From: Judy Miriga

Good People of the World,

Democratic Republic of Congo is bordered by Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi. Congo have been embroiled in multiple conflicts for at least a decade.

The reason for conflict is as a result of Enormous Mineral Wealth East DR Congo’s has and because of greediness of neighboring political excessive interests, siphoning of Armed Militia-men weakened the fundamental fabric of Congo Nation. If it were not for the additional vested Special Business Interest financing of the excessive corruption with impunity, these multiple conflicts would not have gone this far. The Government also share in the blame for failing to stand firm against making deals with organized armed Militia-men from the neighboring Nation, thus he failed to provide security and protect its people from invasion and attack, but consulted with the very wrong people who have vested interest to plunder Congo, the very people who are the reason cause of problem in Congo.

Instead of putting the Country in a risky compromising situation, this is the time President Kabila must put his wisdom, responsibility and integrity to work and safeguard public dignity and honor peoples’ interest, human rights and deliver service directly to offer service to the people of Congo first.

The greedy and mean Special Business Interest engaged in inflicting pain and suffering to the people of Congo, must be put on notice; thereby financing and forming various armed groups with intention to plunder, steal and rape Congo’s wealth and values is unacceptable.

Kabila must concentrate to provide good organization on a fair Democratic process with good principles for Legal Justice and stop networks of these terrorists, proliferation of arms including pirating and theft of its Country’s mineral resources…..consequently, the network of Special Business Interest too will be forced to follow Law and Order where the all must obey the rules regardless. They are the reason for poverty in Africa and now the engineered Land Grabbing of Africa for illegal and unconstitutional occupation. It is because, the Special Business Interest found free loading of opportunity, the reason they continually engineer conspiracy for conflicts and civil war with corrupt politicians, where they spend huge sums of money to massacre and extinguish Africans from the face of earth. We must stop this Wild Jungle Rule. We can do better than that.

These money that are wasted to steal from Africa through pain and sufferings, could be put to better use where all people engage in peaceful and Mutual “Give and Take” fair business game and everyone end up happy and satisfied……with no war…….

Kabila with the help of UN and the International community, must now engage to transfer better living conditions to the local population of Congo. M23 have no business to demand any type of negotiations with Congo. They must be rounded up and taken to face charges at the ICC Hague to join with Bosco Ntaganda In Custody At International Criminal Court In The Hague, for charges of invasion, human rights abuses against civilians and plunder of natural resources.

Good People, let us join hands and for once give a lasting peace to the DR Congo from wanton multiple conflicts that have had catastrophic disaster with pain and sufferings to no end……….Let us all lookforward to sharing of Peace and Unity in pursuit for happiness where together, we all shall enjoy benefit of peace along with the Congo people……….and may God help us all in this endeavor.

Yes, M23 is not a big problem on the face of UN and the International Community. In advance, I want to thank Ban-ki-moon for the best foot he put forward this time round. I was mad at him like hell, but now, I am proud of him. I am at peace within me and believe that he will conclude this matter of M23 without much ado……and as per the power bestowed to him by the United Nations Commission.

I take this opportunity to congratulate him for the work well done……..I take liberty to share a toast for good tiding…..and wish him well……….

Cheers !!!!

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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Rebels in Congo declare ceasefire

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Rebels entrenched in the hills above one of eastern Congo’s largest cities declared a unilateral ceasefire on Friday and began retreating from the frontline, the first indication that a joint United Nations and Congolese offensive might be gaining the upper hand in the conflict.

The M23 rebels said that they have begun pulling back from Kanyaruchinya village, which has been in the crosshairs of the fighting that erupted on Aug. 21. On Twitter, they said they were doing so in order to allow U.N. inspectors a chance to investigate the shelling of nearby towns.

Reached by telephone, M23 president Bertrand Bisimwa said that beyond the investigation, his group was declaring the ceasefire in order “to give peace a chance.”

“We have decided to decree a unilateral ceasefire and we have started pulling our forces out of Kanyaruchinya in order to allow the investigation into the shelling,” he told The Associated Press. “This announcement, which was made unilaterally, is meant to allow the Congolese to return to the negotiating table.”

The declaration marks a significant change in tone for the M23 rebels. As recently as Wednesday, Bisimwa maintained that the rebels had the advantage and that U.N. and Congolese troops had been forced to retreat.

Congolese military spokesman Col. Olivier Hamuli said late Friday that in addition to Kanyaruchinya, Congolese and U.N. forces had succeeded in routing the M23 from Kibati, a village they had controlled, and combat was ongoing in Kibumba, around 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Goma.

“They announced (their ceasefire) when they realized that they were losing on the ground. I am just back from the frontline and they have suffered heavy losses. They have abandoned an arms depot with heavy weapons,” Hamuli said. “They even abandoned a military vehicle which proves that they are quitting because if they are just retreating they should take their armaments with them.”

Created in 2012, the M23 rebels succeeded in seizing and briefly holding Goma last year. That prompted the United Nations to create a special intervention brigade, which, alongside Congolese troops, has been pounding rebel positions for the past week, using combat helicopters, artillery and armored personnel carriers. The rebels’ retreat suggests the weeklong offensive against the rebels might have turned a corner.

In Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, government spokesman Lambert Mende said the call for a ceasefire does not go far enough.

“It’s our opinion that the only interesting proposition would be to see M23 demobilized, and to see them dissolve and cease all military action. Any other proposal is unacceptable,” said Mende, Congo’s minister of information.

The fighting, which began on Wednesday last week, has so far claimed the lives of one U.N. peacekeeper as well as at least 10 Congolese soldiers and 14 civilians who died from the shelling on either side of the Congo-Rwanda border.

On Thursday, Rwandan officials confirmed the death of a woman in the Rwandan border district of Rubavu who died after a rocket coming from the Congolese side exploded in Rwandan territory.

Angry Rwandan officials claim the rocket was fired on purpose by Congolese troops in order to drag Rwanda into the conflict — a claim that was seen as deeply cynical by some, given the mounting evidence that the M23 rebels are in fact a Rwandan proxy force.

A recent United Nations Group of Experts report describes how Rwandan soldiers sneak across the forested border in groups of up to 30 men to join the ranks of the M23, a group which is almost entire Tutsi, the ethnic group of Rwanda’s ruling class. Previous U.N. reports have described the logistical support Rwanda is providing, including night vision goggles.

Late Thursday, Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said on Twitter that Rwandan troops could enter Congo. She said in a Tweet that her country is not currently in Congo, and added the word “yet” in parenthesis. Earlier in the day she had said Rwanda had remained restrained “for as long as we can.”

Goma, a Congolese city of 1 million located on the Rwandan border, briefly fell to the M23 rebels last year in a humiliating blow both to the Congolese military, which barely put up a fight, and the thousands of United Nations peacekeepers stationed in the region, who stood by as the rebels entered the strategic town. They said they could not intervene because their mandate only permitted them to protect civilians.

“The perception is that they didn’t do a thing to stop them,” said Frances Charles, the Goma-based advocacy director for the international aid group World Vision. “There are literally photos where you have U.N. peacekeepers sitting in tanks while M23 walks past.”

In response, the U.N. created the new intervention brigade which is authorized to directly combat the rebels.

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Rukmini Callimachi contributed to this report from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writer Jason Straziuso also contributed to this report from Nairobi.

DR Congo: Ban deplores killing of Tanzanian peacekeeper

New York, Aug 30 :

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of a Tanzanian peacekeeper and the wounding of 10 others in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Wednesday during an attack against the M23 rebel group in the vast country’s restive eastern province. “The Secretary-General deplores in the strongest terms the killing and wounding of UN peacekeepers,” Ban’s spokesperson said in a statement issued Wednesday night. “He offers his sincere condolences and sympathy to their families and to the Governments of the United Republic of Tanzania and the Republic of South Africa.”The attack occurred in the Kibati heights in North Kivu as the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) supported action by Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) to protect civilian-populated areas of Goma.The Mission has delivered mortar and artillery fire and engaged its attack helicopters, while the FARDC has used attack helicopters, battle tanks and ground forces. The operation is still ongoing.”The United Nations remains committed to taking all necessary actions in line with Security Council resolution 2098 (2013) to protect civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo,” the statement read.Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of MONUSCO, Martin Kobler, also expressed his outrage by the killing of the peacekeeper. “He sacrificed his life to protect civilians in Goma. My thoughts go to his family and all members of his unit in this very difficult moment,” he said.Over the past year, the M23, along with other armed groups, have clashed repeatedly with the FARDC. The rebels briefly occupied Goma in November 2012. The fighting resumed in recent weeks, this time dragging in a group of Ugandan-based rebels, and displaced more than 100,000 people, exacerbating the region’s ongoing humanitarian crisis, which includes 2.6 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 6.4 million in need of food and emergency aid.On 28 March this year the Security Council authorized the establishment of the intervention brigade to carry out targeted offensive operations, with or without the FARDC, against armed groups that threaten peace in eastern DRC. At the same time the Security Council called on the M23 to cease immediately all forms of violence and destabilizing activities and for its members to immediately and permanently disband and lay down their arms.The strengthening of the MONUSCO mandate with the intervention brigade is designed to further support the political objectives of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the region – a peace deal signed in February in Addis Ababa,

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Getting tough in Congo: can risk pay off for UN forces?
Jonny Hogg and Louis Charbonneau August 29, 2013

Tanzanian Forces of the U.N. Intervention Brigade attend a training session outside Goma in the eastern …

By Jonny Hogg and Louis Charbonneau

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – In lawless eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a new U.N. force is trying a different strategy for keeping the peace: going on the attack.

