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The Monitor (Kampala)
4 May 2008
Posted to the web 5 May 2008
Tabu Butagira
Kampala
The army has denied allegations of using underhand methods to grab the property of late President Idi Amin located on plots 33-35, Chwa Road in Mbuya, Kampala - four years after the former dictator died in exile in September 2003.
Maj. Paddy Ankunda, the defence and military spokesman said mid last week that the army has never owned the prime land in question, as alleged by three army officers currently occupying apartments on the land, and that, therefore, the institution should not be sucked into the raging ownership controversy.
"The army has no interest at all in that property," said Maj. Ankunda, "The matter [wrangle] is between the individual army officers occupying the house [on the contested land] and the claimants (Amin's family)."
Brig. Fred Mugisha, the commander of the UPDF's Field Artillery Division, Lt. John Mwesigwa of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence and Capt. Fred Zedekia, attached to Army General headquarters in Bombo currently reside in the contested buildings.
The trio first refused to vacate the house as ordered by President Yoweri Museveni on grounds that the Uganda Land Commission held the land in trust for the army. They later claimed that Amin obtained the property fraudulently.
Ms Maimuna Amin, one of the daughters of the late President said the 0.845 hectare land at Mbuya is "our family property", which "Mzee bought using his personal money."
Documents seen by Sunday Monitor indicate that the details of the transactions for plots 33-35 were entered in the particulars of Al-Hajji Field Marshall Idi Amin Dada at 11.00 a.m. on March 15, 1976.
"I don't know why the UPDF officers are disobeying Gen. Museveni's order to vacate our house," Ms Amin said, "Now, they are trying to use their power and money to manipulate things and grab the land and houses on it."
Gen. David Tinyefuza, the coordinator of national intelligence agencies whom President Museveni tasked to ensure the Amin family repossesses the property and be paid rent arrears dating to 1986, said he is "handling the matter."
"Since the officers living in the house are employees of the Ministry of Defence, I have asked the defence ministry and Attorney General's office to handle it," he said.
The Attorney General, Mr Kidhu Makubuya was not available for comment while his Deputy Mr Fred Ruhindi could not answer repeated phone calls from this paper.
Late Amin's son, Maj. Gen. Taban Amin, now the deputy director general of the International Security Organisation (in charge West Nile/eastern DRC) said they want the authorities to evict the three officers.
"We still hope that the soldiers occupying our family house at Mbuya will have the discipline to listen to the President and Commander-in-Chief Gen. Museveni and leave so that we secure vacant possession of the property immediately," he said adding: "We are tired of waiting for what is genuinely ours."
He said the family had all documents to prove ownership of the Mbuya plot. But Sunday Monitor has learnt that the copy of the original title deed for the contested property has mysteriously vanished from the file of the Registrar of Titles at the Central Registry at the lands ministry.
Instead two documents; one of which could be a forged title, are now in circulation.
"I don't know how it happened but the person who is the custodian of records at the Lands Registry should be able to explain or be liable when another person forges the said documents to claim our plots in Mbuya," said Ms Amin.
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Even after an official appointment on April 22, Sunday Monitor waited for more than one an hour before seeing Ms Sarah Basangwa, the acting Commissioner for Land Registry who suddenly said she could not speak to journalists without authorisation by line Permanent Secretary, Mr Gabindadde Musoke.
She referred Sunday Monitor to the permanent secretary. But the secretary to the PS, who identified herself as Ms Brenda said her boss, Mr Musoke would not be available for many days.
The ministry's spokesman, Mr Denis Obbo had earlier said the explanation Sunday Monitor was seeking on disappearance of title deeds was a "tough one"
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MASS KILLINGS AND DICTATORSHIP IN UGANDA
MEMORANDUM
BY A. MILTON OBOTE
PRESIDENT: UGANDA PEOPLES CONGRESS
TO: ALL MEMBERS OF UGANDA PEOPLES CONGRESS
MASS KILLINGS AND DICTATORSHIP IN UGANDA.
On 10th April, President Museveni gave an account of his over 14 years rule. It was an explicit eulogy in praise of a system of governance under which the people of Uganda have suffered and continue to suffer routine mass killings; have had their God given human rights and freedoms suppressed; have known so much debilitating poverty in a situation where rampant corruption makes the rulers to wallow in ill-gotten wealth.
Uganda has been governed, since January 1986, under a system of governance which is a crime against humanity. Mass killings, genocide or massacres are crimes against humanity. The personal army which Yoweri Museveni raised in 1979/80 has fought wars since February 1981 to date against disparate adversaries, in all the four Regions of Uganda. In each theatre of war, the nature of mass killings has been the same. Also the same, has been the saturating propaganda to ascribe the killings in every theatre to the disparate adversaries.
Since only one army namely, the personal army raised by Yoweri Museveni, has been present in each war theatre in each of the four Regions from 1981 to date and since the nature of the atrocities in each theatre has been the same, the constant, persistent and pervading exonerations of that army from all the atrocities by particularly the Uganda dictatorship and governments in the older democracies, have long become part and parcel of the policy to conceal crimes against humanity.
