VIDEO: #Uganda, Museveni's army pays for #Kasese atrocities in #Somalia

The Museveni regime has announced that Al Shabaab militants in Somalia have killed 12 of its soldiers and injured seven others.  Unconfirmed reports from other media circles are putting the figure of casualties at a much higher figure.  Whatever the case, it is obvious that as usual, the army must have arrived at this figure on account of attempting to downplay the incident.    

It is unfortunate that Ugandans have received the sad news with mixed feelings.  Instead of uniting in grief, most Ugandans are questioning the purpose of the army's endless presence in Somalia.  It is now 10 years since Museveni sent his army to Somalia allegedly for peace keeping.  He has used the Somali mission to blackmail the West over his dictatorship and autocratic reign.  President Yoweri Museveni has used the same mission to cater for the poor welfare of his army.  He has used the same mission as a foreign exchange earning venture.

Back home, the army is highly privatised and many Ugandans now view it as an  arm of the dictatorial regime.  It arrests, detains, tortures, maims, kills, Rigs elections, grabs land, persecutes some of its own, and it is run on sectarian and nepotism grounds.

 In November 2016  (November 26 and 27) in Kasese, the army killed over one hundred innocent civilians and set the dead bodies on fire.  The same army also arrested many others, stripped them naked, tortured, and detained them over 500kms away in Jinja.  Amidst the mayhem, Museveni went on an official trip to South Africa.  He blocked parliament from inquiring into the matter and promoted the Operation Commander, General Elwelu and assigned him higher responsibility.  The matter is now closed but Ugandans are nursing bitterness.

Ugandans don't have guns to avenge the atrocities netted on them.  The killing of some members of the army in Somalia brings about a sense of retribution and justice to the aggrieved Ugandans.  This is an unfortunate situation that should be addressed by all those who love Uganda.   In the past, http://changeofguards.blogspot.ca  has on several occasions highlighted the role of Museveni's army in Somalia as follows:

1.       SOMALIA - PEACE MISSION OR A MUSEVENI ARMY WELFARE SCHEME?  6/11/2014.

https://changeofguards.blogspot.ca/2014/11/somalia-peace-mission-or-museveni-army.html

2.       ALSHABAAB ATTACK IS A RESPONSE TO MUSEVENI'S ARROGANCE.  5/9/2015.

https://changeofguards.blogspot.ca/2015/09/al-shabaab-attack-is-response-to.html

3.     
 SGT WANYAMA'S REMAINS WILL NEVER BE FOUND. 7/9/2015

https://changeofguards.blogspot.ca/2015/09/sgt-wanyamas-remains-will-never-be-found.html

The army has promised to institute an inquiry headed by Brig. Jack Bakasumba.  He is from Bundibugyo, started his military career as an instructor, mentored by the Presidential Guard Unit for regime cadreship, is the commandant of the Peace Keeping training centre at Singo and has been implicated in repeatedly abusing his office by taking bribes from soldiers for secondment to peace keeping missions.

With Brig. Bakasumba heading the inquiry, Ugandan should not expect the truth of what transpired in Somalia.  What happened to the inquiry into the helicopter crashes where the Air Force chief, Brigadier Moses Rwakitarate was consequently suspended?  He is the now the Military Attaché to the European Union in Brussels. Whenever there are such attacks and losses, inquiries are always carried out just for the purposes of processing financial compensation.

The African Union pays US$ 50,000 (180,000,000 Uganda shillings).  With the 12 soldiers reportedly killed, the regime is warming up for US$ 600,000 (2,160,000,000 Uganda shillings).  On August 5th 2011, 29 years old, Pte Eunuch Robert of UGABAT VIII was killed by All Shabaab insurgents in Somalia when a bullet went through his eye and came out through the neck.  A Board of Inquiry was convened on 19th October 2011.  It made a finding that Pte Eunuch had not been negligent and it recommended that he should be compensated with the usual US$ 50,000.  His family is in the High Court seeking for an order to have the compensation paid.

The most recent attack was on the 7th Battalion which is one of the original battalions that captured Kampala in 1986 under the command of Matayo Kyaligonza.  After take over, it was stationed in Jinja. During the 1996 presidential elections, it was based in Mbuya, Kampala under the command of Hudson Mukasa.  It was chased out of Kampala on the eve of the polling day after it was discovered that it was sympathetic to DP's Paulo Ssemogerere.  Truckloads of troops left and drove through the city center chanting; "Ssemogerere, gira offuge Uganda, Museveni Tumukooye (Ssemogerere, prepare to rule Uganda, we are tired of Museveni).  This particular incident shaped Museveni's scheme to privatise the army – a move he has successfully achieved.  Hudson Mukasa lost out on his military career and has been Uganda's 'permanent’ Military Attaché to Burundi.

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