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From: George Okurapa 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:49 AM
Subject: UPC clarifies


From THE MONITOR, November 12, 2003

5,000 dead were just chairmen - UPC 
In "NRA Killed 5,000 People, UPC Says", it is not made clear that the 5,000 were in fact UPC chairmen, vice chairmen, youth wingers and women leaders whose names were recorded in one file in 1982 which was shown to the press. Others in other files were not displayed, but will be displayed or printed at an opportune time if the Movement continues to behave as if it went to Luwero to dance kwasa kwasa. There was no war in Uganda until Mr Yoweri Museveni chose the warpath to power.

Be informed, therefore, that those UPC members killed from November 22, 1982 to the time NRM/A shot itself to power have not been displayed. Neither have those killed from 1986 to the present. 

Our advice to the NRM/A was that like the Europeans realised when they emerged from World War II, it does not serve the interests of Uganda to continue drawing the attention of Ugandans to the past. The time for dialogue and consensus is now since the opportunity to do so yesterday was missed due to manipulations, lies and excessive love for power. And it must be a win/win approach, not the usual Movement choice of win/lose approach.

The militaristic governors of Uganda have no moral authorty to indict the governors of yesterday whose role was to defend the country against the marauding terrorists of the time, because by choosing war they were the cause of the human catastrophy, which has persisted, extended into Rwanda and DR Congo and is intensifying in northern Uganda and Teso.

Oweyegha Afunaduula, 
Member UPC Presidential Commission, 
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