I Will Not Surrender, Lord's Resistance Army Deputy Commander Says Otti

The Monitor (Kampala)
NEWS
November 14, 2003
Posted to the web November 14, 2003

By Walakira Geofrey
Kampala
The rebel Lord's Resistance Army deputy commander has said he will not
surrender.
Press reports yesterday quoted the Internal Security Organisation director
general, Col. Elly Kayanja, saying that Mr Vincent Otti wants to surrender.
Otti told The Monitor by phone yesterday that he would not return from the bush
until his mission to redeem Uganda is accomplished.
"Imagine! How can I surrender to UPDF yet I have the duty to redeem Ugandans?"
Otti said.
He said he went to the bush to fight corruption, nepotism and the
marginalisation of people in the north.
Army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza said that the UPDF would kill Otti if he
did not surrender.
Asked why the LRA is killing people it wants to redeem, Otti said they only
kill people who inform the army about their movements.
He also alleged that some of the people are killed by the UPDF. Otti said that
Charles Tabuley is still alive.
The army recently declared Tabuley, a very senior LRA commander, dead. Otti
said that Tabuley was shot in the leg and arm but he is still alive.
"Tabuley is alive and he is about to return on his duties. Let no one deceive
you that he died," he said.
But Bantariza insisted that Tabuley is dead. "Not only is he dead, but [his
body] was burnt," he said.

   

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