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Original Post Date: 2010-04-05 Time: 20:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Moses Nuwagaba
General Tinyefuza was reported in Saturday Monitor as having warned the UPC president Olara Otunnu, for the second time in one month, against talking about Luweero killings.
First, the debate about who killed people in Luweero has been raging on for years. The belligerents in the 1980s war, the NRA and UPC government, have perennially accused each other for the atrocities.
Now the new UPC president has proposed a middle ground where an independent inquiry should help establish the truth. This is an innovation that every peace-loving Ugandan should support.
It is therefore surprising to hear that one of the very people, who apparently has been guessing about who killed who, is now threatening any one calling for an investigation.
If indeed UPC is the one that massacred people, then this is an opportunity for Gen. Tinyefuza and those who share his views to expose the party. Why attempt to block an inquiry?
By threatening to “crush” Mr Otunnu and ordering him to stop the debate “forthwith”, Tinyefuza seems to be confirming the long-held suspicion by sections of Ugandans that he has a skeleton to hide in his cupboard. Indeed, it is against common sense that those who have cried loudest on Luweero massacres are now shouting their voices hoarse against any attempt at digging out the truth.
Suffice to note that no people had died in Luweero over a politically-engineered violence until the NRA fired its first shot on February 6, 1981.
At the burial of former minister of industry in Obote II government, Adonia Tiberondwa (RIP), Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire, then a colonel, was quoted to have confessed how they (NRA rebels) used to put on UPC colours and then terrorise the population in Luweero in order to cause peasant’s animosity against the government. In a later confession, Maj. Gen. Pecos Kutesa also mentioned how he and other rebels were deployed on highways from Kampala to disrupt public order through military ambushes.
Also archived in Uganda and abroad are brutal murders of UPC chairmen and other leaders in the war zone including one Ssegamwenge of Kiboga, who was buried with his open hand (UPC sign) raised out of a shallow grave. There is thus no way anyone can convince people there that the killings in Luweero was the work of UPC alone.
If this country is to eliminate the culture of impunity, then it must painfully accept investigations, prosecution and penalty to all those responsible for these and other known human rights violations in the country. And this is where Mr Otunnu requires Gen. Tinyefuza’s support. Otunnu has plainly said he doesn’t care who the culprits will be. They can be from NRA, UPC or both, but the most important thing is dealing with a feeling that someone can kill another and get away with it. We should honestly set a new precedent.
I would like to advise Gen. Tinyefuza to shun his militant approach to political challenges. After all, it does not provide any solution to the question at hand. Historically, UPC is known for defending its leaders, especially when threatened at the highest level. The General may make a mistake of underestimating the capacity and determination of the current party membership to defend their leaders.
The skulls in Luweero are nobody’s property and so there is no reason whatsoever anyone should get angry over a proposal to investigate how they came about. In morality of politics, consequences weigh as much as intentions. The NRA started the war and so the easiest way out for the General would be to explain, in detail, how exactly the area turned out to be a murder ground. There are lots of questions about that war and human rights abuses in the country that mere threats will not just brush off.
Mr Nuwagaba is the deputy spokesman of Uganda Peoples Congress
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Original date published: 5 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004050516.html?viewall=1