The Force Intervention Brigade has in recent days seen its first real action in an operation to keep rebels away from the city of Goma, near Congo’s border with Rwanda. On Wednesday, one Tanzanian peacekeeper was killed and three other brigade members injured.

Created by the U.N. Security Council earlier this year, the unit represents an aggressive step up for U.N. peacekeeping operations in the region, which for years have been criticised for inaction and failing to protect civilians.

In the past, in Congo and elsewhere, peacekeeping missions usually saw U.N. troops use force only in self-defence or to protect non-combatants. The new 3,000-strong brigade has a specific mandate for “targeted offensive operations” to “neutralise” and disarm rebel groups. Part of MONUSCO, the existing U.N. peacekeeping mission with 20,000 personnel spread across the vast central African state, the brigade is made up of contingents from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi.

But will the new troops help or hinder efforts to bring peace?

On the streets of Goma, a trading hub on Lake Kivu, many people are angry with the existing mission for not doing enough to protect them from either the Congolese army or insurgent and militia groups that prey on civilians, raping, looting and killing.

“If MONUSCO does nothing, we’ll take up our machetes and chase them out. If they don’t tackle the rebels, we’ll do something to them,” motorcycle taxi driver Bienvenu Musoka told Reuters as a crowd jostled and heckled outside a meeting calling for protests against the new brigade.

As white armoured vehicles lumbered through Goma’s dilapidated streets on a recent U.N. patrol, a voice crackled over the radio warning troops to “watch out for stone-throwing, guys.” The blue-helmeted soldiers were greeted by hostile stares and gestures from local inhabitants.

The disillusion is not hard to fathom. Rights groups point to a number of massacres and abuses of civilians in eastern Congo over the last decade even though armed U.N. peacekeepers were in nearby bases. When well-armed fighters from a rebel group known as M23 swept into Goma in November after routing Congolese government forces, Indian and South African U.N. troops did not stop them. M23 eventually withdrew under international pressure, but the debacle fueled resentment among residents.

Locals want the new force to be much tougher.

“We want MONUSCO and the brigade to react. Ban Ki-moon (the U.N. Secretary-General) consoles us, tells us to wait whilst they formulate a strategy. That’s because it’s not his wife being raped, not his children who are dying,” said Willy Mulumba, a small trader in one of Goma’s chaotic markets.

That history means the new U.N. brigade starts operations facing a risky dilemma.

“If it fails (to bring peace) there will be a backlash, and that’s going to be bad for Congo, and will discredit the U.N.,” said Thierry Vircoulon, project director for International Crisis Group in Central Africa.

But if it imposes peace by force it risks stoking underlying tensions.

“With this offensive mandate MONUSCO is, even more than it was before, a party to the conflict,” Said Tariq Riebl, Oxfam’s humanitarian co-ordinator in Goma.

CRUCIBLE OF CONFLICT

Eastern Congo has long been one of Africa’s bloodiest battle fields. The roots of its current conflict lie in the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda, where Hutu soldiers and militia killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Tutsi rebels led by Paul Kagame toppled the Hutu government and sent those responsible for the genocide fleeing into eastern Congo along with two million Hutu refugees. Kagame became Rwanda’s president and pursued the “genocidaires”, many of whom remain in Congo and fight as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

Two civil wars have ensued, both launched from the east with Rwandan involvement. The second, from 1998 to 2003, spawned a plethora of armed groups pitted against a corrupt Congolese army. Humanitarian agencies estimate more than five million people have died in the violence since 1998, despite the presence for most of that time of a U.N. peacekeeping force.

From a small group of military observers deployed in 1999, the U.N. presence morphed into a full-fledged peacekeeping mission. In the early days, its mandates – the rules under which its peacekeepers are deployed – were more defensive than offensive. Blue-helmets had to protect U.N. and other personnel and civilians “under imminent threat of physical violence.”

The mission has sometimes hurt itself. In the past, U.N. troops have been accused of sexual misconduct and smuggling arms and gold. The U.N. says these cases have been investigated and dealt with. As well, soldiers from Congo’s army, which the U.N. is backing, have been accused of raping and killing civilians. The U.N. has threatened to halt cooperation with some Congolese units because of this.

On occasion, the U.N. has taken a more offensive approach to the rebels. After heavy fighting in 2003 between rival ethnic militias in northeast Ituri district, the Security Council authorised France to deploy a mostly French 1,400-strong combat force to protect residents there. Two years later, also in Ituri, Pakistani peacekeepers killed 50 militiamen days after nine Bangladeshi blue-helmets were killed in an ambush.

In 2006, Indian U.N. troops used helicopter gunships, heavy weapons and armoured vehicles to kill dozens of advancing Tutsi rebels near Sake, north of Goma. A Congo army officer put the rebel deaths in that clash at 150.

In general, though, in Congo and elsewhere, the U.N. has been wary of “peace enforcement” ever since its involvement in Somalia in the 1990s. Appetite for proactive intervention withered after the 1993 “Black Hawk Down” incident when militia fighters shot down U.S. helicopters in Mogadishu, and killed 18 U.S. soldiers in the ensuing battle.

“A STRONG REQUEST FROM THE AFRICANS”

One reason for the new approach in Congo is the rise of the M23 rebel group, which emerged last year when former rebel fighters, who had been integrated into the Congolese army, mutinied. The group takes its name from a March 23, 2009 peace deal that ended a previous revolt.

M23 accuse Congo’s government and army of failing to honour that peace pact, and of tolerating and collaborating with the Hutu FDLR fighters who they view as mortal enemies.

U.N. experts have reported that the group is backed and supplied by Rwanda. M23 and the Rwandan government fiercely reject those accusations.

The surprise capture of Goma by M23 last year left the U.N. fending off charges that its troops stood idly by. The incident increased diplomatic pressure from a number of African capitals, in particular Kinshasa, to get a new, tougher brigade approved by the U.N. Security Council.

“It was really a strong request from the Africans,” a senior Western diplomat said.

But some Western powers in the Security Council feared the deployment might worsen rather than solve the violence.

“France, U.S. and UK were very sceptical,” the diplomat said. “We had the impression that it would add violence to violence, that it was not 3,000 soldiers who were going to change the balance and solve the issues.”

A senior U.N. official in New York confirmed the internal discussion. “The Intervention Brigade is very controversial and not everyone is sold on it,” the official said.

Even as it beefed up its military power, the U.N. threw its weight behind peace talks; A U.N.-mediated peace deal was signed in February by 11 regional states, including Congo and Rwanda. But separate direct talks between M23 and Congo’s government in the Ugandan capital Kampala have made little progress.

Some say negotiations may have been undermined by the new U.N. military force. “The U.N. is stuck between its aggressive mandate and peace talks, leading to a somewhat schizophrenic policy,” Congo expert Jason Stearns wrote this month on his Congo Siasa blog.

Axel Queval, MONUSCO’s acting head in North Kivu province, where Goma is located, sees the brigade working in tandem with political negotiations.

“The door for negotiations is always open, but if the negotiations can’t work, then of course the brigade is here to put pressure on. It’s a little bit of the carrot and the stick,” Queval said.

Congolese authorities want the brigade to act – and fast. “My advice to the United Nations would be to move more quickly. The resolution which was voted mustn’t just remain a bit of paper,” said Julien Paluku, governor of North Kivu. “I think we must finish with M23, with FDLR militarily … This is the first time the U.N. has created an offensive brigade for peacekeeping. If it fails, it’s going to be bad for them.”

The U.N. resolution behind the brigade foresees three infantry battalions, one artillery group and one special force and reconnaissance company under the direct command of the MONUSCO force commander.

But U.N. officials admit the brigade’s deployment is still only two thirds complete. The Malawians have not yet arrived and the South African and Tanzanian contingents do not have all their equipment yet.

Wednesday’s deadly skirmish has raised questions about whether the U.N. unit has the force, firepower and equipment to carry out its mandate. This is especially sensitive in South Africa, which in March saw 15 of its soldiers killed in Central African Republic during a rebel takeover there.

“The force is too small, it’s not mobile enough,” South African defence and military analyst Helmoed Romer Heitman told Reuters of the new brigade. South Africa’s National Defence Union (SANDU), which represents military personnel, issued a statement after this week’s fighting expressing concern that South African troops are backed not by their own air force’s Rooivalk (Red Kestrel) attack helicopters but by the U.N.’s Ukrainian-piloted Mi-24 gunships. The Rooivalks are due to arrive in Congo in October.

ATROCITIES AND MASSACRES

The newly appointed commander for MONUSCO is Brazilian Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, whose previous U.N. experience involved fighting criminal gangs in the slums of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. He recognises that his troops face a credibility test in Congo.

