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Uganda Dictator Continues to Brutalise Ugandans

2017-06-16T17:56:58+02:00

The Uganda dictatorship has been good at using the greedy political class to chock both the rule of law and democracy. Today, Uganda has become very tribalistic and backward than any time in its history-tribalism is now part and parcel of everyday politics both at home and in diaspora.

As Africans continue to make endless dangerous journeys to Europe and the North America- escaping bad regimes and social inequalities, their new host are not that very welcoming. The human misery we continue to see on our TV sets is mostly caused by brutal regimes such as the one in Uganda,etc. The rule of Law and rights of individuals has become a thing of the past because most of the oppressive regimes continue to be supported by their former colonial powers such as Britain.

When a people become hostages to a backward political class, then wealth, poverty and politics is also used against them. The Uganda dictatorship has been good at using the greedy political class to chock both the rule of law and democracy. Today, Uganda has become very tribalistic and backward than any time in its history-tribalism is now part and parcel of everyday politics both at home and in diaspora. We continue to see Uganda fake refugees in Europe, blatantly working for the very system they claim to have fled from.

We continue to see, staged managed democracy run by the same oppressors in the form of presidential and parliament democracy. The essence of democracy has been turned into a circus between a dysfunctional political class and the dictatorship. The use of white collar criminals to mislead the international community in the form of lobbyists, has become another lifeline that most brutal regimes have mastered diligently. Of course, this world is full of crooked people that are prepared to sleep with war criminals and thieves in the same bed.

The brutal mode of governance in Uganda today, has also produced a half-baked political opposition that is both socially and politically bankrupt. Its all about self seekers and parasites dominating the political landscape. The political struggle in Uganda, has been turned into a personality rug-tug match between the same people-Uganda has lost the characteristic of a national social and political struggle. In fact, politics in Uganda suck big time, as both the opposition and the dictatorship share one thing in common, that of not letting new leadership take-over.

In Part 2 I look at how Uganda was lost to War Mongers and Parasites

Joram Jojo

Yoweri Museveni Steals Uganda Oil

2015-07-18T18:18:00+02:00

why should it only be Yoweri Museveni to have the sole ownership and benefit of it? When the opportunity arises, all the Uganda Nation Pagans, should be shot at first sight!

When Ugandans were busy celebrating the official exploration of oil in Western Uganda, Dictator Yoweri Museveni was instead clandestinely siphoning it away and giving the rights of ownership from Ugandans, to himself.

The Rwandan born turned Uganda dictator, has on many occasions made public statement referring to Uganda oil as his, and the latest has surprised Ugandans.
“We just discovered the oil in western Uganda which we believe will help us a great deal, and now that is why you see those people coming up to contest against me. They are targeting my oil,”

Don't believe that it was the National Resistance Movement Criminal Out-fit, who discovered oil in Uganda- as Lake Albert was always considered an attractive oil prospecting region for a very long time, especially given the natural oil and gas in the area. BP and other companies explored in the 1930s with the first well in 1938, but World War II put the exploration on hold.

The outright theft of Uganda resources by Yoweri Museveni and his family is a struggle that
we should all participate in.

What politicians and especially those claiming to want to lead Ugandans to "Yerusalemu", is their sickening silence on the transparency over Ugandaʼs oil contracts. How could this have happened and no public out-cry?
However, when it comes to their greed for power, they'll pay for over forty lawyers to represent their interests. I'll discuss this comprehensively next-time.

Fellow Compatriots, the Production Sharing Agreements(PSA)- do no represent our people, but the criminal family of Yoweri Museveni. If oil is a natural gift given to Ugandans by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'Ala (God the Almighty) for the benefit of all Ugandans, then why should it only be Yoweri Museveni to have the sole ownership and benefit of it? When the opportunity arises, all the Uganda Nation Pagans, should be shot at first sight!

The deliberate misrepresentation of our treasured natural resource such as oil,
to be the property of Yoweri Museveni and his family, is 100% treasonous.

Joram Jojo

Uganda is Under siege by Foreigners

2015-01-21T18:41:00+01:00

What many Ugandans have not realised or pretending not to acknowledge, is the inequality in society built on hallmarks of tribalism.

Its all about empowering a tribal middle class while the rest of the population is left helpless and scrimping for fish bones and religious therapy from Christian fundamentalists.

Its no more a guarantee, to make it in life merely on ones integrity or great education background without belonging to a particular class of tribe. The class system in Uganda can be described as parasitic and backward on the development of the Uganda society.The architecture of such a system deserves to end before a people's firing squad. No Buts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The lack of sustainable economic development in Uganda, has been due to Dictator Yoweri Museveni's backward leadership of micro management. When the leadership of a regime starts carrying pots of money around and dishing it out to buy support, immediately start organising to overthrow that regime. The main reason why Dictator Yoweri Museveni has been able to saw ignorance and backwardness in Uganda, is due to his Cunning,Vengeful and Paranoia mindset he holds towards Ugandans.

By nature,Yoweri Museveni is a parasite and the most flexible house Negro ever walked the face of the earth, that will always want to be the most closest to imperialism than any other Comprador (local agent), and he will always be on the look-out for any dirty towels and dishes of his master-he will recite tribal construed parables for his master as an endorsement of inferiority complex towards the white man. This type of stupidity is not genetically only in Yoweri Museveni, but 99% of the Uganda political class carry it. Their dream is not what to do for Ugandans, but what to do for imperialistic forces. If it means shedding their blood... they'll do it without even asking why??

