UGANDA: THERE ARE NO SECRET NRA BUSH WAR ATTROCITIES FOR DISCLOSURE BY MUSEVENI

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By CHANGE OF GUARDS

"In NRA we had a lot of power to do evil, we had big capacity to kill people. At some stage I will write about the details, maybe confidentially and when I have safety gone to heaven somebody can publish. But that information should not be lost. You had some of our peopke who would say let us kill so and so. Of course, we could do it, but sometimes I always never liked the idea of killing to get quick results.  That was always the temptation."
Museveni - during Prayer Breakfast, 8th Oct

Uganda's military dictator came to power in 1986 following his five year sectarian Bush War (1981 - 1986) and his treacherous disregard of the 1986 Nairobi Peace Talks between his NRA and the Okello regime. Prio to that, in 1971 he had fled to Tanzania into a self imposed exile. For the next eight years, he was engaged in acts of clandestine atrocities inside Uganda designed to discredit the Iddi Amin regime. Kinapings and outright murders characterised his clandestine missions. As the overall Political Commissar of the Western Axis, he orhestrated the infamous massacre of Muslims in Ankole. 
After the fall of the Iddi Amin regime, he was not only the Minister of Defence but the leader of the armed FRONASA faction of the new army under the short-lived (1979 - 1980) UNLF government. During that period he was at the center of a power struggle that was characterised by mysterious killings of prominent Ugandans. In the same regard, he took a center stage in the overthrow of two Presidents within a short period of one year. As Minister of Defence, in 1979 he had personally taken command of the brutal suppression of the Twagala Lule protests that left several lives lost. During the 1980 election campaigns, his private armed bodyguards opened fire that killed people at his campaign rally in Kiryandongo. 

When he took to the Bush in 1981, he embarked on acts designed to undermine the authority of the UPC government. His Clandestine Squads backed by his Urban Hit Squad dubbed Black Bomber under the command of Matayo Kyaligonza committed acts of murder more especially in Kampala city. This urban terrorism prompted the UPC government to resort to indiscriminate mass arrests dubbed Panda Gari. The then District Commissioner for Kampala, Nsaba Buturo was at hand to oversee the operations. Kyaligonza personally shot dead the DP M.P for Mwenge, Hon. Bamuturaki at a drinking joint in Kisementi when the victim was mistaken for a government senior army officer that was in the same place at the time. Obviously, the UPC government took the blame. This is not to mention the mysterious daily killings in the city that was also squarely blamed on the government. His attempt to burn up the city by blowing up the Namuwongo fuel depots and the Muyenga water reserviors flopped. 

In the Luwero Triangle, his NRA slaughtered UPC branch chairmen, Youth Wingers and supporters. Disguising as government troops, his NRA would kill ordinary civilians so as to shift blame on government troops. Not to mention those fellow NRA combatants whose killing he would commission merely on grounds of being suspected to be disloyal to him. The infamous Kafuuni and Kandoya gruesome killing styles trace their origin from his NRA Bush War. This is the reason that ever since he came to power 35 years ago, no one has ever been made to account for the so-called killings by the Obote Regime. Forget about the sole conviction and hanging of the unlucky former UPC Chairman for Luwero, Hajji Musa Ssebirumbi who was victimized simply because at one time he was about to capture the then guerilla leader (Museveni) alive. 

A decade ago when some of his Bush War commanders opted to give their narrative of the Bush War, he vehemently ordered then to stop. This was for two reasons; he feared they would not portray him as the superhero and he also feared that they would reveal his complicity in the killings. Whatever the case, Ugandans know all those atrocities that he had been committing right from 1971 to the present day. Maybe, he intends to give a list, dates, venue and style of killing of his victims. Nonetheless, whenever Museveni threatens to disclose what is supposed to be his army atrocities, know that he is targeting his opponents for blackmail. A few years ago, as he was grappling with the Gen. Ssejusa fallout he issued an empty promise to the people of northern Uganda cthat he was to bring to book all those who were involved in atrocities in the northern Uganda insurgency. The trick worked as Gen. Ssejusa unceremoniously returned from exile for fear that he would end up at the ICC. As to who is being targeted this time round, your guess is as good as mine. 

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM