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PRESIDENT MUSEVENI:
KAGAMES LEADERSHIP
IDEOLOGICALLY BANKRUPT
(2001) December 9, 2012 15:34 History Rt. Hon. Claire Short
Secretary of State for Overseas
Development)
94 Victoria Street
LONDON
SW1E5JL RE: UGANDANS CONCERNS VISA
VIS RWANDA Salutations from your friends in
Uganda. I hope your trip around
(lie Great Lakes region was
pleasant and fruitful). I am embarrassed to have to
communicate with you about
the deteriorating situation in
the bilateral relations between
Uganda and the Government of
Rwanda, led by President Kagame. We have no doubt that
Rwanda is planning aggression
against us either using proxies
or, even, directly. There are
some Ugandan Army officers
who ran from here, jumping bail or fleeing potential
prosecution for a number of
crimes, to Rwanda. Since some
months these officers, who we
hear were given amnesty in
Rwanda, have been frantically telephoning many serving Army
officers in Uganda asking them
to betray their country by
spying for Rwanda and fighting
our Government and people.
Furthermore, they have been recruiting Ugandan youth and
taking them to Kigali for
military training. We are now
sure that they have opened
three training centres around
Kigali with the full supportof the Rwanda Government. We
hear that they have also opened
another centre for the same
purpose in Rutshuru, a part of
Eastern Congo they control.
Meanwhile, their intelligence is very aggressively inquiring
about the strength of various
Army units of ours and so on. You remember, just before you
came, I went to Rwanda and
met Mr. Kagame at the border,
on the Rwanda side. In that
meeting
You remember, just before you came, I went to Rwanda and
met Mr. Kagame at the border,
on the Rwanda side. In that
meeting we agreed that the
dissidents of the two Countries
entering either Country should not only not be supported by
the host Government, but they
should also not be allowed to
carry out any hostile activities
against their home Country. The
prohibited activities included propaganda not to mention
military training
and spying. Unfortunately, the
Rwanda Government is doing
the exact opposite. I had hoped
to talk to Mr. Kagame | in Arusha and in the recently
concluded SMART Partnership
meeting that took place here. As
Mr. Kagame did not come to
either, 1 managed to talk to him
only on telephone. I am soon sending our Foreign Minister to,
raise these matters again. Right Honourable Minister, we
have just defeated the
protracted terrorism organised
against us by Sudan, both in the
West of Uganda and in the
North. We cannot countenance nor tolerate another round of
terrorism this time organised by
Mr. Kagame whom we
sacrificed so much to stand with
when die whole World was
either against their cause or indifferent to it. I am, therefore, writing to you
for two reasons: 1. First of all, to inform you
about the sad and childish
developments here which,
nevertheless, are very grave for
(his region.
2. Secondly, to request you to show understanding to our
intention to raise our defence
spending beyond the 1.9 % of
GDP we had agreed with the
donors. You remember, I have
always held the view that given the instability of tills region, it is
naive and inviting trouble to
underspend perennially on
defence. 1.9 % of GDP has,
recently, been translating into
about US $110 million per annum. This figure could be
alright if we had finished the
capital development of our
Army involving training of
officers, NCOs and technical staff
(pilots, tank crews, artillery crews, etc.); buying or making
arrangements to receive
requisite equipment in case of
conflict given this unstable
region with all sorts of
adventurers with distorted concepts about society; and
building barracks for our Army
to have decent accommodation. Indeed, this was the aim when
we demobilised 60,000 soldiers
in
1992, remaining with only
about 40,000 soldiers. The purpose was to have a
smaller but better equipped and
(rained Army. We have never
achieved this because of the
perennial under-budgeting. This
incomplete development of our Army notwithstanding, we
have had to stand by Rwanda in
Congo although they do not
seem to show any appreciation
for the sacrifice and also cope
with the destabilization by Sudan. Given that Mr. Kagame is
turning the sister state of
Rwanda
into an enemy state to Uganda,
we cannot go on with the
hamstrung position of having a small, under-equipped Army in
such a volatile situation.
