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Mar 14, 2012 Africa: KONY 2012, Military Realities
"Chasing the leaders, which seems to be the strategy
preferred by both the Ugandan People's Defence Force and the
US military, is a hit or miss approach that will call down
more attacks on unprotected civilians as the LRA
instrumentalise them to send their twisted message and
replace battlefield losses by abducting new fighters. While
the Ugandan/US strategy has produced some attrition, it has
also generated a bloody response and a massive recruitment
campaign that seems to have gone unnoticed." - Philip
Lancaster, co-author of Diagnostic Study of the Lord's
Resistance Army, and former military assistant to Gen. Romeo
Dallaire in Rwanda
Mar 14, 2012 Africa: KONY 2012, Selected Reflections
"The reason why the LRA continues is that its victims - the
civilian population of the area - trust neither the LRA nor
government forces. Sandwiched between the two, civilians
need to be rescued from an ongoing military mobilization and
offered the hope of a political process. Alas, this message
has no room in the Invisible Children video that ends with a
call to arms." - Mahmood Mamdani, Professor and Director of
Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala and Herbert
Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University, New
York City.
May 4, 2011 Uganda: Protests in Perspective
In February this year Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told a
press conference: "There will be no Egyptian-like revolution
here. ... We would just lock them up. In the most humane
manner possible, bang them into jails land that would be the
end of the story." Events of recent weeks, including last
week's violent attack by security forces on opposition leader
Kizza Besigye and a sit-down strike by Ugandan lawyers
beginning today, seem to indicate that repression may not be
the "end of the story," despite Museveni's overwhelming
victory with 68% of the votes in February's election.
Jun 24, 2009 USA/Uganda: Recovery from Conflict?
Jan 28, 2009 Congo (Kinshasa): Risky Steps towards Peace
May 7, 2007 USA/Africa: More than Just a Mvule Tree
Apr 20, 2006 Uganda: The Costs of War
Feb 21, 2006 East Africa: Dams and Lake Victoria
Oct 31, 2005 Uganda: Calls for Peace, Justice
Sep 30, 2004 Uganda: Children, War, and Peace
Recent Bulletins on Continent-Wide Issues
June 12, 2013 Africa: Underdeveloping African Agriculture
May 28, 2013 Africa: Interventions in Historical Perspective
May 13, 2013 Africa: Rise of the Global South
Apr 19, 2013 Africa: Towards Structural Transformation?
Apr 2, 2013 Africa: The Industrialization Agenda
Feb 5 2013 Africa: Towards Reality-Based Talk
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