{UAH} Soldiers held us hostage for four days - Amama Mbabazi’s daughter

Folks:

The Monitor should exercise editorial discretion and correct the stories by the 'children of the revolutionaries'.  In history perioditization is extremely important so to see continuous errors in the series is problematic.

 For example, Rachel Mbabazi narrates " One day, we were home around March 1980 and I had just celebrated my sixth birthday.  Uncle Eriya Kategaya, who was living with us, had gone jogging. He came back but I remember for some reason, soldiers had invaded the home of a family across the road opposite us. My father was not there. He was an active participant in the "banditry" as President Obote used to call NRA rebellion in historical".

 

First of all, in March 1980, the president of Uganda was the late Mr. Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa and not the late Mr Obote.

Secondly, there was no NRA rebellion in 1980 because then YKM was I believe minister of Regional Cooperation in Lukongwa's cabinet.  Yet Ms Mbabazi creates the impression that her father was being persecuted by the UNLF regime in which YKM served in key posts. Wrong!

 I also doubt her claims that Kenyan soldiers guarded their home in Kilimani. May be GSU. 

 

The Monitor editorial should know that in history when you get the dates wrong, it is a very big deal.  So let the stories run but senior Monitor editors who lived through that traumatic period should use their knowledge to correct stories for their sake of their readers.

 Should kids who ere 6 or 7 years old be asked to tell stories about their traumatic experiences?   

 Okay, it is time to hear from children of ordinary folks too for balance. Enough about the elite.

 BTW who is now the Editor of the Monitor?

 WBK