Fellow Ugandans,
All Ugandans have to do a self evaluation, similar to what the American intelligence operatives are going through now-in light of the new administration policy against torture. One should decide on a degree of usability upon request from their boss, and say can I do that dirty bidding/work for you my president. We should learn how to stand firm against requests that compromise our self worth. Any requests that violates our senses of political correctness, borders on basic human rights abuse and requests that push one to take innocent lives directly or indirectly, if put in an uncomfortable awkward position, learn how to resign. I guess the question that never ran in the minds of many that we accuse today of gross abuses of human rights is What if they were on camera-how would they have wanted to appear on the evening news. Excoriating these individuals as icons of evil and simply throwing their names around, is not enough, we have to do better than that by ask the relevant question, What turned these good men into evil beings, capable of doing such evil things to sometimes their neighbours or family.
We have to dissect their Psyche, and gauge what sort of pressure is placed on a Ugandan government official, to cause them to carry out such evil bidding in the interest of the many. It pertains to not only Ugandan officials, but to those who carried out Hitler’s bidding in Nazi Germany. We need to do this analysis, because the next time around it could be anybody for that matter- faced with such a gut wrenching decision, how would we react?.
We need to know, that we the people of Uganda from hence forth, have established self constrainst and semaphores or a mechanism, that would stop dead future and present leaders from repeating the mistakes of yesterday. We are teaching our kids(future generations about problems of our past), ethics and constraints of this nature.
Tendo
