Stop Genocide in Buganda Campaign

Friend/Mukwano:

ENGLISH
We of Buganda Civic Education invite you to join us in writing to the Secretary General of The United Nations to tell him that the keeping Baganda in a state of occupation by Mr. Museveni's Uganda Government and persecuting them must stop. We also warn him that the current persecution of Buganda could lead to a full-scale genocide in Buganda compareable to what Mr. Museveni and his collegues caused in Rwanda and Congo.

Please go to the petition site at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stopgenocideinbuganda/ and sign the letter to UN Secretary General. Tell all your friends and family to do the same.



LUGANDA
Ffe aba Buganda Civic Education tukusaba otwegatteko mu kuwaandikira Secretary General wa United Nations nga tumutegeeza nti ekya Gavumenti ya Uganda eya Mw. Museveni okubeeza Abaganda mu buwambe n'okugabayiganya kirina okukoma. Era tumulabula nti kisoboka akuyiganya Buganda okuliwo kati okuvaamu ekitta bantu mawuno (genocide) ekifanana nga Museveni ne banne byebaleetawo mu Rwanda ne mu Congo.

Genda ku petition website http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stopgenocideinbuganda/ nawe oteeke omukono ku baluwa egenda ewa UN Secretary General. Gamba ne bano bonna bakole kyekimu.

Tujja kukozesa comments zammwe ze munatuwa mu week zino nga ezijja wano kumukutu gwa http://www.stopgenocideinbuganda.com/. Ate tutege ne ku radio http://www.ekibakibe.com/, eya Mw. Kabuye owa USA, Boston, nayo yujjeyo ebirowoozo nga asomesa ku nsonga ya Cultural Genocide.

Ekirala, ekikulu ennyo, petition eno nga ewedde tujja kugiteekako link ya Petition Site abagiwagira Buganda mwenna musobole okusaako emikono, kiyambe aba UN okumanya nti obuwagizi bungi.


Petition To: Secretary General of the United Nations
Sponsors: Buganda Civic Education

The 700-year kingdom nation of Buganda has been a part of Uganda since October 1962 when the British granted both Buganda and Uganda independence. The native people of Buganda (the Baganda) have been peacefully demanding for autonomy within Uganda since Milton Obote and Idi Amin illegally overthrew a federal government by force of arms in 1966.


The Baganda have endured untold suffering as successive Uganda governments, especially those led by Milton Obote, Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni worked to muzzle the persistent demands for Buganda autonomy. The current Uganda government is overtly engaged in acts of ethnocide and cultural genocide against the Baganda. If the Uganda government human rights abuses against the Baganda continue with impunity, a full-scale genocide similar to what happened in Congo and Rwanda might become inevitable in Buganda and Uganda.

Below is partial evidence anti-Buganda cultural genocide program by Mr. Museveni:

1. In 1995, NRM/NRA government of Uganda imposed the current national constitution on the people of Buganda after over 90% of them told the government judicial (Odoki) commission that they demanded a federal form of government. The 6 million natives of Buganda are subjected to forced political integration and assimilation into Uganda.

2. Article 237 of the NRM/NRA imposed 1995 Uganda constitution selectively converted 9,000 square miles of Baganda native lands into Ugandan public-leased lands and, in the 1998 Land Act, arbitrarily donated it to NRM/NRA supporters regardless of ethnicity. Native lands for other ethnicities in Uganda remained protected.

3. Since 2002, the Uganda government has illegally settled and partially armed over 1 million Rwandese, Banyankore, Bakiga, Sudanese Congolese and other ethnic populations on Buganda private and native lands, especially in the Gomba, Mawokota, Buwekula, Bugerere and Ssingo counties. During the same period, Uganda government senior officials, such as Matiya Kasaija, have publically encouraged other Uganda communities, especially Bunyoro, to forcibly evict Baganda residents. The result is a massive forced population transfer of impoverished Baganda from their ancestral homes to urban slums.

4. In May 2010 thousands of Baganda gathered at the kingdom's sacred Kasubi royal tombs to mourn after unknow arsonists burnt the main building down. Disregarding Buganda's cultural practices Mr. Museveni chose to visit the site before the Kabaka and ordered his army to clear the compound. The unprovoked UPDF fired at the unarmed Baganda, killing 4 and severly injuring at least 20 (see petition vide).

5. In September 2010, the Uganda government started implementingBuganda must first get a police permit.

When Baganda protest the grossest Uganda government actions, the national police and army have unleashed disproportionate violence including shooting unarmed demonstrators, torture and indefinite detention. In 2009 alone, the UPDF army shot and killed more than 30 Baganda during demonstrations.

The impunity and human rights abuse and genocide record by Mr. Museveni and is well documented: (1) In 2005, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found Uganda guilty of grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during its military operations in the DRC between 1998 and 2003. According to the ICJ, Mr. Museveni and his government looted Congo of between $6B and $10B worth of resources.
(2) In 2006 a highly respected French prosecutor Jean-Louis Brugui%uFFFDre indicted the current president of Rwanda and for Intelligence chief in the Uganda UPDF of assassinating Rwandese President Habyarimana to provoke the Rwanda genocide. (3) According to a August 2010 UN Commissioner for Human Rights report titled "Report of the Mapping Exercise" (of Congo), The Uganda NRM/NRA government and its UPDF army "killed numerous civilians and committed a large number of rapes and acts of pillaging" (Page 164).

Please act now to defend the Baganda people against the current cultural genocide and the risk of mass murder, rape and pillage similar to what the Uganda UPDF did in Congo. Stop genocide in Buganda. Support self-determination, autonomy and a permanent peace for the long-suffering people of Buganda!

Click here to sign the petition!