{UAH} Uganda's Museveni slams UN for failing to take on rebels- has the dictator captured Kony?

Uganda's Museveni slams UN for failing to take on rebels

 

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni alleged the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo had failed to quell the Ugandan Islamist group the Allied Democratic Forces (AFP Photo/Abdulfitah Hashi Nor)

Kampala (AFP) - Uganda's president on Friday accused United Nations peacekeepers of failing to disarm rebels in the east of neighbouring Congo and said his army should be allowed to hunt them down instead.

In an Eid message, President Yoweri Museveni alleged the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) allowed Ugandan Islamist group the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) to operate.

"ADF was defeated in Uganda but they are still in DR Congo with the United Nations. You know, the UN sometimes engages in insecurity conservation. They conserve insecurity. They co-exist with ADF," Museveni said.

Museveni said Kinshasa and the UN had denied repeated requests that Uganda be allowed to enter Congo to fight the ADF in its eastern bases.

"When we say, 'Let's come and help you,' they say, 'We shall do it.' I don't want to quarrel with DR Congo or the UN but if (ADF) enter Uganda, we shall kill them. It's not good to talk about killing during Ramadan. But that's what will happen," Museveni said.

Uganda sent troops into DR Congo during a regional war between 1998-2003.

In 2005 the UN's International Court of Justice ruled that Ugandan troops had looted the country's resources, killed and tortured civilians, deployed child soldiers and razed entire villages, and ordered Uganda to pay DR Congo up to $10 billion (9 billion euros) in reparations.

Uganda has denied the charges and so far has refused to pay any reparations.

In his Eid message Museveni said the ADF, whose leader Jamil Mukulu was extradited to Uganda from Tanzania last week, was behind recent killings of prominent Muslim leaders.

He also sought to reassure Ugandan Muslims saying, "You shouldn't be frightened because surely we shall defeat these people."

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  mugambwa 5 hours ago

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  UN,DRC & people out side there, plz dont listen to him. Dont take him serious, many people here in Uganda are living in absolute poverty. look at teachers in government schools earning a monthly salary of $90 and is proud of spending more of the tax payers money in proxy wars. we have no drugs in hospitals, Jiggers, we lack almost everything. probably he wants to be seen as a pan africanist and yet he is not patriotic to his country

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  Kris X 9 hours ago

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  I'm suspicious of the UN, and many other actors in Africa. When ever one studies post colonial African history, you find that outside actors played a much bigger role in some of the most gruesome conflicts, brutal dictatorships and worst famines. Not to say that no one of African descent did anything wrong. Its just that you find out many of the most brutal people were getting their capital and weapons from somewhere or someone who was VERY well financed and had a great deal to gain or lose. Each time we think that outside interference is over, we learn later that some Western nation was heavily involved in some terrible thing 10 or 20 years after it all happened.

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  IRENE 18 hours ago

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  Millions of Ugandan in the eastern region are infected with jiggers but Mr. M7 wants to use the tax payers money to start a war outside of his country. Uganda herself has too many problem internally. Millions of people poor people live in wetlands. People in the city don't have enough water even though they are capable of paying their bills. Why don't you get rid of dust and pollution covering almost every part of the city before you think about fighting wars. You have a big problem of corruption in every government office starting from your police. I would think let the UN fight the war and concentrate on stabilizing the country.

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  ISA 18 hours ago

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  Before talking about the UN, he needs to respond to the GENOCIDE that him and the one in Rwanda are committing in DR Congo as well as their cousin placed at the head of that country by the corporates for the looting of that country's resources mainly minerals and the extermination of it's people so they can occupied the lands mostly from East Congo. Over 12 millions people killed and over 4 millions women raped, this has been going on for 15 years now and the world continue to keep quite because of cellphones, laptops, drones, cars etc. when the people from that country are living in dire poverty. 
  
  The 3 rebels need to respond to their crimes first before criticizing others. They are the ones that are causing problems in that part of Africa, him, the Rwandan and their cousin in DR Congo and their allies dictators like them who think that Africa has to go back to royalty. Charles Taylor, Laurent Bagbo and others are at CPI, why not them! It's good to respect people will that's called DEMOCRACY because without people who are they going to govern!!!

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  Drumbeat 41 minutes ago

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  The UN isn't going to take on anyone or anything. If it votes for action of any kind, it's always Americans wearing blue helmets that go. Get rid of the UN.

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  M 1 hour ago

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  Want to go and commit more atrocities and theft? If they truly Uganda why seek UN and Congo permission to fight them?

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  . 6 hours ago

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  You can probably not find anyone in africa who can spell leadership, much less anyone who knows what it is.

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  John 5 hours ago

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  The UN lets mass murder occur routinely ... and beats up on Israel for enforcing a blockade against arms to attack its citizens. It is a corrupt body and we should pull the plug on it.

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  Ivan 5 hours ago

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  These dictators want the Western taxpayers to do their dirty work for them.

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  Marie 4 hours ago

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  Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is dumb and delusional. The United Nations peacekeepers are not armed to disarm the rebels. Also, the United Nations peacekeepers are not there to defend Yoweri Museveni. They just do their best to bring peace to both sides, Think about it, Yoweri Museveni.

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