything, but this camp shows clearly in this hi-res patch.The crowding is quite evident. Each of the dots is a rondavel, presumably housing a family. Someone with patience can count dots and multiply by average family size to get population. My very rough estimate is on the order of 1000 huts for a population of maybe 4000, assuming four per hut? In the hut areas, the small white line (1/2 of 668 feet or 332 feet) seems to equate to about 13 huts. Squaring both figures gives an interior and exterior living area of 165 square feet per hut. Assuming the huts are maybe half of that size, that makes the hut about an 8x10 foot patch of ground. Put a family of fo...
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Darfur vs. Uganda
2007-11-06 20:25:00
DARFURISM, UGANDA & U.S. WAR IN AFRICAThe Spectre of Continental Genocide 1 November 2007keith harmon snowPresident Bush met with Uganda ?s President-for-life Yoweri Museveni in the White House on October 30, 2007. Meanwhile, a broad swath of Africa is engulfed in interrelated genocides and covert operations involving both the U.S. and Uganda, there is a growing demand to probe the accounts of ?Save Darfur ? to find out how the tens of millions collected are being spent due to allegations of arms-deals and bribery, and the SAVE DARFUR movement has become the false flag action of the West, supported by most everyone, people who know little or nothing about what it is they are supporting.When President George Bush met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni at the White House on October 30 they certainly discussed much more than ?Uganda's leadership in Somalia, the Lord's Resistance Army, and President Museveni's development plan for northern Uganda? or their ?strong partnership t...

Kerry to Bush: Urge Museveni to Reaffirm Commitment to Rule of Law
2007-10-31 03:11:00
Kerry Urge s Bush to Advance Democracy Agenda in Today?s Meeting with Ugandan PresidentWASHINGTON D.C. ? Senator John Kerry sent a letter to President Bush today in advance of his meeting with President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. Kerry asked Bush to raise certain issues related to President Museveni?s 2006 reelection given the strong U.S. interest in promoting democracy and the rule of law in Uganda.The text of Kerry?s letter is below:October 29, 2007President George W. BushThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20500Dear Mr. President:I understand you will be discussing a number of important subjects with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni during tomorrow?s meeting, including the escalating conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. I also urge you to take this opportunity to raise certain issues related to President Museveni?s 2006 reelection.Specifically, the first multi-party election in over twenty-five years, held in February 2006, was reportedly ...
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What the US Govt. Would Like You to Believe
2007-10-30 04:23:00
President Bush To Host Ugandan President for White House Talks Leaders will discuss conflict resolution, HIV/AIDS, development in Africa 10/29/07By Charles W. Corey USINFO Staff Writer Washington -- President Bush will welcome Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to the White House October 30 for talks that will salute Museveni?s leadership in promoting peace and reconciliation in Somalia and Africa's Great Lakes region, in battling the HIV/AIDS pandemic and in promoting economic growth and development in Uganda and throughout the continent. James C. Swan, deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told USINFO on the eve of the White House talks that Museveni?s visit is important because it allows the United States government to recognize his leadership not just in the Great Lakes region, but in other areas as well. ?Ugandans were the first contingent to deploy to AMISOM [African Union Mission to Somalia] -- an important African Union initiative to try to stabilize...
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