{UAH} How U.S. Taxpayers Can Help Stop Massacres In Uganda
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So Ugandans like ocen Nekyon have spent years running UNAA an organization that has been selling Museveni to the senators, and today the very same Ugandans want to change the story and educate the very same senators how Museveni is a terrible leader. Is that the gist here? And it is so funny for UNAA conventions are a thing I rejected from get go. From the very time it was hijacked by the Muniini Muleras, and it became a battle between Ugandans of United States and Ugandans of Canada. Then it became a battle of what city in the states it is going to sit in, then it became a battle of what Uganda ministers are going to be invited. UNAA moved from that to a battle between the America Ugandans and the Ugandans supporting Mengo. Then UNAA conventions started to sit in one city and Ugandans supporting Mengo sitting in another. Then Mulera pissed into the entire thing by setting up a convention into Kampala. That blew out my mind, for UNAA was holding a convention for Ugandans that had been forced to get out of Uganda depending on any given circumstance but the gist of all of it was political prosecution.
At the time the Konny war was ragging, Acholi and Langi were in camps, I was one of the people running the Uganda organization here, and we had a huge problem with Acholi and Langi going into Uganda, so how were they going to attend that convention? And Mulera had this delusion of Uganda accepts everyone and if you fail to go home you are the problem. Two elements held UNAA together, there were the Ocen Nekyon that were pragmatic and using the organization to scoop as much money out of the political arena, and there were the Muniini Muleras that were using it to get access to the bread out of Museveni's government. Both camps decided to hold their nose and share the carcass, for that organization was a carcass already. Muniini Mulera wanted to be the Uganda ambassador in Ottawa for many years he fought for that post, and UNAA became his Saba Saba.
The Ocen Nekyon's rejected a motion to debate the camps in Northern Uganda in UNAA conventions. You see every time the convention was held, an agenda was structured out, motions to be discussed were presented and an agenda sent out, there was a class of Ugandans that believed that camping of Acholi and Langi was an issue that deserved to be publicly discussed as a topic in the convention. Uganda government even from as far back as Dr Kiiza Besigye in the Movement, sold the camps as a private issue, that the world must never know. For the record those camps to be made public was started mainly by myself and OJ. May the man rest in peace. I had to take a trip to Uganda to specifically visit them and see what was going on for nothing was being reported, a word here and a word there, and I said that is it I am going in, and I did go in and spent two days in the North. I was firkin petrified.
But every time it was raised up in the convention, that topic was rejected even to be included on the agenda of the convention, the topic of camping Acholi was one time allowed to be on the agenda, it was listed and given a time to be discussed, at the very start of the convention, the Ocen Nekyon's deleted it out. In all conventions that were held during the years of the camps, the issue of camping Acholi and Langi was never addressed in the convention even for five firkin seconds. That is how deep UNAA protected Museveni's government.
The very same Ugandans bleating today of any one can lead Uganda but Museveni.
I made a sober decision that I still hold to today, I refused to attend even a single convention to this day. Not one, not a half, not a Uno. I got invitations, I got free tickets, I got hotels offered, I just stubbornly refused to attend a single UNAA convention to even refusing attending the one that sat in this city. And Amen to that for today I can hold my hands clean as I write this piece. There were very many cases of circus, my favorite was who to invite in the convention, Ssabassajja Mutebi or Yoweri Museveni? That was the most ecstatic to me. Mengo became smart and very quickly jumped off the UNAA band wagon. Museveni used it and as the man stated way back in Luwero, "Ebisubi bwebigwaamu Omubisi babisuula emanju" I do not think Museveni will ever attend UNAA convention again, it is an organization of a bunch of firkin punks. I do not even think he still funds it, yes the ocen Nekyon's used to get a cheque out of bank of Uganda for the convention preparation.
And as always Ugandans simply failed to work together and classes started to build up, a second UNAA was created and they both held conventions same weekend different cities, what was funny, all of them were hosting only Democrat senators, I do not recall a Republican senator attending. And I stand to be corrected. But this is how I made my stand, I work with so many NGOs, I apply for so much funding, I am on a couple of boards, but many funders do not give you a time to be interviewed, they read your proposal, and look at the organizations you have previously supported or asked for funding for, or been a member of, they make the decision based on that, thus I am very careful at what organization page I put my name on, and UNAA just flashed a red light all over the God damn place, and I jumped it. You do not have EMs name on a UNAA document, a photograph of him in a convention, a speech in one of them, whether written, dictated or sent remotely, I even rejected registering myself to their forum, and if my writing is on their forum it was forwarded. UNAA was such a bad egg I just rejected.
