Northern Uganda Messenger Post

Of the Anglo-American racist, imperialist Bully being Socked in the face at the UN and hauling that Afrikan dictator who raised frankenstein of northern Uganda to the dock. Sometimes, when things seem so daunting, and your spirits are in the doldrums, and you are ready to resign yourself to the notion of fate and impossibilities; suddenly, the gods smile on you and you wake up with elation to a dream-come-true reversal of fortunes in your favour. We woke up at NUMP this morning, to two exhilarating pieces of news. The improbable kinds that cheers up the underdog; the downtrodden; the doormat of international justice; the kind of news that gives the scrawny little boy on the school playground a startling sigh of relief. The news that the strapping, fat, ugly, greedy brute ; the schoolyard bully that preys on other kids and their lunches by throwing his weight around, was socked in the face and floored by some courageous new kid who suffers no fool! Our ecstatic ululations at NUMP, is ...

I have not stopped agonising over International Criminal Court (ICC) partial action in northern Uganda by indicting only the Lord's Resistance Movement / Army (LRM/A) elements, and not also Yoweri Museveni and commanders of his National Resistance Movement / Army AKA UPDF for war crimes and crimes against humanity. And to add insult to injury, of the five indictments besides Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti, the other three are former abducted children who rose through the ranks in the LRM/ A. In any case, at the time of their indictements in 2005, they were not the most senior officers of the insurgents. More senior members of the insurgent group, Brig. Kolo and Brig. Banya, had surrendered to the government barely a year and had since been treated with kid gloves both by the ICC and the Uganda government. The puzzle I have not been able to solve is: why charge Raska Lukwiya, Dominic Ongwen and Charles Odhiambo, but let go scot free, Banya and Kolo, who abducted, trained and deploye...