The Bill of rights should be entrenched in the Uganda constitution. The absence of this right should not stop the citizens of Uganda from breaking the law to make a political statement.

This does not necessarily mean that they do not expect any legal consequences to follow, it may simply mean that they assert a right to conscientiously break a law but are prepared to suffer the prescribed consequences.

The rights of Ugandans should not deter them to overthrow a dictatorial government using Arms or other means.

However, Dictator Yoweri Museveni's scrubbers, like the phony prime mister of Uganda, Dr Ruhakana Rugunda warning the youth,that they should never protest when their government has failed to fix roads,is utterly nonsensical.

When the youth demand the right to employment,society should support their cause and not exploit them.We see it every-time,politicians mainly from the opposition pouncing at every misfortune of the Uganda youth,to make political capital.

In Our Uganda Social Struggles, we have three type of People, the consumer of Information,the User of Information and the creator of Information.

Today, most Ugandans are consumers of information-they wake up and surf the web looking for what various news outlets have reported,etc. This group is very active at wanting to know... and making comments on various media, becomes almost an occupation. They tend to be living in a bubble of intelligentsia and stuck in the same time warp.

They Wake up and find out what people have written and commented, then answer all the comments using Tonto and Mandazi ideology.
Facebook and Twitter platforms becomes their life-line of social networking,thus traditional human networking becomes tiresome, as they're suffering from computer Bytes exhaustion, and their Mantra becomes, " MWANA NkOYE" I want to chill!
They know how to talk loud in local boozers and regardless of their Mandazi brains, they have and must win all the arguments.

The problem with this group, they're everywhere and come across to serious revolutionary as useful. But Wapi, Nebikwangala afazali Zero is better, because you know its Zero-just keep away from them- they're the best cowards,greedy, and gossiping too much is in their DNA. If you want to waste another 20 years waiting for something to happen...then join them.

The Way society reacts to information has changed very much,call it information fatigue,exhaustion, tiredness, languidness, languor, lassitude, and listlessness-people no longer enjoy reading long texts as they get confused...Uhh, that's how people are messed-up!

For that reason, I'll serialise this topic. Next week, I'll introduce the second(2nd) user of information. This type is very important to any revolutionary process, be it executing or countering the revolution.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh,No!!!! We'are Dead....

History teaches us that Short Revolutions have never empowered the people but a clique of individuals as we see in Uganda and Rwanda.

Joram Jojo

Yoweri Museveni's Priorities

2014-07-09T00:41:00+02:00

Every month Dictator Museveni announces a new priority for his bottle-necked regime.However,the public priority bottle has never reached the neck as regime pigs have to be fed first.

Its only in Uganda where teachers,nurses,doctors and the youth are not considered a priority.

Instead of waiting for Dictator Museveni's bottleneck fantasy, it should be our priority to send him packing.

The Uganda political landscape is built on hereditary ideology-that's why Uganda still has politicians that started running the country in the 1960's, still around and feeding Uganda with the same bullshit.

The development of Uganda has gone 50 years back and the entire country is in a very sorry state, that it will need another 50 years to fix it. This should not be blamed on the leadership alone, but the elite class- because of their greed and selfishness, they've nurtured one of the most lethal and brutal regime ever walked the face of Africa.

That's why Dictator Museveni has been able to exploit that weakness of Ugandans and he can even brag as if he owns Uganda.

The Dictator has the nerve to boast that:
"Ugandans on the other hand are lazy by nature. They have an abundance of resources here to start from and numerous examples to borrow a leaf from but they haven't moved, May be they need some special spectacles to help them see where wealth is. If it’s about mathematics, Ugandans have perfectly mastered the subtraction and division signs while our friends here from the outside countries have mastered the addition and multiplication ones. This has become an epidemic now. Some people work hard and put together a lot of wealth, but they bring forth stupid children who come and squander all the hard-earned wealth"

Joram Jojo

Uganda Art

2012-11-10T22:15:00+01:00

I created this Art as props for an African Comic & Manga Genre. The first series will feature Congo-its an experiment that will involve an interactive experience. I was one of those Kids that never enjoyed reading Comics-as they never told my story and I never, was friends with Kids that read them-they thought I was dumb-and I would drop on the floor and go in Tantrums. That experience stayed with me for donkey years-so today I've decided to let-it out! Little bastards called me dumb.....haha!

The next step will be, to animate these characters in a 3D environment.

This Art is to inspire Uganda students of Art that take their Art serious. As always, I've taken more time at looking at one aspect of Art, character design. This series is about Manga and comic design. Its not everyday you come across African Comics and Manga-though Manga is Japanese, but actually it means cartoon. Before embarking to that genre, you must consider improving your crafting skills. A well designed character will make any comic strips look great. This is very important as you need to stand-out from the crowd.

Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame

2011-12-22T12:50:00+01:00

Dictator Yoweri Museveni

The western Governments considers this cold blooded killer a messiah in development, as long as their Alibaba caves(plundered minerals and oil fields) are safe, the tyrant can kill and kill till he feels dizzy... The African Killing fields from Congo to Central Africa, Sudan, Somalia and of course Uganda, are still very profitable for murderer Yoweri Museveni. Every murder he commits, his grip on power is assured by his pathetic Western backers.

