{UAH} !!!

CONSOLIDATING AN ETHNO-XENOPHOBIC AND MILITARIST STATE, A GENOCIDAL AND DIVISIVE ADMINISTRATION BY MUSEVENI

Museveni's NRM/A has successfully divided the country along ethnic lines. Andrew M. Mwenda in his observation in The Monitor, May 6-12, 2006:

The war in the north has always been used to rally people in the south around the NRM and Mzee (Museveni) during election times by spreading imaginary fears that "northerners want to come back to power to kill us." This cynical and highly ethicized politics was effectively employed during the 1996 presidential election campaigns. Some FM radio stations ran adverts of soldiers with a northern accent torturing and killing people at roadblocks. Newspapers also carried adverts of skulls… But to keep the ethicized campaigns against the north, it is politically necessary to brand them (political competitors) agents of "those northerners" by linking them either to Obote or Kony. It is this process of demonizing people from the north…that is the basis of Mzee's regime (Mwenda, 2006).

REFERENCE:

Mwenda, A. M. (2006). Without Mincing Words. The Monitor, May 6-12.

Kakwenza Rukirabasaija

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