“We are supposed to have courage and take action, but sometimes the inaction is absolute,” he told international NGOs at a meeting in July, according to minutes taken by one group present. “We must be accountable (for) it.”

Dos Santos Cruz was unavailable for an interview.

Oxfam’s Riebl said that even as the new brigade is being deployed, militias and warlords have been attacking local communities without the U.N. intervening. The town of Pinga, in the mineral-rich highlands of North Kivu, has changed hands between rival militias at least eight times since last year, he said. Medical charity Doctors Without Borders was forced to suspend its acitivies in Pinga this month because of violence and after direct threats to staff.

“We’ve seen atrocities and massacres committed, people being decapitated … we’re definitely talking about hundreds in the last few months. All of this has happened in a town where there is a U.N. base, which has been there permanently,” Riebl said.

REBEL DEFIANCE

As the brigade steps up its operations, they will face a battle-hardened enemy.

On the road north from Goma, the final Congolese army checkpoints are followed by kilometres of deserted villages before a rebel roadblock marks the edge of M23’s zone of control.

M23 leaders believe they hold the upper hand in the rugged hilly terrain they know so well. At M23’s headquarters along the Congo-Uganda border, M23 President Bertrand Bisimwa told Reuters a U.N. offensive would be a “mistake”. Wearing a crisp khaki suit and cowboy hat, and surrounded by fighters in camouflage and gumboots, Bisimwa said his forces would fight back.

Rwanda has also pushed back against the U.N. brigade, alleging U.N. commanders discussed “collaboration” with Hutu FDLR rebels. The U.N. has asked Rwanda for proof of this claim, which Kigali has not provided.

The M23 rebels say their soldiers are more than a match for the untested U.N. Intervention Brigade. “The Tanzanians are the toughest. But kill five South Africans and they’ll pack up and go home,” one rebel leader said derisively.

As a recent convoy rumbled past tumbledown shacks in Goma, a South African soldier in full battle gear summed up the feeling inside the brigade: “If (the Congolese) can find a political solution, that’ll be good for us, and good for them. If not, we’ll do what we’ve prepared to do.”

From: Judy Miriga
Good People,

M23 have dismissed UN ultimatum as IRRELEVANT !!!

Is that so ????????

Congo Army have a right to protect the Congo people,
their Country, including their land from M23 invasion with
their illegal occupation of Congo land………

Wether they like it or not, they have to give Congo Gov.
their space and peace…..It is not a request but an order.

If there are men and women in Congo, victory will come
sooner because the spirit of the dead is alive in Congo
today they just have to feel it……..Pray and feel it and
give thanks to God……!!!

All the same, we wait to see how irrelevant UN will be in
these few coming days……..while we listen to:
Congo Hero National ……..for Freedom and Liberty !!!

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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Lumumba, Héros National (Franco) – Franco & L’O.K. Jazz 1967

DR Congo rebels face disarmament deadline Thursday
By Habibou Bangre | AFP – Thu, Aug 1, 2013

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M23 rebels withdraw from the city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, last December. Rebels in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo face a deadline … Thursday to lay down their arms, but they have dismissed the UN peacekeepers’ ultimatum as irrelevant.

Rebels in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo face a deadline Thursday to lay down their arms, but they have dismissed the UN peacekeepers’ ultimatum as irrelevant.

“We consider that this measure does not concern us,” said M23 chief Bertrand Bisimwa. His fighters were not in the flashpoint city of Goma or on the road heading south towards Sake where much fighting has taken place recently, he said.

The United Nations on Tuesday threatened to use force against M23 fighters near Goma if they did not disarm within 48 hours.

A new UN intervention brigade will be used for the first time to help the DR Congo army set up a “security zone” around the city, the international body said.

A statement by the UN mission in DR Congo, MONUSCO, gave the M23 until 4:00 pm (1400 GMT) on Thursday “to hand in their weapons to a MONUSCO base” and join a demobilisation programme.

After then, “they will be considered an imminent threat of physical violence to civilians and MONUSCO will take all necessary measures to disarm them, including by the use of force in accordance with its mandate and rules of engagement”.

The UN-proposed security zone includes Goma and its northern suburbs.

The M23, a mainly Tutsi Congolese group founded in 2012, launched a new offensive against the DR Congo army outside Goma on July 14.

Diplomats say fighting in the past two weeks has left hundreds dead.

“The M23 has used indiscriminate and indirect fire, including by heavy weapons, resulting in civilian casualties,” MONUSCO said.

“The M23 has also targeted UN installations with its fire. The security zone will push these indirect fire threats out of range of Goma.

“The security zone may be expanded and repeated elsewhere, where it is needed,” the statement said.

The M23 is among some 30 armed groups active in North Kivu.

But analyst Fidel Bafilemba of the Enough Project — dedicated to ending genocide and crimes against humanity — argued that they were positioned far from the areas specified by the UN force.

“What would make a major difference would be to set a more extended security zone,” he said. “But this is perhaps just a beginning.

The new, heavily armed 3,000-strong UN intervention brigade is drawn in roughly equal numbers from Malawi, South Africa and Tanzania.

It joins the 17,000 peacekeepers already deployed in the area with MONUSCO, the stabilisation force.

Its mission is to carry out offensive operations, alone or with Congolese troops, against rebel fighters.

Goma is the capital of North Kivu province, which borders two of DR Congo’s eastern neighbours, Rwanda and Uganda.

M23 rebels captured the city on November 20 last year, holding it for 10 days. They left only when leaders from the Great Lakes nations of central Africa promised fresh negotiations, opening the talks in the Ugandan capital Kampala.

UN experts and the DR Congo government have said Rwanda has supplied troops and military aid to the M23, allegations denied by Kigali.

The United States last week called on Rwanda to end its alleged backing of the rebel forces.

Rwanda and DR Congo are both signatories to a UN-brokered peace and security framework signed in March agreeing not to interfere in each other’s affairs.

DR Congo further agreed to reform its security forces and take new efforts to spread government authority.

On Friday, the government in Kinshasa issued arrest warrants for four of M23’s leaders it said had taken refuge in Rwanda.

It accused them of “war crimes, crimes against humanity including murder, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, ethnic persecution” and several other charges.

From: Judy Miriga

Good People,

It is not about Kabila but the whole Congolese Public Mandate to Democratic Rights to live at Peace in dignity with its neighbours and observing the International Law for Human Rights security and protection to live a dignified life in pursuit for happiness.

The UN Peace-keeping unit in Congo is obligated to give security to Congo People, but instead, they are after hidden agenda with Kagame and Museveni, where they are seen as conspirators against the Congo people with intention to plunder Congo’s mineral resources. Because of this, the UN Peace-keeping Unit in Congo, clearly demonstrated biasness on the Congo Government but showed sympathy on the Tutsi led M23 Rebel Group which is an illegal imposter that was formed through a conspiracy by President Kagame, Bosco and Museveni with their corporate Special business interest network to terrorize Congolese people and destroy their peace and happiness. This is unacceptable………and what Congo people need is peace with their democratic space which has nothing to do with M23. M23 is a problem of Kagame and they belong to Rwanda not Congo……..M23 was created by Bosco with the help of Kagame……..That is the fact……

While I tend to agree with Maurice and Leila that Kabila may have be a spent force, and that Congo need a new Leader to move Congo forward; in other-words, if Kabila difficult to rule, let him organize to call an election urgently so that, Congolese people should consider electing a Congo-man who is capable to solve Congolese problems so Congo can move forward. This, I wont mind, but to punish Congo people and causing them to languish into too many unending killings, pain and sufferings time and again since Patrice Lumumba died, is not fair. and therefore, this situation of invasion on Congo by Kagame and Museveni is not right but very disturbing. It is destroying Congo people in order to satisfy the GREEDY of the RICH.

The fact remain that, the RICH AND GREEDY are the ones who created M23 to strike the already weakened Congo Government. What they want is FREE CONGO LAND for their special business; the reason why Land Grabbing is a problem in Congo extending through the whole Africa. If we shall fail to put Democracy for Africa into purspectives, these Corporate conspiracy will destroy Africa’s livelihood and survival with serious environmental pollution that will affect the whole worlds Climatic Situation. By the look of things, daggers are drawn which include UN Peace Keeping in Congo turning against the Congo people……..and what we read from this is that African peoles life is rated valueless with no rights……..but are fit for slavery with no cooperation. So the UN Peace Keeping is surely not for the Africa’s interest.

My dear brothers and sisters, I feel the pain of destruction, crime, abuse and violation injected to exterminate Congolese people. The Congo people are seen by the world as animal fit for slaughterhouse who do not deserve to live……..which is why the global-banksters (World Bank) ganged attacking poor Africas Economic stability the reason for planning terror on independent countries weakening their economy without caring to share wealth of the people of Africa……….This is sad…….