Tyrant Yoweri Museveni Makes Tyrant Gadaffi Look Like Mother Theresa

How can we forget the killing of innocent protester in Uganda this year-the killing of innocent women, men, children and elderly in Central Africa and then blaming the Lords Resistance Army as it would be belivable-the endless systematic killings of innocent Somali people and blaming the youth fighters(Al-shabab) as they've bragged to be Al-Qaeda and have been packaged well with a glossy coating by Anti-Somali forces. The fact remains, Al Shabab is not Al Qaeda and has never been-just bragging to get the youth support as the youth are very impressed by the Al Qaeda romantic revolutionary Orthodoxy. Maybe I'll have to write a full post for this, that's if the Admin lets me--please, I beg!!! ]

The African Genocide authors

However,the killing of innocent people in order to have access to free resources is the most dumb thing the western governments have ever invented after syphilis

Tyrant Museveni runs hundreds of illegal underground detention centers around the country

Today in Uganda, they're thousands of innocent people that are locked up in illegal detentions that are out of the judicial system control. Most of the prisoners are political detainees and whose only crime has been that of questioning the way Uganda is run.

The damage the Tyrant has inflicted on our country will take minimum 20 years to bring some sort of sanity.

This Art represents the wrongs in our present day Uganda-a country run by a gang of thieves and a leadership that survives by the sword;spilling blood and more blood of innocent people wherever it goes.

6 million People have died in Congo because of Paul Kagame & Yoweri Museveni thirst for Blood

Sometimes you wonder why this duo is the most arrogant cold blooded pair ever walked the face of the earth. The answer is very simple-when you have murdered millions of innocent people in cold blood, your brains tend to be in a permanent psychotic mode. The most important thing everyone should understand is that the pair are just a bunch of murderers whose time will come soon. Those that think it will never happen, are just in self-denial-the wheels of change, are already in motion.

To be continued

joram jojo

Uganda Modern Art with No Limits

2011-03-29T17:32:00+02:00

Sometimes when we put limits to our creativity,we tend to shortchange ourselves. Creativity should not have limits-i.e. African art should look like this, you should use these colors,that is offensive "political correctness from insecure people", etc.
Don't let people tell you how to be creative-create and let them judge afterwards and always allow criticism as its your driver to success. Its only losers that hate criticism-even great prophets like Jesus and Mohammed(peace be upon them) had critics.
Always enjoy your art-have fun and don't try to please [critics] as you'll never come out of the conformity cocoon. Break the rules when creating Art, don't limit yourself to mental slavery-remember your brains are there to be used and not suppressed from thinking beyond the norm...
I believe in a parallel universe, were they're multiple billions of copies of everything living on this planet, maybe another copy of you, could be living like this...hahaha!

alien planet

Alien planets could be very colorful -remember that all light has color regardless of the planet in our universe-though some light cannot be visible with naked eyes-what you might consider to be darkness(pitch black) is not the case-that's why night vision technology in its infancy,green is the most visible color-in 5-years time it could be all the primary colors RGB.

alien planet

What is so strange, is that we're all made of the same stuff but in a different chemical arrangement-all living things and weird burning planets have carbon as a common element..

So, when you die, its not your end, remember that in the beginning you were just a drop...now your solid bones-what I'm trying to say is that you're infinite because our universe started with a bang with the intention of expanding and your part of the same stuff that makes the universe. However, I'm not sure of other universes, as they're Billion.....Billion...Billion......................Billion other universes. maybe, the chemistry is different.

Maybe this could be the original you on another planet -hahaha.. Maybe in our parallel universe, weird things happen..

I believe we're all holograms and that's why we have fucked up holograms like yoweri museveni, Hosni Mubarak, Paul Kagame,Muammar Gaddafi, etc.

This Art is a continuation from the last post-inspiring Uganda students of Animation. Just like I said before, think dark and break the rules,don't chicken to experiment, because art is all about experimentation,always make sketches-planning is the key to success.

This chopper is somewhere in the virunga Area..

Let's play Art this year....I look forwards to posting some animation here sometimes this year!

The space vehicle landing...

In this issue, I'll continue from where I stopped last time...

This Art is not the usual stuff I normally do, its just that I'm trying to escape from the mindset of my usual work(3D Animation). I wanted to put out some stuff, so that Ugandan students of Animation at Makerere university can be inspired to do dark 3D art.

armada of futuristic transporters

In this piece, I was inspired by Professor Stephen W. Hawking, life in the universe documentary, Maybe some planets have life and no gravity-everything just floats, while the ground spins, endlessly-I reckon with such planet, the technology could be 1 million years superior than ours.

Outer space station

maybe, on some planets this is how they eat...

Maybe, this could be the way people on other planets go to toilet-a bit like barbecuing oneself...

transportation on planets similar to ours could be something like this...

Maybe..maybe, some planets could look like this. In next issue, I'll try to imagine how the people(Aliens) might live...

To be continued

joram jojo

uganda Art

2011-01-17T20:24:00+01:00

This chopper is somewhere in the virunga Area..

Let's play Art this year....I look forwards to posting some animation here sometimes this year!

The space vehicle landing...

To be continued....

Uganda Art

2010-12-29T18:37:00+01:00

In this issue, I'll continue from where I stopped last time...

armada of futuristic transporters

Outer space station

maybe, on some planets this is how they eat...

Maybe, this could be the way people on other planets go to toilet-a bit like barbecuing oneself...

transportation on planets similar to ours could be something like this...

Maybe..maybe, some planets could look like this. In next issue, I'll try to imagine how the people(Aliens) might live...

