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| REGIME CHANGE, WHEN AND HOW? |
All peace loving people around the world are alarmed to see that General Yoweri Museveni has decided to establish life presidency. It shows what we have known all along, that this is not a civilized man who plays by the principles and values of morality. He is a dictator who imposes himself on the people and treats a nation as his private estate. The people are seriously looking into all possible applicable means of action to effect regime change in Uganda. I have never witnessed a determined mass campaign like this one before.
Will it require an armed struggle to bring about the long overdue change of government in Uganda?
Present and former military officers who have served at various levels in Uganda, since Museveni shot his way to power, suggest that a military option should be seriously considered , when strategizing to effect a regime change. They believe that regime change cannot be achieved through the ballot as General Museveni and his cronies would do whatever it takes to rig the elections and keep the dictatorship in place.
I hate war because I know what war entails. I am a decorated veteran of the bush war that brought General Museveni to power. I have seen the ugliness of war first hand. I am saddened by talk of launching yet another liberation war and the shedding of more blood .
However it appears , that when power is monopolized by evil people for their selfish ends, then an oppressed nation is left with a choice between two evils. The ruthless dictatorship is evil, and so is waging another war to end it. The over-riding impression of an increasing number of democracy activists is that the latter is the lesser of the two evils. It saddens me that General Museveni and his blood drenched henchmen have compelled Ugandans to seriously consider this option.
General elections are scheduled to take place next year, but the record clearly attest to the fact that General Museveni will rig them. My question is this.
Is this the right time for the tough choice? I am just asking.
Muyingo owo musu |
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DAMN LIES |
General Yoweri Museveni, the incumbent dictator of Uganda is desperately trying to justify his reprehensible atrocities by publicly concocting false stories about the victims of his torturous brutality and cold-blooded murder. In June of 2005, Mr. Museveni was reported by the Daily Monitor, as alleging that, and I quote: ‘Dr. Kayira stole NRA guns that were meant to fight the UPC/Milton Obote regime in 1982' .
Weapons belonging to the UFM under the command of Dr.Kayira were the ones that were stolen by Mr. Yoweri Museveni. The incident occurred shortly after the troops of the UFM carried out a raid on an enemy military base at Lubiri-Mengo, Kampala. A contingency of UFM stealth commandos, who stormed Lubiri captured a lot of weapons. They spent many hours at that enemy position that day, and later left with their heavy loot. Every patriotic freedom fighter, regardless of his or her political affiliation, was pleased with that UFM urban assault on a common enemy military installation except one man, and that is Mr. Yoweri Museveni.
Mr. Museveni chose to stab the UFM and Dr. Kayira in the back, by ambushing a lorry carrying the weapons and stealing them. Museveni is not the kind of person you can trust or get nearer to after you have executed a successful military or political mission. There are countless incidents to prove this in Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, just to mention a few military and /or political theaters. A couple of years later he ordered the murder of Dr.Kayira. Mr. Museveni hopes that he will go away with these wanton crimes. He erroneously thinks that the people of Uganda are so naive and take brutal torture and cold-blooded murder of our innocent citizens lightly. He is totally wrong and he better be prepared to face justice for his evil acts.
Muyingo owo musu.
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DEFINING MOMENT |
Uganda has reached a defining moment. Now than ever before, the oppressed masses of Uganda are on the match to reclaim their God given right to reinstate a democratic system of government in Uganda, a nation once viewed as the pearl of Africa. Since rebel leader Yoweri Museveni shot his way to power, the peace loving Ugandans who advocate for democracy have been treated as enemies of General Museveni's regime. They have been arrested, tortured, subjected to long periods of detentions without trial, imprisoned on false charges or murdered by security forces, which are supposed to protect them. All these horrendous crimes have not suppressed the unarmed Ugandan activists for democracy and next year these gallant citizens will lead their fellow Ugandans to the polls to change the Ugandan government from a brutal dictatorship of General Yoweri Museveni to a democratic one.
As we have seen throughout General Museveni's bloody dictatorship, his regime will once again try to use the military and other state security organs to intimidate, harass, arrest, torture, detain or murder democracy activists and political opponents. However, unlike in the past, this time around the men and women in uniform have a duty to refuse committing those egregious crimes against their fellow citizens, because down the road there will be judicial accountability for those tried and found guilty of committing those crimes. There will be no place to hide from the long arm of the Uganda judiciary under a democratically elected government.
This is a call for duty for our service men and women to defend democracy, and not just play a passive role when General Museveni's loyalists, secret police and illegally armed gangs of thugs butcher our fellow citizens.
Muyingo owo musu
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