----- Original Message -----
From: "uga479" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Vovi Uganda e.V." <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 3:54 PM
Subject: ***WHEN WILL BAGANDA APPOLOGISE TO "ANYANYA'S ?** Luwero Killings:
Acholis to Say Sorry to Buganda
> Fellow Citizens,
>
> I don't think we should really dwell on this topic. This topic should
have
> been put to rest straight away by asking a similar question to the very
> people demanding the same from others.
>
> It is public knowledge that UPC supporters and almost all the so-called
> "Anyannya's" were murdered during the Luwero war except for those who are
> DPs. Their land and property - never to be allowed to return too, which
> they had bought with their own sweat and lived in for so many generations
> were taken.
>
> A good number were even burned alive using car tyres during the Luwero war
> and after the fall of UPC II government.
>
> What about what we have seen in the north and east for all these 18 years?
>
> Is it therefore that when others die they are human beings yet when some
> others die they are just animals (OBUSOLO) or just BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES
as
> they say?
>
> The line is long, but being tolerant should not be mistaken for being
> ignorant/stupid. Some mistakes have been made, yes, but let no one think
> that they can fool everybody all the time.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nyar'Onyango
> ***************
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vovi Uganda e.V." <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:30 PM
> Subject: Fw: Luwero Killings: Acholis to Say Sorry to Buganda
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alex Abukha" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:05 PM
> > Subject: Luwero Killings: Acholis to Say Sorry to Buganda
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Lukaka,
> > >
> > > First of all that catchy propaganda headline, "Luwero Killings:
Acholis
> to
> > > Say Sorry to Buganda" unfairly singles out Acholis from all the tribes
> in
> > > Uganda.
> > >
> > > Secondly, accepting responsibility is not the same as giving (public)
> > > apology. Accept resposibility without remorse. Religious and Cultural
> > > leaders from Teso and Lira are willing to accept responsibility for
the
> > > Luwero indiscriminate killings, but are they remorseful? Their
> > counterparts
> > > from Acholi sub-region are to do both...accept resposibility and offer
> > > apology! On whose behalf? Has there been a consensus and consent from
> > > Acholi?
> > >
> > > These cultural and religious leaders must be out of their moral and
> > > spiritual minds otherwise they would be asking Museveni and NRA to
> accept
> > > resposibility and apologise to Buganda and Uganda at large for the
> Luwero
> > > atrocities. Once Museveni is out, it is these same cultural and
> religious
> > > leaders who will publicly blame NRA and Museveni for the Luwero
> killings.
> > > How principled are we? What do they want to achieve or is it some kind
> of
> > > diplomacy? At whose expense?
> > >
> > > The Luwero war has and continues to cost Acoli irreparable damages.
> > Apology
> > > from Acoli sub-region shall cost Acoliland and tribe for life.
> > >
> > > These cultural and religious leaders, if they themselves as a group or
> as
> > > individuals killed people in Luwero, it is up to them to accept
> > > responsibility and aplogise to Buganda.
> > >
> > > Ayila-kwac.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > From: "Okello Lucima" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > Date: 2004/03/03 Wed PM 06:21:28 EST
> > > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > Subject: [AcoliForum] Fw: Luwero Killings: Acholis to Say Sorry to
> > Buganda
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Luwero Killings: Acholis to
> > > > Say Sorry to Buganda
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > By A.MUTUMBA-LULE
> > > > THE EASTAFRICAN A DELEGATION of cultural and religious leaders
> from
> > > the Acholi sub-region is expected to make a public apology to Buganda
> this
> > > week for the atrocities committed against non-combatants by the
> > > predominantly Acholi Uganda National Liberation Army, UNLA, during the
> > > five-year bush war that brought President Yoweri Museveni to power.
> > > >
> > > > In a development that could be significant for north-south
> relations
> > > in Uganda, the elders and religious leaders from Teso, Gulu and Lira
> will
> > > accept responsibility for the indiscriminate killings that sometimes
saw
> > > whole families perish, as government forces sought out supporters of
the
> > > National Resistance Army insurgency led by Yoweri Museveni (who at the
> > time
> > > was a rebel leader) between 1981 and 1985. Janaan Kasango, one of the
> > people
> > > behind the reconciliatory meetings, said last week that cultural
leaders
> > > like the Emorimor of Teso, Osburn Kadugala, the tribal chief of
Acholi,
> > the
> > > Rwot and representatives from Buganda have agreed to attend the
> meetings.
> > > >
> > > > "This will be the first of its kind, but we expect more
> > reconciliatory
> > > meetings to take place," Kasango told The EastAfrican last week.
> > > >
> > > > In the Luwero Triangle, bitter memories of the war still linger
> and
> > > President Yoweri Museveni's campaign team capitalised on such memories
> to
> > > campaign against the opposition in 1986.
> > > >
> > > > Sources in the Mission for National Reconciliation, the people
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can
> shield
> > > the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences
of
> > the
> > > lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its
> > > powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the
lie,
> > and
> > > thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
> > > >
> > > > - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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