To be continued

Africa Most wanted War Criminals

2010-01-11T02:06:00+01:00

Yoweri Museveni

Paul Kagame

According to top secret intelligence documents that we have obtained, Uganda armed the invasion of Rwanda for an ambitious plan of a "regional war of liberation" which aimed to unite 7 African countries under the leadership of President Yoweri K. Museveni. Reunited, these countries would form a regional showcase called "Great Unified Region; United Great Region" and to have a "Red Army Reserve, of 2,000,000 men and willing to subject the rest of the Saharan Africa to war and terror. Museveni intended to act with the support of the United Kingdom and the United States, where they hoped to further address the influence of emerging powers like China and India and impose an Anglo-Saxon political, economic and military imperialistic shadow on the African continent.

We shall be publishing the report after editing it as its 450 pages long.

Uganda Art

2009-10-30T17:44:00+01:00

After being denied the space to express myself by (You know yourselves) various media houses and their collaborators disguised as civil society, Free Uganda Critical Media has allowed me to use their platform. I appreciate guys!!

I'll kick off with experimental Art:

My Fans want to know what I'm up too???

I can say to them that, you won't be disappointed with what is to come-just be patient with me!

I consider this art as work still in progress..,call it props for some mind-bending art to come!

Lake Bunyonyi Monster

Lake Bunyonyi Monster from the virunga mountains has been stealing goats from the village.

Uganda Modern Art

This time I'll try my best to publish any work, be experimental or finished product, on this website.

African Art: Virunga Airport

experimental 3d sculpiting

3d sculpting and modeling

Battleship on Lake Kivu

Virunga International Airport

Virunga furistic International Airport

The Year is 2050 and Trade in information has made Virunga Mountains the place to be

Welcome to Virunga futuristic International Airport

Virunga Mountains futuristic City

This Art is from a Vision I have for Kivu and Kigezi, South-Western? Uganda.
As I continue to experiment..I thought that, would be good not to just delete the work but share it.
Maybe sharing the project will help me to visualise better.

Kabale charter plane checks in at Virunga Airport

Virunga International Airport

African 3D Art featuring Virunga City

Arrest Yoweri Museveni for War Crimes

2009-10-27T10:59:00+01:00

What happened to the hundreds of children that were in NRA(Now UPDF) and sent to Mubende. Where are all those children that In 2005, escaped or were captured or released from the LRA and pressured to join Yoweri Museveni's forces and fight the LRA. Where are they now? Why is Salim Saleh, a UPDF officer believed to have been banned from traveling to the United States over the UPDF’s role in the plunder of mineral resources from the DR Congo in the late 1990s, still a Cabinet Minister?

Why should a Killer and thief like yoweri Museveni, still be roaming western Capitals when the evidence is there for his arrest. Why should Sudanese Omar Bashir be wanted by ICC and Not Yoweri Museveni that has commited even worse crime?
See Illegal exploitation of natural resources and other forms of wealth of the DR Congo
Why should Darfur(less than 1000 dead) be called a genocide and not DR congo(6million dead).
Very simple. Yoweri Museveni is a western client and Omar Bashir a chinese client.
I'm not a big person on the world stage but big men like Alison Des Forges, Senior Advisor at the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch. said:

"Uganda sent its troops into Congo supposedly to assure its own security, but in the process, it has caused greater insecurity for its unfortunate neighbors," said Alison Des Forges, Senior Advisor at the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch. "Pulling out some of its troops does not relieve Uganda of the responsibility for investigating and punishing the soldiers who have been involved in these crimes."

Des Forges said that Congolese leaders, including the heads of political factions and organizers of militias, have also violated the rights of their fellow citizens in Ugandan-dominated zones. The Ugandans trained local combatants who were recruited by rival political leaders on the basis of personal or ethnic loyalty, and who were more likely to be used for local advantage than in the war against the Congo government. Both the Ugandans and leaders of the Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation? Movement (RCD-ML) recruited and trained children as combatants. In August 2000 Uganda airlifted 163 children from Congo to Kampala for military training.

"Uganda has repeatedly promised to end the use of child soldiers, yet here it is openly teaching Congolese children to make war," said Des Forges. "When does it plan to start making good on these promises?" Congolese political leaders in the Ugandan-controlled region have detained rivals, held them in inhumane conditions, and sometimes tortured them. Ugandan soldiers have similarly abused Congolese whom they have identified as opponents. Ugandan authorities in mid-2000 approved an alliance between RCD-ML leader Mbusa Nyamwisi and Mai-Mai?, a local militia hostile to foreign occupiers, and even arranged to provide military training for them. Later, Ugandans rejected the arrangement and began fighting the Mai-Mai?. In subsequent conflicts, Ugandan troops captured and summarily executed Mai-Mai? combatants. They also attacked local people thought to have aided the Mai-Mai?, killing civilians and laying waste their villages. Ugandan soldiers also backed the RCD-National, supposedly another rebel political movement but apparently really an operation to extract and market the rich mineral resources of the Bafwasende area.

"Ugandan soldiers have blatantly exploited Congolese wealth for their own benefit, and that of their superiors at home," said Des Forges. "In competing for control of Congo's phenomenal resources, the Ugandans as well as other parties to this war have committed countless atrocities against the Congolese population."

Unless the International Criminal Court is also part and parcel of Yoweri Museveni's African Genocide project, set out under article 15 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,an investigation proprio motu by undertaking a preliminary investigation of serious crimes committed in Ituri within the presumptive jurisdiction of the ICC for possible prosecution.

