{UAH} HOW DID LUWERO SURRENDER TO NRA AND RUTABASHARIWA?
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WHAT WERE THE DECEPTIVE METHODS THAT THE NRA USED INORDER TO GAIN GROUND IN LUWERO?
After the NRA had targeted and dealt a blow on the Tanzanian army in Uganda, next they targeted the members, local leaders and youth wingers of the UPC party in Luwero. The NRA would kidnap, torture and gruesomely execute these captives. Those who survived capture fled to safe areas like Kampala city. Among the skulls always on display in Luwero Triangle, the remains of these UPC members are included. Museveni and his top military officials have often admitted to killing members of the UPC party.
Special squads of the NRA would dress up in UNLA uniform, attack, kill and loot villages. Shortly after another squad of the same NRA would emerge and pretend to be rescuing the victims by shooting in the air. Then the NRA would advise the unsuspecting villager to move to its hideouts for safety. Once in the hideouts, the males would be enlisted for military training. This gave rise to a number of male under 14 years commonly known as Kadogos enlisting into NRA. The NRA has always argued that these children were orphaned victims of government killings without explaining the whereabouts of the female orphans!
Within the NRA structure there was this dangerous wing called Clandestine. The Clandestine team was based outside Luwero Triange and mostly concentrated in Kampala. It was charged with among others sabotage to tarnish the image of goverment, intelligence gathering, managing safehouses for receiving and despatching fighters to and from the bush, trailing and locating targets that needed to be 'eliminated', receiving and redirecting fresh recruits to the bush, receiving the sick and injured from the bush, 'knocking off' errant members of NRA as was the case with Sam Magara and Sam Katabarwa. In one incident the Clandestine team invited Matayo Kyaligonza's Black Bomber (Urban Hit Squad) to shoot and kill a UNLA Senior Officer at a popular drinking joint at Kisementi. By mistaken identity a DP Member of Parliament (MP) from Tooro, Hon. Bamuturaki was shot dead by Matayo Kyaligonza as the MP excused himself in the urinals of the pub. Ofcourse, as was the then order of the day, the UPC government and the UNLA took the blame. Kyaligonza's Black Bomber caused alot of havoc in Kampala. Those security sweeps in Kampala (panda garis) would always be in response to the actions of the clandestine team and the Black Bomber. Whenever, goverment security agencies would close in on a member of the Clandestine team, he would flee to the bush. A number of them were either arrested, killed or detained. After coming to power, some members of the Clandestine team went into full time military service, others were appointed to public service positions while others were completely sidelined. Notable among the clandestine group was Sserwanga Lwanga, Innocent Bisangwa who hijacked the plane to Kasese in late 1985 and Andrew Lutaya the only civilian during the Kabamba attack. Nsaba Buturo the then District Commissiner of Kampala may have belonged to this team or was a mere NRA contact. The clandestine team still exists under the banner of President's office or State House Intelligence.
There was a Secondary School at Masulita in Luwero. The Headmaster, Jacob Asiimwe was an NRA contact. NRA fighters shared food, domitory and othe amenities with the students at the school. When the government found out, the Headmaster fled to the NRA hideouts together with some of the teenage students. Other students hailing from easily accessible areas were accorded passage by the UNLA. Many male teenagers stright away enlisted for military training. The vulnerable female teenagers mainly hailing from Tooro were turned into sex slaves by NRA commanders. Some fathered babies with these girls in the bush. Many of these innocent girls have died of AIDS. It was a similar situation to when Joseph Kony's LRA took hostage female teenage students of Aboke. A similar fate was suffered by the Katikamu SDA Secondary School where many of the male teenage students ended up being conscripted into the the NRA.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
Special squads of the NRA would dress up in UNLA uniform, attack, kill and loot villages. Shortly after another squad of the same NRA would emerge and pretend to be rescuing the victims by shooting in the air. Then the NRA would advise the unsuspecting villager to move to its hideouts for safety. Once in the hideouts, the males would be enlisted for military training. This gave rise to a number of male under 14 years commonly known as Kadogos enlisting into NRA. The NRA has always argued that these children were orphaned victims of government killings without explaining the whereabouts of the female orphans!
Within the NRA structure there was this dangerous wing called Clandestine. The Clandestine team was based outside Luwero Triange and mostly concentrated in Kampala. It was charged with among others sabotage to tarnish the image of goverment, intelligence gathering, managing safehouses for receiving and despatching fighters to and from the bush, trailing and locating targets that needed to be 'eliminated', receiving and redirecting fresh recruits to the bush, receiving the sick and injured from the bush, 'knocking off' errant members of NRA as was the case with Sam Magara and Sam Katabarwa. In one incident the Clandestine team invited Matayo Kyaligonza's Black Bomber (Urban Hit Squad) to shoot and kill a UNLA Senior Officer at a popular drinking joint at Kisementi. By mistaken identity a DP Member of Parliament (MP) from Tooro, Hon. Bamuturaki was shot dead by Matayo Kyaligonza as the MP excused himself in the urinals of the pub. Ofcourse, as was the then order of the day, the UPC government and the UNLA took the blame. Kyaligonza's Black Bomber caused alot of havoc in Kampala. Those security sweeps in Kampala (panda garis) would always be in response to the actions of the clandestine team and the Black Bomber. Whenever, goverment security agencies would close in on a member of the Clandestine team, he would flee to the bush. A number of them were either arrested, killed or detained. After coming to power, some members of the Clandestine team went into full time military service, others were appointed to public service positions while others were completely sidelined. Notable among the clandestine group was Sserwanga Lwanga, Innocent Bisangwa who hijacked the plane to Kasese in late 1985 and Andrew Lutaya the only civilian during the Kabamba attack. Nsaba Buturo the then District Commissiner of Kampala may have belonged to this team or was a mere NRA contact. The clandestine team still exists under the banner of President's office or State House Intelligence.
There was a Secondary School at Masulita in Luwero. The Headmaster, Jacob Asiimwe was an NRA contact. NRA fighters shared food, domitory and othe amenities with the students at the school. When the government found out, the Headmaster fled to the NRA hideouts together with some of the teenage students. Other students hailing from easily accessible areas were accorded passage by the UNLA. Many male teenagers stright away enlisted for military training. The vulnerable female teenagers mainly hailing from Tooro were turned into sex slaves by NRA commanders. Some fathered babies with these girls in the bush. Many of these innocent girls have died of AIDS. It was a similar situation to when Joseph Kony's LRA took hostage female teenage students of Aboke. A similar fate was suffered by the Katikamu SDA Secondary School where many of the male teenage students ended up being conscripted into the the NRA.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
Viele GruBe
Robukui
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