I am equally saddened by Ban-Ki-Moons’ overlooking UN statement here under, where they are considering pulling off from helping and supporting Congo people with its Government to get rid of M23 which was formed in March 2009 by Gen. Bosco a Tutsi and a friend of Kagame who plan to control and create a Government of Rwanda inside Congo knowing too well that M23 forming a Government of its own with Army inside Congo is against the International Treaty of boarder protection, is an assault and encounter of offensive onslaught for illegal invasion and is considered an atrocity against a sovereign Independent country, interfering with internal matters with intention to destroying its freedom, its peace, destroying its peoples livelihood and survival and rendering Congolese people Refugees in their own country LAND………This behavior is criminal in nature, it is an abuse and violation against International Law for Human Rights and it must be condemned by all good people of the world who are after PEACE and UNITY for common good of all.

When the M23 invaded Congo three months ago and took over Goma, the M23 past through UN coalition army in Congo with ease into Goma without any resistance, which was seen as a pre-planned engineered conspiracy for UN with M23 to takeover Congo land benefiting vested interest of Kagame and Museveni engineering the onslaught on Congo.

UN Ban-Ki-Moon’s behaviour in support of today’s report is clear indication that UN are amongst the interested looting party and thievers who supported M23 encroachment intrusion in Congo with a MISSION………that when Congo Government is gaining traction to remove M23 from their outbreak assailing violation, UN would rather look the other side………shame on UN peacekeeping in Congo……..

People of Africa, wake up……..wake up people…….demand for Africas justice……..there is no justice in Africa………Some of Africa’s leadership are sell-out……they have put Africa’s livelihood and survival at dangerous compromising situation, and Kagame and Museveni must be put to face ICC Hague for Human Rights crime, violation, abuse with environmental destruction and pollution in Congo……….

Rise up people and demand for Justice………..There must be a “Give and Take”……..we must demand trade that is fair, balanced and free based on democratic mutual agreement negotiations benefiting all in a varied diverse secure and protective interests……….not just to benefit a few greedy politicians with their cronies………

There will be no peace or happiness in the world if Africa shall not be free from subjective oppressiveness by the Corporate conspiracy network to destroy Africa people in ways and means……..

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson &
Executive Director for
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
email: jbatec@yahoo.com

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UN reviewing Congo army support over M23 abuse allegations

July 18, 2013 PoliticsUnited Nations
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations is reviewing support to Democratic Republic of Congo army units accused of desecrating the corpses of rebels and mistreating detainees, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday during renewed fighting in the country’s east.

U.N. peacekeepers had raised the reported abuse of M23 rebels with the Congolese army and welcomed steps by the army “to investigate these claims and to hold the perpetrators of these acts accountable,” Ban’s press office said in a statement.

Congolese army forces, or FARDC, supported by helicopters, attacked M23 rebel positions near the eastern city of Goma on Tuesday in a third day of heavy fighting that has forced hundreds of villagers to flee their homes.

“The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about reports of alleged mistreatment of M23 detainees and desecration of corpses of M23 combatants by the Congolese armed forces,” Ban’s press office said.

The 17,000-strong U.N. force, known as MONUSCO, and Congo troops have struggled over the past decade to stem a conflict involving dozens of armed groups and complicated by national and ethnic rivalries. A new 3,000-member U.N. Intervention Brigade was recently deployed to fight and disarm rebels in the east.

“MONUSCO has launched the process of reviewing its support to FARDC units suspected of being involved in these incidents,” said Ban’s statement. “The Secretary-General calls on the DRC to bring the perpetrators of these reported acts to justice.”

The United Nations threatened in February to withdraw support for two Congolese battalions after soldiers raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, in an eastern town after they fled from advancing M23 rebels in late November.

The peacekeeping mission decided to keep working with the battalions after 12 senior officers, including the commanders and deputy commanders, were suspended and about a dozen soliders charged over the rapes in Minova, according to a U.N. human rights report.

M23 began taking parts of eastern Congo early last year, accusing the government of failing to honor a 2009 peace deal. That deal ended a previous rebellion and led to the rebels’ integration into the army, but they have since deserted.

A report by U.N. experts last month said that M23 recruited fighters in neighboring Rwanda with the aid of sympathetic Rwandan army officers, while elements of the Congolese army have cooperated with Rwandan Hutu rebel group FDLR.

Rwanda and Congo have both denied the accusations.

—– Forwarded Message —–
From: Leila Sheikh
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 4:06 AM
Subject: It is time Kagame and Museveni take back their Rebel Groups out of Congo
Afu huyo J Kabila anajificha.
Maisha magumu sana ambapo kila saa inabidi ujifiche.
Leila Sheikh

From: Maurice Oduor
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 12:03 PM
Subject: It is time Kagame and Museveni take back their Rebel Groups out of Congo

Judy,

You’re really intense about this Rwanda-Congo-Uganda thing. Do you have a personal stake in Kabila staying in power? If Kabila’s presence in power is inspiring all these wars, then maybe it’s time we looked at the possibility of Kabila leaving and the AU sponsoring a fresh round of elections, real elections this time. What do you think?

As it is, Kabila seems to be a President of the Kinshasa and Lubumbashi regions only. The rest is under rebel control. How many congolese have to die before we can start asking Kabila to leave? What has he really done for his country since he came into power?

Courage

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Judy Miriga wrote:

Good People,

The UN led invasion on the Rebel groups in Congo did well to start bombarding the Tutsi-led M23 which were advancing to re-capture Goma because of the failed talks in Uganda.

They were out to teach Kabila the President of Congo a big lesson. It was the reason Kagame bragged he was going to hit Kikwete when he least expected using the B words in Ki-Rwanda.

The sin of Kikwete was to request and advice Kagame to engage peace in the great lakes of East Africa.

All the Tutsi-led rebels of the M23 movement or the Hutu-led anti-Rwandan government Democratic Front for the Liberation Rwanda (FDLR) and the The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) sponsored and led by Salim Saleh, who is Museveni’s brother; are all doing big business with the Corporate Special Business Interest in Washington by spilling the blood of Congolese people and are exterminating and destroying livelihood and survival of the DRC Congo people…..the reason why DRC Congo do not have any peace however much Congo people try to stabilize their country. This state-of-affair is unacceptable.

Since this matter has gone out of control with Rwanda and Uganda invasion getting lethal…….the UN mission team in Congo with now the 3,000-additional strong special UN force may need to be more subjective in their attack of the Rebel groups with precision and they must genuinely help to save the situation conclusively and not allow themselves to be compromised by the Corporate Special Interest. Congo people too have a right to pursuit of happiness.

There is no more waiting to negotiate at the expense of Human Rights violation, crime and abuse with destructions of livelihood and survival of the Congolese except, to drive these Rebel groups back to their Country from where they belong into Uganda and Rwanda. Kabila also must stand his ground to add pressure to save his country from these extreme terrorism which emanates from instigations with engineered conspiracies by Kagame and Museveni to protect these groups for their profit. Kagame is a man and he must remain so……..

Problems can only be solved by tackling and fixing the root-cause of it. The root cause of problem of Congo people is Rwanda and Uganda private marcinaries lodged inside DRC Congo but controled from Rwanda and Uganda; forming a foreign Government inside Congo. No one can accept this kind of behavior. Kagame and Museveni must behave or else, they are both headed to a much more bigger trouble they have never seen before in their life time. They are not bigger than the world………they will not cause us heartache and disturb our peace and we sit pretty……….They are the aggressors and instigators and they will not get away with it…….It is because Civil Rights Justice must take precedence against them instantaniously……….

We must not ignore such butchery that has taken in Congo for over twenty years. This butchering started with the elimination and brutal death of Patrice Lumumba. Since then Congo has not seen peace. The Congo people have paid enough price with their blood, it is time things must be done differently.

Obscurity seems to confer immunity in high places where, strong men are judged only by their readiness to kill and take away Human Rights as they wish. Quoted in St. Augustine’s ”City of God,” how lawless armies dismembered the Roman Empire. If there be no “JUSTICE” there remain Kingdoms of selfish and greedy gangs of criminals left to control ways of life?

These Rebel/Mercenaries are gang groups of men formed under the command of a unscrupulous business community who work alongside bad leaders of the world in a compact of association to do business without paying taxes to the people’s Government, where with the control power, they plunder public wealth and resources for their selfish greedy gains and divide the loot according to an agreed Treaty they form amongst their network. This is how they establish their base, captures cities and subdues people for slavery by the attainment of impunity.

Shall we sit pretty and watch when Human Rights is abused??? Is this not a problem for the world??? Dont we need to stand our ground together under Civil Rights Justice Movement to protect Peoples Equal Justice and Liberty with pursuit for happiness for all without discrimination for the sake of Peace ???

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/

Congo-Kinshasa: Stalled Kampala Talks Linked to Congo Clashes
By Mark Caldwell, 16 July 2013

interview

The Congolese army is battling two militias in eastern DRC, the M23 rebel group, comprising mostly ethnic Tutsi militia, and the ADF, a Ugandan Muslim armed force. The UN has a new intervention force.

The Democratic Republic of Congo said on Monday (15.07.2013) it had killed 120 fighters belonging to the M23 rebel movement to the north of Goma.

