[UAH] Those who commit genocide in time and space won’t escape justice

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The world is catching up with individuals that ordered or committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in their respective countries decades after the atrocities ended. The generals in Argentina, Cambodia, Uruguay, Guatemala and Bangladesh are on trial or have been sentenced already.
1. Uruguay court has convicted an active soldier General Miguel Dalmao for human rights violations he committed in 1974 including causing the death of a communist professor. He got 28 years behind bars;
2. A Bangladesh Tribunal convicted and sentenced Mohammad Kamaruzzaman to death. He was found guilty of genocide and torture of unarmed civilians in 1971 war;
3. The ex-dictator of Guatemala General Efrain Rios Montt is in court charged with crimes of genocide against Mayan people.
Genocide and crimes against humanity can take place during the time of war and during the time of peace. The idea is to destroy in whole or in part a target group could be of politicians, class, race, tribe or religion. It could be through killing or through other means that ultimately eliminate the group or reduces it significantly through dispossession of land, cash and/or property, scatter individual members within the country or outside it or denial of basic human needs such as food and healthcare. Destroying ones culture and identity can also be considered part of crimes against humanity.
Ugandans and mercenaries that committed genocide and war crimes during the Luwero Triangle, Eastern and Northern Uganda and those that have committed genocide and crimes against humanity in time of peace (after the two wars ended) will face justice when the time comes.
Excessive sectarianism, rampant corruption including land dispossession and confiscating people's money like during the change of currency at the start of NRM regime, denying Ugandans food by exporting too much and leaving too little for domestic consumption leading to starvation of members of vulnerable groups and health facilities causing poor people to die needlessly may constitute genocide and crimes against humanity in time of peace. We urge Ugandans to be vigilant and expose those you believe have assisted or committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against Ugandans.
Leaders – parental or not – must understand the public responsibilities they take on and be accountable for commission or omission that lead to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Ugandans would be happy if Faruk Kirunda of Uganda State House could elaborate on his statement that "H. E. the President of Uganda, Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, is a parental and down-to-earth man who believes that gov't officials should regard themselves as servants and not to be taken up by their titles which they all leave when their terms expire".
If Museveni is a servant of the people of Uganda why has he refused people's demand that primary school children be provided with lunch while he allows mountains of food be exported to feed other children. Why does he donate millions of dollars to build schools in other countries while some Uganda children study under trees? Why does he spend billions or trillions of Uganda shillings on presidential advisers he never meets, on overblown ministers that sleep even in his presence when he is addressing the public? Why does he own one of the most if not the most expensive presidential jet in the world when Ugandans are dying of preventable diseases and children hospitals have turned into hospices for lack of funds? Why has he tolerate maternal mortality rate to go through the roof and why has he ignored expert advice that if drastic measures are not taken quickly, 80 percent of Uganda will turn into a desert within a hundred years, etc?
This commission and omission has led to suffering of vulnerable groups that one could call it a crime of against humanity and in extreme cases of genocide against the poor, sick, orphans, disabled and the old who cannot take care of themselves because they lack social protection in Uganda.
Eric

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