The Front for the Liberation of Congo in Ugandan occupied areas

The Movement for the Liberation of Congo (Mouvement pour la Liberation du Congo, MLC), headed by Jean-Pierre? Bemba, controls much of Equateur province in the north. By early 2001, it had established its sway over another, less well organized rebel group, the Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation? Movement (Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie-Mouvement? de Liberation (RCD-ML), which claimed to control parts of North Kivu, and Orientale provinces in eastern Congo. Uganda engineered this merger among its Congolese rebel allies to unify their military against the government alliance, and to shield it from increasing international scrutiny of its role in manipulating local political divisions and ethnic conflicts as a means of consolidating its control over these resource rich areas.

Uganda reacted angrily to the release in mid April of the report of the U.N. Panel of Experts on the Exploitation of National Resources and other Forms of Wealth of the DR Congo, threatening at one point to withdraw from the Lusaka peace process. Under international prodding, Uganda dropped the threat and committed to withdraw its troops from the country, saying that they have accomplished their mission of defeating the insurgent Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

Human Rights Watch in March 2001 published the report "Uganda in Northeastern DRC: Fueling Political and Ethnic Strife" which documented the following abuses in areas occupied by Uganda near the border between Uganda and the DRC:

Ugandan military forces have played a decisive role in local affairs, even changing administrative boundaries and designating provincial officials, taking advantage of an administrative void resulting from continuing disputes among the various offshoots of the Ugandan- sponsored RCD-ML.

Within the context of the broader war and the continuing political conflicts, a small-scale dispute over land between Hema and Lendu peoples in northeastern DRC, one of many which previously appeared to have been settled peacefully, grew in scale and intensity. The Hema were thought to enjoy general support from the Ugandans, attributed to a supposed ethnic bond between the Hema of the DRC and those of Uganda. >From the first violence in June 1999 through early 2000, an estimated 7,000 persons were killed and another 150,000 were displaced. In the most recent incident of violence in January 2001, another 400 people were killed during one day of violence in Bunia and at least 30,000 people were forced to flee the region.

The perception that the Ugandan army supported the Hema was made real in many communities by Ugandan soldiers who helped Hema in defending their large farms against Lendu attack and who helped Hema militia attack Lendu villages. In some cases, these soldiers provided support in return for payments to themselves or their superior officers. In at least one case, Ugandan soldiers also assisted Lendu in attacking Hema. In one reported clash Ugandan soldiers backing different sides engaged in combat against each other. The assistance of Ugandan soldiers as well as the provision of training and arms to local forces resulted in a larger number of civilian casualties in these conflicts than would otherwise have been the case.

Under the guise of creating an army for the rebel movement, Congolese political leaders developed their own groups of armed supporters, bound to them by ties of personal and/or ethnic loyalty. On several occasions in the last two years, these armed supporters have engaged in operations in which civilians were killed. Uganda trained these groups even when it seemed likely that they would be used in local ethnic and partisan conflict rather than as part of a disciplined military force.

All parties, including the Ugandans, recruited and trained children to serve as soldiers. In August 2000 Uganda transported some 163 children, part of a larger group of 700 recruits, to Uganda for military training. Only in February 2001 did the government of Uganda grant various international agencies access to these children with a view to their demobilization and resettlement.

Contending RCD-ML political leaders Wamba dia Wamba and Mbusa Nyamwisi as well as Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) soldiers have illegally detained political leaders whom they have identified as opponents and held them under inhumane conditions. In some cases the UPDF and RCD-ML forces have tortured political opponents in detention.

The RCD-ML's "prime minister" Mbusa Nyamwisi, a local leader from a third powerful ethnic group, the Nande, sought to increase his power base by allying with Mai-Mai? forces, groups of local militia who had been fighting largely to expel foreign occupiers of their territory. Originally ready to tolerate this alliance, the Ugandans then rejected it. In subsequent conflicts with the Mai-Mai?, Ugandan forces as well as Congolese rebels loyal to Mbusa extrajudicially executed captured Mai-Mai? combatants. Subsequently, the UPDF attacked local people thought to have assisted the Mai-Mai?, killing civilians and laying waste to their villages.

Ugandan soldiers also formed and supported the front organization called RCD-National, which appeared to be an operation to extract and market the rich mineral resources of the Bafwasende area rather than the political party which it claimed to be. This blatant exploitation of Congolese wealth for the benefit of both locally based and other more highly placed Ugandan military officers symbolized the larger exploitation of the whole region for the benefit of outside actors.

Proxies Pursuing Their Own Interests

Ituri is home to eighteen different ethnic groups, with the Hema/Gegere71 and Lendu/Ngiti72 communities together representing about 40 per cent of the inhabitants. The other major groups are the Bira, the Alur, the Lugbara, the Nyali, the Ndo-Okebo?, and the Lese. With ethnic identity of growing importance, a new group has emerged, the "non-originaires"73, that is, `outsiders' who were not born in Ituri. The Nande of north Kivu represent the most prominent of the "non-originaires", due to their importance in the business sector. The emergence of Mbusa Nyamwisi, a Nande, as the leader of the RCD-ML raised the profile of the Nande in Ituri. Hema elites seeking to assert or protect their control of the political and economic spheres in Ituri tend to consider the Nande as direct competitors.

The Hema, Lendu, and other ethnic groups that serve as proxies for governments and rebel movements also seek to set agendas that serve their own interests. They are skilled at playing off the various outside rivals and change sides as their interests dictate. They adapt rapidly to developments on the national scene, working on the basis of the enemy of my enemy is my friend-at least for the moment.

