By Milton Allimadi
So finally Kenyans have been able to see for themselves the machinations of the mad genocidal man who has presided over Uganda for nearly a quarter century now. Isn’t it wonderful and ironic when a mad man issues a libelous statement against an entire ethnic people–the Luos of Kenya, by referring to them as “mad”? Yet, at the same time, since he knows that ethnic tension in Kenya has also been elevated since the chaotic elections there he is hoping that he will find many allies among Kikuyus and other Kenyans.
Kenyans should not allow themselves to be deceived into destroying their own country. At some point it’s worth burying the hatchet and dealing with a common threat. The Ugandan knows what he’s doing.
He demonized Acholis in Uganda and the strategy sustained his despotism for years. Now he can’t use that strategy in Uganda because all ethnic groups now know that he is Uganda’s problem. He won’t take chances with elections coming up in 2011; so the Kenya crisis is a convenient diversion.
The Ugandan dictator’s remarks, disparaging Kenyans, as reported in the BBC, with the audio clearly available, stems from the dispute over the Kenyan island of Migingo, on Lake Victoria.
The instant debate is focused on whether the fishing island belongs to Kenya or not; it has always been Kenyan until the Uganda despot decided to try and annex it. Yet his real goal is not Migingo, the tiny rock island. His true goal is to exacerbate animosity between Luos and the Kikuyus in Kenya. After all, there were credible reports that he was fueling some of the ethnic violence that accompanied and followed the disputed Kenyan elections; overwhelming evidence is that the vote was stolen by Mwai Kibaki.
A shaky coalition government now runs Kenya, with Kibaki, a Kikuyu, as president and Raila Odinga, a Luo, as prime minister. Animosity remains; the Uganda dictator wants to light a match and throw in more fuel.
The Ugandan thrives on chaos and massacres in surrounding countries; that’s the best way to distract from growing domestic problems, arising from his genocidal dictatorship at home.
Kenyans should beware. The man is not shy when it comes to massive bloodshed. Recall that he seized power in Uganda through violent insurgency after his party lost the 1980 elections badly. Uganda’s Luwero Triangle became a Killing Field as his insurgents fought with Milton Obote’s army.
Later, the skulls of tens of thousands were displayed–he claimed they were all victims of Obote’s ruthless army. Yet, skulls can’t speak; so how could observers know which ones were victims of his own ruthlessness?
If there was doubt about his propensity for blood, his Rwanda intervention put matters to rest. He allowed part of his army to invade Rwanda on October 1, 1990; they were led by U.S. trained Uganda military officers including Paul Kagame, who was chief of Uganda’s military intelligence.
Massacres against Hutus were committed from 1990 to 1994. Then in 1994, the Uganda seized an opportunity. Rwanda’s president Juvenal Habyarimana was returning from a meeting in Tanzania to conclude a peace pact with the Ugandan army –by now called the Rwanda Patriotic Front– which, with U.S.-backing had pushed Habyarimana’s back against the wall; Habyarimana never landed on that fateful April day. His plane was shot from the sky, according to some news accounts by a missile provided by Uganda.
The Ugandan dictator knew what would be the outcome of the death of Habyarimana and the Burundi president who was also on the plane. Imagine, if Pakistan were to sponsor a predominantly Muslim invasion of India, and later, if these forces were to shoot down a plane carrying India’s Hindu president, what would happen to Muslims in India?
The outcome desired by the Ugandan president materialized. An orgy of killings erupted; the Rwanda government, and a whole ethnic people, Hutus, were discredited and destroyed.
Again the skulls were displayed; they are still being displayed. And who could really tell whether some of those skulls were not imported from Luwero?
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From there the Ugandan turned to what was then Zaire: the ouster of dictator Mobuttu was popular throughout Africa.
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But then the Ugandan eyed Congo’s great riches. When Laurent Kabila resisted, very soon he was six foot under. Meanwhile terrible massacres were committed –indeed genocide– in eastern Congo by Uganda’s army and Uganda trained militia. In 2005, the International Court of Justice found Uganda liable for the crimes against humanity, including massacres, pillage, burning of homes and mass rapes. The court ordered $10 billion in compensation; not a dime has been paid.
Please see: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/116/10455.pdf
More critically, the Wall Street Journal on June 8, 2006 reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is also investigating Uganda on the Congo war crimes. The seriousness of the matter cannot be underplayed. The Journal reported that Museveni tried to get the UN to block the investigation. The Journal wrote: ?President Museveni of Uganda asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to block the Congo investigation, according to one person familiar with the matter. Mr. Annan replied that he had no power to interfere with the court, this person said.?
