{UAH} A Brilliant Genocide: An Opinion
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A Brilliant Genocide Film Documentary was screened yesterday evening at at Piccadilly Circus, London. The event was sold out, and I met a few of the UAH members, including Joseph Ochieno, Milton Alimadi, John Latigo and plenty of others.
Otunnu made a very powerful address, on the Genocide that happened in northern Uganda, specifically aimed at wiping out the Acholi as a people. Otunnu contended it was the deliberate intention and policy of Rwandan outlaw Kayibanda Museveni and the NRA gangster movement to wipe out an entire people, only the first time it had been attempted since the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. He distinguished the NRA progroms from others before it, in that genocides like in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Iraq etc tended to be sudden, concentrated bursts of violence that lasted a short duration of probably 2-3 years, whereas the one in Acholi was drawn out over 20 years, and was systematic, carefully planned, assiduously orchestrated following a pre-determined pattern aimed at delivering a Final Solution; ie the total elimination of the Acholi people;
1. First Kill the Acholi people.
2. Take away their Land
3. Destroy their culture and identity as a people and Make Them Slaves.
Otunnu said Kayibanda has in fact almost succeeded in his mission of wiping out the Acholi people. He contended the Acholi of old is almost dead- her rich cultural heritage reduced to ashes, her people deliberately marginalised and removed from all positions of power and authority; and her land is now being systematically grabbed by Kayibanda and given away to foreigners. 20 years of brutal encampment have almost destroyed the Acholi traditional systems of governance and completely corrupted the culture that had kept the society together for centuries.
Otunnu painted a very bleak picture of what would amount to one of the greatest crimes ever committed in the history of humanity and human civilisation, and that this crime took place in the full glare of the world without anybody doing anything to stop it. Kayibanda was given free reign to implement one of the worst episodes of barbarity ever inflicted on human beings anywhere in the world.
Dr Adam Branch, who is probably the only western academic to document the suffering of the Acholi people, and the holocaust they went through also gave testimony. Other panellists included Dr Vincent Magombe.
The Documentary itself is a very powerful rendition of the darkness of man's heart, how a very cruel and sadistic maniac, obsessed with power, was allowed to run amok among a totally defenceless people and set about murdering them just for fun. The Documentary also makes it very clear that Kayibanda Museveni's genocide was actively aided and abetted by US and western imperialism, especially as through-out the period of genocide, including in the darkest excesses of the tragedy when over 1,000 people were dying per day, the USA officials, including George Bush, continued to laud and fet the brutal monster Kayibanda and hailed him as a moderniser and hero of African renaissance. Kayibanda is reputed to have received almost $120 billion in so-called aid and development assistance, money which he used to perfect his genocide. The Documentary draws the sickening picture of George Bush congratulating Kayibanda Museveni for making a "great" contribution to humanity in his "fight" against HIV/AIDS, when in reality, Kayibanda's mercenary army the NRA was engaged in a cruel practice of using HIV/AIDS as a weapon of war, raping both men and women in their thousands and deliberately spreading HIV/AIDS in order to wipe out the Acholi population or sow terror in their hearts so as to reinforce their impotence and subservience and make them easy fodder for enslavement.
There was not much chance for debate, because of time limitation. My only criticism is that being a mainly victim narrative, the political explanation for Kayibanda Museveni's grosteque violence and savagery remains largely unexplained. Secondly, the suffering of the Acholi people is made to be unique to the Acholi people, whereas kayibanda Museveni's barbarity and Rwandan occupation of our country has inflicted harm and suffering all across Uganda, and Eastern Uganda in particular Teso. Lastly the documentary as well as some participants tended to portray the Acholi people as totally isolated from the rest of Uganda at the time they faced the darkest hour in their long history. This is not true because very many Ugandans have raised their voices at various levels in condemnation of Kayibanda Museveni's open attempt to wipe out an entire people. This point is important to note because the Acholi people will have to rise up from the ashes, and they can not do this without the rest of Uganda rising together with them.
The Documentary is a valuable contribution to the unmasking of the brutality of Rwandan outlaw Kayibanda Museveni, and is one of the many attempts Ugandans will use to bring world attention to their suffering. The world can not surely turn a blind eye anymore to the suffering of Ugandans. The Documentary is also a rminder that we will bring Kayibanda Museveni and his henchmen to justice, no matter how long it will take. He will be be punished and should have no illusions about our determination.
