'' I personally went to Luwero myself when
investigating the massacres that took place there and mapping the
atrocities and their perpetrators. All I had with me was a book, a
pencil, a camera and an interpreter. And I stayed and lived in those
villages for almost one month. The stories they told me are totally
different from yours namely:
1. When the NRA bandit activities started in 1980, the g
1. When the NRA bandit activities started in 1980, the g
overnment
army reacted with brute force and for a period of about 8 months, many
civilians were killed or arrested by the government forces.
2. The NRA bandit army then changed their military tactics and started to target known members or sympathisers of the UPC. Luwero used to be a multi-cultural region with many settled immigrants from neighbouring districts. The NRA began ruthlessly murdering these settled immigrants and forced all of them out of Luwero.
3. President Obote was then faced with a critical dilemma as to how to handle the crisis in Luwero where NRA bandits were attacking civilians relentlessly and the government security forces responded with brutal force, a combination of which caused enormous loss of life of ordinary civilians.
4. President Obote responded by withdrawing all UNLA soldiers from Luwero and replacing them with a special brigade led by Colonel Ogole. This was a much more disciplined force that took the fight to the NRA bandits and actuaally defeated them and Museveni himself was forced to flee back into exile in Sweden.
5. Obviously, the UPC government had its own internal political and ethnic difficulties and this came out to the surface when General David Oyite Ojok died in a helicopter crush. General Oyite Ojok was the only man who could hold the UNLA together and with his death, the army became rudderless just as the NRA got a new breath of life leading up to 1986 when coup leaders Bazilio and Tito Okello invited Museveni to Kampala and handed over power to him and to the NRA bandit army.
6. But the fact is President Obote tried the best he could to protect the civilians of Luwero. He had to take some harsh measures. He was not only president of Uganda, but president of the UPC as well. What did you expect him to do, when he was getting daily reports of members of his own party being systemmatically murdered by NRA bandits. Within the space of only 8 months, almost 75% of all UPC branch chairmen and secretaries in Luwero had been murdered by the NRA terrorists..
2. The NRA bandit army then changed their military tactics and started to target known members or sympathisers of the UPC. Luwero used to be a multi-cultural region with many settled immigrants from neighbouring districts. The NRA began ruthlessly murdering these settled immigrants and forced all of them out of Luwero.
3. President Obote was then faced with a critical dilemma as to how to handle the crisis in Luwero where NRA bandits were attacking civilians relentlessly and the government security forces responded with brutal force, a combination of which caused enormous loss of life of ordinary civilians.
4. President Obote responded by withdrawing all UNLA soldiers from Luwero and replacing them with a special brigade led by Colonel Ogole. This was a much more disciplined force that took the fight to the NRA bandits and actuaally defeated them and Museveni himself was forced to flee back into exile in Sweden.
5. Obviously, the UPC government had its own internal political and ethnic difficulties and this came out to the surface when General David Oyite Ojok died in a helicopter crush. General Oyite Ojok was the only man who could hold the UNLA together and with his death, the army became rudderless just as the NRA got a new breath of life leading up to 1986 when coup leaders Bazilio and Tito Okello invited Museveni to Kampala and handed over power to him and to the NRA bandit army.
6. But the fact is President Obote tried the best he could to protect the civilians of Luwero. He had to take some harsh measures. He was not only president of Uganda, but president of the UPC as well. What did you expect him to do, when he was getting daily reports of members of his own party being systemmatically murdered by NRA bandits. Within the space of only 8 months, almost 75% of all UPC branch chairmen and secretaries in Luwero had been murdered by the NRA terrorists..
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