‘No more truce with LRA’

Aug 22, 2005

THERE is no more chance for a ceasefire between the Government and the LRA rebels because the rebels are not interested in peace talks, the defence state minister has said.

By James Oloch

THERE is no more chance for a ceasefire between the Government and the LRA rebels because the rebels are not interested in peace talks, the defence state minister has said.

Ruth Nankabirwa said the LRA would be defeated through military means. She said LRA had failed to make use of the Government’s commitment to talk peace initiated by Betty Bigombe.

Nankabirwa was responding to LC5 chairpersons and the RDCs in the 18 districts in northern Uganda at a one-day workshop for Northern Uganda Social Action Fund at Lira Hotel on Friday.

Participants had earlier asked the Government not to accept any more ceasefires with the LRA, saying the war could only end by military means.

Nankabirwa said people who are asking for a cease-fire do not want peace to return to northern Uganda, adding that the Government had received no demand for a ceasefire from the rebels.

“It is a pity, only some people who have never crossed Karuma bridge from Kampala are demanding for a ceasefire,” Nankabirwa said

Soroti RDC Musa Ecweru also attacked people agitating for dialogue with the rebels.

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