The existence of dictatorship since January 1986 - over 14 years now - which is strongly supported, praised and its entrenchment is heavily financed by governments in the older democracies, has effectively made the continuing mass killings (crimes against humanity) non-events or events which do not directly originate from the system of governance which is dictatorship.
Neither the Uganda dictatorship nor any government in the older democracies accepts it as a fact that dictatorship has existed in Uganda for over 14 years now. By denying the fact, the Uganda dictatorship and the governments in the older democracies have therefore been and are inevitably collaborating in entrenching dictatorship under which a culture of mass killings has been established and is to continue.
The Uganda dictatorship and the governments in the older democracies are determined to dupe and defraud world opinion to believe that the dictatorship which has now existed for over 14 years and under which the culture of mass killings has been established, does not in fact exist and that there has been and there is so much political freedom in Uganda that the electorate are due this coming June to choose and adopt a system of governance in a free and fair referendum. The dupery and fraud come out clearly in that the referendum is to be held under a de facto political system of governance which has removed from politics the enjoyment and exercise by the citizen of his/her human rights and freedoms. That the referendum is to make that removal permanent is not acknowledged but instead concealed by the dictatorship and governments in the older democracies.
Except for Rwanda which is a satellite of the Uganda dictatorship, governments in the older democracies are vehemently opposed to the Uganda system of governance to obtain or exist in any other African country and will only accept it, should the Uganda dictatorship impose it elsewhere through war of genocide, massacres, devastations and despoliations. Governments in the older democracies therefore have a dual policy, one for Uganda and its satellites and another for the rest of Africa on the very important matter of the human rights and freedoms of the individual. Second, governments in the older democracies have been and are actively promoting multiparty politics and free and fair multiparty elections and governance elsewhere in Africa but not in Uganda where their policy is to entrench through a phony an fraudulent referendum the military cum one-party dictatorship.
In February 1981, Yoweri Museveni launched and waged a vicious war for four years in Luwero District. His fake and spurious reason was that the December 1980 elections had been rigged. Although he and members of his Party were free to petition the High Court for redress, he avoided the Court precisely on two grounds. The first was that he could not prove in Court that the elections had been rigged. The second ground was that he had in 1979/80 raised a personal army for the conquest and governance of Uganda under a system, which suppresses the human rights and freedoms of the individual citizen.
On the eve of the referendum to consolidate and entrench the system of governance imposed in January 1986 by Museveni's personal army, Uganda and the rest of the World have been presented with evidence of mass killings in Kanungu and surrounding areas. The road from Luwero District to Kanungu in Rukingiri District has been strewn with much bloodshed and mass killings.
To eulogize a track record of much bloodshed, mass killings, suppressions of the human rights and freedoms of the individual, corruption as a tenet of governance, impoverishment of the people of Uganda as Museveni did on 10th April and for governments in the older democracies to continue to support, praise and heavily finance in order to entrench the continuance of the track record, is to remove the people of Uganda from the applications of the UN Declaration of Human Rights Charter and therefore from the human race.
The foundation of the system of governance, which Museveni was eulogizing, is a military Proclamation and not the plighted and sublime political position of the people of Uganda. The legacy of the Independence Struggle and of Independence itself is that not only the country must be free from foreign rule but also that every citizen must always be free to enjoy and exercise his/her human rights and freedoms of the individual. The legacy of the Independence Struggle was annulled by Museveni's personal insurgent army, which instead imposed governance by that army and its Political Wing once known as the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and now known as the Movement.
12. Governance by the army and its political Wing as well as the removal of the voice of the citizen from the governance of Uganda, were made explicit in the army's Proclamation the Preamble of which reads as follows:-
"WHEREAS on the 26th day of January, 1986, the National Resistance Army, for reasons given in the Statement to the National Resistance Army and the National Resistance Movement on that day, took over the powers of the Government of the Republic of Uganda and vested those powers in the National Resistance Council: NOR PURSUANT to such powers I HEREBY PROCLAIM:"
Although it was the National Resistance Army (NRA) which "took over the powers of the Government of the Republic of Uganda" and which have never been returned to the people for them to exercise through their elected representatives who are elected upon the freedoms of conscience and of association and in competitive free and fair multiparty elections, the Proclamation issued by the NRA was signed by "Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Chairman, National Resistance Movement" and the organ which was the real force or power namely, the NRA was thereby concealed. This concealment of what is real or fact in the governance of Uganda has continued and has become, since 1986, a tenet of governance.
The tenet is explicit in the concealment that the Movement Political System of governance is not in office, has not been in office since 1986 and has to be a candidate in the referendum so as to enable the electorate to decide by their votes whether the Movement or any other system should be adopted. The concealment of the Movement being in office since 1986, is most explicit in the Constitution Promulgated in 1995 where at Articles 69 and 271 it is provided that the people shall determine either through free and fair elections or referendum the political system they wish to adopt. In his harangue on 10th April, Museveni, on the other hand, clearly gave it out that the Movement without being chosen and adopted as provided in Articles 69 and 271 of the Constitution has, in fact, been in office since 1986, and that is the real situation which is also provided in paragraph (e) of Article 269 of the Constitution.