Besides, the endemic terrorism,
targeting soft targets (civilians),
scares away tourists who could
easily make a big contribution to our economy if only there
was total peace. It also stops
petroleum exploration, which is
promising. Therefore, adequate
military and security spending is
actually a most primary economic investment. We have ruled out the option of
expanding manpower because
a lot of manpower creates a lot
of recurrent costs (wages,
housing needs, drugs, uniforms,
etc). However, in order to have a strategic capacity to dissuade
or defeat any aggressor in the
region, we need 3 elements: a
large number of officers and
NCOs trained before hand (a
lieutenant leads 40 people); adequate numbers of technical
staff (pilots, (tank and Artillery
crews, field
engineering, etc); and a large
militia who are not part of the
regular Army and are, therefore, not paid. With these, we can
maintain nearly the present
number and only add on a few
thousand officers and technical
staff with equipment. In order
to create this capacity in the next three years we need an
extra US $139 million on top of
approximately US $113 million
we are getting for defence per
annum currently. (This is,
actually, a very modest figure rather than continue to risk the
security of our country in (lie
face of irresponsible
adventurers and reactionaries in
the region. Tins infrastructure is
comfortable. With adequate
leadership of the Army. (lie
equipment and the technical
staff in place, the small
manpower is no( a problem. If there is no war started by
adventurists, then you stay as
you are. If some foolish people
start a war, then you stalemate
the aggression for a few weeks,
using the small manpower and the good equipment you have
already procured as you
massively call up the reserve
militias around the leadership
(officers and NCOs) and the
technical staff (pilots, crews of tanks and Artillery, field
engineering staff, etc). To wait
to do these when war has
started, is a recipe for disaster.
We are not such fools and we
have never been. I need to inform you that
Rwanda currently has got an
Army of 100,000 officers and
men. They maintain this big
force by, apparently, not paying
wages for their soldiers in Congo. Apparently, they tell
their soldiers in Congo that they
will get their salaries when they
go back home. We are
beginning to interest ourselves
in the internal mechanisms of the Rwanda
Army, which has never been our
business. It is possibly this level
of
manpower that gives them the
arrogance to think that they can interfere in the internal affairs
of Uganda. Tills is in addition to
the ideological bankruptcy of
their leadership I have had
occasion to mention to you. In conclusion, I am writing to
you. Honourable Minister, for
two reasons: 1. To inform you of the
deteriorating relationship
between Uganda and Rwanda
on account of Mr. Kagame
planning aggression against our
Country. You remember how he tried to have a quisling regime
in Uganda by supporting Mr.
Besigye against me in the last
Presidential elections. Even
recently Rwanda intelligence
was involved in the so-called escape saga of Mr. Besigye. If
you can do something to
persuade Mr. Kagame from his
dangerous course, it would be
goodfor the region. 2. To tell you of our minimum
strategic measures to guarantee
the
security of our Country. I forgot
to tell you that we have rejected
and treated with contempt the idea of using proxies against
Rwanda. This is bankrupt and
can only be done by those that
are ideologically immature. First
of all, it is against the OAU
principles of non-interference in the internal affairs of member
slates except in the extreme
situations like the regime of
Amin in the 1970s and Mobutus
regime recently. Secondly, I
cannot send proxies against the people of Rwanda to plant
mines that kill civilians, The
people of Rwanda are not our
enemies. If Mr, Kagame decides
to be our enemy, it will be
himself that is the enemy and his few collaborators.
