Do the demonstrators in SA see good in the peace initiative on north?

SIR— Yesterday’s Monitor run a story on page one titled “Ugandans in demo against Museveni in South Africa.”
The gist of the story was that members of the Uganda Democratic Awareness Campaign took part in the peaceful demo. The story further quotes some of the placards carried by the demonstrators as reading “Northern Uganda is part of Uganda”, “The President and Government must commit themselves to an amicable solution to the northern Uganda war”, a memorandum read.
Whereas it is the right of those people to hold a peaceful demo, it should be on relevant issues. For instance, how could the demonstrators say that northern Uganda is not part of Uganda! If the government does not consider northern Uganda to be part of the country, then why has President Museveni relocated to the north in order to see an end to the rebellion? He has been in the north for more than one month and will continue going there whereas the demonstrators are living in the safety of other cities.
For the demonstrators to say that the President and government must commit themselves to an amicable solution to the northern Uganda war, shows that they are behind news or simply do not appreciate the new developments to end the war. Yet the President is committed to finding an amicable solution. Because of this, he has instituted a peace team to negotiate with the LRA.
So all Ugandans and other peace loving people should join hands to support the peace initiatives on northern rebellion.

Mary Karooro Okurut
Press Secretary to the President