The Monitor (Kampala)

Uganda: Caller Says LRA Rebel's Otti Still Alive

By Henry Ochieng, 20 August 2002

UPDF reports that the Lord's Resistance Army rebels' Brig. Vincent Otti is alive appear to be confirmed by a caller to The Monitor.

A caller who said he is Col. Sam Kolo, the LRA in-charge of politics, said yesterday that Brig. Otti is "alive and well".

Col. Kolo said Otti's injury is "[President Yoweri] Museveni's government propaganda to boost the morale of their soldiers."

"Otti is not with me right here but I will arrange for you to talk to him. He is alive and well. This government survives by deceiving people, you remember one time they told lies that our leader Joseph Kony was injured.

"I would like to inform [everyone] that the LRA is a peace-loving organisation. They are trying to deceive Ugandans and the international community that they are about to finish the war," Col. Kolo said.

The UPDF has cast doubt on recent press reports that Brig. Otti was killed in battle in Gulu.

Tagged: East Africa, Uganda

Copyright © 2002 The Monitor. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.

AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 130 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.

Comments Post a comment