The insurgents deny these claims. The fighting comes after Uganda’s Red Cross Society confirmed 66,000 Congolese refugees had crossed into the east African country.

They were fleeing another battle zone in which the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) was attacking Kamangu, a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The UN has deployed a new 3,000-strong Intervention brigade with a tough mandate to fight armed groups in eastern Congo.

DW’s Mark Caldwell spoke to Thierry Vircouloun, Project Director for Central Africa with the International Crisis Group (ICG).

Why has this fighting flared up on two fronts?

I think it’s mainly a coincidence. There is no link between them. It’s clear that the fighting between the M23 and the Congolese army is a direct result of the dead end of the Kampala negotiations. The talks in Kampala have dragged on since December last year without any meaningful results.

Therefore it’s very clear for all the stakeholders that there won’t be a diplomatic settlement to the problem between the M23 and the Congolese government. Therefore the only way to change the situation is actually through the military way.

I would say that in the northern part of Kivu, the ADF is not involved in the same kind of fighting with the Congolese army.

It’s small clashes that have happened and the ADF has withdrawn to remote areas after temporarily taking some villages and taking some hostages. The main fighting is happening between M23 and the Congolese army and the M23 remains the main target of the Congolese army.

The UN has its largest peacekeeping mission in the world in the DRC, including a new intervention brigade. What have they done so far to stop the fighting?

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So far the UN has not done anything to stop the fighting.

They have called on the Congolese army and other parties to calm down, but it’s clear that there is a window of opportunity for military action as seen from Kinshasa, firstly because the Kampala negotiations are not moving forward and secondly because fighting the M23 is very popular in Congo unlike negotiating with them.

Thirdly, it seems like the M23 itself was very weakened by the internal fighting that happened at the beginning of the year

So what are the M23’s objectives at the moment?

I think at the moment the objective of the M23 is to resist the Congolese army and try to keep its position close to Goma.

What can you tell us about the UN’s new intervention brigade, what is its current status?

The brigade is not fully operational, the Tanzanian and South African components of the brigade have arrived in Goma, north Kivu, but the contingent from Malawi is not yet here. I also understand that the brigade has not received all its equipment.

However the MONUSCO commander has sent a very strong warning saying all civilians with a gun won’t be considered as civilians. It’s not clear at this stage what is going to be the first target of that intervention brigade.

As far as I understand, no operation by this brigade had been planned before this coming September. Howeve, given the development on the ground, the UN may be forced to intervene faster than they wanted to.

Thierry Vircoulon is the Project Director for Central Africa with the International Crisis Group (ICG).

Congo-Kinshasa: UN Blue Helmets On ‘High Alert’ As M23 Rebels Advance Towards Goma

15 July 2013

United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are on high alert today and stand ready to use force to protect civilians in Goma from an advancing rebellion by the March 23 movement (M23), the top UN official in the country said, urging all parties to exercise restraint.

The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in Congo (MONUSCO) expressed “deep concern” about the latest bout of fighting which broke out after a significant group of the M23 attacked the national forces (FARDC) on 14 July in Mutaho, eight kilometres northwest of Goma, in eastern DRC. According to the Mission, heavy artillery and a battle tank were used in the attack.

“Any attempt by the M23 to advance toward Goma will be considered a direct threat to civilians,” the Mission warned. It also noted that the UN blue helmets stand ready to take any necessary measures, including the use of lethal force, in order to protect civilians.

The acting Special Representative of the Secretary General in the country, Moustapha Soumaré, urged restraint to avoid a further escalation of the situation.

“I call on all to abide by the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework Agreement and to allow the political process towards peace to move forward,” Mr. Soumaré said, referring to the UN-brokered accord adopted in February with the support of 11 nations and four international organizations (11+4), with the aim of ending the cycles of conflict and crisis in the eastern DRC and to build peace in the long-troubled Great Lakes region.

“I urge all signatories of the PSC Framework to exercise their influence in order to avoid an escalation of the situation,” he added.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Mary Robinson, the UN Special Envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes Region, along with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, visited the DRC in May to bolster support for the PSC Framework which Ms. Robinson dubbed a “framework for hope.”

Last month, there was talk of a possible resumption of peace talks between the Government of the DRC and the M23. At that time, Mrs. Robinson had urged both sides to engage in earnest discussion under the auspices of the Chairperson of the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Mr. Robinson was convened in Burundi last week a conference to help develop a road map for women’s engagement in efforts to bring peace to Africa’s long-trouble Great Lakes countries.

Since March, tensions in the region have been heightened, leading to the Security Council to authorize in March the deployment of an intervention brigade within MONUSCO to carry out targeted offensive operations, with or without FARDC, against armed groups that threaten peace in eastern DRC.

Uganda: DRC-Based Ugandan Rebel Group ‘Recruiting, Training’

11 July 2013

Kampala — The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) (sponsored by Salim Saleh Museveni’s brother Mercenary/Rebel group which installed Museveni and Kagame to power and who moved from Uganda to Rwanda into Congo—–where Museveni conspired for them to occupy land in Congo), a Ugandan rebel movement based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is recruiting, training and reorganizing to carry out fresh attacks on Uganda, officials say.

“The threat is real. ADF is recruiting, training and opening new camps in eastern DRC. We are alert and very prepared to deal with any attack on our side of the border,” said Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, spokesman for the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). “We are sharing intelligence information with the DRC government [and] FARDC [DRC’s national army] about their activities. We hope FARDC will be able to deal with the group.”

According to media reports in DRC, early on Thursday morning the group clashed with FARDC in Kamango, a town in North Kivu Province close to the Ugandan border, briefly ousting the army before withdrawing. Uganda’s NTV tweeted that thousands of Congolese had fled across the border to the western Ugandan town of Bundibugyo.

The ADF was formed in the mid-1990s in the Rwenzori mountain range in western Uganda, close to the country’s border with DRC. The group killed hundreds in several attacks in the capital, Kampala, and in parts of western Uganda, and caused the displacement of tens of thousands. The rebellion was largely contained in Uganda by 2000, with reportedly just about 100 fighters finding refuge in eastern North Kivu. From the mid-1990s till 2007, ADF was allied to another Ugandan rebel group, the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda; together, becoming ADF-NALU.

The ADF’s leader, Jamil Mukulu, a former Catholic, converted to Islam in the 1990s, and the Ugandan government has long claimed the group is linked with Islamist groups including Al-Qaeda and the Somali militant group Al-Shabab. The US placed the ADF on its list of terrorist organizations in 2001.

UPDF’s Ankunda said: “There is no doubt; ADF has a linkage with Al-Shabab. They collaborate. They have trained ADF on the use of improvised explosive devices.”

Kidnapping, recruitment

According to Ankunda, the ADF – now thought to have up to 1,200 fighters – has tried to increase its troop numbers through kidnapping and recruitment in North Kivu Province and in Uganda.

“What is worrying us is that the ADF has been carrying out a series of abductions, recruitment and attacks in DRC without much resistance from FARDC,” Ankunda told IRIN. “We are critically following up their recruitment in Uganda. We have made some arrests.”

According to a December 2012 report by the International Crisis Group (ICG), the ADF is “more of a politically convenient threat for both the FARDC and the Ugandan government than an Islamist threat lurking at the heart of Central Africa”.

“They are still isolated, and actions against their logistic and financial chains have been quite successful,” Marc-Andre Lagrange, DRC senior analyst at ICG, told IRIN. “As in 2011, ADF are now engaged in providing military support to other armed groups to sustain their movement. This demonstrates that ADF, as such, is now a limited threat despite the fact they remain extremely violent.”

According to experts in Uganda, the continued presence of armed groups like ADF is a major concern for peace and stability in DRC, Uganda and the wider Great Lakes region.

“The allegations that ADF is regrouping are not new and should not come as a surprise. What should worry us as a country is the apparent collective amnesia of treating our own exported armed insurgencies as other people’s problems,” Stephen Oola, a transitional justice and governance analyst at Uganda’s Makerere University’s Refugee Law Project, told IRIN. “The LRA [Lord’s Resistance Army] and ADF are Uganda’s problems and will remain so, no matter where they are located at a particular time, until we seek a comprehensive solution to conflicts in this country.”

Neutralizing the threat

At the moment, Uganda has no mandate to pursue the rebels within DRC. Ankunda said he hoped the new UN Intervention Brigade – tasked with defeating “negative forces” in eastern DRC and due to be fully operational at the end of July – will step in to curb the group’s efforts to destabilize the two countries.

The ICG’s report warned that it would be important to neutralize the ADF’s cross-border economic and logistical networks; the group allegedly receives money transfers from Kenya, the UK and Uganda, which are collected by Congolese intermediaries in the North Kivu cities of Beni and Butembo. It also derives funding from car and motorcycle taxis in North Kivu and profits from gold and timber exports to Uganda.

“It would be wise to separate fiction from fact and instead pursue a course of weakening its socio-economic base, while at the same time offering a demobilization and reintegration programme to its combatants,” the report’s authors stated, adding that “Congolese and Ugandan military personnel colluding with these networks should be dealt with appropriately by the authorities of their country”.

