Op/Ed: Museveni Has Failed to End the War
Karoli Ssemogerere has written a powerful column on the Ugandan government's failure to protect its own civilians in the north and end the war - now Africa's longest running. He writes, "The year 2005 was supposed to be the glory year that ended all strife in the war torn north. Ahead of 2006, President Museveni announced that all IDP camps would soon be history."
He continues, "How much of Kony's terror and infamy is linked to absence of a sound civil defence strategy? Why else could an army that buys 500 vehicles annually falter at great human cost to apprehend a hopelessly outnumbered enemy fighting on foot?
History will also ask how an army that reached deep into the DRC in hot pursuit of the ADF, fail to wipe out LRA, or even detect the LRA's forays as far as Teso. No one knows if the children in the IDP camps care to hear about how many roads are paved or gullied, how fast the economy is growing when they face the omnipresent fear of being raped on their way home from a day's chores." Read more here.
He continues, "How much of Kony's terror and infamy is linked to absence of a sound civil defence strategy? Why else could an army that buys 500 vehicles annually falter at great human cost to apprehend a hopelessly outnumbered enemy fighting on foot?
History will also ask how an army that reached deep into the DRC in hot pursuit of the ADF, fail to wipe out LRA, or even detect the LRA's forays as far as Teso. No one knows if the children in the IDP camps care to hear about how many roads are paved or gullied, how fast the economy is growing when they face the omnipresent fear of being raped on their way home from a day's chores." Read more here.