{UAH} Ocampo's Visit to Gulu-What is our stake in it?

Dear All,

 

The African Regional Ambassador of Invisible Children, Jolly Grace. O. Andruvile posted in her Facebook wall that former ICC Chief Prosecutor, Louis Moreno Ocampo, will be in Gulu this weekend to launch a campaign drive to raise funds for the girl child education in northern Uganda.

This is now a completely new campaign, diverting attention away from his initial role where he was bias in selective investigations into crimes committed in Northern Uganda, which led to indictment of one side of the conflict but left the other side to continue to commit atrocities unabated.

I urge active media fraternity in the north, through their organization, Northern Uganda Media Club (NUMEC), arrange for a press conference with Ocampo to enable some of us ask him some questions like: (visit: http://www.numec.ug/).

1. The fate of missing and un accounted for children who were abducted from here and are in rebel hands. Those who escape are referred to as formerly abducted, but those who get killed in combat are referred to as rebels who deserve to die and become part of the statistics of the UPDF of those rebels "put out of action".

2. Up to where, shall the ICC and its financiers continue to allow Museveni continue to peruse the indicted LRA commanders to neutralize (kill or capture) them, yet in the process of fulfilling that goal, it is the innocent abducted children who get killed instead of the culprits.

From an internal conflict, which began in Luwero in 1981, to South Sudan, to DRC Congo and now to Central African Republic, Uganda's problem has been exported outside its borders. Shall he also peruse Kony if  "we relocate" him to a country far away from our borders (hostile country) where he cannot easily reach, like Kagame is doing with his critics in South Africa?

3. The inclusive Juba Peace talks gave us hope that government and International community would reintegrate us back to our communities from IDPs, there would be reparations, compensations for war losses and victims and above all there would be National reconciliation process initiated through Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The reality on the ground is that the PRDP program is a failure and most people were better of in IDPs because, at least there was WFP program. 

4.If ICC cannot investigate crimes committed by the government before it was established, then Ocampo should refer us to another Court with such mandate because we also want accountability and avoid impunity. I strongly believe that it was not negligence but a deliberate policy of NRA/M to refuse to protect its citizens in northern Uganda with their properties from LRA attacks because that was its mandate.

Please let us debate these questions, improve and suggest more questions for Ocampo.

Muto

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