According to Makerere’s Oola, Uganda needs to do some soul-searching if it is to defeat the rebellions that continue to destabilize the country: “We must sit down as country in judgment of oursel[ves], through truth-seeking and national dialogue, to ask the right questions. Why are they fighting? What should be done to end their rebellion? How do we address the impact of the cycle of violence that has bedevilled this country from independence?”

[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations. ]

Salim Saleh was haunted by Jet Mwebaze’s death. Why?
Posted by Bitukirire Isaac Newton on June 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM

In Sept. 1997, an army officer and brother to Brig. James Kazini, another senior army officer, died in western Uganda under circumstances that remain mysterious. The then Minister of State for Defence, Steven Kavuma, gave conflicting accounts of what had happened to the private plane carrying Mwebaze. The media also reported various accounts. Appearing on the Capital Gang talk show on 91.3 Capital FM at the time, the then Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh was grilled by the then Mbarara Member of Parliament, Winnie Byanyima, also a panelist on the Capital Gang, to explain what Saleh’s employees were doing on that plane in which Mwebaze was said to have died. Saleh did not have an answer. Maj. Gen. James Kazini the former army commander died on Nov. 10, 2009 still convinced that his brother had been killed by the state or at least an actor in the state. But for several months, Saleh found himself almost unable to sleep. He disclosed to some people that he was being haunted by the spirit of Jet Mwebaze. Apparently it was tormenting him night and day. On the day of Mwebaze’s burial, an unusually heavy downpour of rain swept over the area. It rained heavily and continually all through the burial proceedings and convinced many onlookers that there was something suspicious about Mwebaze’s death. In 1998, Saleh tried to find a way out of the nightmare he was facing. He sought the help of a traditional fortune teller, a soothsayer of some sort, to go to Mwebaze’s grave and perform a number of rituals to appease the spirit of Mwebaze. A young man approached by Saleh refused to look up the fortune teller. Saleh finally found another young man to go to Mwebaze’s grave with the medium on his behalf. What happened, however, shocked Saleh. The young man, usually meek and modest in personality, suddenly burst out into a loud wail when he met Saleh. He shouted at Saleh and insulted him, speaking as one possessed by a strange spirit or invisible force. What happened next is not clear but this episode is a glimpse into the dark and sinister world that Uganda’s leaders since 1986 live in. Their abnormal lust for power and material things, their casual way with shedding blood speaks not of ordinary human beings, but of people possessed by what some might refer to as the spirit of death and murder. It is this spirit in Museveni, his brother Salim Saleh, and Museveni’s wife Janet Museveni that I went to investigate in July 2006 when I met a Seer outside Kampala. I ended up discovering the most astonishing things imaginable. But the net result of that experience was that all my fear of the state, what it can do, and of Museveni vanished from me the next day. I had stumbled onto what in the Bible is referred to as the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil”, the ultimate in knowledge of the deep mysteries of the universe. That spirit of death and murder hangs over the other leader in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda. About Mwebaze’s death, Saleh had planned to mobilise soldiers and army veterans to go to the Democratic Republic of Congo to offer support security to the new government of President Laurent Kabila. But failing to successfully convince these men to go to Congo, the task fell to Mwebaze, who easily assembled the men and these men waited for the flight at Entebbe International Airport. For whatever reason, Saleh started to view Mwebaze as threat to his power and influence within the army and plotted against Mwebaze. Just before Mwebaze was to have taken that flight, Saleh — who knew Mwebaze’s love of money — convinced him to give up on the military mission and instead fly to Congo on a diamond business mission. Mwebaze agreed to. Employees of Saleh’s company, including some Israelis, boarded a plane. When the plane arrived in the skies over Kasese, it came down to the ground. Later, Mwebaze was shot dead by the army in Kasese, then under the command of Brig. Nakibus Lakara. Who gave the order for Mwebaze’s murder? Who else but the man who would later be haunted by what he himself said was the spirit of Mwebaze. It is no coinsidence that it is he, Saleh, who made the call to Lydia Draru or Lydia Atim, asking her to call Mwebaze’s brother to Namowongo, only for three hit men, not Draru, to beat Kazini to death — and then reports of a domestic quarrel conveniently fed to the media. According to NRA fighters in Luwero, Saleh was given the nickname “Rufu” which in the languages of western Uganda means “death.” This nickname was not because of any extraordinary military achievements or bravery on the battlefield, but rather, according to the former NRA guerrillas, because it was to him that Yoweri Museveni entrusted the task of eliminating Museveni’s real or perceived enemies in Luwero. These NRA veterans say that such major assassinations as that of the first NRA commander, Lt. Ahmed Seguya and many others — including, now, the killing of Maj. Gen. James Kazini — were the core assignment of Salim Saleh during their guerrilla war. In Kampala, most army generals, intelligence officers, and others familiar with the workings of the NRM government do not believe that Kazini was killed by Lydia Draru. Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire’s melodramatic questioning of why God allowed Kazini to die without first consulting he, Otafiire, reflects the amount of fear being felt within top military circles than that Otafiire was trying to express black humour. END

Exposed! NRM’s plans to rule Uganda till 2042
Written by Our Editor
Monday, 29 June 2009 04:15
The Uganda Citizen today exposes a Master Plan by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) to stay in power until 2042. Hatched in March 1992 at Rushere, Nyabushozi, home of President Yoweri Museveni, the plan exposes the NRM as having lied to the whole world in general and to Ugandans in particular, when they said, in 1986, that theirs was not merely a change of guard but a new movement offering fundamental changes.

Muhoozi (left): Museveni’s sonIn an attempt to isolate the rest of Uganda and concentrate power into the hands of two clans from Western Uganda, the ingenuous plan sets out in detail how two Western Uganda clans, the Bahima and the Basita, planned to stay in power for 50 years before allowing anybody else to get into power.The plan of action that was read out by Mr Museveni to all the 76 people that attended the secret planning, sought to make sure that all top posts in the army were held by the Bahima. It arranged, among other plans, to:
Make sure their people had the highest educational qualifications during his term of office for their children. Make sure they were the richest people in Uganda with the 50 years master plan. Make sure they controlled the army and had the highest ranks in the army.

Museveni (left) and Paul Kagame (right) – Rwanda’s president and former Uganda intelligence chiefEnsure that they take charge of all the resources in the country.

Ensure that none of those not concerned, needed to know about the action plan.

This last wish may have already backfired as those that attended the meeting have already fallen out with Museveni. These include, among others, Hope Kivengere who minded to act as the link between Museveni and the grass roots.

Museveni asked the meeting to help recruit several of their relatives in the armed forces where he would install them in the security services especially the ISU, PPU, ESSO and Military Police. “This,” Museveni said, “would assist in the resisting of other tribes that would attempt to take power by the use of force.”

In order to ensure that power remained in the hands of the two clans, the meeting directed that Elly Karuhanga take the responsibility of ensuring that 80 per cent of their children were educated to a level that would ensure their sustaining power. He was instructed to send their children for studies abroad in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa and India. A Mr Kirimani was charged with educating the daughters and sons internally, especially to ensure that he put up special school in Nyabushozi to cater for the interests of the group. It was at this juncture that Sam Kutesa suggested upgrading Bunyanyeru Settlement School from Nursery to Secondary School.

Mr. Elly Rwakakoko interjected the chairman’s speech by introducing a new chapter of how Museveni could be succeeded after his term of office. On this point, Mrs. Jovia Salim Saleh begged the members to ensure that after Museveni, the next president must come from the Basita clan. She said that she had done a lot for the Basita and taken many risks for the last 20 years and therefore it was important that the Basita take charge of the resources of the country. The members resolved that she was not in order. Mzee Ephrann Rusimira suggested that the new president should be the brother to the president if the master plan was to succeed. He warned that if the Bairu and non-Bahima clans got to know about the action plan, it would fail to take off. Mzee Rutamwebwa suggested that Salim Saleh (Museveni’s half-brother) should go back to school if the objectives of their action were to be met. It was unanimously agreed that Salim Saleh had to get a A’ Level Certificate of Education. He also suggested that someone close, possibly the son of the president should be groomed to take over the reigns from Salim Saleh. This too was agreed on and the group begged Museveni to look around for a boy who would be groomed.

The group also brainstormed about how to destroy those who would gang up to take power from the clan. Death was suggested for the potential leaders who would attempt to fail the master plan. The group deliberated that they should:- a) Deny other people access to economic resources through: (i) Overtaxing individuals and companies, which don’t belong to their’ people and protect those that belong to them. (ii) Destroy co-operative societies and unions. (iii) Sell parastatals and public enterprises that those not with the Bahima and Basita clans don’t gain from. (iv) Commercialize education and health services. c) Destroy the economic, military and political will of Northern and Eastern Uganda.

d) Ensure that a non-political Kabaka of Buganda is installed on the Buganda throne, while at the same time promoting disunity among the Baganda. e) Unite all the Bahima in the Great Lakes Region and awaken their political, military and economic process.

f) Participate in the exploitation of economic resources of rich neighbouring states. g) Making strategic alliances with whatever power in the world that will enhance achievement of this plan.

