Uganda: What Has LRA's Nyekorach Matsanga Been Up To?

Posted to the web 23 July 2008 Shortly after the execution/assassination of Dr Jonas Savimbi, veteran of a brutal 30-year war of attrition in Angola, I did a lengthy story for The Monitor newspaper in which I tried to debunk the false and sickening aura of martyrdom and even heroism that was quickly enveloping the good man's memory. In death he was suddenly cast in this heroic role as an uncomprising freedom fighter who had forgone everything in an attempt to deliver Angola from the shackles of Portuguese imperialism and, later, from Cuban supported Marxism. There is a snake -like reptile that has the ability to move in either direction without turning. It is impossible to determine which end is the head. The Baganda call this creature ekirumira abiri, the one with two months, and it has come to symbolise a person of... [read full story]