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Hmmmm,
Ggwanga is being funny, isn't he!?!? Perhaps he is on the contrary, as the senior officer he is, the one who is more questionable!?
I tend to think that his commenting the commander is obnoxious and shows lack of judgement skills in as far as the UPDF has not pronounced any thing.
That there could be panic, is understandable as the Bakonzo King seems to demand what certain hardliner royals also disguise.
"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.
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Den sön 2016-12-04 skrev Gook <grakanga@gmail.com>:
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Datum: söndag 4 december 2016 22:43
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/UPDF---Kasese--killings--Ggwanga/688334-3473720-fjbgpiz/index.html
UPDF embarrassed us on Kasese killings - Ggwanga - Daily
Monitor
Kampala- A senior military officer has denounced the army
and police's attack on the Rwenzururu Kingdom palace as an
operational "blunder where soldiers went on a killing
spree and committed murder".
Brig Kasirye Ggwanga also warned that the officer who
commanded the deadly operation, Brig Peter Elwelu, will one
day be tried for the killings which he said have embarrassed
the army.
In an interview with Sunday Monitor on Friday, Brig Ggwanga,
the presidential advisor on security in Buganda region,
joined the chorus of voices, including politicians and human
rights groups, to condemn the armed forces' response to
the crisis.
He also called for the release of the Rwenzururu King,
Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere.
Sounding outraged by the civilian death toll, Brig Ggwanga
questioned Brig Elwelu's training and grasp of command and
control.
"He committed murder against unarmed civilians. What they
did was dehumanising! That man is in trouble, he cannot
escape this. He will be tried one day. The evidence is
simply overwhelming. He will be tried for this criminally
reckless conduct," he said.
Terrorists?
Speaking to NTV on the day the armed forces attacked the
palace, Brig Elwelu repeatedly referred to those gunned down
at the palace as "terrorists", and argued that King
Mumbere had dishonoured two ultimatums agreed with President
Museveni.
"We had to go for these terrorists, they were hiding in
the palace," Brig Elwelu told NTV.
By press time, he could not be reached to comment on Brig
Gwanga's remarks. But Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, the UPDF
spokesman, said: "The army will not comment on Brig
Ggwanga's comments. I shall speak to him to get his
context."
In the Friday interview, Brig Ggwanga described Brig
Elwelu's statements to journalists in the aftermath of the
killings as "wild, sweeping and idiotic." He argued that
as commander of the operation, Brig Elwelu's judgement
should have been better.
"Terrorists? We know who terrorists are so he should cut
the crap. He had a target, he had resources, the other
people didn't have those resources. How does a General
attack civilians carrying pangas and knives? Even if a few
of them had guns; they should have been identified and
targeted!" Brig Ggwanga said.
"That man should have just cordoned off that area and
denied them food and water; turned off power and water and
they would just come out. If the President's ultimatum was
breached by the king, he was the man on the ground, he was
commanding the operation. You cannot blindly take orders
from someone in Entebbe or Nakasero [State House], you have
to explain to the President and in that case I would have
given the king more time as my boys besiege the palace. You
just cannot bomb the palace and shoot everyone when you have
women, cooks, shamba boys and children there. It is
idiocy!"
Brig Ggwanga's view of how the operation should have
instead been conducted falls in line with that of Forum for
Democratic Change (FDC) party president and former army
commander, Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu. Gen Muntu this week
faulted the army for what his predecessor, Dr Kizza Besigye,
also called a "massacre" in Kasese.
Gen Muntu asserted that the army should have besieged the
area and used less force.
Up to 30 complaints of human rights violations have so far
been recorded by the Uganda Human Rights Commission, Mr
Katebalirwe Amooti, the acting commission chairman, said
during a Friday media briefing.
Brig Ggwanga's denunciation will amplify calls for an
international inquiry with a view to bringing to book any
security personnel responsible for the massacre and other
suspected crimes inside the palace, which was set ablaze.
Mr Museveni has been silent on the killings in Kasese, but
his Buganda region security advisor took issue with him on
Friday.
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Ggwanga is being funny, isn't he!?!? Perhaps he is on the contrary, as the senior officer he is, the one who is more questionable!?
I tend to think that his commenting the commander is obnoxious and shows lack of judgement skills in as far as the UPDF has not pronounced any thing.
