Ugandan Opposition Calls for Troop Withdrawal

[Shirib]

Uganda Opposition Calls For Withdrawal Of Troops From Somalia

Dow Jones
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

KAMPALA, Uganda -(Dow Jones)- Uganda's largest opposition party, the Forum For Democratic Change, has called for the withdrawal of Ugandan troops from Somalia and for other African countries to send their own troops for peacekeeping operations.

According to Wafula Oguttu, the FDC spokesman, the leaders of the African Union should also consider the Somali crisis as a top priority at the AU summit which opens in Uganda this week.

"Ugandan troops have been in Somalia for over three years now, we think this is enough time and we want our forces to be withdrawn such that other countries can also send their troops," he told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.

African leaders are reluctant to solve the Somali crisis because most of them are preoccupied with consolidating their own power, Oguttu said.

The FDC party is leading a coalition of four parties which are expected to take on the incumbent president Yoweri Museveni early next year in the country's parliamentary and presidential polls.

Since the AU passed a resolution on the sending of peacekeeping troops to Somalia, only Uganda and Burundi have contributed troops.

The peacekeeping troops continue to be attacked by Somalia-based al-Shebab militants, who are linked to al-Qaeda. Uganda's privately owned daily, the Daily Monitor quoted al-Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab as saying that his group attacked the AU bases late Sunday in Bondhere and Shibi districts and captured new territory in the northern parts of Mogadishu.

July 11, more than 70 people were killed in attacks in the Uganda capital, Kampala which al-shebab have claimed. The militants said they carried out the bombings because Uganda deployed peacekeepers in Somalia and they called for their withdrawal.

The Ugandan government is pressing for a change in the mandate of its force in Somalia--from peacekeeping to peace enforcement--to confront the militants, according to Lieutenant Colonel Felix Kuliagye, the Ugandan army spokesman.

-By Nicholas Bariyo, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires; 256-75-2624615 bariyonic@yahoo.co.uk

http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2010/July/ ... malia.aspx

[LobsterUnit]

Who will guard shariff in his cubicle, then?

[Shirib]

Who will guard shariff in his cubicle, then?

They leave, he'll leave the country too, just like Yey did

[Cirwaaq]

Al-shabab will have the country sooner or later. Puntland is on the verge of an Al-shabab take over.

New Dawn is rising...

[abdisamad3]

the oppostion dont have any power saxiibyaal..musaveni is the one who decide's if they can stay or not..

[Cirwaaq]

One of two things will happen sooner or later:

- invasion
- abandonment

Invade: A lot of people will die and hopefully shabab will be crushed to death TFg warlords will setup a new dictatorship and all is well in africa.

Abandon: Walk away and there will be a lot of death as there will be a power struggle for dominance and Ethiopia will continue to support a TFG that relocates to Aids Abowase. Since there will be no media it will be a silent wipeout.

Sharif is an example of what willhappen to any shabab member who entrs into politics.

They are all equal in guilt and should compromise for the sake of the poor somali people.

[mahdi01]

In this World if you act and behave like Donkey you will only be treated as a Donkey, hey Somali youth instead of arguing here how life wonderful is living under Ugandan troops a third world nation that can’t afford to buy its ailing people for Antiretroviral drugs to slow down the tens of thousands of Ugandans dying AIDS every year, why not talk about the misery of the Somali Civilians massacred in their homes caused by these merciless Amisom mercenaries.

If you read other African Forums that discussing about recent Kampala Bombing they are not differentiating Al Shabaab and other Somalis, they are constantly using the phrase "Somali people are trouble makers in the continent for Piracy and terrorism and there for should be re colonized", completely denying what Amisom is doing in Somalia is nothing other than the same thing Ethiopian troops did “kill more and more innocent civilians”.

On the other hand there were thousandths of Mogadhishu residents died Amisom’s indiscriminate shelling in Neighborhoods far away from the conflict zone, just look at Dayniile and Huriwaa districts they are about 10 Kilometers away from the frontline of Amisom positions, and every time Amisom were attacked they shell purposely to punish the poor civilians, who is speaking for these people or is like they don’t have rights and they deserve what they got?

If the foreigners would have left Somalis alone at first place we wouldn’t have Al shabaab and Al dameer running our country today, they are blaming Somalis for the same problem they created, they certainly didn’t wanted the strong military government of 1970s and 80s that kept order in Somalia nor they are happy with one Al shabaab is leading today they just want to keep the status quo in Somalia, Amisom and their western financiers are only there to keep the failed warlord TFG government on life support forever, they don’t care the life of average Somali in Somalia

[The_Patriot]

Uganda Opposition Calls For Withdrawal Of Troops From Somalia

Dow Jones
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

KAMPALA, Uganda -(Dow Jones)- Uganda's largest opposition party, the Forum For Democratic Change, has called for the withdrawal of Ugandan troops from Somalia and for other African countries to send their own troops for peacekeeping operations.

According to Wafula Oguttu, the FDC spokesman, the leaders of the African Union should also consider the Somali crisis as a top priority at the AU summit which opens in Uganda this week.

"Ugandan troops have been in Somalia for over three years now, we think this is enough time and we want our forces to be withdrawn such that other countries can also send their troops," he told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.

African leaders are reluctant to solve the Somali crisis because most of them are preoccupied with consolidating their own power, Oguttu said.

The FDC party is leading a coalition of four parties which are expected to take on the incumbent president Yoweri Museveni early next year in the country's parliamentary and presidential polls.

Since the AU passed a resolution on the sending of peacekeeping troops to Somalia, only Uganda and Burundi have contributed troops.

The peacekeeping troops continue to be attacked by Somalia-based al-Shebab militants, who are linked to al-Qaeda. Uganda's privately owned daily, the Daily Monitor quoted al-Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab as saying that his group attacked the AU bases late Sunday in Bondhere and Shibi districts and captured new territory in the northern parts of Mogadishu.

July 11, more than 70 people were killed in attacks in the Uganda capital, Kampala which al-shebab have claimed. The militants said they carried out the bombings because Uganda deployed peacekeepers in Somalia and they called for their withdrawal.

The Ugandan government is pressing for a change in the mandate of its force in Somalia--from peacekeeping to peace enforcement--to confront the militants, according to Lieutenant Colonel Felix Kuliagye, the Ugandan army spokesman.

-By Nicholas Bariyo, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires; 256-75-2624615 bariyonic@yahoo.co.uk

http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2010/July/ ... malia.aspx

Uganda opposition is as influential as the TFG?