The Democratic Alliance: Guidance to Comrades. By General David Sejusa.
Subject: Re: The Democratic Alliance
Comrades
This is the guidance on The Democratic alliance:
First as a principle, we support all forces opposed
to Museveni coming together even if not to fight him but to have a united stand
including those in NRM to condemn his excesses.
Secondly, PRU/FU believe in the essence that Museveni should leave power
before 2016.
Thirdly, PRU/FU believes that any alliance must be
for
a) forcing the regime to bring reforms
b) or if there are no reforms, then organising the
population to stop any sham election
Those are general principles.
On specifics, PRU/FU will not go into any alliance
whose objectives are not clear. We stand for resolutely resisting Museveni
until he is defeated.
PRU/FU will not participate in an election
organised by Museveni
PRU/FU shall not boycott the election but shall not
allow it to take place if the process contravenes the provisions of our constitution.
Therefore, any alliance will have to fulfil the
above for us to be party.
We call upon all the people of Uganda to go on
building the resistance infrastructure to defeat the dictatorship.
The people are with us who want to force the dictatorship
out not to massage it.
It’s not that the opposition can’t win. They can
win but they can’t get power from Museveni. After all, Dr Besigye won in 2006
but never took power.
So the question is, what does the new alliance have
which is different from past alliances.
So we shall not attack it but we shall explain to our people the reality
on the ground. We imagine they are reasoning this way;
1- we have no capacity to disrupt the election so
we go in even when we know we shall loose and hopefully use the anger of the
people to confront the dictatorship after the rigging.
2- that the anger of the population will be easier
to tap in at this time.
In other words, they want to resist after the
rigging.
This approach is wrong for three main reasons
a) it is dishonest
b) it confuses the population
c) it removes the emphasis from building capacity
to resist the dictatorship to electioneering
d) it divides the opposition forces because the
dictator shall allow some to win and rig at the very top and enough NRM
seats to ensure his dominance. The rest he shall allow opposition to
take.
This has a big danger of dividing us so that those
who have “won" defend their turf.
As we go on we shall assess other serious
implications.
Solidarity
Gen David Sejusa
National Coordinator PRU
Chairman FREE
UGANDA
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