{UAH} PLEASE, LET'S NOT EASILY FORGET KASESE MASSACRES

PLEASE, LET'S NOT EASILY FORGET KASESE MASSACRES

There is a legal and moral difference between war crimes and crimes against humanity. All sides in war commit crimes, because human beings are human beings, and the stresses of war sometimes break even otherwise decent human beings. Crimes against humanity, on the other hand, are the result of the deliberate and systematic actions of a state with a chain of command. As far as I know, there was only one side in the recent Kasese clashes committing crimes against humanity and it is not King Charles Mumbere and his royal guards.The Museveni regime,being helped by security organs, are engaging, pretextually, in a war against "terrorism" or "sectarianism" that they claimed would arise if Mumbere and a few 'others' are left untouched. After the massacre at Kasese by Brigadier Peter Elwelu, I now view the regime as one of the wickedest and vilest on this planet. I never critically followed the LRA war partly because I still had some hope in Mr.Museveni doing the right things.

Some people are saying that Mumbere and his guards are to blame, and I understand and value the need to grieve for every victim, and to hold to account every criminal. But there is also an issue of proportionality, and by most reliable accounts, Mr.Elwelu and his team were overwhelmingly and by far the bigger perpetrator of mass-murder in Kasese.Without a sense of proportional responsibility, there is no justice. If you consider the proportions, it makes little sense to speak of "sides" in this conflict.

The fact is that no one is free when others are oppressed. If we just keep preaching to the people and not mumble a word we are living in fear. And fear is not the natural state of a civilized man. That's why I'm still surprised that the Mengo administration and other kingdoms have not come out with a united voice against this particular act.People died, and people are dying and there's nothing more tragic or cruel or heartbreaking. But people need to know the truth as well. And if we know it we must share it.

I honestly don't know in the grand scheme of things, how many people exactly were killed in Kasese(police say 62 people), and how many have been killed after Mumbere was arrested. I doubt that we will know for sure, and the more I read the news from different sides, the harder it seems to verify.But a lot of what I am seeing from my NRM friends, at least on social media, which I don't confuse with real life, is highly sectarian perspective, which is sad, and looking at demonization and a level of bigotry coming from people who should know better.May God help us banish such limitations from each one of our own hearts.The heart of the matter is the sanctity of human life, not political affiliation.

"In tribute to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Uganda, two bastions of strength in a world filled with strife, discrimination and terrorism."

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