Why Now?

I have always maintained that the Juba Peace thing was imposed on Museveni by the need for a successful CHOGM. He got it, and he didn’t need one anymore, and Kony gave him the excuse to go to war. However, the use of the helicopter gunships on Kony’s hideouts is not only unconscionable, but outright evil. The inhabitants of the hideouts who might have fallen to such indiscriminate strafing and mowing were women, children and abductees who were there under the control of an insane man.

In the murky Museveni-Kony world we were told that pictures of the dead would be shown in due course. And then we were told that Kony might have carried away the dead to cover his losses. This is about a man scrambling to leave “town” in a hurry to save his skin! Where is the truth? It is not beyond Museveni to get rid of the dead bodies for tactical reasons.

This is an innocent victim of a previous indiscriminate helicopter gunship campaign in the grasslands of Acoliland. Why are reporters not allowed at the scenes in Garamba?

Still the question lingers: Why now? CHOGM is one. However, it had to be planned. The recent spates of killings in Southern Sudan and DRC had Museveni’s imprints—perhaps to stir anti-LRA to the point of gaining joint military supports of the two countries.

I share the DNA of those who might have perished under the fires of Museveni’s gunships. I will pass this season in deep meditation and prayers, and wish you well in your conditions and circumstances.