-- Otunnu made a very powerful address, on the Genocide that happened in northern Uganda, specifically aimed at wiping out the Acholi as a people. Otunnu contended it was the deliberate intention and policy of Rwandan outlaw Kayibanda Museveni and the NRA gangster movement to wipe out an entire people, only the first time it had been attempted since the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. He distinguished the NRA progroms from others before it, in that genocides like in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Iraq etc tended to be sudden, concentrated bursts of violence that lasted a short duration of probably 2-3 years, whereas the one in Acholi was drawn out over 20 years, and was systematic, carefully planned, assiduously orchestrated following a pre-determined pattern aimed at delivering a Final Solution; ie the total elimination of the Acholi people;
1. First Kill the Acholi people.
2. Take away their Land
3. Destroy their culture and identity as a people and Make Them Slaves.
Otunnu said Kayibanda has in fact almost succeeded in his mission of wiping out the Acholi people. He contended the Acholi of old is almost dead- her rich cultural heritage reduced to ashes, her people deliberately marginalised and removed from all positions of power and authority; and her land is now being systematically grabbed by Kayibanda and given away to foreigners. 20 years of brutal encampment have almost destroyed the Acholi traditional systems of governance and completely corrupted the culture that had kept the society together for centuries.
Otunnu painted a very bleak picture of what would amount to one of the greatest crimes ever committed in the history of humanity and human civilisation, and that this crime took place in the full glare of the world without anybody doing anything to stop it. Kayibanda was given free reign to implement one of the worst episodes of barbarity ever inflicted on human beings anywhere in the world.
Dr Adam Branch, who is probably the only western academic to document the suffering of the Acholi people, and the holocaust they went through also gave testimony. Other panellists included Dr Vincent Magombe.
The Documentary itself is a very powerful rendition of the darkness of man's heart, how a very cruel and sadistic maniac, obsessed with power, was allowed to run amok among a totally defenceless people and set about murdering them just for fun. The Documentary also makes it very clear that Kayibanda Museveni's genocide was actively aided and abetted by US and western imperialism, especially as through-out the period of genocide, including in the darkest excesses of the tragedy when over 1,000 people were dying per day, the USA officials, including George Bush, continued to laud and fet the brutal monster Kayibanda and hailed him as a moderniser and hero of African renaissance. Kayibanda is reputed to have received almost $120 billion in so-called aid and development assistance, money which he used to perfect his genocide. The Documentary draws the sickening picture of George Bush congratulating Kayibanda Museveni for making a "great" contribution to humanity in his "fight" against HIV/AIDS, when in reality, Kayibanda's mercenary army the NRA was engaged in a cruel practice of using HIV/AIDS as a weapon of war, raping both men and women in their thousands and deliberately spreading HIV/AIDS in order to wipe out the Acholi population or sow terror in their hearts so as to reinforce their impotence and subservience and make them easy fodder for enslavement.
There was not much chance for debate, because of time limitation. My only criticism is that being a mainly victim narrative, the political explanation for Kayibanda Museveni's grosteque violence and savagery remains largely unexplained. Secondly, the suffering of the Acholi people is made to be unique to the Acholi people, whereas kayibanda Museveni's barbarity and Rwandan occupation of our country has inflicted harm and suffering all across Uganda, and Eastern Uganda in particular Teso. Lastly the documentary as well as some participants tended to portray the Acholi people as totally isolated from the rest of Uganda at the time they faced the darkest hour in their long history. This is not true because very many Ugandans have raised their voices at various levels in condemnation of Kayibanda Museveni's open attempt to wipe out an entire people. This point is important to note because the Acholi people will have to rise up from the ashes, and they can not do this without the rest of Uganda rising together with them.
The Documentary is a valuable contribution to the unmasking of the brutality of Rwandan outlaw Kayibanda Museveni, and is one of the many attempts Ugandans will use to bring world attention to their suffering. The world can not surely turn a blind eye anymore to the suffering of Ugandans. The Documentary is also a rminder that we will bring Kayibanda Museveni and his henchmen to justice, no matter how long it will take. He will be be punished and should have no illusions about our determination.
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