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From: c.eliba 
To: Elum aniap Godfrey Ayoo ; [log in to unmask] ; Edward Mulindwa 
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Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: Shocking Uhuru present for MUK


Netters

Only one language is understood by Museveni. For those who thought going through with and participating in the shambles of CA elections that led to instrument of oppression called the 1995 constitution, then the subsequent shameful elections and referendum are equally as guilty as the leaders of the regime. None of these approach is a language he is in his vocabulary. He understands only the barrel of the guns. 

The man was very clear from the start. From his school days to last week when is was vomitting to Ugandans about security. In fact one would have thought by now he would have woken up considering the patients Ugandans have afforded him. No no no. he is even getting deeper in his ways and becoming  more desperate and dangerous. 
I can understand Clinton, Bush, Clare Short, Linda Chalker calling him the 'new breed' or 'bacon of hope' for a simple reasons of protecting their respective national interests. But, I have heard words like: the dictator is the saver of the Uganda, he has turn around things in Uganda for the best, the good things he has done etc being said by Ugandans! Is it me or these people with a problem? From Tanzania, to the Luwero Bushes to the time he decreed NRA decree no.1 in January !986  even the dumbest person would have known what Uganda would get from him. The sooners other Ugandans realize that the approach they might have had upto now to change the man is a dead end.

I am proud to be in a party whose leader can see many years ahead of others. I was once told he told some Ugandans to give the dictator time and and the latter was bound to get no where. Only if those other Ugandans, especially those who claims to be sympathisers of this party, listened then, the campaign would been much easier. Instead some of them went ahead and legitimised the dictators in one form or another.

Its nearing if not yet already time to push the dictator using his same language.

Charles Eliba

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  From: Elum aniap Godfrey Ayoo 
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  Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 9:48 PM
  Subject: Shocking Uhuru present for MUK


  Shocking Uhuru present for MUK
  Editorial
  Oct 10, 2003

        In normal circumstances everybody would be hanging their heads in shame over Wednesday evening's crackdown on a peaceful and innocent intellectual debate at Makerere University.

        A contigent of riot police, backed by water cannon trucks swamped the university, hammered the students and pumped water into their halls of residence. They also used the traditional teargas. 

        A visitor could have thought that a violent student action was underway, hence necessitating the drastic countermeasure. Wrong thought, because what was afoot was a quiet discussion of whether presidential term limits, as enshrined in Article 105(2) of the 1995 Constitution, should be lifted.

        But apparently someone in authority felt that a major disturbance of the peace was imminent and sent in the troops.

        Forget the resulting contravention of the guarantees to freedom of expression, conscience, movement, assembly and association captured in Article 29 in the same supreme law of the land. 

        Ironically, the 1995 constitution was promulgated on October 8 of that year! The repression we witnessed was another reminder that the government has lost all sense of proportion and shame.

        Even on the eve of the day Uganda won political freedom from Britain, the colonial master, President Museveni's government does not see anything wrong in attacking the very freedoms for which he purports to have launched a guerilla struggle, in 1981, to defend.

        Imagine how humiliating it would have been if this government had invited guests from abroad to join us in recognising October 9 - only for them to be confronted by the knee-jerk responses of a regime that jumps in fright whenever the nationals choose to do some thinking.

        When you juxtapose what happened on Wednesday with Museveni's moving speech on January 26, 1986 the day he took over government, the contrast is striking.

        On that day, he said: ". what is happening today [is not] a mere change of guards: It is a fundamental change. In Africa, we have seen so many changes that change as such is nothing short of turmoil. We have had one group getting rid of another one, only for it to turn out to be worse than the group it displaced. Please do not count us in that group of people."

        But the clampdown at Makerere tells the story that we are still stuck in the days of repressive government and clearly 41 years after the fact Ugandans have not yet won political independence. 
       


   
  "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities (.) No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream". (Martin Luther King, 1964 Nobel Peace prize laureate, assassinated for his struggle)

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