The referendum to be held next June is therefore cynically phony, most fraudulent and a glaring chicanery precisely because the Movement is already in office and has been in office since 1986 and has, during the same period of over 14 years outlawed and made morbid all its competitors. Last October when Peter Hain, the British Minister of State in the Foreign Office was in Uganda, Museveni wrote a letter to a newspaper. In the letter, he asserted that the Movement system shall continue until or unless the Movement recommends it to the electorate to change it through a referendum. Since the Movement system is to continue in office after the referendum, what then is the purpose of the very costly referendum if not a chicanery to dupe the international community to believe that its continuance in office is the choice of the people?
The most offending and arrogant reality in the assertion made by Museveni is that the Movement is the custodian of the freedom of conscience and custodian of the human rights and freedoms of the individual citizen of Uganda. Since the custodian is not to recommend to the electorate a change of system in the June referendum, the outcome is a foregone conclusion which therefore confirms the referendum to be phony, fraudulent and a chicanery to deceive.
For the past 14 years, the Movement system of governance has prohibited the Uganda citizen to determine the nature and level of his/her participation in the politics of the country. The system has imposed it that participation in politics, elections and governance can and must only be under the aegis of the Movement and therefore that there must be no competing political associations (Parties) and no articulated opposing and different ideas or policies in the political arena. This policy and characteristic of the Movement is a gross violation of the human rights and freedoms of the individual and to have the Movement as a candidate in the referendum shall also amount to have the nature and level of the enjoyment and exercise of the human rights and freedoms of the individual to be determined by strangers which is an unmitigated profanity and evil. The Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) reaffirms and reiterates that even if it should be released from the shackles of morbidity in Article 269 of the Constitution, the Party shall not subscribe to or participate in a profane and evil referendum which is also, at the same time, phony and fraudulent.
The greatest hoax in or about the referendum is that the Movement shall have competitors. Since the provisions of Article 269 of the Constitution are to remain in force in the run-up to the referendum, it follows most clearly that there can be no viable competitor to the Movement in the referendum. Secondly, under the Movement Act, the Movement has established tentacles from every village upwards and all institutions of governance such as Parliament and every Lower Council are now organs of the Movement. In addition, the Headquarters, staff and operations of the Movement are financed from public funds. None of the make-believe groups registered by the Electoral Commission to be the competitors of the Movement in the referendum has the muscle anywhere near that of the Movement and even all of them working together, their combine efforts cannot seriously be considered as a viable competitor of the Movement.
The Movement has already won the referendum on account of the provisions of Article 269 of the Constitution being in force in the run-up to the referendum. Despite or in spite of knowing the practical effect of the provisions of the Article, there are governments in the older democracies that are still urging the political Parties to deceive world public opinion that they (the Parties) can participate in the referendum. The parties have been and are being urged to accept it that the debilitating hemlock which the Movement dictatorship has served on their structures and virility for over 14 years is, in fact, and energizing antidote for effective participation in the referendum. The position of the governments in the older democracies is another concealment, the concealment of a one candidate referendum by roping into it sham and ineffectual competitors.
It has been either a sinister policy or the inability of the governments in the older democracies not to see the National Resistance Army (NRA) and its political Wing, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) as a monster which has made the people of Uganda to suffer so much death, deprivations, devastations, despoliations and loss of human rights and freedoms. After the referendum, the situation will be worse and what is to come has already been predicated in Kanungu where hundreds of people were massacred and buried in deep mass graves without anyone bearing witness and in a place which is not a war zone and which is under a system of governance in which every hamlet is under the watch of the apparatchik of the dictatorship for 24 hours a day.
Mass killings have been most pronounced and most preponderant under the system of governance established by the NRA/NRM/Movement. The irony in the Uganda tragedy is that when the NRA removed a gormless military Junta in January 1986, the NRA faced no opposition political or military. When the leaders of the Democratic Party (DP) and the Conservative Party (CP) became soon thereafter Cabinet Ministers, their decision gave the regime much needed credence. The Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) whose government had been overthrown in a coup by the Junta in July 1985, regarded the removal of the Junta as a poetic justice and decided to take a low profile.
Peace returned to the whole country soon after the overthrow of the military Junta. It was given a great booster by the promise by Museveni made on 28th January 1986 that his regime will last for four years after which elections would be held. Since free and fair multiparty elections were provided in Chapter III of the 1967 Constitution and since the NRA Proclamation left the entire Chapter intact, prospects for peace and stability were not only present but also great.
