American sanctions: Why Kayihura and why now?
https://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/columnists/MuniiniMulera/American-sanctions-Why-Kayihura-and-why-now/878676-5276066-nvcg8m/index.html
Tuesday September 17 2019
Dear Tingasiga;
The news that the United States Government had sanctioned Kale Kayihura, the former Inspector General of the Ugandan Police Force, for serious human rights abuses and alleged involvement in corruption, left me greatly puzzled.
The news that the United States Government had sanctioned Kale Kayihura, the former Inspector General of the Ugandan Police Force, for serious human rights abuses and alleged involvement in corruption, left me greatly puzzled.
No, I was not surprised that the
Americans had turned against an erstwhile ally and friend. It is a given
that America, which puts its strategic interests above everything else,
has neither permanent friends nor permanent enemies.
Today’s
favoured of Washington DC will be tomorrow’s pariah, condemned and
denied thrice before the cock crows twice. In my brief lifetime, I have
seen strong friends of America abandoned to the dogs when the going got
tough.
Among America’s friends and proteges that were
thrown overboard were memorable names like Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of
Iran (1979), Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines (1986), Manuel Antonio
Noriega of Panama (1989), Saddam Hussein of Iraq (1991 and Zaire’s
Mobutu Sese Seko Koko Ngbendu wa Zabanga (1997).
Furthermore,
America’s charges against Kayihura, including their feigned objection
to the former police chief’s supervision of the abuse of Ugandans’ human
rights, are the usual hypocritical statements that run counter to
Washington’s long history of tolerance of gross abuses and state crimes
by its temporary allies.
To a man, the above examples
of former US friends committed some of the worst human rights abuses of
the 20th Century. As long as they did Washington’s bidding, the
Americans turned a blind eye to their predations and savage terrorism
against their respective countries’ citizens. The cries of their victims
were ignored by America, supposedly the great champion of human rights
and democracy. Washington only acknowledged the wickedness of these and
many rulers after the men were no longer needed or after the cozy
relationships had unravelled.
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