Daily Monitor
Friday February 19 2021
Summary
Mr Okodan Akwap says: Those who voted NUP. .. were angry at Museveni. Museveni is also now angry at them.
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We are still deep into the post-mortem phase of the January 14 polls. Indeed, the analytical phase of this election could last a little longer than what happened in previous times. This is largely because of the news bombshell Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, a former presidential candidate of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and leading challenger to President Museveni’s 35-year iron grip in power, unleashed in Buganda and Busoga.
The bombshell triggered a media feeding frenzy. Journalists competed to file stories about the massive win for NUP and the bloody nose NRM got. In journalism school, aspiring journalists are spoon-fed with this phrase the way newborns are breastfed: “When a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news.”
The dichotomy of Dominic Ongwen
15 Feb 2021
Dominic Ongwen (C), a senior commander in the Lord s Resistance Army (LRA), whose fugitive leader Joseph Kony is one of the world s most-wanted war crimes suspects, sits in the court room of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. (Peter Dejong/AFP via Getty Images)
Even covered by a mask, Dominic Ongwen’s face is unexpectedly cherub-like. This is the former child soldier turned notorious warlord who tormented northern Uganda for several decades. Yet, dressed in a smart suit and blue-striped tie, waiting for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to deliver its verdict in The Hague last week, it is hard to square his unassuming demeanour with the harrowing and gruesome stories told by the survivors of the atrocities for which he was convicted.
By Dr. Martin Brass aka Vann Spencer
From the January 2012 issue of SOF
A War of Hired Guns The Rhodesian Bush War pitting a white-dominated government against a black communist-sponsored terrorist insurgency launched RKB and his adventurous gun-toting comrades in what became
SOF signature on the ground hands-on combat photography and journalism around the globe.
When RKB heard about how the terrorist leader Robert Mugabe was going to steal the elections in 1980, he decided
SOF had to be there during the election to watch the white Rhodesian government crash and burn.
Though Brown and a few of his unpaid staff of editors had made several trips to the Rhodesian war zones, it wasn’t until 1980 that
Daily Monitor
Wednesday January 27 2021
Former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi (2nd right) shares a light moment with National Resistance Movement (NRM) Secretary General Kasule Lumumba (left) and Minister for Presidency Esther Mbayo (right) during celebrations to mark the 35th anniversary of NRM Liberation Day at State House Entebbe on January 26, 2021.
Summary
The issue: NRM’s 35 years
Our view: The architects of the Bush War should rethink their unique mission as self-professed compasses, to give national direction and create a Uganda with open political spaces for all.
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The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party yesterday marked 35 years of unbroken hold onto State power in the country. This particular celebration is significant in many ways. First, it comes in the wake of another contentious General Election.
One of the biggest reasons for the erosion of NRM’s (and UPDF’s) popular image in Buganda has been the unfair treatment and excessive abuse of human rights, including shooting people dead.