In the middle of March, 1986, despite the leaders of the DP and CP being Cabinet ministers, the NRA/NRM without any legislation but only by a mere Statement issued what has since become the corner stone of the system of governance and which the referendum is designed to entrench. The corner stone now codified in Article 269 of the 1995 Constitution provides as follows:-
No political Party is permitted to open and/or operate Branch offices;
No political Party is permitted to hold a Delegates Conference (Convention) in order to formulate its policies or elect its national leaders;
No political Party is permitted to hold public rallies or meetings in order to debate public affairs or official policies;
No political Party is permitted to sponsor or offer a platform to or in any way campaign for or against a candidate for any public elections; and
No political Party is permitted to carry on any activities that may interfere with the Movement system of governance which does not permit competition nor opposition.
The abominable system of governance established by the NRA/NRM/Movement, is characterized by the removal of the God given human rights and freedoms of the individual from politics, elections and governance; has been and is sustained by pronounced and preponderant mass killings which, in turn, has produced the culture of rebel armies and the system is therefore a crime against humanity but which, unaccountably, has been and is still being supported, praised and heavily financed by governments in the older democracies. Kanungu, a rural community where all the adults know one another and are in daily contact, should alert the governments in the older democracies, even at this late hour before the referendum, that there is something most horrible and wicked in a system of governance under which massacres and burials can occur in a rural area where everyone knows one another without any single person knowing anything about the massacres and secret burials. Even if the victims were all foreigners such as the Hutus or Congolese it is impossible that no one in Kanungu knew of the mass killings and burials which therefore raises the question of why the total ignorance of the Kanungu residents.
The Kanungu cult leaders and members were not the rulers of Kanungu and the surrounding areas. They did not control the Resistance Councils which President Museveni and his dictatorship established in Kanungu, the surrounding areas and throughout Uganda.
The bodies of the Kanungu victims having been exhumed from mass graves were hurriedly buried in new mass graves on the lame excuse that Uganda has no forensic capacity to preserve the bodies and determine the identities of the victims. There is a Forensic Department at the Makerere Medical School and also at the Government Chemist. If the authorities were really concerned or wanted, nothing stood in the way against their asking for forensic assistance from countries near and far. As it happened, the authorities have buried much evidence of what really happened to the victims and the reason for the ignorance of the Kanungu residents may lay in the decision of the authorities to hurriedly bury the bodies and to ban local journalists to visit the areas.
After the church inferno, some people came out and easily pointed to mass graves over tall grass and even under the floor of a house and pointed to bodies of victims in pit latrines. Who are these people and where were they when the massacres were being committed and bodies of victims being buried in mass graves or thrown into pit latrines. What happened in Kanungu is very reminiscent to what happened in Luwero District in 1986. After establishing its dictatorship, the NRA officers and men went into the District and unerringly pointed to mass graves, all over tall grass, from whence human remains were exhumed. Kanungu appears to be history repeating itself.
What happened in Kanungu is clearly not yet out. The only thing, which can be said with certainty, is that the conspiracy of silence could never have existed or taken root had the political Parties been active and operative. That the conspiracy existed and took root condemns the Movement System as a crime against humanity.
It would be a very grave mistake for the people of Uganda, the governments in the older democracies and the international community to believe that what happened in Kanungu and the surrounding areas had nothing to do with the system of governance established by the NRA and NRM in January 1986. Until what caused the conspiracy of silence becomes fully known, the system of governance must remain a leading suspect in the Kanungu mass killings.
The Kanungu killings fall squarely into the category of previous killings such as those committed during the Force Obote Back Again (FOBA) operations of 1986 in areas where there was no war. The difference, this time, is that some cult leaders are being blamed for the Kanungu killings whereas in the previous FOBA cases, the same FOBA army did not exist and was a pure invention and pretext.
Even if it should be proved that the cult leaders and members committed the crimes, the fact that hundreds of people were massacred and buried not is shallow but in deep graves with no one outside the cult knowing anything, condemns the Resistance Councils and the Intelligence apparatchiks of the dictatorship. The Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) therefore demands the immediate resignations or dismissals of the minister of Local Government (responsible for the Resistance Councils) and of the minister of Internal Affairs (responsible for Internal security).
A. Milton Obote
President
Uganda Peoples Congress
April, 14, 2000
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AN INTRODUCTION TO LAW
11. Any person charged with an offence has the right
(a) To be informed without unreasonable delay of the specific offence;
(b) To be tried within a reasonable time;
(c) Not to be compelled to be a witness in proceedings againist that person in respect of the offence;
(d) To be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to the law in a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal;
(e) Not to be denied reasonable bail without just cause;
(f) Except in the case of an offence under military law tried before a military tribunal to the benefit of trial by jury where the maximum punishment for the offence is imprisonment for five years or a more severe punishment;
(g) Not to be found guilty on account of any act or omission unless at the time of the act or omission it constituted an offence under Canadian or international law or was criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations;
(h) If finally acquited of the offence not to be tried for it again and if found guilty and punished for the offence not to be tried or punished for it again; and
(i) If found guilty of the offence and the punishment for the offence has been varied between the time of commission and time of sentencing to the benefit of the lesser punishment.
12. Everyone has the right not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.
13. A witness who testifies in any proceedings has the right not to have any incriminating evidence so given used to incriminate that witness in any other proceedings except in a prosecution for perjury or for the giving of contradictory evidence.
