A WAR MONGER TURNED, AN INVESTIGATOR. It is a long article though! If you hate Reading, you will miss a lot from what we write daily. What happened to Museveni`s repeated promises of probing army`s atrocities in North and East Uganda?. When Leah wrote that, Museveni takes over some investigations, it baffled us a lot. We begun asking freaking questions that do not even have answers perhaps. WHAT HAPPENED TO MUSEVENI'S REPEATED PROMISES OF PROBING HIS ARMY'S ATROCITIES IN NORTHERN AND NORTH-EASTERN UGANDA??? In July 2004, Museveni succeeded in securing the ICC to investigate the alleged rebel LRA atrocities in northern Uganda; "We are investigating any crimes committed in northern Uganda after July 2002. We have the full support for this from the authorities in Uganda," said International Criminal Court prosecution spokesman Christian Palme. The excited Museveni duped the world when he told journalists at Okwang, 40 kilometers (24 miles) northeast of Lira in north Uganda, where the government had set up a forward base to direct the war against the LRA rebels; "I am ready to be investigated for war crimes ... and if any of our people were involved in any crimes, we will give him up to be tried by the ICC and in any case, if such cases are brought to our attention, we will try them ourselves." Unfortunately the ICC Prosecutor opted to only investigate the LRA and not Museveni's army. Fifteen years later, the Defence team in the trial of a former top LRA commander, Ongwen is accusing the ICC of being biased by the Museveni regime. The team led by Kampala-based lawyer, Mr Krispus Ayena Odongo argued that Uganda being a State Party to the Rome Statute, referred only one side of the conflict to ICC. Mr Ayena said the Chief Prosecutor of The Hague-based court should have gone with an open mind “not with a close mind to investigate only one specific group of people, and should have investigated everywhere.” “As you will all agree with me it takes two to tangle – Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fought with UPDF-you know that. Why did they refer only one side of the coin to the court?" On 6th April 2012, while speaking at the memorial service for the late John William Eluru in Teso, Museveni said that "the government would conduct investigations on all atrocities allegedly committed by his NRA during the period of insecurity in Eastern and Northern Uganda in the 1980’s in a spirit of embracing national reconciliation". He, however, stressed that the anti-government groups also need to do the same as they are implicated in many of the atrocities meted out on the people in those areas. He noted that it is only when this is done that meaningful national reconciliation will be appreciated. No probe was instituted to that effect. Instead, two years later on 26th January 2014, during a public function in Mayuge district, Museveni announced a probe into the alleged atrocities committed by members of his army during the 20 years of counter insurgency operations in northern Uganda. He went ahead to threaten that anyone found culpable would be punished. This website reacted with a piece titled; WAR ATROCITIES PROBE - MUSEVENI TARGETING GEN. SSEJUSA. At the time, Gen. Ssejusa who had been a key player in the northern Uganda insurgency had fled to exile in London. No probe was instituted but instead a few months later, the empty threat was used to blackmail Gen. Ssejusa from exile.

It is a long article though!
If you hate Reading, you will miss a lot from what we write daily.

What happened to Museveni`s repeated promises of probing army`s atrocities in North and East Uganda?.

When Leah wrote that, Museveni takes over some investigations, it baffled us a lot.
We begun asking freaking questions that do not even have answers perhaps.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MUSEVENI'S REPEATED PROMISES OF PROBING HIS ARMY'S ATROCITIES IN NORTHERN AND NORTH-EASTERN UGANDA???

In July 2004, Museveni succeeded in securing the ICC to investigate the alleged rebel LRA atrocities in northern Uganda;

"We are investigating any crimes committed in northern Uganda after July 2002. We have the full support for this from the authorities in Uganda," said International Criminal Court prosecution spokesman Christian Palme.

The excited Museveni duped the world when he told journalists at Okwang, 40 kilometers (24 miles) northeast of Lira in north Uganda, where the government had set up a forward base to direct the war against the LRA rebels;

"I am ready to be investigated for war crimes ... and if any of our people were involved in any crimes, we will give him up to be tried by the ICC and in any case, if such cases are brought to our attention, we will try them ourselves."

Unfortunately the ICC Prosecutor opted to only investigate the LRA and not Museveni's army. Fifteen years later, the Defence team in the trial of a former top LRA commander, Ongwen is accusing the ICC of being biased by the Museveni regime.

The team led by Kampala-based lawyer, Mr Krispus Ayena Odongo argued that Uganda being a State Party to the Rome Statute, referred only one side of the conflict to ICC. Mr Ayena said the Chief Prosecutor of The Hague-based court should have gone with an open mind “not with a close mind to investigate only one specific group of people, and should have investigated everywhere.”

“As you will all agree with me it takes two to tangle – Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fought with UPDF-you know that. Why did they refer only one side of the coin to the court?"

On 6th April 2012, while speaking at the memorial service for the late John William Eluru in Teso, Museveni said that 

"the government would conduct investigations on all atrocities allegedly committed by his NRA during the period of insecurity in Eastern and Northern Uganda in the 1980’s in a spirit of embracing national reconciliation". 

He, however, stressed that the anti-government groups also need to do the same as they are implicated in many of the atrocities meted out on the people in those areas. He noted that it is only when this is done that meaningful national reconciliation will be appreciated. 

No probe was instituted to that effect.

Instead, two years later on 26th January 2014, during a public function in Mayuge district, Museveni announced a probe into the alleged atrocities committed by members of his army during the 20 years of counter insurgency operations in northern Uganda. He went ahead to threaten that anyone found culpable would be punished. 

This website reacted with a piece titled; WAR ATROCITIES PROBE - MUSEVENI TARGETING GEN. SSEJUSA. 

 At the time, Gen. Ssejusa who had been a key player in the northern Uganda insurgency had fled to exile in London. No probe was instituted but instead a few months later, the empty threat was used to blackmail Gen. Ssejusa from exile.