Yoweri Museveni Quotes (22 Quotes)


    an immediate cessation of hostilities and the determination to sign a cease-fire as soon as possible.

    The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to come in and insist that criminals must be punished. It happens in all countries, there is a time when the army assumes the duty of internal security.

    Since our region is endowed with a lot of natural resources, including reasonable supplies of fresh water, we need and we can work together to ensure this area against these vicissitudes.

    one based on speculation, smuggling. There was a black market on foreign currency and revenues were not being collected. So we cured all that.

    May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.


    I am sure our real vote is likely 75 percent, ... But since we didn't get it, I will take what we saved from the rigging.

    Some people say accident. It may be an accident, it may be something else, ... very well equipped . . . the one I am flying all the time. I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked, or there was some side wind, or the instruments failed, or there was an external factor.

    There are always arguments, but we ended with a unanimous agreement.

    This summit should bring peace to the Congo, ... We have to work toward democracy in the Congo because the lack of democracy is the source of this problem. That is our main challenge.

    What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

    When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo, ... The same kilo, when it is processed and sold in Britain, goes for 10, 11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation price disparity that goes for all raw materials.

    I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.

    We fought a lonely battle against terrorism sponsored by Sudan, and we have defeated it. We cannot be intimidated by any force. For us our guide is the Constitution of Uganda and the laws there under.

    The rebels attacked us (NRA soldiers) at a place called Corner Kilak 20 miles South of Kitgum (Town). They came in while singing and shouting our people (NRA) massacred those chaps. They approached our troops frontally. This gave us a very good chance because they exposed themselves so on Sunday (January 24, 1987) we surrounded them and massacred them. We massacred them very badly.

    If we don't catch them, we shall kill them, ... These bandits are not able to permanently engage us because they will be wiped out. Now that they have invited us, I think they are going to find out that it was not a wise decision.


    I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.

    You have been fighting but you did not have the expertise. You are like that the unprofessional cook who cooks malakwang (an Acholi delicacy), but now we said come here and become better cooks, if you have been quack doctors, we have trained you and made you professional doctors ,

    We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

    One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.

    You see when you give them (civil population in the North and East) a good beating then those who are using them will no longer use them. Since the month of January (1987), we have given them much beating especially in Lira and Kitgum Districts. And in fact the week I left (for Yugoslavia) we had given them a good blow in Gulu District. So it is going to settle down.

    I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method.


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