{UAH} OWINY KIBUL LAND MINE BOMBING_ SIMON PETER OKURUT
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Simon Peter Okurut,
Do you remember a conversation we had a few days ago, when I mentioned my first girl-friend on earth as an Itesot girl? I ended the conversation because it had descended so low and become abusive.
But you wondered what had happened to this Itesot girlfriend?
By twist of fate, today someone has asked the same question on the world-wide- web. I have come across this Facebook Search by a Ugandan journalist, Hudson Apunyo, who is looking for survivors of an NRA land-mine explosion, planted by the NRA on the trunk road between Lira and Karuma on 20th November 1981 that killed 14 people instantly and wounded many more.
Well, my Itesot girlfriend Catherine Amwato Ecweru was one of the victims of this act of unforgivable terror by the NRA. 20th November 1981 is one of the darkest days of my life. Most times since , I wish such a day never existed, and that my life ended before it on the 19th November 1981..
I had just graduated from Makerere University, and was attending the Law Development Centre. Like my brothers before me, I had met a very lovely Itesot girl, who was a sister to a Itesot Prisons Officer based at Lira Prisons where my eldest brother was the Commanding Officer. We were neighbours for about 4 years and I spent most of my university holidays with her.. Although we were very young, she was only 19 years, we decided to get married and were had arranged to go for the traditional wedding introductions in Amuria. But she decided to go to Kampala two days before the wedding to do last minute shopping, and to collect her sisters and other relatives who lived in Kampala. Rather than travel with the rest of her relatives from Kampala via the Mbale route to Soroti, she decided at the last minute to come back to Lira via Karuma bridge so that we could travel together. That was a very fatal error on her part, because the NRA had embarked on their murderous terrorist campaign and had began planting land-mines on that route. So many vehicles had been hit and many civilians killed and injured. The civilian bus Owiny-Kibul, she was travelling in on the day was fully packed with almost 100 passengers. It was hit by a powerful land mine planted bang in the middle of the road. It caused instant and utter devastation.
I was told at about 4 AM at night that my girlfriend had died, and that I could not even see her body because it was so badly damaged it was not wise to see it. It was only her body parts that were put together and handed over her father two days later.
Over time, her death, and the brutal manner in which she died and the numerous other tragedies I have suffered since then, have so badly affected me, to an extent that I have received bereavement counselling most of my adult life. The last I attended, which was actually very useful, was last year, at the Jokhang Buddhist Spiritual Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, last year where I spent one month going through an intensive course of trauma and spiritual theraphy..
Over the past 30 years, I have developed such a manic and pathological hatred of kayibanda Museveni and his NRA that sometimes drives me into insanity. The anger I have for Museveni is so deep and burns so firecely sometimes I don't feel I have any control anymore over my mental faculties. Sometimes I wake up at night and begin blaming myself why I have not yet killed Kayibanda Museveni. Most of the spiritual healing I have gone through has been to help me overcome grief and to put the great suffering I have gone through into perspective. In Lhasa, the monks kept telling me I am still a very lucky man, that if somehow I could find it in my heart to rationalise what happened to my girl-friend and later my life, then I would be able to make a great leap forward.
But Simon Peter Okurut, I can never forget what the NRA did, and I will never forgive kayibanda Museveni. However much I try, I simply can not. I wish I was a Christian and believed in God, but I am not. I can never forgive the man. He is the only person on this planet earth that I hate with a passion and would kill if I could or had the opportunity. I keep asking myself why a man should leave his home in Butare, in Rwanda and then come to my own home, in a foreign country, thousands of miles away from his own and then murder my girlfriend in an act of unspeakable barbarity. No Lango man, and No Itesot man ever went to Rwanda to kill any Tutsi person, so why did Kayibanda Museveni, a Rwandan citizen, do this to us?
I have no idea what this journalist is trying to do, but I have a feeling he is trying to gather the victims and survivors of the NRA together so as to launch a major legal case against Kayibanda Museveni and his murderous NRA. Most victims of the NRA have never come out openly. Most suffer in silence. Has anybody ever given any hearing to a poor Itesot farmer in Amuria, and explained to him why his daughter was murdered in such a sadistic manner by a Rwandan barbarian? I have not heard any Rwandan citizen apologise for these unspeakable crimes committed by their fellow kith and kin against innocent Uganda citizens.
I have not yet spoken to the journalist, and I have also not spoken to my girl-friend's family to find out if they want to participate in such a legal action. As you can see below, many victims have already started to come forward.
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Hudson Apunyo
Am asking for information about an incident which happened in 1981, where landmine planted by NRA hit Owinykibul Bus from Lira. Does anybody know about any survivor apart from the lady we see in Lira town? This lady is not so helpful with information
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Ochen-chagara Robert
mr. elel or icel obote, former director of ucc pakwach lost a wife. try to follow that link. 6 pipo died instantly.
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Benjamin Emor Kol Tum
I think you can find Mr Elel alias Obama a stone throw away from Aduku UCC.
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George Okello
Hudson, my girl-friend was one of the victims. A 19 old itesot girl, I had just finished University and we were to get married that week. Then disaster struck. I never really followed what happened to the other victims. I may look for them when I return home- but I just can't even remember anyone as everything is a blur.
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Agnes Akello Ebong
My mum's a survivor.
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Catherine Kikonde
I had a brother who was one of the victims he was the in one shipping company call me on what's up
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Do you remember a conversation we had a few days ago, when I mentioned my first girl-friend on earth as an Itesot girl? I ended the conversation because it had descended so low and become abusive.