Unfortunately, though, since
they lead
that country, they can, initially,
mobilize their Army and their
Ugandan criminal agents against our country. These are
the ones we will have to deal
with and we shall do so
ourselves directly and never
through proxies. Rt. Hon. Short, please accept my
assurances of my highest
consideration
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF
UGANDA
Source: therwandan.com/blog/president-museveni-kagames-leadership-ideologically-bankrupt-2001/
KAGAMES LEADERSHIP
IDEOLOGICALLY BANKRUPT
(2001) December 9, 2012 15:34 History Rt. Hon. Claire Short
Secretary of State for Overseas
Development)
94 Victoria Street
LONDON
SW1E5JL RE: UGANDANS CONCERNS VISA
VIS RWANDA Salutations from your friends in
Uganda. I hope your trip around
(lie Great Lakes region was
pleasant and fruitful). I am embarrassed to have to
communicate with you about
the deteriorating situation in
the bilateral relations between
Uganda and the Government of
Rwanda, led by President Kagame. We have no doubt that
Rwanda is planning aggression
against us either using proxies
or, even, directly. There are
some Ugandan Army officers
who ran from here, jumping bail or fleeing potential
prosecution for a number of
crimes, to Rwanda. Since some
months these officers, who we
hear were given amnesty in
Rwanda, have been frantically telephoning many serving Army
officers in Uganda asking them
to betray their country by
spying for Rwanda and fighting
our Government and people.
Furthermore, they have been recruiting Ugandan youth and
taking them to Kigali for
military training. We are now
sure that they have opened
three training centres around
Kigali with the full supportof the Rwanda Government. We
hear that they have also opened
another centre for the same
purpose in Rutshuru, a part of
Eastern Congo they control.
Meanwhile, their intelligence is very aggressively inquiring
about the strength of various
Army units of ours and so on. You remember, just before you
came, I went to Rwanda and
met Mr. Kagame at the border,
on the Rwanda side. In that
meeting
You remember, just before you came, I went to Rwanda and
met Mr. Kagame at the border,
on the Rwanda side. In that
meeting we agreed that the
dissidents of the two Countries
entering either Country should not only not be supported by
the host Government, but they
should also not be allowed to
carry out any hostile activities
against their home Country. The
prohibited activities included propaganda not to mention
military training
and spying. Unfortunately, the
Rwanda Government is doing
the exact opposite. I had hoped
to talk to Mr. Kagame | in Arusha and in the recently
concluded SMART Partnership
meeting that took place here. As
Mr. Kagame did not come to
either, 1 managed to talk to him
only on telephone. I am soon sending our Foreign Minister to,
raise these matters again. Right Honourable Minister, we
have just defeated the
protracted terrorism organised
against us by Sudan, both in the
West of Uganda and in the
North. We cannot countenance nor tolerate another round of
terrorism this time organised by
Mr. Kagame whom we
sacrificed so much to stand with
when die whole World was
either against their cause or indifferent to it. I am, therefore, writing to you
for two reasons: 1. First of all, to inform you
about the sad and childish
developments here which,
nevertheless, are very grave for
(his region.
2. Secondly, to request you to show understanding to our
intention to raise our defence
spending beyond the 1.9 % of
GDP we had agreed with the
donors. You remember, I have
always held the view that given the instability of tills region, it is
naive and inviting trouble to
underspend perennially on
defence. 1.9 % of GDP has,
recently, been translating into
about US $110 million per annum. This figure could be
alright if we had finished the
capital development of our
Army involving training of
officers, NCOs and technical staff
(pilots, tank crews, artillery crews, etc.); buying or making
arrangements to receive
requisite equipment in case of
conflict given this unstable
region with all sorts of
adventurers with distorted concepts about society; and
building barracks for our Army
to have decent accommodation. Indeed, this was the aim when
we demobilised 60,000 soldiers
in
1992, remaining with only
about 40,000 soldiers. The purpose was to have a
smaller but better equipped and
(rained Army. We have never
achieved this because of the
perennial under-budgeting. This
incomplete development of our Army notwithstanding, we
have had to stand by Rwanda in
Congo although they do not
seem to show any appreciation
for the sacrifice and also cope
with the destabilization by Sudan. Given that Mr. Kagame is
turning the sister state of
Rwanda
into an enemy state to Uganda,
we cannot go on with the
hamstrung position of having a small, under-equipped Army in
such a volatile situation.