Members recommended that all those given responsibility must ensure the achievement of the objectives. Museveni was mandated to appoint committees or individuals to implement the different aspects of the master plan. It is quite clear from the points made above that many of these plans have been fulfilled. However disagreement among the two clans has led to some in this group to approach the press with a copy of the deliberations.

The following people attended this meeting:-

NAME & HOME AREA

1. Mr.Y.K. Museveni – Nyabushozi 2. Mrs. J. Museveni – Nyabushozi 3. Mr. Elly Rwakakoko – Ruhama, Ntungano 4. Mr. Eric Kabango – Rukungiri 5. Akwandanaho Salim Saleh- Nyabushozi 6. Mr. Sam Kutesa – Nyabushozi 7. Mr. Abel Katemowe – Rukungiri 8. Canon Rwabugaire Buyania – Rukungiri 9. Mrs. Rwabugaire Buyanja – Rukungiri 10. John Wycliff Karigire – Ntungamo 11. Mrs. Karazarwe Ntungamo 12. Mrs. Rwakakoko Ruhama – Ntungamo 13. Bob Kabonero – Ntungamo 14. Mr. Jim Muhwezi – Rukungiri 15. Mrs. Susan Muhwezi – Rukungiri 16. Mr. Jotham Tumwesigye – Nyabushozi, Mbarara 17. Mr. John Nasasira – Kazo 18. Mzee Nyindombi – Kebisoni 19. Mrs. Faith Bitamurire- Kebisoni 20. Mugisha Muhwezi Nyindobi – Kebisoni 21. Mrs. Jane Mwesigye – Sembabule 22. Mrs. Mwesigye – Sembalue 23. Mr. Kamugisha – Kebisoni 24. Mrs. Kamugisha – Kebisoni 25. Mr. John Kazoora – Ntungamo 26. Mr. Christopher Kiyombo – Ntungamo 27. Major Henry Tumukunde – Buyanja Kitojo 28. Mrs. Tumukunde – Buyanja Kitojo 29. Mzee Rwakanengere – Kashari Rubaya 30. Jolly R
wakanengere – Kampala, Rubaya 31. Mrs Salim Saleh – Nyabushozi 32. Rev. Kajangye Buyanja – Kitojo
33. Aronda Nyakeirima Buyanja -Kitojo 34. Mzee Mpira Nuyanja – Nyakibungo 35. Charles Muhhozi Kifaburaza – Kagunga 36. Justus Katono – Karishunga Buyanja 37. Elly Karuhanga Nyabushozi – Mbarara 38. Mzee Kafumusi – Ibanda 39. Sikora B.K. Buhweju – Buyaruguru 40. P. Kaitirima – Sembabule 41. Mathew Rukikakire – Sembabule 42. Mrs. Rukikare Kabura – Rukungiri 43. Sam Baingana – Rukungiri 44. Mrs Baingana – Rukungiri 45. Mzee Amos Nzei – Kabale 46. Mrs. Nzei – Kabale 47. Mzee Rutamwebwa – Nyabushozi 48. Mrs. Mary Rutamwebwa – Nyabushozi 49. Rev. Canon Sam Rubunda – Nyabushozi 50. Mrs. Jennifer Kutesa – Sembabule/Ntungamo 51. Eriya Kategaya – Rwampara 52. Jovia Kankunda – Mbarara 53. Mzee Rwakiturate – Nyabushozi 54. Rwabantu Rusheyi – Ntungamo 55. Col. Chefali – Kazo 56. Col. Kazini J. – Nyabushozi 57. Major Kashaka – Nyabushozi 58. Jero Bwende – Nyabushozi 59. Augustine Ruzindana Rubaya – Ntungamo 60. Ephraim Rusimirwa – Nyakabuye 61. Mzee Kaino – Nyakininga 62. Rev. Rujoki – Nshwerunkuye 63. Mrs. J. Rujoki – Nshwerunkuye 64. Prince John Barigye – Kashari 65. Kanyesigye Barigye Junior – Kashari 66. Kirimani – Nyabushozi 67. Fred Kanyabubale – Kitojo Buyanja 68. Kakurungu – Kitojo 69. Captain Biraro – Nyabushozi 70. Mrs. Nasasira Kazo 71. Herbert Rwabwende – Kashari 72. Odrek Rwabwogo – Nyabushozi 73. Hope Kivegere – President’s Office 74. Bishop Justus Ruhindi – Rukugiri 75. Justin Sabiiti – Mbarara 76. Maama Rubindi – North Kigezi Diocese

majid alemi junior. in bc. – Exposed NRM & M7 Secrets Plan On Westnilers
Re: this message i forwarded under united nations convenson charter of 1942/45 citizens right to know act. international law. to all community of nations U.N. members including uganda. based on what is the article, we the voice of voiceless appeals to united nations secretary general. to take and present this case to the united nations security council to aprove united nations peace keeping forces to westnile region. which faced war for long time. their properties destroyed, no power electricity in region,roads are in bad shape, bridges are all damaged needs repair, education system are poor, unemployments problems are high, the present government dont care about the people in westnile region. based on all major problems facing the the people in the region. we request united nations international protection branch to take charge of the region. on humaniterian cause. people in westnile was refugees for many years, now they are returnees. they have nothing, united nations to rebuil…
Sewagaba – Even Museveni will fall.
Man proposes and God disposes.God said that,”Iam the one who frustrates the ways of wise men.”Even Hitler had a dream that his Third Reich would last for a thousand years, but only lasted for twelve years. All leadership comes from God.God knows the day and hour Museveni will get out of power. Milton Obote had the same ambitions, but he ran away one night without saying bye bye to the Ugandan people. Even Museveni will fall and never rise again, because he is a liar, a thief and a hypocrite.

Anonymous

Museveni is making Ugandans to suffer on his behalf but he should remember how he came to power ,and he should remember that it’s the baganda who brought him to power so he should dictate accorddingly and hope one time he will go back successfully
wanted – security puposes
i think this not a dream, when you look what is happening in all activitise as planed, they are working. employment, education,death, disruption of tribes,security and on top of that corruption is rampant in nrm reign due to diplomatic immunity….sit back & we fall….come 2gether we shall revive the glory of uganda. ”FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY” UG as THE PEARL OF AFRICA…..FOR the case of a NRM ”for me my tribe and relatives and clans mate” as thier motto :angry-red.
grace nalubega kalema – human rights activist
Its such a pity that greed e ncrunched their heart they (Nrm)owners i call owners because their resons to stay is not that they have love and mercy for millions of citizens suffering with unemployment,poor education skill ,corruption every where museveni would insist to stay and we opity to go and leave in others countries inorder to earn a living
king concerned – concerned
It is only a matter of a few years that this govt goes down. we shall neva allow this kind of domination. am particularly alarmed by the big numbers of the same clan or tribe in makerere and other higher institutions of learning (around 60 per cent). a single county in that area has over 500 students in makerere, yetthe whole of karamoja, bugweri, kumam, as tribes and oothers may not even raise such a number. this is so so unfair

James Arinaitwe – MD POSTA
Hi, am so surprised about this, and this further confirms that MUSEVENI IS NOT A UGANDAN, but A RWANDASE. honestly u have made us banyankole and banyarwanda suffer in the future, because the truth is u can not stay in power forever, so the day u will go is the day we shall start suffering, we are going to be slaughtered like goats. and u are forgeting that this is life and one time u will die, though am worried that u will die of hard disease like cancer of course mixed with your HIV/AIDS. and your children are going suffer too. u have impregnated so manypeople’s women, all this is on record. but your days are numbered, God is seeing all James
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Yoweri Museveni is the African genocide machine
Peoples’ Media: Dictator Museveni has since 1997 been involved in the systematic destabilisation of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the resultant horrific civil war. This involvement continues to this day.As early as 1992 ‘The Guardian’ reported that: “In the six years since Yoweri Museveni took power, his government has managed to alienate three of its five neighbours. Relations remain good with only Tanzania and Congo DRC.” Museveni sparked off Africa’s most tragic humanitarian crisis when it subsequently sought to destabilise Congo DRC. In 1997, the London ‘Times’ reported that “Uganda … backed an uprising by rebels in eastern Congo DRC who’s aim was to drive the Zairean Army from the region and bring down President Mobutu” In 2001, Human Rights Watch documented this involvement, stating that Museveni had “fuelled political and ethnic strife in eastern Congo with disastrous consequences for the local population.”This had included stirring up ethnic violence, murdering civilians and “laying waste their villages.” Human Rights Watch had also previously noted that Uganda was responsible for the murder of large numbers of civilians in north- east Congo.This was also confirmed by Congolese human rights organisations.In late 2002, Uganda was subsequently again accused of deliberately seeking to “provoke ethnic conflict, as in the past” – actions which the United Nations warned risked genocide in the region. In July 2003, a Human Rights Watch report, ‘”Covered in Blood”: Ethnically Targeted Violence’, stated, for example, that Uganda was involved in the ethnically-motivated murder of several thousand Congolese civilians in the Ituri area of north-eastern Uganda. Uganda continues to arm Congolese gunmen responsible for horrific acts of terrorism – acts every bit as horrific as those attributed to the LRA in northern Uganda. The Museveni regime was also accused of militarily and logistically assisting the UNITA rebel movement in Angola. Additionally, the UN has repeatedly stated that Uganda was criminally and systematically stealing Congo’s resources. A Human Rights Watch report also noted that Ugandan forces “have blatantly exploited Congolese wealth for their own benefit and that of their superiors at home.” The hypocrisy of Museveni’s public bleating about neighbouring states allegedly destabilising his government is clear. The International Community’s Responsibility for Continuing Conflict in Uganda. The international community itself shares a partial responsibility for the continuing war in northern Uganda. This responsibility is at least two-fold. Western governments continue to project Uganda as a success story when the reality is that it is wracked by political turmoil and Uganda’s economy is artificially buoyed by aid. A Refugees International report has observed, for example, that according to one estimate donors provide about 53 percent of Uganda’s budget. They also cited a UN official as saying: “[D]onors don’t want to portray Uganda as another African country that is going down the drain. Because they give so much to Uganda, donors have a political motivation to make sure that it is seen as a success story.” This pretence ignores, in addition to the conflict in northern Uganda, Museveni’s responsibility for the deaths of millions of civilians in Congo. The international community, by facilitating a military rather than a peaceful solution, also bears a direct responsibility for prolonging conflict. A UN news report, for example, has noted: “Some aid agencies working in the north have criticised the international community for allowing Museveni’s government to keep the humanitarian crisis in the north on the back burner … For example, they have expressed concern over the government’s recent decision to re-allocate 23 percent of funds from other ministries to defence, seen by some as indicating a preference for a military solution over a peaceful settlement in the north.” We call upon all our friends around the world to publish the crimes of Yoweri Museveni and also educate their local communities about the african Polpot.

