NRM, Museveni not part of the solution in northern Uganda
Okello Lucima. Recent Pa Raa retreat for “Ächoli leaders” had less to do with exploring problems facing Acholi, the wretched of IDP camps and charting realistic exit from the impasse. What transpired in Pa Raa, was a valiant but inconsequential attempt to salvage the collapse of the movement or NRM/A & O in Acholi, and bolster flagging fortunes of its political dummies in Kitgum, Pader and Gulu (See Pa Raa Declaration, Justice and Peace News, July 2005; Museveni meets Acholi leaders, New Vision 28 June 2005; Tracing the roots of the Acholi people’s suffering, Monitor 28 June 2005, and Moving towards total liberation of the north, New Vision 29 June 2005). If Pa Raa summit were a serious soul-searching and thinking moment for the obvious problems in Acholi, demanding creative, bold, immediate and realistic actions, the participants would have been hard-pressed to ignore the preponderant evidence to the fact and realisation that Yoweri Museveni, and plausibly, his government and the...