African Unification Front
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2001
Museveni
VIOLENT POLICY OF GEOPOLITICAL DESTABILIZATION
YOWERI MUSEVENI: OPPORTUNIST AND MILITARY HAWK
 Yoweri Kaguta
Museveni currently holds the title of President of Uganda. He also
holds other titles: Minister of Defence, Commander-in-Chief of the
Army, Chair of the High Command, Chair of the National Resistance
Movement (the only political group in Uganda to which every citizen
must automatically belong), as well as numerous other ranks and titles.
Museveni has been in charge of the state since January 1986 as a result
of the collapse of control of General Tito Okello.
Since 1986 Yoweri Museveni has pursued a geopolitical orientation
that deliberately destabilized Africa. He has been implicated in war
crimes, in economic crimes (looting the DRC of gold and diamonds), and
in human rights violations by the several independent international
commissions, as well as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
In 1993 the US Justice Department named Museveni as an Unindicted
Co-conspirator in an international arms smuggling ring that was
illegally procuring US TOW missiles. During the Yugoslav war, Museveni
used a Boeing 737 plane belonging to the state air carrier, Uganda
Airlines, for sanction busting by delivering illegal weapons to
Sarajevo and other parts of the war torn region.
Museveni has become the substantive source of instability in the
African Union, joining a select list predatory persons that includes
Muamar Ghadaffi, who bypass established legal mechanisms of due process
by arming invasions and "disappearing" political dissenters.
Since 1986 Ugandan troops have been constantly engaged in offensive military actions
that include invasions of neighbouring states and war crimes. Uganda
has been involved in aggressive military and political manipulation of
ALL of the states that share frontiers with Uganda.
The
policies of Museveni have precipitated the worst violence in Africa's
history and jeopardised the lives of several dozen millions of Africans
who face hunger, disease and violent deaths as a consequence.
A United States government report released in 2001, described
Uganda as one of the major illicit arms-trafficking centres for
eastern, central and western Africa. The report on African arms
transfers and trafficking was presented on 9 July, at the UN conference
in New York on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.
Museveni's Uganda is the central component of European and American
foreign policy in the region. The international community has persisted
in bypassing the structures set up by the Organization of African Unity
in addressing the problems of Africa and instead rely on Museveni to
determine how their interests are to be served. Powerful foreign
financial and military interests continue to rationalise Museveni's
dictatorship.
Yoweri Museveni's conduct towards the residents of Uganda has been
just as bad as his predatory geopolitical orientation. Key officials in
the UN have finally acknowledged the massive extent of the deliberate
extermination of North Uganda's people. According to a recent study
nearly 90% of the males aged above 35 years old, from the Acholi community
(largest ethnic group in North Uganda) have died or gone missing since
Museveni took power. The rate of injury due to military ballistics is
700% higher in North Uganda, and in the Rwenzori Region (bordering the
DRC) than in is in the rest of the State.
Uganda has experienced war for most of the period begining in 1978.
The worst affected region is northern Uganda, including the areas
surrounding Arua, Kitgum, Gulu and Moroto in the northeast.
As of November 2001, the 4th Division of the Uganda People's
Defense Force is headquartered in Gulu, and oversees several
Concentration and Internment Camps that largest of which has over
45,000 people. Over 1.5 million people live in dozens of internment
camps across Acholiland. For the last 17 years the mortality rate in
northern Uganda has remained as high as the Balkans (Kosovo) at its
worst. Since 1986 an estimated 20% of the population in northern Uganda
has been killed by small arms and landmines. The death rate is
considerably higher if only the Acholi Community is considered.
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