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THE COMMONMAN's CHARTER ACCORDING TO LATE DR. APOLLO MILTON OBOTE .....
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Quote of the Day: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is married by dust and sweat and blood: who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt, Sorbonne Paris 23 April 1910
OTHER NEWS
Lord’s Resistance Army Rebels Chief Joseph Kony calls for peace talk despite his doubts in Museveni’s desire and readiness to negotiate. Full text....
Amnesty International Country Report 2006 - Uganda. Full report...
Uganda: The chairman of the US House of Representatives' Africa subcommittee, Chris Smith says he and other congress members will soon introduce a bill in Congress to deny US military assistance to Uganda and six other countries believed to use child soldiers.
Holocaust in northern Uganda – A U.S human rights activist and philanthropist, Oprah host of the Oprah Winfrey TV Show, has described the situation in northern Uganda as holocaust.
The U.S. Record 2005-2006 annual global report produced by the US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour indicts the regime of Uganda dictatorship for gross human rights violations. Full report PDF version
Los Angeles, May 16: The Northern Uganda genocide will leave the average person in the International community reeling in another shockwave of terrible images and a sinking feeling in their gut of what happened to our resolve of "never again?" Read full text.......
OTHER NEWS
New York, USA March 28: - Olara on Genocide in N. Uganda Former US ambassador to Uganda ambassador Jimmy Kolker is outraged by former UN under Secretary General for children in armed conflict, Olara Otunnu's description of the un-ending 20 years old northern Uganda war as - slow genocide. http://www.upcparty.net/obote/genocide.htm
Genocide in northern Uganda, March 6: An exiled former commander of Uganda’s National Resistance Army (now UPDF) Lt.Col. Samson Mande has admitted genocide is being committed in northern Uganda.
In an e-mail sent from Sweden to a Ugandan Journalist Andrew Mwenda, Lt. Col. Samson Mande writes --
“Hallo Andrew, am sending to you a copy of the documentary done by the Swedish television in which me and you are pannelist. It became the best seller of the year. Facilitate Ugandans to watch it. If you remember that I led the advance to Gulu in 1986 after the fall of Kampala, you will then remember that, it’s a genocide that started in my eyes and in my arms. I will live to be haunted by the fact that I could not help to stop it from happening. Just in the same way General Romeo Dallaire is haunted by the genocide in Rwanda. Fortunate for him, the Rwanda genocide stopped but the Uganda genocide in the north has no end in sight. I know the history of the NRA provoked conflict, the mismanagement of the insurgency, the devastating effects it has caused to the people of Uganda (the gains some people make out of it and the parmanent loss the inocent civilians have suffered) and the possible practical and parmanent solution. I followed the debate between Afande General D.Tinyefuza and Olara Otunu and wished I was not missing in action (participation). I think I know how to put the situation better than the two. Why don’t you arrange a debate between me and Tinyefuza and make O. Otunu a pannelist. Preferably before the elections before other events have taken over? – Regards, SM, Lt.Col"
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march a head. We cannot
turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights` when
will you be satisfied?, We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy
with fatigue of travel cannot gain lodging in the Motels of the Highways and
Hotels of the cities (…) No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be
satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a Mighty
Stream” (Martin Luther King, 1964 Nobel Peace Laureate, assassinated for his
struggle)
Quotes:
"Take courage from the well-tested and valid empirical lesson in freedom struggle. Oppose, and oppose and oppose incessantly the oppressor without joining the oppressor or giving credence and credibility to the oppressor. That is how the founders of your Party managed to get your country to be an Independent State.” - President- Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) late Dr. Apollo M. Obote in a message to UPC Cologne International Conference, 7 October, 2000.
"By the conduct of its armed forces, which committed acts of killing, torture and other forms of inhumane treatment of the Congolese civilian population ... (Uganda) violated its obligations under international human rights law....the Ugandan troops had "created an atmosphere of terror pervading the life of the Congolese people." -ICJ President Shi Jiuyong said in a ruling by the International Court of Justice, which found Uganda guilty of International Crimes, The Hague-Netherlands, Dec 19.05