14. A party or witness in sny proceedings who does not understand or speak the language in which the proceedings are conducted or who is deaf has the right to the assistance of an interpreter.
There have been several important court decisions on the applications of these sections to criminal law. These decisions will be discussed in the following chapters. In particular, s.8, s.9, and s.10 and parts of s.11 will be outlined in Chapter Five which discusses pre-trial procedure. Cases concerning the rights of the accused at trial will be illustrated in Chapter Two. This Article released under United Nations Convention Act. citizens right to know. A peace of Legal Advise to our Community. this just a little learning without going into the Details. Bravo.
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EXAMPLES OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN THE CHARTER
Fundamental freedoms: Freedom of conscience religion thought belief opinion and expression freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Democratic right: The right of Canadian citizens to vote or to run for office.
Mobility rights: The right of Canadian citizens to enter remain in and leave Canada and the right of Canadian citizens and permanent residents to live and work in any province of Canada.
Equally rights: The right to be treated equally before and under the law the right to the equal protection of the law and benefit of the law without discrimination based on race national or ethnic origin colour religion age or mental or physical disability.
The Charter also protects the two official languages of Canada French and English. The charter has special importance to criminal law. To enforce the law protect the public and prosecute offenders police and others in the criminal justice system are given certain powers and authority to interfere with individual liberty. For example the power to search and to make arrests are significant infringements of personal freedom. The charter serves an important function of setting out rules of procedure for exercising these powers and limitations on the authority allowed to law enforcement personnel. The most important rights for criminal law are the legal rights set out in s.7-s. 14. Section 7 states:
7. Everyone has the right to life liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.
This general statement says that a person cannot be denied life liberty or security of the person without the principles of fundamental justice being followed. The supreme Court of Canada has said that the principles of fundamental justice are to be found in the basic tenets of our legal system and that it is up to the courts to develop the limits of these tenets. In other words the courts will decide on a case-by-case basis whether a tenet of fundamental justice has been violated. For example the ontario court of appeal has held that the right to remain silent when an offence is being investigated is and always has been a principle of fundamental justice. Therefore the police violated this right when an accused was told that he would be held until the keys to the car that the police believed he had stolen could be found. In other words he would be held until he gave the police the keys or told the police where the keys could be found. The supreme court of Canada held recently that a provincial law which imposed a minimum seven-day sentence on a person who was driving with a suspended licence even though he was unaware that his licence had been suspended violated a principle of fundamental justice. The Court also said that s.8-s.14 are specific situations involving the deprivation of life liberty or security of the person sections 8, 9 and 10 concern pre-trial procedure 8.Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizer. 9. Everyone has the right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisonment. 10.Everyone has the right on arrest or detention {a}to be informed promptly of the reasons therefore, {b}to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of the right, and {c}to have the validity of the detention determined by way of habeus corpus and to be released if the detention is not lawful. Sections 11, 12, 13, and 14, relate to trail procedure. For your Info all the Sections In this Artical is repetriated from United Nations Charter, U.N. call it Article 1 to Article 14. Here in Canada is Called Sections in the supreme Law of Canada The Constitution therefore this Articles applies into both National as well International Law. Bravo.
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NOTES: THIS DECLARATION HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR PARENTS WHO WISH TO EXERCISE THEIR AUTHORITY OVER THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN
This Declaration has been prepared for parents who wish to exercise their authority over the education of their children. The Declaration is intended to provide a legitimate means of information school administration and teaching staff of restrictions that may be necessary in the face of increasing attemps by teachers to deal with matters which properly belong with parents, it is not intende to put any obstacle in the way of proprly conducted classes in the regular academic curriculum. Parents. 1}Parents who use this declaration are to use it without any alteration The specific wording is to cover those situations for which parents are entitled to exercise their rights under law and tradition. 2} Parents are urged to register their declaration{s} with Citizens Research Institute, so that a record is kept and the numbers of parents using this form of authrity can be known. Although this form may be photocopied for use by others, it must be copied unaltured in this format. 3}Please remove the registration form on the bottom of the Declaration and mail it to Citizens Research Institute. in responding to the issues, to know how many Parents must resort to this form of Protection, Be assured that Addresses and other information will be keept Confidential by citizens and lists will be made to anyone. School Administration: 1} Please place this Declaration in the file of the student named. 2} Since the topic reffered to may arise in any subject area, all teachers who have authority and priximity to the student named are to be made aware of this Declaration. Bravo.
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THIS DECLARATION IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED AND SERVED UPON THE ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF OF: SCHOOLS.
