{UAH} Time to intervene in Burundi

Robukui

 

The very danger in this reasoning is thinking that the problem of Burundi is Nkuruzizza. And when I make that statement many Uganda degree holders think that I am a supporter of Nkuruzizza, but when UPC came back to Uganda after Amin they changed Uganda government like dirty shirts, from a president to a military commission, to a presidential commission, they split up and created an election they defined as democratic, they split up and formed the Museveni government. All this is UPC running Uganda politics to today by throwing in so many leader changes.  Binayisa Tito Okello, Obote two, the presidential commission, now The Museveni government. And yet UPC members remain the single largest political party in exile. How do you justify the changes they made? And that is the silliness of personalizing African's problem, it is Nkuruzizza really? It is his political party, really? Even if you create a magic today and Nkuruziza and his party all leave power, Burundi is screwed. 

 

You do not believe me? Then Acholi would have been the safest people in Uganda for they were wiped entirely from power. Yet they are not, and today they are falling sides to come back to The Movement an organization they fought so hard and died so many for it camped them. When I was on my in-bound flight, I saw a report that 400 Langis joined Museveni's Movement, well how do you praise John Ogole for he fought Museveni a monster in Luwero and you are joining that very monster? How do you praise Obote for fighting Museveni in Luwero yet you turn around and join him? So Ogole and Obote were very good Langi to fight Museveni in Luwero? Well  why didn't these Langi's stand up and oppose Obote and Ogole for Museveni was a darling?

 

And that is the problem in Africa, sheer stupidity.

 

EM

On the 49^th Parallel          

                 Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"

 

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Robukui . <robukui.1@gmail.com> wrote:

Time to intervene in Burundi

The ruling party has been declared theWINNER of the parliamentary elections in Burundi. The polls were a farce which has heightened the risk of civil war ahead of the presidential poll, writes Andrea Schmidt.

The results of the parliamentary elections in Burundi will have surprised no one. The poll was neither free nor fair; there was neither an independent electoral commission, nor were there any independent election monitors. Politicians critical of theGOVERNMENT left the country over the last few weeks - along with members of the electoral commission, judges from the constitutional court and journalists. Independent media were muzzled, their offices and equipment wrecked. Burundians only had access to state media.

The small EastAFRICAN COUNTRY has been plunged into unrest and its citizens exposed to intimidation since President Pierre Nkurunziza announced in April that he would run for a third term. With the parliamentary elections now over, Nkurunziza hasACHIEVED his objective. He can now push through sweeping amendments to the constitution.

A summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, of East African Community (EAC) nations - to which Burundi belongs - achieved nothing. Nkurunziza stayed at home in Bujumbura with official sources claiming he preferred to concentrate on campaigning. A more likely explanation is that he was worried that there might be another coup attempt in his absence. There was an unsuccessful bid to oust him while he was attending an earlier EAC summit in May.

CHOICEof Museveni ill-advised

Nkurunziza wasn't the only head of state who failed to put in an appearance. The presidents of Rwanda and Kenya were represented by their foreign ministers, which shows their lack of interest in a peaceful solution to the Burundian conflict. This would have been a timelyOPPORTUNITY for them to reaffirm their commitment to the spread of democracy in East Africa. Instead the summit appointed none other than Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni as mediator in Burundi. There is hardly anyone less suited to the task. Museveni arranged for the Ugandan constitution to be amended, lifting restrictions on the number of terms a sitting president can serve. He evidently intends to remain Ugandan president for the rest of his life.

Andrea Schmidt is the head of DW's Kiswahili service

But Nkurunziza is impervious to criticism. He intends to cling to power even at the risk of pitching the country into civil war. As well as generatingGREAT misery at home, this could also cause destabilization in neighboring countries, in Rwanda in particular. The last civil war in Burundi lasted 13 years. More than 300,000 people were killed.

Time for action

NoGOVERNMENT anywhere in the world should recognize the results of these elections in Burundi. A clear political signal needs to be sent to Bujumbura. The government must put a stop to the widespread human rights abuses and intimidation of the population immediately. It should no longer ignore calls within the country for more democracy. Any further escalation of the violence must be prevented.

More than 140,000PEOPLE have fled Burundi for neighboring countries. In Burundi itself, more than 1,000 people have been detained, some 500 have been injured and more than 70 killed in the recent unrest.

The plotters of the abortive May coup are threatening to oust Nkurunziza by force. He alleges that political opponents who fled to Rwanda arePLANNING an armed uprising.

Unfortunately, calls for the polls to be delayed from the African Union and the European Union and a rare unanimous appeal from the United Nations were to no avail. The demand from the EAC summit for a postponement to the July 15 presidential election will be equally devoid of any impact. Besides, what purpose would it serve? President Nkurunziza'sBID for a third term is both immoral and unconstitutional.

The international community cannot afford to stand idly by. In 2005 the United Nations adopted the concept of the "responsibility to protect" as a response to the tragedy of the Rwandan genocide. It obliges states to protect theirCITIZENS from severe rights abuses, genocide and ethnic cleansing. If a state does not meet this responsibility, then the international community can assume it in its place and intervene militarily. This should happen in Burundi before a catastrophic civil war is unleashed.

Andrea Schmidt heads DW's Kiswahili service

 

Viele GruBe

Robukui

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