Appeal for financial assistance by Editor of Change Of Guards blog

By MARTHA LEAH NANGALAMA
Editor & Publisher of www.changeofguards.blogspot.com

If you are reading this blog post, it is because you are likely one of our followers. We have been writing and sharing about the Politics and Security of the EAC region and The Great Lakes of Africa (L'Afrique des Grands Lacs) since 2013. I am attaching our first article from July 2013 after this message.

We need all of our leaders to help us financially because our team of 6 people need to pay rent, buy food and pay for school fees for our children. Plus plus. We also have to pay Telecom charges. The costs are immense.

In all the last 7yrs, not once have we ever asked you to help us financially. However, this year 2020 (Twenty Plenty, Dwendi Duendi) is turning out to be that year when we now are forced to ask our readers and followers to help us financially so that we can stay in business. The finances have been depleted. Please, just help us to breathe so that we can continue to bring to you analysis which is fact based and is a response to our current problems in Africa.

If you do not help us, we will also go in the dark. "Democracy dies in darkness"... The Washington Post.

MARTHA LEAH NANGALAMA is a human rights and justice activist for Uganda. I am based in Canada. I am from Bududa, Uganda. I am a Canadian citizen. I do not need your financial help for myself or my family. I need your help for the Ugandans who risk their lives daily to document our history and all the atrocities.

PLEASE SEND DONATIONS via Paypal. mlnangalama@yahoo.com. On your donation, please indicate "Contribution to Change of Guards Uganda blog". I will use all the money to pay our team and will account for every $. 

Thank you. MLN

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https://changeofguards.blogspot.com/2013/07/unlike-zimbabwes-robert-mugabe-museveni.html

Thursday, 18 July 2013

WHY MUSEVENI NEGLECTS HIS WAR VETERANS UNLIKE MUGABE

Unlike Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Museveni neglected the people of former Luwero Triangle and the war veterans who helped him alot during the guerrilla war that brought him to power.

Museveni deliberately neglected these areas and the war Veterans so that it serves as a measure to deter and discourage others who may have intentions of venturing into supporting a similar armed rebellion against him. In that way, the loss of lives and destruction of Luwero Triangle's economic base during the war 27 years ago, the total neglect of war veterans and the general appalling poverty levels in that region sends a clear message that you support rebellion at your own peril.

For similar reasons, during the insurgency in the northern Uganda region, its economic base was delibarately dismantled. There is no doubt the people of northern Uganda rejected Museveni's governance right from the start and therefore rebelled or supported the insurgency. The northern Uganda reconstruction plan was designed just to attract donor money. No wonder, that money has been wantonly stolen under the supervision of the Prime Minister.

To Museveni, a successful rehabilitation and reconstruction of northern Uganda would amount to rewarding the area for having supported the insurgency.  I wonder how the UPC government would have treated Luwero triangle had it managed to defeat Museveni's rebellion in the early 80s!

However, Museveni is now faced with a potential threat of armed rebellion with bases in Buganda region. He knows very well that having suffocated all civilised ways of expressing dissent the situation is ripe for armed rebellion. More so, he knows that Ugandans now understand than ever before that he has always taken them for a ride. He has hastly pitched camp in Luwero under the guise of fighting poverty. He has demarcated the area into zones and assigned his senior army officers as zonal leaders under the overall command of his top most General and brother.

In military terms, this is a purely counter insurgency operation meant to win back the local support and deny the enemy ground. No doubt, even the funding for this operation will indirectly come from the Ministry of Defence budget. The recent appointment of Gen. Katumba - a Muganda as head of the Army also alludes to these desperate efforts.

Unfortunately, the major problem of oppressed Ugandans is failure to understand Museveni's manipulative ways.

INFORMATION IS POWER.