Why Are DP, UPC, JEEMA, CP Not Complaining And Not Arrested?
Jan 17, 2003
SIR— Mr. Joshua Musanje’s letter to the Editor in The New Vision of January 4 raises the issue that there are new troops in Congo near the Kisoro border in new army uniform speaking Rukiga, Runyankore, Luganda and Ugandan Kiswahili.<br>
SIR— Mr. Joshua Musanje’s letter to the Editor in The New Vision of January 4 raises the issue that there are new troops in Congo near the Kisoro border in new army uniform speaking Rukiga, Runyankore, Luganda and Ugandan Kiswahili.
Like Mr Musanje, I wonder as to why some people still insist that those troops said to be near Kisoro belong to Rwanda. Why would Rwanda train indigenous tribes of Uganda to man security in DRC? Such a situation leaves a lot to be interpreted.
For a long time, we have been heard and seen the acts of the ADF in the west and the Congo. And when information is received about a group of soldiers speaking Ugandan Kiswahili and Rukiga near Kisoro, we are taken back to the times of the ADF.
Col Mande’s letter of January 8 in The Monitor denying armed rebellion against the Uganda government puts us into believing that there is nothing to worry about the threats across the borders in DRC.
The persistent claims by some members of the Reform Agenda plus the accusations made on supporters of Kizza Besigye and their arrest over suspected mobilising, fundraising and recruiting a new rebel group truly reveals falsehood in Mande’s statement. And yet the Government says people like self-exiled Besigye can come back.
Therefore what the Reform Agenda must explain is if
those who have been arrested have no hand in attempting
to destabilise the country, because if the arrests were meant only for the opposition, then why is UPC, DP, JEMA,
the Free Movement, not
complaining and why are these not being arrested.
Baazil Kakaire
Bushenyi
Like Mr Musanje, I wonder as to why some people still insist that those troops said to be near Kisoro belong to Rwanda. Why would Rwanda train indigenous tribes of Uganda to man security in DRC? Such a situation leaves a lot to be interpreted.
For a long time, we have been heard and seen the acts of the ADF in the west and the Congo. And when information is received about a group of soldiers speaking Ugandan Kiswahili and Rukiga near Kisoro, we are taken back to the times of the ADF.
Col Mande’s letter of January 8 in The Monitor denying armed rebellion against the Uganda government puts us into believing that there is nothing to worry about the threats across the borders in DRC.
The persistent claims by some members of the Reform Agenda plus the accusations made on supporters of Kizza Besigye and their arrest over suspected mobilising, fundraising and recruiting a new rebel group truly reveals falsehood in Mande’s statement. And yet the Government says people like self-exiled Besigye can come back.
Therefore what the Reform Agenda must explain is if
those who have been arrested have no hand in attempting
to destabilise the country, because if the arrests were meant only for the opposition, then why is UPC, DP, JEMA,
the Free Movement, not
complaining and why are these not being arrested.
Baazil Kakaire
Bushenyi