Imposing "development" from above: Robbing peasants to enrich Museveni's corporate friends
IMPOSING “DEVELOPMENT”FROM ABOVE: Robbing peasants to enrich Museveni’s corporate friends Putting politics ahead of Lives Relative peace in northern Uganda is forcing people and groups to re-envision their futures. Individual entrepreneurs, communities, government agencies, NGOs and public international organisations, are appraising their future roles and activities in a changing stance from emergency humanitarian provisioning to reconstruction and development in a post conflict society. For aid agencies, their plans for the future are contingent on disbandment of concentration camps and resettlement of people to their homes. Like the NGOs, Yoweri Museveni, the National Resistance Movement / Army (NRM/A), and their apparatchiks in Acholi, are repositioning themselves to remain politically relevant in the region. Instead of “iron-fisting”, it is now time for “iron-roofing”, and for peasants in Acholi who drink sugar, to be charitable and donate their land to big profiteering subsidiarie...