That there could be panic, is understandable as the Bakonzo King seems to demand what certain hardliner royals also disguise.
"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.
--------------------------------------------
Den sön 2016-12-04 skrev Gook <grakanga@gmail.com>:
Ämne: {UAH} UPDF embarrassed us on Kasese killings - Ggwanga - Daily Monitor
Till: "Ugandans At Heart" <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>
Datum: söndag 4 december 2016 22:43
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/UPDF---Kasese--killings--Ggwanga/688334-3473720-fjbgpiz/index.html
UPDF embarrassed us on Kasese killings - Ggwanga - Daily
Monitor
Kampala- A senior military officer has denounced the army
and police's attack on the Rwenzururu Kingdom palace as an
operational "blunder where soldiers went on a killing
spree and committed murder".
Brig Kasirye Ggwanga also warned that the officer who
commanded the deadly operation, Brig Peter Elwelu, will one
day be tried for the killings which he said have embarrassed
the army.
In an interview with Sunday Monitor on Friday, Brig Ggwanga,
the presidential advisor on security in Buganda region,
joined the chorus of voices, including politicians and human
rights groups, to condemn the armed forces' response to
the crisis.
He also called for the release of the Rwenzururu King,
Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere.
Sounding outraged by the civilian death toll, Brig Ggwanga
questioned Brig Elwelu's training and grasp of command and
control.
"He committed murder against unarmed civilians. What they
did was dehumanising! That man is in trouble, he cannot
escape this. He will be tried one day. The evidence is
simply overwhelming. He will be tried for this criminally
reckless conduct," he said.
Terrorists?
Speaking to NTV on the day the armed forces attacked the
palace, Brig Elwelu repeatedly referred to those gunned down
at the palace as "terrorists", and argued that King
Mumbere had dishonoured two ultimatums agreed with President
Museveni.
"We had to go for these terrorists, they were hiding in
the palace," Brig Elwelu told NTV.
By press time, he could not be reached to comment on Brig
Gwanga's remarks. But Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, the UPDF
spokesman, said: "The army will not comment on Brig
Ggwanga's comments. I shall speak to him to get his
context."
In the Friday interview, Brig Ggwanga described Brig
Elwelu's statements to journalists in the aftermath of the
killings as "wild, sweeping and idiotic." He argued that
as commander of the operation, Brig Elwelu's judgement
should have been better.
"Terrorists? We know who terrorists are so he should cut
the crap. He had a target, he had resources, the other
people didn't have those resources. How does a General
attack civilians carrying pangas and knives? Even if a few
of them had guns; they should have been identified and
targeted!" Brig Ggwanga said.
"That man should have just cordoned off that area and
denied them food and water; turned off power and water and
they would just come out. If the President's ultimatum was
breached by the king, he was the man on the ground, he was
commanding the operation. You cannot blindly take orders
from someone in Entebbe or Nakasero [State House], you have
to explain to the President and in that case I would have
given the king more time as my boys besiege the palace. You
just cannot bomb the palace and shoot everyone when you have
women, cooks, shamba boys and children there. It is
idiocy!"
Brig Ggwanga's view of how the operation should have
instead been conducted falls in line with that of Forum for
Democratic Change (FDC) party president and former army
commander, Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu. Gen Muntu this week
faulted the army for what his predecessor, Dr Kizza Besigye,
also called a "massacre" in Kasese.
Gen Muntu asserted that the army should have besieged the
area and used less force.
Up to 30 complaints of human rights violations have so far
been recorded by the Uganda Human Rights Commission, Mr
Katebalirwe Amooti, the acting commission chairman, said
during a Friday media briefing.
Brig Ggwanga's denunciation will amplify calls for an
international inquiry with a view to bringing to book any
security personnel responsible for the massacre and other
suspected crimes inside the palace, which was set ablaze.
Mr Museveni has been silent on the killings in Kasese, but
his Buganda region security advisor took issue with him on
Friday.
Sent from Gook's iPatch!
"What you are we once were, what we are you
shall be!"
An inscription on the walls of a Roman catacomb.
--
Disclaimer:Everyone posting to this Forum bears the sole
responsibility for any legal consequences of his or her
postings, and hence statements and facts must be presented
responsibly. Your continued membership signifies that you
agree to this disclaimer and pledge to abide by our Rules
and Guidelines.To unsubscribe from this group, send email
to: ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
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