By M. Suleman

14^th May 2012: As always, in the past week, the quartet displayed their authority and supremacy.  Janet Museveni was the first, when she lashed out at the clergy.  Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, fresh from Israel, also declared that he has plans for Agriculture.  Next was Gen Kayihura, who dismissed the “sexual terrorism” on Ingrid Turinawe as “a minor issue”. 

To cap it all up, Museveni’s reply to Journalist Charles Onyango Obbo’s Somalia despatch disclosed important information which will be useful to   historians, political analysts and criminologists.  For example, Museveni has helped to clear the misunderstandings about his character, the character of his government, and the character of the NRA/UPDF.

Short tempered man

Museveni’s letter showed us that he is a very short tempered man.  The anger in the letter is chilling and touchable.  It’s the type of anger that, with hindsight, now explains why Museveni, having lost an election, mobilised 27 men to go and kill those who caused his election defeat.

It also tells us Museveni may in fact be a born soldier whose love for the army is demonstrated by the fact that he started reading a lot of literature about the 2^ND World war.  It may also explain why he travelled to Mozambique to taste war.

From the military knowledge he acquired, he adopted the tactic of ‘encirclement and annihilation’. According to him, this is the tactic which helped to win wars.  Indeed, his NRA/UPDF has used it to win many wars. But what does annihilation mean?  It means to completely destroy – that should tell you something chilling about Museveni’s character.

Using the same tactics, with landmines and other equipment, the NRA worked on the destruction of the UNLA in Luwero triangle.  Given the number of skulls found in Luwero by 1985, there is no doubt that Museveni’s ‘annihilation’ tactic was very effective.

Museveni himself admitted that much, when he said the cessation of hostilities agreement during the 1985 Nairobi peace talks was a bonus for the NRA – because it enabled them to encircle the UNLA while they had laid down their arms.  Thousands were also killed in Masaka and Mbarara, as well as in Kampala – especially around Lugogo which was littered with dead bodies.

According Museveni, the same tactic was also used to defeat Alice Lakwena’s rebels, and what he called “Besigye’s rebels”, and the LRA.  Outside Uganda, the NRA also helped our African brothers in Rwanda and DRC. Whether or not that contributed to the Rwanda genocide, we shall never know for sure – although Museveni admitted that the strategy was used to defeat Mobutu in Congo.

All in all, Museveni’s reply to Obbo clearly showed that by nature, he is a war-monger who salivates at the prospect of military victory – never mind the gallons of blood that fill his army boots in the process.

Whether such a man deserved to rule over peace loving Ugandans, only history will tell.  END.  Please login to www.ugandacorrespondent.com every Monday to read our top stories and anytime mid-week for our news updates.