UGANDA: Why Museveni's Gen. Elwelu will not be killed by "his girlfriend"

WHY MUSEVENI'S GEN. ELWELU WILL NOT BE KILLED BY "HIS GIRLFRIEND"

CHANGE OF GUARDS - Gen. James Kazini was Museveni's army chief who led the Congo expedition that was characterized by gross human rights abuses, bloody killings, forced displacement and plunder of natural resources.  The International Court of Justice (ICJ) found Uganda culpable and ruled that it should pay Congo a sum of US$ 10b.

It was also feared that other international judicial bodies could pursue the line of holding the individual key players culpable.  Obviously, such a line of inquiry would not spare Museveni as the Commander In Chief from whose orders Gen. Kazini was acting.  Although the Museveni government did not challenge the ICJ ruling, it has never paid a single coin to the government of DRC. Instead it is buying time with requests of the amount of US $ 10b to be revised.

Gen. Kazini shielded Museveni and his young brother's (Gen. Saleh) involvement in the atrocities and plunder in the Congo in return for protection against criminal proceedings.  Instead around the late 2009 he was allegedly murdered by his girl friend at her residence. His death closed the chapter of who was responsible for the Museveni army's evils in the Congo.  Any probe now or in future will be told that "it was Gen. Kazini who was responsible but unfortunately he died in 2009".

In November 2016, Museveni's army raided the Bakonjo King's palace in Kasese and indiscriminately took hostage men, women and children.  It stripped them naked tied their arms behind before indiscriminately killing more than one hundred and setting the dead bodies ablaze.  The naked women were driven over 400 kms to be detained in Jinja.  The operation was overseen by Museveni's son (Gen. Muhoozi) and commanded by the then regional Commander Peter Elwelu.  The then Army chief, Gen. Katumba Wamala vehemently disassociated himself from the incident.  It remained publicly unclear as to who gave directives to Elwelu to attack and gruesomely abuse, maim and kill.

Gen. Katumba Wamala was consequently sacked, Peter Elwelu promoted to Maj. Gen. and elevated in terms of command responsibility.  Two years later he has been promoted again to the rank of Lt. Gen.  All this is in return for his shielding Museveni and his son as had been the case with Gen. Kazini.

However, in April 2017 Museveni was cornered in an interview with Aljazera TV when he lost his cool and let the cat out of the bag.  Here below, find the excerpts of that interview:

Vall : The man who led the assault on Kasese said, his name is Peter Elwelu; he was a brigadier in the army at the time and instead of him being now in the court, he was promoted to General and he is now the commander of the Land Forces.  If you have those people in the court, why don’t you also have those people who opened fire on your citizens alongside those people in the courts now to answer to the questions?

Museveni: That means he was doing his duty…

Vall: To kill more than 100 people…

Museveni: To deal with…

Vall: And now he was promoted

Museveni: Yes, I am the one who promoted him…

Vall: And two days ago, the US government refused…they blocked his going to Malawi to attend a conference on security because of that.

Museveni: I don’t know about the United States. Uganda is big enough for Maj Gen Elwelu to operate there; I don’t know why he is dying to go to the United States but…

Vall : He wasn’t going to the United States, he was going to Malawi and he was blocked by the Americans because they are supervising that conference; because of what he did in Kasese, so he is accused.

Museveni: Well, I am not a prefect about American actions, I am a leader of Uganda and I am telling you that Elwelu did his duty and there is now peace in that area.

Vall: So it was pacified because it was crashed?

Museveni: It was definitely justified but definitely, all this will come in the court.

From that interview, Museveni exonerated Gen. Elwelu.  Unlike in the matter of Congo atrocities where blame was heaped on Gen. Kazini, for the Kasese cold blooded murders and gross abuses of human rights,  Gen. Elwelu can't be solely found culpable as long as Museveni is still alive.

Therefore, it would be useless for the 'girlfriend' to kill Gen. Elwelu because Museveni's actions and more-so the self confession during the said TV interview are sufficiently incriminatory.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM