Kajabago Ka-Rusoke
5 July 2009
opinion
Kampala — There is a Ugandan called Joseph Kony who comes from northern Uganda. In his early twenties, he became a politician. Kony is opposed to the Government. His method of opposition is also opposed to peaceful means of changing government.
He is engaged in a war that has spanned for more than 20 years.
The Government under the leadership of NRM has conducted this type of politics against Lakwena, ADF, and now LRA of Kony. The Government won all these wars and remained with the LRA under Kony.
The Government weakened the LRA to an extent where the LRA could no longer afford to conduct its activities from the Uganda territory. The force is now in the territories of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and Southern Sudan.
Everybody who happens to possess a sound mind and a correct spiritual line sees the war between the Government and LRA as unfortunate.
A decision was taken by the Government to carry out mutual talks with the rebels to establish peace for the people of Uganda. Arrangements were made and talks as well as discussions took place in Juba. The leader of LRA did not attend. Up to now the LRA does not show how Uganda can be allowed peace and mutual friendship. Despite the LRA being a military and political organisation made up of purely Ugandans from the northern region, the Government continues to make sure that the area is socially attended to.
The people of Uganda would be in a position to sympathise with the LRA if they could illustrate a socio-economic programme as to how Uganda can be administered in order to promote it to make it a modern state. But such a programme does not exist. So what is Kony? And what is he fighting for?
Anybody looking at Kony will find him an erect biological volume, with physical features and structures like those of a human being, but armed.
When one examines his political behaviour, one finds that he is just an armed brute and monster.
The monstrous activities he has carried out against human beings in his area of birth and elsewhere, shows he has lost sense of direction. His actions and behaviour have already pushed him to a state of paranoia where he is suspicious and scared of anybody including his closest associates. He is now living in a world of mental wilderness.
However, despite Kony's state of mind, to others he is highly respected and honoured to the extent that he should still be met and talked to in order to end the war. A number of people sympathise with his organisation. Surprisingly, some of them have been to high institutions of learning.
For example in The New Vision of June 17, there appeared a person by the name of Opiyo-Oloya who wrote a special letter to the President stating that defeating the LRA by force has not worked and will not work. He suggested that talking to Joseph Kony again is a wiser option. Look at the following:
Kony, therefore, has no choice in terms of conditions under which he should come except, if he asks for forgiveness.
Conclusion
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The writer is a lecturer at the National Political Institute, Kyankwanzi
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