So, conceivably a cell may await Museveni at the Hague. Domestically, his hatred for the Acholi, who are also Luo, caused him to herd the whole population of 2 million into concentration camps, under the guise of “protecting” them from the violence of Joseph Kony and his vicious rebels.
In 2005, the World Health Organization reported that up to 1,000 Ugandan civilians were dying in those camps –there were more than 200– as a result of hunger, dehydration, and treatable diseases. There were also reports of targeted rapes, including by government soldiers known to be HIV-positive.
At 1,000 excess deaths per week, that’s at least 52,000 deaths per year. Since some of the camps have been in existence for more than 20 years, we are talking about the possible deaths of more than 1 million Luos, under Museveni’s policy of slow-motion genocide.
Even Joseph Kony must marvel at the number of people Museveni has managed to annihilate and not face an ICC indictment; not yet, anyway.
So now; it’s on to Kenya.
What has Kenya not learned from the Ugandan despot’s excesses in Uganda, in Rwanda, and in Congo?
If he is willing to exterminate other Ugandans –since he sees Acholis as mere “Luos” — why should Kenyans be surprised that he seems determined to import his modus operandus, to Kenya?
If Kenyans are serious about their survival, they should help publicize the genocide now being committed against Ugandans who happen to be Acholis (Luos); and also join the citizens of the Congo in their demands that the ICC take action for the genocide in eastern Congo.
After all, the ICJ has already rendered its verdict in the civil case. Guilty as charged.
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Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 07:59:15 -0500 [07:59:15 CDT]
Subject: Uganda’s Genocidal President Eyes Kenya
This moron called Museveni ka whatever is just playing cards before a new TRUE KENYAN PRESIDENT TAKES OVER IN 2012.KIVUITU TALKED OF A FAKE ONE DURING THE THE SWEARING IN IN DARKNESS OF THAT DREADED NIGHT THAT MESSED UP OUR GOOD REPUTATION OF PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD.
SO DURING MOI’S PRESIDENCY, MUSEVENI STILL KNEW THE LAND OF DISPUTE WAS IN KENYA.AFTER HELPING IN COMMITTING HUMANITY CRIMES IN 2007 IN KENYA, THEIR AGREEMENT WAS TO FURTHER SUPPRESS WAJALUO THE WAY HE CALLS THEM.sTOPPING RAILA WILL NOT STOP KONI FROM FIGHTING YOU.
2012 IS ONLY 3 MORE YEARS AWAY, KIBAKI WILL BE OUT AND WE WILL SEE HOW YOU WILL TREAT THIS SENSITIVE ISSUE. IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW THE NEW SURVEY OUTCOME LOOKS.HELL WAITS FOR ALL OF YOU..IF ONLY ONE DAY KENYAN LEADERS WOULD COME BACK TO WANAINCHI AND TELL THEM TO HANDLE THIS MATTER THEIR OWN WAY, WE WILL REACH KAMPALA OVERNIGHT.
OR, DO YOUR MIRRACLE TO RIGG PNU BACK
Unless independent minded Kenyan youths work together to resolve tribalism which is undermining development in Africa and Kenya in particular, the corrupt old guards are still going to find ways to continue with “the divide and conquer” tribal policies instituted and still being promoted by the Queen of England who is still the eminent head of Kenya as a member of British Commonwealth nation. Kaguta Museveni, Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Kofi Annan of Ghana and a number of African elites working on behalf of multinational corporations have now assumed the lethal arms of colonial powers and they are handsomely paid for that!
The fact that Luoland is severely under-developed is not an accident. Foreign governments and their respective corporations prefer to deal with one favored tribe. Instead of ruling Kenya/Africa through the chiefs as they did at the beginning of colonial rule, they have successfully instituted “a favored tribe “policy which financially and militarily boosts one tribe against other tribes. The chosen “alpha tribe” is required to reign in on other tribes within a republic!
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and Paul Kagame of Rwanda have perfected the colonial rule by proxies beyond the republics of Uganda and Rwanda respectively and are armed to the teeth, paid well and are admired by their foreign supporters as models of what African leaders must aspire to.