Who Was Who - Armed Political Groups in Ituri

RCD-ML: Congolese Rally for Democracy- Liberation Movement
Current Leader: Mbusa Nyamwisi

Also know as RCD-Kisangani, the RCD-ML was launched in September 1999 in Kampala when Wamba dia Wamba split from the RCD-Goma. Backed at the start by Uganda, the RCD-ML has been fractured by leadership struggles and in-fighting. The current leader, Mbusa Nyamwisi took power after ousting Wamba dia Wamba. The RCD-ML's military wing is the Congolese Popular Army (APC). The RCD-ML entered into the Sun City agreement of April 2002 and the APC are now being trained and armed by Kinshasa.

MLC: Movement for the Liberation of Congo Current Leader: Jean-Pierre? Bemba

Based in Gbadolite, the MLC has been backed by Uganda since the start of the war in 1998 although there have been occasional differences between the two. The MLC tried twice to establish a foothold in Ituri: in 2001 Bemba had nominal control of the short-lived FPC coalition of Ugandan- backed rebel groups and in 2002 the MLC attacked Mambasa in western Ituri but were forced backed by the APC of Mbusa Nyamwisi. The MLC has occasionally fought alongside the UPC and has been a rival of Mbusa's RCD-ML.

RCD-National: Congolese Rally for Democracy - National
Current Leader: Roger Lumbala

Now based in Watcha, northern Ituri, the RCD-N initially operated as a front organization for the Ugandans in exploiting the diamond riches of the town of Bafwasende. In 2001 and 2002, the RCD-N supported MLC attempts to win resource-rich areas from the RCD-ML. RCD-N has few soldiers and relies on the MLC army.

UPC: Union of Congolese Patriots (predominately Hema/Gegere party)
Current Leader: Thomas Lubanga

Purportedly launched to promote reconciliation, the UPC quickly became a predominately Gegere-led political party intent on promoting the interests of the Hema and related Gegere. It came to power in Bunia in August 2002 with the help of the Ugandans and used Hema militia as part of its armed forces. It turned to Rwanda for support and formed an alliance with the Rwandan-backed RCD-Goma after being excluded by the RCD-ML and the MLC from the Mambasa ceasefire talks in December 2002. Having turned from Uganda politically, the UPC was ousted from Bunia by the Ugandan army in March 2003 but fought its way back into town in May.

FIPI: Front for Integration and Peace in Ituri (platform of three ethnic-based parties)

Current Leader: A coalition of three leaders of PUSIC, FNI and FPDC
Created in December 2002 with Ugandan support, the three ethnically-based political parties shared the objective of getting rid of the UPC. Otherwise FIPI has no apparent program. The group includes Hema dissatisfied with the UPC, Lendu, and Alur, each with its own political party (see below). After the UPC was forced from Bunia, the parties began squabbling and the coalition appears to have collapsed.

PUSIC: Party for Unity and Safeguarding of the Integrity of Congo (Hema dissatisfied with the UPC)Current Leader: Chief Kahwa Mandro

Former UPC member Chief Kahwa created PUSIC in early February 2003. Most members appear to be Hema from the south. Uganda supports the party as part of the FIPI coalition. Chief Kahwa was backed briefly by the Rwandans when he was in the UPC, but claims that PUSIC currently has no such support and is more interested in working with Kinshasa. PUSIC may have allied with the UPC against the Lendu in Bunia in May 2003; if so, this alliance of convenience would be tenuous and probably short-lived. PUSIC appears to have continued close links with Ugandan authorities.

__FPDC: Popular Force for Democracy in Congo (Alur and Lugbara political party)
Current Leader: Thomas Unen Chen, a former member of the Zairian parliament__

FPDC was created in late 2002 mostly by Alur and Lugbara from the Aru and Mahagi area, north Ituri, to counter the UPC. Recently it started to recruit and train its own militias. Although professedly interested in dialogue, it is prepared to fight if dialogue fails. It has been supported by Uganda as part of the FIPI coalition and appears to have close ties with former Ugandan army Col. Peter Karim, an Alur from Uganda.

FNI: Front for National Integration (Lendu political party)
Current Leader: Floribert Njabu Ngabu

Lendu intellectuals and traditional chiefs established FNI but the party claims broad support by the Lendu community in its effort to oppose the UPC. Lendu militias are reportedly being organised under the military wing of this party, which some equate with the FRPI (see below). Supported by Uganda as part of the FIPI coalition, it joined the Ugandan army in driving the UPC from Bunia on March 6, 2003, for which some its members were publicly thanked by Brigadier Kayihura in April. FNI has also benefited from military training and support from the RCD-ML and, through it, from Kinshasa.

FRPI: Patriotic Force of Resistance in Ituri (Ngiti political party)
Current Leader: Dr Adirodo.

Launched in November 2002 the Ngiti party FRPI is said to be closely linked to the Lendu FNI. It is meant to bring together Ngiti militias with traditional leaders in a single force against the UPC. Based in Beni and said to number 9,000 combatants, the FRPI has close ties to the RCD-ML from which it receives both military training and arms. It claims to have a large fighting force and many see it as the army of the FNI. It joined the Ugandans in driving the UPC from Bunia in March 2003 and together with the FNI briefly controlled Bunia in May 2003.

