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02.11.2012 Feature Article

Violence has always been part of mankind

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I have come to accept that Violence has always been a problem of the human condition. Violence has always been with us such that when I watch TV, read newspapers and see the way people are killing, torturing and beating each other, I don't get surprised anymore. Murder, torture, enslavement and similar crimes are happening all over the world. The Bukedde newspaper in Uganda has been consistent in showing all forms of violence in Uganda, and it should be applauded for this.

I have read messages showing that Idi Amin and Obote killed more Ugandans than the current leaders, which may not even be true. But even if it is true, murder becomes no less murder because it is directed against a whole tribe (as Obote did against Baganda) instead of a single person. A Fuehrer-Order, announcing the death of classifications of Jews can have no more weight in the scales of international justice than the order of a blogger or journalist who writes anti-government articles or an opposition figure such as Andrew Kayiira( RIP) who was killed in late 1980s.

USA
Violence may be of different forms and on a different scale but the violence in Africa is happening too elsewhere in the world in one way or the other. For instance, as anti-violence educator Jackson Katz documents in his film “Tough Guise,” over the past twenty years violence has come to be the defining feature of manhood in America. Violence and masculinity have become nearly synonymous.'' What Jackson is saying is that most of the men are violent and go around pretending to be Rambo of some kind.

America itself was established by its founding fathers through violence. Oh, yeah… getting blasted with water cannons, clubbed by police thugs and chewed up by police dogs was an excellent use of violence in the effort to secure the right to vote back in the 50s and 60s.Violence has always been the American way, and it has been used to accomplish many things, like a 40 hour work week, and higher wages. It worked well for the black people too.

GERMANY
In Germany, hateful rhetoric and subsequent violence has an eerily parallel to what happened in Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf is as vile as any book ever published.It was written in 1923 while he was in prison as a revolutionary agitator .The Jews were frequently referred to in “Mein Kampf” and Hitler had made plain his hated for them. In one section, Hitler wrote about how the Jews planned to “contaminate” the blood of pure Germans.

When he got into power, Hitler acted on the violent instincts in him to eliminate both the Jews and all his opponents. During World War Two the Germans put Jews and Communists in concentration camps. The USA locked also up the Japanese and their political opponents. At the end of the war there was a lot of deaths in the German camps from disease and starvation because Germany was being bombed to rubble.

Hitler and Stalin considered universal control of the educational system to be the means of achieving their own ends as well. One considered his own interests to be served by producing Nazi youth, the others interest was served by producing socialist youth.

Germany and France fought against each other several times, a reason i think the European Union was mainly started to stop the wars between the two. Germany was also 100% to blame for starting WW2. Germany started WW2 in Europe by invading Poland. Aside from the fact that, after Germany had signed the Treaty of Versailles to end World War I, which they had started by invading France (through neutral Belgium) in order to be able to attack Russia, and then violated one term of the treaty after another, and then signing the Munich Agreement, they invaded Poland. It was all done in order to fulfil Hitler's dream of clearing the inferior race of Slaves from the eastern areas to make living space for Germans.

ARMED REVOLUTION
Some Ugandans are already calling for a revolution to get rid of NRM and president Museveni. They want to use the same means Museveni used to get rid of Obote and UPC in the 1980s, because they see no other way of getting rid of the current dictatorship, but I still believe we can do better than this. Violence never always produces good leaders for a country as has been shown now in Uganda and in history. The Luwero war was justified but did we get the deal we wanted? The answer is 'no'.

For instance, In 1923 Germany was ripe for revolution. Adolf Hitler had 55,000 registered supporters, professional military officers (even Generals), the active support of hundreds of armed, trained, combat veterans, and public support, the like of which we could not even imagine!

On November 8, 1923, he attempted an armed revolution and failed. Think about it. If he failed in such an opportune situation which was probably better than our situation in Uganda at the moment, then why should we consider armed revolution in a country not ready for it – with no public support for violence, no known trained veterans supporting the opposition, no military officers openly calling for a revolution, and no organization within the opposition itself? Even the 'walk to work' never brought the government to a standstill or persuaded any of the foreign nations to help get rid of the government.

Even though in later years Adolf Hitler's support grew and the threat of Marxist take-over increased, he never again considered armed revolution. Instead, he carefully built a solid, Folk-based movement which ultimately could not be denied power! Adolf Hitler was solution-oriented, and I think the Uganda opposition should do the same instead of resorting to violence.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of colour or tribe or their religious affiliation. I also believe that all human beings are military leaders in one way or the other to help them to curb down the situation when faced by violence. This does not necessarily mean that the best leaders are those with a military background but it is an essential element in leadership, I think, through some people misuse it apart from England's Churchill.

Byebyo ebyange

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