The two warriors (Yoweri and Kagame) have jumped at these opportunities with authority and pride by considering tribes other than the ones they belong to, as enemies worth pursuing, even if those pursuits take them to core of the earth! Foreign AIDS, IMF and World Bank debts the two guys accept go to a few within their immediate families and friends while the whole country is held accountable for the debts payments. No one knows what natural resources are being compromised by the debts being accumulated. All we know is that poverty, disease and slum dwellings have escalated exponentially since independence!
The problem with “the alpha tribe” strategy is that its foreign promoters are not held accountable when the genocidal effects, like the one witnessed in Rwanda in 1994, Sierra Leone, Dafur, Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia are realized. Ruling by promoting tribal hatred will never work unless those promoting it are willing to wipe from face of the earth other tribes they consider inferior or enemies.
It is difficult to understand how Kaguta Museveni and Kagame rationalize sending their young men/women to go and keep peace in remote places like Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and other African countries while unable to sit down with fellow Africans from other tribes in Uganda and Rwanda, respectively, to discuss peace, development and prosperity in their territories.
Kenya politicians, particularly, the ones from Nyanza and Western Provinces should have been alarmed during the 2007 Commonwealth meeting that took place in Uganda because LAKE VICTORIA issues were discussed at length during that meeting. These representatives cannot assume that Kenyan government’s view on LAKE VICTORIA represents the interest of the communities living around/inside Lake Victoria, particularly if that view comes from the Queen and future King of England who is the head of the British Commonwealth. With the “alpha male” policy promoted by Britain, it could as well be that Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Paul Kagame may be holding a mandate from the Queen to oversee the affairs of Lake Victoria. These two men have the interest of the people they serve and that service does not have the interests of poor Africans anywhere in East Africa!!
YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI
The world, particularly the USA, is yet to know the real Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. May be when they do Joseph Kony could be an angel by comparison to this KILLER Ugandan president.
For his crimes against humanity The ICC is in waiting at The Hague.
DR. ODIDA OKUTHE.
You guys are so primitive it,s not funny. Do you really use your brain before you write this type of nonsense you hardly present any known facts. Jaluos need to grow up you have been fishing in Uganda waters for a long time guess what the licences for Kenyans now have been put up to $4000 lets see how your are going to survive. We are sick of Kenyans ( attitude ) infact i don,t see why M7 is advocating for it so much– We are sick of Kenyans walking around with their dirty flags.
LET ME ADVISE THESE STUPID JALUOS THAT IF YOU DARE START A WAR WITH US WE WILL PUSH ALL THE WAY BACK TO SUDAN WHERE YOU CAME FROM- WE ARE ARMED TO THE TEETH COMPARED TO KENYA — WE WILL LOOT KISUMU CLEAN WITHIN 24 HRS. YOU ARE JUST A BUNCH MAD MORONS.
Mr. Joseph, I see you are having problem with English language in expressing yourself. You will be much better off to express your thoughts in your first language if you want or expect the readers of this blog to take you seriously. Migingo Island dispute is between Kenya and Uganda, why do you insist that this it is Luo problem or Luos can declare “war” on this issue!. Your arguments in this post are not worth responding to but to elevate discussion in this website, let us have civility in expressing our opinions…which you are NOT doing now!
Mr. Joseph, if you are that smart why don’t you declare your tribe truthfully to give “stupid Jaluos” a chance to compare the achievements of the two tribes!. Let me remind you Luos are every where whether you and Musevini like it or NOT!. In Kenya Luos had: Mboya, Oneko O. Jaramogi …intellectuals of Kenya Independence campaign and there are over million plus Luo proffessionals/intellectuals world wide! Did you know that the “stupid Jaluos” has produces the world leader by the name of Barack Obama from Chicago illinois the President of the United States!!. What contribution has your tribe made to this world or in your own country?. What does your tribe have that is worth discussing or sharing with the world?. If you are smart enough which I doubt, will you tell us what members of your tribes have done in your country? or what your tribe can do to better this world?!.
It is you who followed Musevini lead by calling out Luos names and this is the reason we are narrowing this discussion between Luos and your unknown tribe which may be worth nothing! It is very difficult to forgive people who are intellectualy challenged like you to make stupid statements and get away with it! Good luck in your stupid campaign against the Luos!
Luos insist that they are smart, yet they are the poorest Africans alive. How do you reconcile the two realities? They live next to a great lake, yet they are too lazy to make use of it. Then they blame other people for their problems. M-7 was right; these uncircumcised people are idiots!