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In reply to the discussion: KONY 2012 [View all]Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)Acholi perpetrated horrendous massacres on the people of the Bugandan heartland when they were in power. While it's true Museveni used child soldiers, most were from Buganda (the region around the capitol, i.e. the historic kingdom of Uganda) and the previous president of Uganda (a Western-educated professional with a doctorate degree) took no pains in brutalizing them. They called it the Kampala Triangle (a triangle of death)
People first need to understand that Uganda is a federation of three or four separate countries / precolonial kingdoms, like Nigeria. Buganda was the hegemonic kingdom in the region.
I suppose we could sit back and say "these people" all hate each other but I don't think that's a solution. And in any event she is going on about problems in Uganda (basically anti-Museveni activism) when the issue is the LRA (and other genocide) currently taking place in another country (the Congo). The problem is that I don't think there is any "democratic" movenent in Uganda that wants to overthrow Museveni.