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...Your report captured the essence of a continent's conundrum. Delight Deh is the embodiment of the African whose hopes and dreams are incessantly shuttered by the archetypal African Big Man, such as Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. My prayers go out for Delight. He is full of promise. Henry Mukasa, SHARON, MASSACHUSSETTS...
Your report captured the essence of a continent's conundrum. Delight Deh is the embodiment of the African whose hopes and dreams are incessantly shuttered by the archetypal African Big Man, such as Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. My prayers go out for Delight. He is full of promise...
Then, again, does a stubborn insistence that justice be served always serve the greater good? Consider Uganda. Most Ugandans, including President Yoweri Museveni, believe the biggest obstacle to peace after 20 years of war between the government and the Lord's Resistance Army is the international community's insistence on trying L.R.A. leader Joseph Kony for war crimes in the Hague - a threat that keeps him and his army holed up in the jungle. Think also of Gaza, or Kashmir or Iraq - all places where demanding retribution for historic injustices is one of the surest signs of fanaticism...
Months before Uganda's February election, President Yoweri Museveni's strongest opponent, Dr. Kizza Besigye, was arrested for treason and rape--charges he says were fabricated to stop his run. They were dismissed. Besigye won just 37% of the vote but took the matter to the courts. Judges found there were abuses, but not serious enough to affect the outcome...
...finally make good on its promises to resettle camp residents. The Acholi will do everything they can to make sure evil spirits don't follow. Northern Uganda has seen a lot of evil, at least since the (lra) began its infamous terror campaign - shortly after current President Yoweri Museveni took power in 1986 - cutting off the lips and noses of civilians to breed fear, and abducting tens of thousands of children and teens to populate the fighting forces. Today residents at Anaka, although predominantly Christian, are skeptical that the cause of their roof fires could be anything but tangu - supernatural...