Shut up Baligidde! Obote is a clean man

SIR—I respond to Sam H. Baligidde’s letter of October 20 where he calls for the trial of Idi Amin and Milton Obote for crimes against humanity. I assume Baligidde knows what he is writing about. Crimes against humanity are universal and you do not need extradition to prosecute them. Should he have evidences he should proceed to the Hague and present them and arrest warrants will be sent to both Saudi Arabia where Idi Amin lives and Zambia where Milton Obote is exiled. The two countries are members of the United Nations and could produce these people in their courts of law and later hand them over to the international court in the Hague. When Idi Amin captured power in 1971 by force of arms, he instituted a commission of inquiry where he contracted the services of Scotland Yard experts. The Commission found no crime against Milton Obote or any member of his government, let alone any form of impropriety like corruption, embezzlement of public funds. President Museveni instituted a legal inquiry chaired by a judge of Supreme Court and one member was John Nagenda, special adviser to the President on media and public relations. everybody knows him as an unquestioning adviser of Museveni and a movement adherent. The commission produced a voluminous report of over 700 pages. I have perused it and there is nowhere Milton Obote or any member of his government is cited as having committed any crime. So, Sam H. Baligidde come clean and state your unsubstantiated and unverifiable bias. Report the crimes you know and be ready to be cross-examined on them or else hold your peace forever. Dr. James W. Rwanyarare, Kampala