NAME OF SCHOOL_____________________________________ WHEREAS: The Supreme Court Of Canada has stated that Parents delegate their parental authority to teachers and entrust them with the responsibility of instiling in their children a large part of the store of learning they will acquire during their development, and WHEREAS: Pursuant to The UNITED NATIONS Convention on the Rights of the child, every child has the right to preserve his/her identity as a member of his/her Family, and the right to be free from inteference with his/her privacy, Family, honour and reputation, and WHEREAS: Section {95}2 of the School Act states the highest morality shall be inculcated, but no religious dogma or creed shall be taught in a school or Provincial school, and WHEREAS: The 1988 Royal Commission on Education stated : that neither the provicial shool system, nor the helping agency of government, should usurp in any way the priori right and responsibilities of parents and the family in providing for the overall care of the young , The Family. past and present, remains the most instrumental social institution to provide for the needs of children, and WHEREAS: Parents are universally recognised as having primacy in the education of their child{ren}, and all the participants in process of education fulfil their duties only with the parents consent and authorisation and WHEREAS: Teachers must respect, honour and protect a familys right to instil and uphold their values, which includes their cultural traditions, religious and/or moral beliefs, NOTICE HEREBY GIVEN: as of this ___day of _______________________________and until this notice is revoked by the under undersigned, that_____________________________must not by any teacher or through the teacher any other persons or resource materials or the learning environment be exposed to and/or involved in any activity or program which:
1. Discusses or portrays the lifestyle of gays lesbians bisexual and/or transgendered individuals as one which is normal accpetable or must be tolerated and/or
2. Exposes my child to any adverse consequences including questions ridicule or hostility for views which arise out of our family's cultural traditions religious and/or moral beliefs.
FURTHER NOTICE IS GIVEN
That my child is not to be ostracized or suffer any form of retribution as a result of any provisions made in honouring the restrictions noted above nor is my child to be approached for his/her consent to participate with the intent to nullify this declaration.
ENFORCING THIS DECLARATION
This declaration shall form a permanent part of my child student files and that any school personnel who have authority and proximity to my child shall be made aware of the restrictions contained herein. Should this declaration be violated in any manner intentional or otherwise legal action may be taken againist the teacher or teachers their administrator(s) and employer(s). Signed____________________parents of child named above}
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re concern citizens requeating the united nations secretary general to send the teams of officials dealing with cases of persons with disabilities PWD to canada. and meet with canadian government. federal, as well provincial government. the concern citizens raise their voice to be hard by higher authorities. this due to their request for persons with disabilities PWD are turned down denied by ministry of human resources employment & income assistence based on their religious belief, people of colour, despite doctors and medical reports, all overlooked by ministries staffs. the applicants met the eligibility for persons with disabilities. PWD under section 2 of persons with disability act. this are politicaly done by groups of feminist womens & men employed by the ministry. the government should investigate cases. by concern citizens.
re. visit this weblogs. has alot of Information, including our family group photos. click here. http://ugandan-communityinvancouverblogspo.blogspot.com/ bravo.
Please send this message to every one you know.
If you dont.... A Muslim(s) around the world could be receiving false information about Islam which you know about, so I would send this messages as soon as u have read it.
Beware of the following websites:
1. www.answering-islam.org
2. www.aboutislam.com
3. www.thequran.com
4. www.allahassurance.com
These sites have been developed by Jews
Who Intentionally spread wrong information about the QURAN , the HADITH and the Islam Please spread this information To all the Muslim brothers and sisters around the world. Al ways check the source of any Islamic web site even if it is very convincing
A FAKE AMERICAN QURAAN
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1579211755/qid%3D1096805827/102-4933271-2395342
Above: 'The True Furqan'
You Cant Ignore this, send it to as many muslims as u can.
The new AMERICAN Quran: a dangerous trick A new Quran
is being distributed in Kuwait, titled 'The True
Furqan'. It is being described as the ayats of the
Shaytan and Al-Furqan weekly magazine has found out
that the two American printing companies;'Omega 2001'
and 'Wine Press' are involved in the publishing of
'The True Furqan', a book which has also been titled
'The 21st Century Quran'! It is over 366 pages and is
inboth the Arabic and English languages...it is being
distributed to our children in Kuwait in the private
English schools! The book contains 77 Surats, which
include Al-Fatiha, Al-Jana and Al-Injil. Instead of
Bismillah, each Surat begins with a longer vesion of
this incorporating the Christian belief of the three
spirits.
And
this so! called Quran opposes many Islamic
beliefs. in one of its ayats it describes having more
than one wife as fornication, divorce being
non-permissable and it uses a new system for the
sharing out of the will, opposing the current one. It
states that Jihad is HARAAM.
This book even goes as far as attacking Allah,
Subhanahu wa Tahala!
All this is poisoning our children at approx. $3.
Brothers and Sisters please make sure you forward this
email to as many people as possible so that we can
stop this dangerous trick.
Please tell everyone you know and may Allah reward
you re: Forwarded in the website: it reaches billions of readers. Bravo. salam warahma.
OBITUARY!
The Uganda Community in Berlin regrets to inform you of the untimely death of Ugandas' Ambassador to Germany His Excellency Samson Nyinye Bitahwa. He passed away on Friday the 11th July,2008 in Benjamin Franklin hospital after a short illness. The late Samson Bitahwa was officially accredited as Ugandas' Ambassador to Germany on the 22.11.2007 . A Condolence Book has been opened for signing at the Uganda Embassy, Axel Springerstrasse 54a on Thursday 17th July from 9.30 to 17.00 hrs and on Friday 18th July from 9.30 to 14.00hrs. The berieved family will not hold funeral services in Berlin. May His Soul rest in Peace!