And today those very same Ugandans that were selling UNAA to the American politicians are preaching them to stop funding Museveni. No I am not firkin kidding !!!!!!
Kale Obusiru Mu Uganda bwajja nga Kiddo. -> Geee'eeeZ !!!!!!!!!
EM -> { Trump for 2020 }
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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Subject: {UAH} How U.S. Taxpayers Can Help Stop Massacres In Uganda
How U.S. Taxpayers Can Help Stop Massacres In Uganda
[Editorial]
Dear readers,
The United States provides almost $1 billion in annual aid to the kleptocratic and murderous regime of Gen. Yoweri Museveni in Uganda. This means American taxpayer's money contributes to the ongoing killings in Uganda. Americans can help stop this by saying "Not With My Tax Dollars."
We at Black Star News have an urgent request. Uganda holds elections Jan. 14, 2021. Dictator Museveni's soldiers have been killing unarmed civilians who support opposition leaders determined to end his 35 years of tyranny.
We urge you to contact your Senator and have them co-sponsor Senator Bob Menendez's (D-NJ) resolution calling for a review of all non-humanitarian aid to Uganda, as well as targeted sanctions against Ugandan officials who are implicated in human rights abuses. Please call your Senators and ask them to co-sponsor this crucial piece of legislation that could possibly help save thousands of lives in Uganda.
As you know from our coverage of Uganda over the years, the cruelty of Gen. Museveni's security forces is becoming increasingly blatant. In recent months, they have shot, run over with military vehicles, or beaten to death scores, perhaps hundreds, of innocent unarmed Ugandans, including children. The carnage continued into December which saw not only more killings, but also the arrest of Nicholas Opiyo, one of Africa's finest human rights lawyers on concocted charges of "money laundering." Thousands of others are reportedly illegally detained, and some are tortured. It was international pressure that led to lawyer Opiyo's release on bail.
Gen. Museveni's main challenger for the Jan. 14 vote—when the dictator tries to rig the election for a sixth term—is 38-year-old popular musician and Member of parliament Bobi Wine. He's inspired people all over the world with his music, as well as his courage, leadership, generosity and grace. He's risked his life many times, and told The New York Times that he's prepared to die to see Uganda liberated.
Museveni is hoping the pandemonium his forces are creating—shooting and killing Bobi Wine's supporters, shooting his body guards, shooting journalists on his entourage—will halt his campaign. But after 35 years of Museveni's misrule, Ugandans aren't backing down in their struggle for freedom. Just today, another Bobi Wine rally was blocked, and he was placed under house arrest, while his security detail, his media team, other aides, allied politicians and journalists—about 100 people in all--were trucked away to unknown destinations and have not been heard from since.
Gen. Museveni owes his grip on power to the United States. In 35 years due to his mismanagement Uganda can't manufacture a needle. All the weapons he uses to shed the blood of Ugandans are imported, including from the United States. Without arms, training and over $34 billion in U.S. taxpayers' dollars through the years Ugandans would have gotten rid of Museveni long ago.
Some of the U.S. financing goes to reputable NGOs that help people fighting diseases, including Aids, while some go into other worthy projects. But hundreds of millions of dollars also flow through the World Bank right into the Ugandan Treasury, from which Museveni's henchmen routinely steal. In May, for example, $300 million intended for Covid-19 relief appears to have been diverted to Museveni's military apparatus and is now being used to torture and kill Ugandan civilians. This abominable abuse of U.S. taxpayers' money has been going on for decades and must stop. Only the U.S. has the power to rein Museveni in and stop the killing.
This is where you can help, by asking your Senator to support Senator Menendez's resolution. To find your senator's contact, just Google his or her website and call the number for the Washington DC office or click on this link.
If no one answers, leave a message for the Foreign Affairs Assistant. Here's what to say:
"My name is (your name) and I live in (your state). I am concerned about human rights abuses in Uganda, especially election related violence by the army and the police. I am calling to request that Senator (your senator's name) co-sponsor New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez's resolution on Uganda regarding state brutality. The U.S. is a major donor to the tune of $1 billion every year to Uganda and urgent action is needed to prevent more deaths."
The Menendez resolution in part notes that "…Ugandan authorities have used coercive measures, including arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, extra-judicial killings, and intrusive surveillance technology to intimidate and silence political opposition in the country."
Readers, please do this immediately, before the Jan. 14 elections. Even after the vote continue to call to help save lives in Uganda. Anyone may call, as long as you live in the Senator's constituency, regardless of nationality or immigration status.
Many thanks and Happy New Year from the editors of Black Star News.
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