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Uganda: Kony Was Defeated, Says Museveni
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The Monitor (Kampala)
2 May 2008
Posted to the web 1 May 2008
President Yoweri Museveni has clarified that his government will not beg Joseph Kony to come out of the bush. "If he wants to come, let him come. If not, it will be too bad for him," he said.
The President was addressing political leaders at Arua Public School on Monday during his 3-day tour of the West Nile Region to visit farmers and address political rallies to drum up the people to embrace the Prosperity for All (Bonna Bagaggawale) programme. Mr Museveni assured Ugandans that nobody can mess up the prevailing peace.
"Kony fled to Congo because he had been defeated", he said, adding that "recently 100 ADF rebels attacked Uganda but 80 of them were promptly eliminated and the survivors learnt that Uganda has changed."
He said "even the warriors of Karamoja have learnt that there is a government in Kampala. They have been court martialled and are surrendering their guns."
The President told his audience that the NRM wanted to transform Uganda into a modern state but had been diverted by the Sudanese government which sponsored LRA, to overthrow the young NRM government or intimidate its leaders.
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"They discovered that we were not the usual black Africans. If you create problems for us, we create more problems for you," Mr Museveni said.
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