John Lwanga and crew have released a new record to fundraise for a technical School in Uganda.
The price of Political grumble in the neighbourhood!
After the European football cup championship let us have the Africa Boabab 2008.
European African Summit in Lisbon. How
The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily
21/07/2008
Hello, Majid Amonye Junior.
kadara kursum Amonye.is suggesting the following article from http://www.arabnews.com:
UN urged to adopt recommendations of Madrid forum
P.K. Abdul Ghafour | Arab News
JEDDAH: Muhammad bin Ahmed Tayeb, director general of the Foreign Ministry's regional office, has called upon the United Nations to adopt the resolutions taken by last week's interfaith conference in Madrid as working plans for its various organizations.
He said the World Conference on Dialogue in the Spanish capital which was called by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, was a big success in terms of the large-scale participation of the leaders of different faiths, and the important resolutions it passed.
"We consider this interfaith conference as a turning point in history. It reflects the vision of King Abdullah who wants to promote constructive dialogue among followers of different religions for the benefit of humanity," Tayeb told Arab News.
Nearly 300 delegates representing Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other faiths from over 50 countries attended the conference, which was opened by King Abdullah on Wednesday in the presence of Spain's King Juan Carlos.
"I hope the United Nations Security Council and other UN agencies will adopt the principles agreed upon at the conference as guidelines for promoting world peace and preventing attacks and discrimination on a sectarian basis," he said.
Tayeb urged all countries to include the importance of dialogue in their educational curricula, as well as in their regulations, in order to develop a culture of dialogue.
Tayeb said the conference's success would depend on how the world responded to King Abdullah's great initiative and how it seized the momentum set in motion by the Saudi leader. "It is the joint responsibility of the followers of all religions to reciprocate positively in order to build on this initiative," he added.
The Saudi official emphasized that the conference would have great impact on international relations. "We know that religions play a big role in promoting peace and stability and peaceful coexistence among them will boost cooperation among nations," he added.
He said the delegates had agreed that religion is to unite humanity, not to divide it. "By holding this conference, we Muslims have succeeded in projecting the true face of Islam that stands for peace, justice, equality and tolerance," he added.
"Islam has a universal message and calls for peaceful coexistence with followers of other religions and it does not want to impose its principles and teachings on other communities," he explained.
In a related development, the Shoura Council commended King Abdullah for organizing the Madrid conference at a time when world peace is threatened by wars, violence and terrorism.
A statement issued by the council hoped that the conference would play a big role in highlighting the humanitarian face of Islam and removing misconceptions about it.
"It was a good opportunity to establish bridges of contacts with other faiths and uphold
Hi,
My name is Lydia Cambron and I am a student from Emily Carr University working on a research and design project for a low-tech oxygen distribution system for Mulago Hospital in Kampala Uganda. I am working on gaining a better understanding of the various cultural and social considerations and am searching for Ugandans in British Columbia who would be
willing to talk with me and provide insight based on their firsthand knowledge and experience. I was wondering if you or anyone you know may be willing to speak with me.
Thank you
-Lydia
778-558-5717
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This is a copy of the following message you sent to Connect Uganda Presenters via Connect Uganda
This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.connectuganda.com from:
ugandan muslims association in bc
My, learned Imam Fuad Drame. members of the UMAIBC Family, ladies &. gentlement-assalamualeikum wa rahmatulilahi wa barakatuhu-may the peace and blessings of allah [SWT] the god almighty be upon you all. on behalf of UMAIBC. I am honoured to welcome you to our 2008 Eid-El-Fitre salat. we are fortunate to be blessed by allah [SWT] to participate in this beautiful occassion. My respected brothers and sisters-today I wish to share with you and your families the message of peace. love and mercy, which is the corner stone of UMAIBCs universal philosophy of peace and love to the world.to all mankind. especialy in africa,and uganda in particular. close IDP camps in northern uganda. land grabing in buganda & else where in the country. ladies and gentlements -exactly one year ago. we had shared a dream which helped us chart our vision. that shared dream and common vission was to build the house of allah. Masjid al-taubah. My respected brothers and sisters - our dream and our vision are
very much alive and will remain our guiding principle, our unassailable challenge. and our divine inspiration until these are fulfiled. we are pleased to inform you that with the blessings of allah [SWT] , a Masjid/Mosque project committee has been formed which is actively engaged in the pursuit of our shared dream and our common vision. we will provide you with progress report on a periodic basis. ladies and gentlement-let us remember -- when we take oath of fealry to allah. [SWT], and his beloved prophet. muhamed peace be upon him and his family. there is no turning back. we must be prepared to march forward every step of the way till we have reached our final destination- to complete the house of allah. my respected brothers and sisters- when you need to reach out to allah [SWT] look inside your own heart, a heart which is blessed with love . mercy and compassion is where you will find god . please help us fulfil our shared dream . so that we can all look back with