Besides, the endemic terrorism,
targeting soft targets (civilians),
scares away tourists who could
easily make a big contribution to our economy if only there
was total peace. It also stops
petroleum exploration, which is
promising. Therefore, adequate
military and security spending is
actually a most primary economic investment. We have ruled out the option of
expanding manpower because
a lot of manpower creates a lot
of recurrent costs (wages,
housing needs, drugs, uniforms,
etc). However, in order to have a strategic capacity to dissuade
or defeat any aggressor in the
region, we need 3 elements: a
large number of officers and
NCOs trained before hand (a
lieutenant leads 40 people); adequate numbers of technical
staff (pilots, (tank and Artillery
crews, field
engineering, etc); and a large
militia who are not part of the
regular Army and are, therefore, not paid. With these, we can
maintain nearly the present
number and only add on a few
thousand officers and technical
staff with equipment. In order
to create this capacity in the next three years we need an
extra US $139 million on top of
approximately US $113 million
we are getting for defence per
annum currently. (This is,
actually, a very modest figure rather than continue to risk the
security of our country in (lie
face of irresponsible
adventurers and reactionaries in
the region. Tins infrastructure is
comfortable. With adequate
leadership of the Army. (lie
equipment and the technical
staff in place, the small
manpower is no( a problem. If there is no war started by
adventurists, then you stay as
you are. If some foolish people
start a war, then you stalemate
the aggression for a few weeks,
using the small manpower and the good equipment you have
already procured as you
massively call up the reserve
militias around the leadership
(officers and NCOs) and the
technical staff (pilots, crews of tanks and Artillery, field
engineering staff, etc). To wait
to do these when war has
started, is a recipe for disaster.
We are not such fools and we
have never been. I need to inform you that
Rwanda currently has got an
Army of 100,000 officers and
men. They maintain this big
force by, apparently, not paying
wages for their soldiers in Congo. Apparently, they tell
their soldiers in Congo that they
will get their salaries when they
go back home. We are
beginning to interest ourselves
in the internal mechanisms of the Rwanda
Army, which has never been our
business. It is possibly this level
of
manpower that gives them the
arrogance to think that they can interfere in the internal affairs
of Uganda. Tills is in addition to
the ideological bankruptcy of
their leadership I have had
occasion to mention to you. In conclusion, I am writing to
you. Honourable Minister, for
two reasons: 1. To inform you of the
deteriorating relationship
between Uganda and Rwanda
on account of Mr. Kagame
planning aggression against our
Country. You remember how he tried to have a quisling regime
in Uganda by supporting Mr.
Besigye against me in the last
Presidential elections. Even
recently Rwanda intelligence
was involved in the so-called escape saga of Mr. Besigye. If
you can do something to
persuade Mr. Kagame from his
dangerous course, it would be
goodfor the region. 2. To tell you of our minimum
strategic measures to guarantee
the
security of our Country. I forgot
to tell you that we have rejected
and treated with contempt the idea of using proxies against
Rwanda. This is bankrupt and
can only be done by those that
are ideologically immature. First
of all, it is against the OAU
principles of non-interference in the internal affairs of member
slates except in the extreme
situations like the regime of
Amin in the 1970s and Mobutus
regime recently. Secondly, I
cannot send proxies against the people of Rwanda to plant
mines that kill civilians, The
people of Rwanda are not our
enemies. If Mr, Kagame decides
to be our enemy, it will be
himself that is the enemy and his few collaborators.
Unfortunately, though, since
they lead
that country, they can, initially,
mobilize their Army and their
Ugandan criminal agents against our country. These are
the ones we will have to deal
with and we shall do so
ourselves directly and never
through proxies. Rt. Hon. Short, please accept my
assurances of my highest
consideration
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF
UGANDA
Source: therwandan.com/blog/president-museveni-kagames-leadership-ideologically-bankrupt-2001/