Uganda: Otunnu Unleashes Dossier On Alleged Acholi Genocide

Kampala — The Uganda Peoples Congress presidential candidate, Mr Olara Otunnu, yesterday tabled 'evidence', indicating that President Museveni allegedly plotted genocide in northern Uganda to exterminate the Acholi community in order to take over their fertile land. But State House dismissed the November 14, 1986 dossier purportedly written by President Museveni to his brother, Gen. Caleb Akandwanaho alias Salim Saleh, detailing how the Acholi were to be killed.

Tabling the dossier to journalists in Kampala yesterday at an emergency press conference, Mr Otunnu said the Lord's Resistance Army insurgence that devastated northern Uganda was highly welcomed by the government as a disguise to accomplish its already planned mission.

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