satisfaction and say that allah has indeed blessed us, that allah is pleased with us. ladies and gentlement-our means are humble but our ambitions are great. and by the grace of god almighty, we stand resolved to have our ambitions fulfiled inshaallah. good turn up for eid dinner. eid mubarak to you all, also to mike and queenie, & the rest, hope this time queenie are in the studio. todays marks to all of you. 105 for each of you. thank you of connecting all ugandans all over the globe. once again eid greetings to amonyes family wherever they are. to brother jaffar remo and family,in arua, to sister mariam chandiru in koboko. to baba hussein diligaand family in arua, to aunty rafah amin, aunty dee amin, they are all in arua,to sister maimuna moding, sister hajira aka amin, sister zaituni kaday. to cousin safiya adi nebu, they are akk in kampala. may allah accept ou fasting, our prayers, and devotion. may allah grant us the strength, courage and determonation to build Masjid/Mosque Islamic schools around the world. uganda, west nile in particular, koboko, where my beloved father, RIP al-haji Iddi Amin dada come from. he united all ugandans during his time of presidency in uganda. he was a founder of economic Independence in uganda. see how ugandans are suffering now. poverty,HIV/AID/ corruptions, no
peace for almost twenty years now. since my dad left. may allah unite the muslims umah as well non muslims to learn to live together as was in 1971 up to 1979. from the president of ugandan muslims association.\in bc. majid amonye junior & family. address. 418. main street. chinatown. P.O.box.88073 vancouver. bc. postal. code. V6A-4A4 western canada. email: umaibc@gmail.com website. http://ugandan-muslims-association-in-bc.blogspot.com/2008/02/ugandan-muslims-association-in-bc_14.html http://alemiamonye.blogspot.com/ respectively. salam warahma.
With the Name of God
The City Circle cordially invites you to the following event:
Subject: THE GAZA STRIP: A HUMANITARIAN IMPLOSION
Speaker: Oxfam, Amnesty International, Medecins du Monde, St. John's Eye Hospital (Jerusalem & Gaza), Prof. Colin Green (Imperial College)
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place, off Edgware Rd, London W1H 4LP (nearest tube: Edgware Rd or Marble Arch)
Date: 6.45-8.45pm, Friday 17th October 2008
"The Gaza Strip: A Humanitarian Implosion" is the title of a recent report jointly authored by the following NGOs and charities: Amnesty International, ChristianAid, CAFOD, Care, Medecins du Monde, Oxfam, Save the Children UK and Trocaire. The report's executive summary states:
"The situation for 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is worse now than it has ever been since the start of the Israeli military occupation in 1967. The current situation in Gaza is man-made, completely avoidable and, with the necessary political will, can also be reversed.
Gaza has suffered from a long-term pattern of economic stagnation and plummeting development indicators. The severity of the situation has increased exponentially since Israel imposed extreme restrictions on the
movement of goods and people in response to the Hamas take over of Gaza and to indiscriminate rocket
attacks against Israel. This report illustrates the gravity of the current situation across key sectors ...
The blockade has effectively dismantled the economy and impoverished the population of Gaza.
Israel's policy affects the civilian population of Gaza indiscriminately and constitutes a collective
punishment against ordinary men, women and children. The measures taken are illegal under international humanitarian law.
Israel has the right and duty to defend itself against indiscriminate rocket attacks against its civilian
population, but the current policy fails to provide Israel with increased security and has led to
increasing polarisation. As the head of UNRWA has pointed out, 'Hungry, unhealthy, angry communities
do not make good partners for peace.'
International efforts should be directed towards securing a swift end to the blockade of Gaza. Israel's
current policy of isolation and refusal to engage with all elements of the Palestinian leadership only closes doors to negotiations while reinforcing the political and humanitarian crisis.
There is an urgent need for Palestinian dialogue and reconciliation in order to create and sustain a credible and effective peace process with Israel. The international community must provide the political support to facilitate such an undertaking. To date, failure to address the situation in Gaza has harmed both Palestinians and Israelis and has been detrimental to the broader peace process itself."
Join us for an update on the latest situation in Gaza and to learn how you can help improve matters there.
About the speakers:
SUSAN WRIGHT joined Medecins du Monde UK in December 2006 after five years in Bosnia and Herzegovina where she worked with Paddy Ashdown as Head of the Rule of Law Department at the Office of the High Representative. She studied at Howard University, Harvard University in addition to being a Fulbright Scholar. She has taught International Criminal Law and worked in Sierra Leone for the war crimes tribunal. She leads the team at Medecins du Monde UK, with a particular focus on advocacy.
Donatella Rovera (Amnesty International)
Richard Stanforth (Oxfam UK)
John Talbot (St. John's Eye Hospital, Jerusalem & Gaza)
Prof. Colin Green (Imperial College)
FREE ENTRANCE - ALL WELCOME
Fore more details about this event, please contact Usam
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