FAPC: People's Armed Forces of Congo (mixed)
Current Leader: Commander Jerome Kakawave Bakonde

Commander Jerome, based in Aru and Mahagi, established FAPC in March 2003. Jerome has changed allegiances several times, moving from the RCD-ML, to the RCD-N, to the UPC and to the Ugandans but he has more or less stayed in the area of Aru. His group recently obtained support from the Ugandans who attempted to put Commander Jerome in charge of a mixed security apparatus in Bunia just prior to the start of their withdrawal. Other parties objected and Commander Jerome returned to his home at Aru.74 A mutiny occurred in his ranks in May 2003 which was allegedly put down with Ugandan support.75 Jerome is reportedly a Banyarwanda from North Kivu.

The actions of the Hema Chief Kahwa Mandro illustrate the readiness of local actors to change allegiances. Initially supported by Uganda, Chief Kahwa and some other Hema noticed a decline in this backing and decided that the Ugandan Army was not doing enough to protect them against the Lendu. Chief Kahwa Mandro explained to Human Rights Watch researchers:

In August 2000, I was fighting the Lendu in Ituri. But I was accused of being with the Rwandans and the Ugandan rebels, the ADF, so the Ugandans also started to fight with me. I decided I should go and talk to President Museveni which I did in August. He decided that my cause was noble. Our group came for training to Uganda on August 28, 2000. I was in Uganda for 6 months at Kyakwanzi training camp where 705 of us were trained.

After Sun City the Lendu started to be armed by Mbusa RCD-ML and so we decided we had to get rid of him. Then Lubanga was arrested by the Ugandans. We didn't understand this. I stayed in Bunia while Governor Molondo planned a genocide against us.76 I started training about 3,000 fighters in Mandro with the financial help of the Hema community. We collected guns from small attacks. We had been negotiating with Uganda for three years and they had been responsible for so many deaths. No one was aware of our problem. In June 2002 I decided to go to Rwanda to find help for our defense. They had lived through a genocide so they knew what it was like. They understood me and provided us with weapons and logistics. I discussed the situation with James Kabarebe.

Initially this support was good and I thought Rwanda understood my situation, but they profited from it to create another situation. They wanted Ituri to be their rear base to attack Uganda. They continue to send arms including missiles and ammunition for tanks when we don't even have tanks. They are even sending troops. They are recruiting young soldiers and putting fear into them. They come in with small planes to airstrips like Mongbwalu, Aru, Boga and Bule. I know they do this as I used to go myself on small planes from Kigali to Ituri.77

After becoming disillusioned with Rwandan support and the policy direction of Lubanga's UPC, Chief Kahwa felt threatened. He separated from Lubanga's group and re-established links with the Ugandans. He continued:

I was on the list of people to be eliminated by the UPC. When Museveni found out about this, he sent a plane to come and get me. He encouraged me to talk to the Lendu in Kpandruma so we could stop fighting. I started a political party, PUSIC, and then became part of the FIPI coalition which wants peace in Ituri and includes Lendu plus others. I talked to President Kabila in Dar es Salaam where I told him he must stop supporting the Lendu. They were killing us. He understood.

I am going to attack Bunia again and will take it, even if I die. The Ugandan army is informed of our plans but I don't count on them for help.78

Assistance from external actors may prompt dissidents in a group to hive off and form their own organization, as Chief Kahwa did. However, external actors can also promote coalitions, including those across ethnic lines, like the FIPI group which included Hema, Lendu, and Alur political groups.

The increase in the number of combatant groups in and around Bunia has been matched by increased flow of arms to Ituri as outside actors attempt to ensure victory for their local allies. This greater availability of arms contributed to more casualties in Ituri including civilians.79 In addition to being better armed than in the past, Hema, Lendu, and Ngiti militia groups also appear to be better organized and trained and to function with a more structured military hierarchy.

The Hema - Lendu Conflict
The Hema are pastoralists and the Lendu agriculturalists, but historically there was a high degree of co-existence between the two groups and intermarriage was common. Belgian colonial rule accentuated ethnic divisions between the two communities, however, by trying to reorganize traditional chieftaincies into more homogeneous groups and by favoring the Hema over the Lendu. Even after independence in 1960, the Hema continued as the administrative, landowning, and business elite. When the territory of Kibali-Ituri? was created in 1962, for example, no Lendu obtained key positions in the administration. President Sese Sokoto Mobutu confirmed the Hema in management positions in the farming, mining, and local administrative sectors as part of his "Zairiaisation" policy. Hema and Lendu fought small battles over land and fishing rights on several occasions after independence, but in general customary arbitration, backed by the state, contained the incidents.80

At no point in the documented history of Ituri has the violence attained the levels seen since 1999. The broader war in Congo has undoubtedly sparked the greater violence of the current conflict.

This conflict began in June 1999 when a small number of Hema allegedly attempted to bribe local authorities into modifying land ownership registers in their favor in the area of Walendu Pitsu, part of the Djugu district of Ituri. They reportedly used the false papers to evict Lendu inhabitants from the land, or so some local Lendu believed. These Lendu decided to retaliate. In the absence of a strong local authority, the incident quickly turned into a confrontation between the two communities.

Ugandan interference aggravated the situation. Brig. Gen. James Kazini, then in charge of the Ugandan army in DRC, named Adele Lotsove Mugisa, a Hema, Provisional Governor of the districts of Ituri and Haut Uele81, formerly part of Orientale Province.82 Although the proposal to create such a unit had been backed by some politicians in the area, it was the decree of the Ugandan general that altered administrative boundaries, effectively creating a new "province." In his letter setting up the new post of governor, General Kazini gave full assurances of Ugandan support for the endeavor.83 This important decision, coinciding with the local land dispute, created the impression that the Ugandan army was siding with the Hema landholders.