COMMENTS:

Museveni in Congo and Sudan: The former commander of the Ugandan People’s Defense Forces (UPDF), Gen. James Kazini, a nephew of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni, was at the center of charges against the Ugandan army of wholesale looting in Uganda and southern Sudan. As EIR reported in its last issue (see pp. 58-65), Kazini was also caught in a covert caper to smuggle arms to the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army of John Garang, operating in cahoots with Roger Winter of the U.S. Committee on Refugees, Daniel Eiffe of Norwegian Peoples Aid, and notorious gun-smugglers Michael Harari, formerly Israeli Mossad station chief for South America, and Alberto P. Herreros, formerly a prime contract for the illegal George Bush-Oliver North Contra supply operation of the 1980s. The question now being raised is whether the covert supply of arms was being paid for by booty gathered by the Ugandan Armed Forces, which invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo on Aug. 2, and followed that with an invasion of Sudan in September. According to some sources, the money gained from the sale of the gold, timber, and diamonds, being looted out of Congo and southern Sudan, was put into offshore bank accounts, and then used to buy the arms and other supplies to keep the wars going. According to a South African intelligence source, Kazini was in command of the invasion of the Congo, the source having accompanied him during the campaign in western Congo, which failed. Kazini’s presence in Congo is not just military, but is also for business-a fact that came to light when Kazini’s brother, Col. Jet Mwebaze, was killedin a crash on Sept. 26 of a private plane, apparently on its way to the Congo. Soon after the rescue of some of the survivors of the crash, news began to leak out that pointed to far more than a technical failure or weather problems: The pilot of the plane was found with a bullet in his head. Colonel Mwebaze was reportedly also shot before or after the plane crashed. More than $1 million in cash was found on the plane. Other passengers on the plane included Asian businessman Arif Mulfi and Israeli businessman Zeev Shif, a partner in the Eforte Corp., a company of Salim Saleh, half-brother to Dictator Museveni and Museveni’s top military adviser. Speculation was rife throughout Uganda that the plane was going to the Congo for a pick-up of gold in areas under the occupation of Ugandan troops. Corroboration of this idea soon came from an unexpected source: an article appearing in the Oct. 12 issue of New Times, the semi-official newspaper of the Rwandan government, a military satellite of Museveni’s Uganda. The paper reported a “growing rift” between the Rwandan and Ugandan forces now occupying eastern portions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, blaming the tensions on a “clique” in the UPDF centered on Kazini and Salim Sateh. Titled “Saleh Reducing the UPDF to a Thieving Gang,” the article said, “When the war against [Congo President Laurent] Kabila broke out in the Congo, this clique saw it as a windfall-literally as a goldmine . .
.. The clique now wreaking havoc in the Congo includes Maj. Gen. Salim Saleh, Brigadier Kazini, Colonel Kerim, Major Ikondere, and the late Lt. Col. Jet Mwebaze. The list reads like a who’s who of the UPDF’s top convicts.” The article charged, “A brave and personable officer, Colonel Mwebaze died on a gold mission in the company of elements of a murky international gold- and money-laundering syndicate, heading for the part of the Congo under the control of his own brother, Brigadier Kazini, in the service of General Salim Saleh, the overall warlord.” The article was written by a Rwandan veteran of both the Rwandan Patriotic Army and Museveni’s National Resistance Army. The article further excoriated Salim Saleh for his involvement in privatization in Uganda, saying that he took a $1.5- million commission on a recent purchase of defective army helicopters. The paper prompted a visit to Kigali, Rwanda from Salim Saleh, and a trip to Kampala, Uganda to meet Museveni by Rwandan Defense Minister Paul Kagame. Salim Sateh admitted to the press that he was retrieving business operations lost with Kabila: “I used to have business with Kabila, but that is now lost,” Salim told New Vision. He also said that the Israeli businessman on Jet’s plane was in the gold business for him. He also attacked the Rwandans for “washing the dirty linen in public,” but said that the rift had been heated. “We have now established a new code of conduct for smooth running of our operations.” Salim Saleh has also come under scrutiny from the Ugandan Parliament for allegations that he is the hidden buyer of the Ugandan Commercial Bank, which is being privatized by the government. Before taking charge of the invasion of the Congo, Brigadier Kazini was commander of the fourth division of the UPDF, and in charge of operations in the north against the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army and in support of the Sudanese 56. As the mystery surrounding Mwebeze’s death was still swirling around, an article appeared in the Ugandan opposition newspaper, which quoted an unnamed official of the SPLA complaining that Jet had also been in charge of a company that was fleecing southern Sudan of its resources of gold and timber. “Jet was the managing director of the New Sudan Trading Corporation (NSTC), which was the company formed by the SPLA to help in facilitating trade in areas under its control,” the SPLA official said. He charged that the company was in fact dominated by Ugandan army officers, government ministers, and businessmen. The SPLA official said that in return for their share in the company, the Ugandan government permitted the SPLA to have free rein in northern Uganda to recruit guerrillas and to conduct private businesses, especially trade in cattle. The looting of southern Sudan and eastern Congo by the Ugandan military clique led by Museveni proceeds despite the fact that Uganda is being aided by outside sources as well. In hearings on July 29, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Susan Rice, an enthusiastic supporter of Museveni, reported that the United States provided Uganda with $3.85 million in military equipment last year, and will likely do so again in 1998, in addition to an International Military Education and Training Program. Under questioning, she admitted that the Ugandan military had “a lot of problems” of corruption and lack of discipline, which the government is not dealing with successfully. The privatized looting is also evidently required despite a 26% increase in the Ugandan military budget announced for the 1998-99 budget by Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development Gerald Sendaula-an increase which has caused protest among parliamentarians who represent Uganda’s service-starved people. But Museveni was defended in this action by no less than the World Bank representative in Kampala, Randolph Harris, who proclaimed that the “security threats” to Uganda cannot be ignored. Money to feed the war effort continues to roll in. The International Monetary Fund announced on Nov. 11 that it will hand over a $46 million loan to support Uganda’s 1998-99 “economic program.” It is the conjecture of Ugandans that most of this money, including a recent grant from the British government of ?67 million, will be siphoned off to pay for Museveni’s military operations in the region, wars which the Ugandan people do not support. An additional question is: How much of a slice do Museveni and his relatives, including Salim Saleh, Kazini, and others who now dominate the Ugandan Armed Forces, get from the booty-grabbing and other money flows? No matter what the size of the slice, however, the British Commonwealth extraction companies that follow in the wake of the military triumphs of Museveni’s mercenary army, will take the biggest share of all.
Posted by: by Linda de Hoyos | Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Saleh’s wife sued Tuesday, 15 February 2005 A religious organization, Uganda Brothers Christian Instruction and two others have filed a suit against Jovia Saleh seeking cancellation of a land title. The plaintiffs through Bamwite Kakubo and Company advocates allege that Akandwanaho wife to Major General Salim Saleh fraudulently obtained the land title “ Nabigirwa Swamp”. They allege that they are the rightful owners of the land, which they purchased from one Petro Lukonge in 1976. The group says they had developed the land by growing crops as well as construction of buildings for their residence. They allege that Jovia came with a fake land title and started construction of a building after destroying their crops. They pray court to restrain her from taking over the land as well as stopping her construction.
Posted by: By Gertrude Nampewo | Tuesday, February 15, 2005.