But you wondered what had happened to this Itesot girlfriend?
By twist of fate, today someone has asked the same question on the world-wide- web. I have come across this Facebook Search by a Ugandan journalist, Hudson Apunyo, who is looking for survivors of an NRA land-mine explosion, planted by the NRA on the trunk road between Lira and Karuma on 20th November 1981 that killed 14 people instantly and wounded many more.
Well, my Itesot girlfriend Catherine Amwato Ecweru was one of the victims of this act of unforgivable terror by the NRA. 20th November 1981 is one of the darkest days of my life. Most times since , I wish such a day never existed, and that my life ended before it on the 19th November 1981..
I had just graduated from Makerere University, and was attending the Law Development Centre. Like my brothers before me, I had met a very lovely Itesot girl, who was a sister to a Itesot Prisons Officer based at Lira Prisons where my eldest brother was the Commanding Officer. We were neighbours for about 4 years and I spent most of my university holidays with her.. Although we were very young, she was only 19 years, we decided to get married and were had arranged to go for the traditional wedding introductions in Amuria. But she decided to go to Kampala two days before the wedding to do last minute shopping, and to collect her sisters and other relatives who lived in Kampala. Rather than travel with the rest of her relatives from Kampala via the Mbale route to Soroti, she decided at the last minute to come back to Lira via Karuma bridge so that we could travel together. That was a very fatal error on her part, because the NRA had embarked on their murderous terrorist campaign and had began planting land-mines on that route. So many vehicles had been hit and many civilians killed and injured. The civilian bus Owiny-Kibul, she was travelling in on the day was fully packed with almost 100 passengers. It was hit by a powerful land mine planted bang in the middle of the road. It caused instant and utter devastation.
I was told at about 4 AM at night that my girlfriend had died, and that I could not even see her body because it was so badly damaged it was not wise to see it. It was only her body parts that were put together and handed over her father two days later.
Over time, her death, and the brutal manner in which she died and the numerous other tragedies I have suffered since then, have so badly affected me, to an extent that I have received bereavement counselling most of my adult life. The last I attended, which was actually very useful, was last year, at the Jokhang Buddhist Spiritual Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, last year where I spent one month going through an intensive course of trauma and spiritual theraphy..
Over the past 30 years, I have developed such a manic and pathological hatred of kayibanda Museveni and his NRA that sometimes drives me into insanity. The anger I have for Museveni is so deep and burns so firecely sometimes I don't feel I have any control anymore over my mental faculties. Sometimes I wake up at night and begin blaming myself why I have not yet killed Kayibanda Museveni. Most of the spiritual healing I have gone through has been to help me overcome grief and to put the great suffering I have gone through into perspective. In Lhasa, the monks kept telling me I am still a very lucky man, that if somehow I could find it in my heart to rationalise what happened to my girl-friend and later my life, then I would be able to make a great leap forward.
But Simon Peter Okurut, I can never forget what the NRA did, and I will never forgive kayibanda Museveni. However much I try, I simply can not. I wish I was a Christian and believed in God, but I am not. I can never forgive the man. He is the only person on this planet earth that I hate with a passion and would kill if I could or had the opportunity. I keep asking myself why a man should leave his home in Butare, in Rwanda and then come to my own home, in a foreign country, thousands of miles away from his own and then murder my girlfriend in an act of unspeakable barbarity. No Lango man, and No Itesot man ever went to Rwanda to kill any Tutsi person, so why did Kayibanda Museveni, a Rwandan citizen, do this to us?
I have no idea what this journalist is trying to do, but I have a feeling he is trying to gather the victims and survivors of the NRA together so as to launch a major legal case against Kayibanda Museveni and his murderous NRA. Most victims of the NRA have never come out openly. Most suffer in silence. Has anybody ever given any hearing to a poor Itesot farmer in Amuria, and explained to him why his daughter was murdered in such a sadistic manner by a Rwandan barbarian? I have not heard any Rwandan citizen apologise for these unspeakable crimes committed by their fellow kith and kin against innocent Uganda citizens.
I have not yet spoken to the journalist, and I have also not spoken to my girl-friend's family to find out if they want to participate in such a legal action. As you can see below, many victims have already started to come forward.
Hudson Apunyo
Am asking for information about an incident which happened in 1981, where landmine planted by NRA hit Owinykibul Bus from Lira. Does anybody know about any survivor apart from the lady we see in Lira town? This lady is not so helpful with information
6 hrs • Public
More
Like
Comment
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5 people like this.
Ochen-chagara Robert
mr. elel or icel obote, former director of ucc pakwach lost a wife. try to follow that link. 6 pipo died instantly.
Like • Reply • Report • 5 hours ago
Benjamin Emor Kol Tum
I think you can find Mr Elel alias Obama a stone throw away from Aduku UCC.
Like • Reply • Report • 4 hours ago
George Okello
Hudson, my girl-friend was one of the victims. A 19 old itesot girl, I had just finished University and we were to get married that week. Then disaster struck. I never really followed what happened to the other victims. I may look for them when I return home- but I just can't even remember anyone as everything is a blur.
Like • 1 • Reply • Edit • 4 hours ago
Agnes Akello Ebong
My mum's a survivor.
Like • Reply • Report • 1 hour ago
Catherine Kikonde
I had a brother who was one of the victims he was the in one shipping company call me on what's up
Like • Reply • Report • 1 hour ago
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