By 2003 the original dispute had expanded in numbers of people and area touched by the violence. Groups like the Nande, Bira, and Alur previously not associated with either of the contenders have now been forced to choose sides.
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Stop the Genocide in Northern Uganda

2008-11-03T00:07:00+01:00

Stop the Genocide in Northern Uganda (STGINU) workshop, was held in London, Uk to educate the public about the genocide in northern Uganda. The Video will be posted soon!!!

Uganda a Conservative Tyranny

2008-07-12T16:15:00+02:00

Multiparty politics in Uganda will continue to be a bad smell because the tyrant has rendered the power of the ballot ineffective, while his Personal Doctor Kizza Besigye has found it easier to construct a new party, the party of the people's anger than to rise within the circles[NRM Criminal cartel] and head it. Fellow Ugandans, Why did it take long for Kizza Besigye to throw conscience to the devil, when a simple woman like Alice Lakwena could see the Devil in Museveni?

When Uganda was sleeping in Bed with Tyrant Museveni; Museveni's Political commissar Kizza Besigye, manufactured a negative campaign against Mama Alice Lakwena as some deluded christian fundamentalist with an intent to rule uganda by the Holly spirit. Still, Lakwena had a good judgement about Museveni than his personal Doctor and friend did.
Fellow Ugandans, would you want a person with a poor judgement, to be your next President? Think about it!!!!

Uganda, Yoweri Museveni the Genocidal

2008-05-08T19:35:00+02:00

The one-thing that amazes me, is the way Allah pays back Criminals. Okey, remember that Israel Unrepentant War Criminal, Ariel Sharon,where is the Criminal now? I bet he does poop on himself and sleeps in it!

Now coming back to Africa's worst war criminal, Genocidal Yoweri Museveni, still thinks that he got away with genocide. You kidding me? It will be a crime if We ever give up-numbers are not a problem: I rather have one person fighting along-side me, than have a million cowards smiling and cheering me up!!

The removal of a genocidal tyrant like Yoweri Museveni is not merely justifiable but is the highest duty of every true Ugandan and African.
Its our right as Ugandans to cast-out genocidal museveni by force; to use legal and constitutional methods to achieve this goal will be another way of legalising him like what we have done with his corruption, safe-houses, thieving, lies, insults, arrogance,killings, discrimination, double-dealing etc.!

Uganda Face

2008-02-25T02:20:00+01:00

Could anybody touch a sun's ray?Long ago..I was thinking about the day, a heart beating told me that I am in love...Untill i met him,I was playing but now he Drives me crazy and I can't do anything...I am a cowardly,you think...Are the ilussions those which made me be like this...?

Just few seconds..and I've found the true..An unbearable true,that one which rememberedMe that all must change,it should be different...All my fears won't let me be happy...but

Born and raised in Kabale, Don't you love the freshness of kabale..I can forget that I suffered many times, Cause I have wanted something unfeasable;Anything that could come true...Nobobdy told me that all was such a dream..and my hope

Grew,grew strong,untillIt started to do me a bad turn and I became a transient...my happiness became that Ray I could not touch..and now...Like u..I am afraid...

Learn to talk to a Ugandan girl

2008-02-20T21:20:00+01:00

Shyness can be a very annoying disability to most people. Shyness can mean missing out on good and beautiful things. Alchoholics and drug users are a classical example of being shy and needing a fix to overcome that disability. Most women are very shy and have to use make-up to camourflage their shyness. Many people miss-out on great love because they're shy and can't make that first move. Traditionally, Ugandan men had to fight for them or show off agreat talent like hunting the best Beast!

Make sure you are alone or at least not as likely to be disturbed.

Don't let the conversation die down!Do not ever, ever, insult her in any way. Also, do not ever ask her why she is so quiet/shy. There is no answer to that question, and the shy girl will feel uncomfortable.

Get up the courage to go and ask for her name if you don't already know it. If you do then either pretend you don't, or say something on the lines of 'you must be....'

Keep the conversation going. Ask various things like: 'you must be new here', 'do you know many people here?', 'would you like to go for a drink at dinner, as my plans have got cancelled etc.

Don't ask too much questions, but tell her other things too, like say some things about yourself and most likely she will either reply to the things you said or make a comment about it. She might even say something about herself.

Don't act too nervous or the conversation will seem very awkward.
Act natural. When you're acting natural, it will be easier to keep the conversation flowing, and maybe you will even say something funny.

Things You'll Need: Courage, a few topics to talk about, possibly money,funny public figures and maybe some of your music collection

Uganda

2007-09-27T21:09:05+02:00

Tyrant Yoweri Museveni the Darling of Western imperialism, has been asked to celebrate Colonialism[CHOGM] in Uganda as a gesture for his genocidal activities around the continent of Africa[5million dead in Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Sudan]. Children denied the right to be immunised because of greed, etc.Yes, in the New world of Genocidals, the people don't matter anymore but corporations and War Crime dividends is the norm. Today, you might have the might to manipulate the world with mis-information but you'll never have the capacity to wipe our pain!May The Souls of those Children, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Brothers, Fathers, etc. that have been Murdered in cold blood in the name of Profit, Rest in Peace!!Tyrant Museveni can just let you die a slow death in one of the infamous "safe houses" [Political prisoners under museveni die a very slow and painful death because he does not believe in the Judicial system]