If A Terrorist Has A Cause, Why Turn The Terror On People Who Have Nothing To Do With It?
Mar 16, 2004
SIR— Last Thursday was yet another day when terrorists killed innocent people, this time in Madrid, Spain, where close to 200 people were killed in cold blood and about 1,200 injured in the incident.
SIR— Last Thursday was yet another day when terrorists killed innocent people, this time in Madrid, Spain, where close to 200 people were killed in cold blood and about 1,200 injured in the incident.
The world should unite and condemn terrorists wherever they are because their actions are a threat to world peace. With these kinds of attacks no one is free.
Indeed they have created terror in the world as each country is trying to put measures to prevent such cowardly attacks on its innocent citizens. World airlines have instituted new measures to curb terrorism and now trains and buses have to do the same.
It is against this background that all peace-loving people of the world should help in fighting terrorists because their existence threatens everybody’s life. Now that the world is a global village, a terrorist attack in any country can claim citizens of other countries or your own kin. Indeed, the September 11 incident claimed lives from various nationalities in the world.
Let me correct an error in my article in the last Sunday Vision where I wrote that after the New York terrorist attack, New York wasn’t declared a disaster area.
I have since been corrected that indeed President Bush declared it a disaster area. In the said article, I also misrepresented Ambassador Jimmy Kolker that he had advised the Government to declare northern Uganda a disaster area while in Kitgum. On the contrary, the Ambassador said that some parts of the north like Apac were relatively peaceful although the situation in Kitgum and Pader was appalling. I apologise.
Uganda has confronted the LRA terrorists in the last eighteen years. The recent Barlonyo attack on innocent civilians is not much different from the Madrid incident or the September 11 or the Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam incidents. In all these cases and many others, the terrorists aimed their weapons of terror on innocent unarmed people.
If they had attacked armies in those countries the situation would have been different. For those who say that terrorists have causes, why turn the cause, however genuine it is, on innocent people to pay the price? If they have any causes, why not present them for discussion? The world should unite and fight terrorists wherever they are including those who harbour them knowingly and their sponsors.
We should all contribute to a peaceful world which we owe to ourselves.
Moses Byaruhanga
Kampala
The world should unite and condemn terrorists wherever they are because their actions are a threat to world peace. With these kinds of attacks no one is free.
Indeed they have created terror in the world as each country is trying to put measures to prevent such cowardly attacks on its innocent citizens. World airlines have instituted new measures to curb terrorism and now trains and buses have to do the same.
It is against this background that all peace-loving people of the world should help in fighting terrorists because their existence threatens everybody’s life. Now that the world is a global village, a terrorist attack in any country can claim citizens of other countries or your own kin. Indeed, the September 11 incident claimed lives from various nationalities in the world.
Let me correct an error in my article in the last Sunday Vision where I wrote that after the New York terrorist attack, New York wasn’t declared a disaster area.
I have since been corrected that indeed President Bush declared it a disaster area. In the said article, I also misrepresented Ambassador Jimmy Kolker that he had advised the Government to declare northern Uganda a disaster area while in Kitgum. On the contrary, the Ambassador said that some parts of the north like Apac were relatively peaceful although the situation in Kitgum and Pader was appalling. I apologise.
Uganda has confronted the LRA terrorists in the last eighteen years. The recent Barlonyo attack on innocent civilians is not much different from the Madrid incident or the September 11 or the Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam incidents. In all these cases and many others, the terrorists aimed their weapons of terror on innocent unarmed people.
If they had attacked armies in those countries the situation would have been different. For those who say that terrorists have causes, why turn the cause, however genuine it is, on innocent people to pay the price? If they have any causes, why not present them for discussion? The world should unite and fight terrorists wherever they are including those who harbour them knowingly and their sponsors.
We should all contribute to a peaceful world which we owe to ourselves.
Moses Byaruhanga
Kampala