New Yorkers come join Brooklyn For Peace, and see our documentary A Brilliant Genocide... There will also be a Q&A after the screening. This is an event not to miss!
May 16, 2018 – 7pm Sharp at The Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue
Yesterday ‘A Brilliant Genocide’ was screened for the 5th time in just one month. The event was held in New York at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, hosted by Mr. Disu and Professor Tiffany Wheatland, including a post screening Q & A with Milton Allimadi.
Thank you to the American universities, colleges and film festivals who are getting behind our important documentary and larger justice campaign.
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Get in touch and help end the silence around the untold genocide and crimes against humanity in Uganda.
Blog Post by Sammy Disu Nov 14, 2017
Many of you have heard about #JosephKony and #LordResistanceArmy whose campaign of terror in Central Africa has caused much suffering.
But, that is just one side of a larger story of American taxpayer-facilitated crimes against humanity under Dictator Yoweri Museveni. The dictator continues to be the darling of the West and we must learn of our complicity in this human tragedy of the #Acholi peoples as Prof. Milton Allimadi explained. Prof. Allimadi is featured in this film and explains how the documentary came to be after one woman visited Uganda on the trail of Joseph Kony and found a bigger problem many of us helped to create. Thank you so much for this critical work of love and sacrifice Ebony Atlanta Butler!
Prof. Tiffany Wheatland and I chose to host a screening of A Brilliant Genocide as our first collaboration for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice community yesterday.
Sign Prof. Allimadi’s petition here: https://www.change.org/p/realdonaldtrump-no-to-u-s-weapons-to-mass-killer-gen-yoweri-museveni-kagutamuseveni
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#endthesilence
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A Brilliant Genocide director Ebony Butler and her London based collaborator Belinda Atim spoke with Joseph Ochieno on Talking Africa (Resonance 104.4fm) yesterday afternoon about our documentary, the conspiracy of silence around the war in Uganda and the largely untold story of state sponsored atrocities in the north and east of the country. Belinda starts off the interview discussing the recent news of Uganda and the U.S stopping the six year man hunt for rebel leader and supposed most wanted man in Africa, and top 10 most wanted in the world, Joseph Kony. The question of whether or not A Brilliant Genocide had anything to do with the decision did come up, as many people seem to believe our film was a cause for the unexpected change of heart regarding the massive man hunt for Joseph Kony which has to date cost close to if not over one billion US dollars. I bet the US taxpayers aren’t aware of that – nor that the money was largely looted and used for other purposes, oppression, invasions and to help build one of the strongest armies in East Africa…. to essentially help entrench the dictator in power for longer. (31 years years is a long time in power, but it seems Museveni can’t get enough)
One other thing that was stressed in the interview was the importance of the petition that is attached to our documentary, primarily calling for US to stop funding and military support to the Ugandan regime. You can help end the silence by signing and sharing the petition here: www.bit.ly/STOPM7 Thank you!
#EndTheSilence
How to Tune in Next Time:
If you have the internet you can tune in live from anywhere in the world on Resonance 104.4FM in London – but best to come back the same time next week (Thursday, pm-2pm GMT) for the Talking Africa program… I’m sure we will be back for a few more shows as there is so much to cover and we only scratched the very tip pf the iceberg yesterday!
Sean Stone interviews journalist Milton Allimadi about the hidden genocide taking place in Uganda and Ebony Butler’s feature documentary, A Brilliant Genocide’.
#ENDIMPUNITY #ENDTHESILENCE
Take a stance against injustice and impunity by sharing this petition and helping reach the audience deserves. #JusticeNow http://bit.ly/STOPM7
Dear U.S. President,
I just saw the harrowing documentary “A Brilliant Genocide” which exposes how for three decades, successive U.S. administrations have supported the Uganda dictator Gen. Yoweri Museveni with billions of dollars in financial and military assistance. Gen. Museveni has used this money to entrench his regime in power and commit crimes against the Acholi people in northern Uganda that we maintain amount to genocide and minorities outside of Uganda. Museveni has for 3 decades embarked on a campaign of terror against the Majority Acholi People and also the destabilization of countries outside of his own nation’ borders.
The whole world is familiar with the atrocities committed in northern Uganda by Joseph Kony and his notorious Lord’s Resistance Army. These include killings, rapes, mutilations and the abduction of children who were turned into sex slaves and child soldiers. “A Brilliant Genocide” exposes how Gen. Museveni diabolically exploited the LRA atrocities as cover for his own crimes against the Acholi people.
In “A Brilliant Genocide” we learn that many of the crimes committed by the Ugandan army were just as brutal as those of the LRA, if not more so. These included the rape of women and men, facial mutilations and burying people alive in large pits which were then covered with earth and grass and set on fire to roast the victims alive. In some cases, these atrocities were committed by U.S. trained officers and soldiers carrying U.S. supplied weapons. Humans Rights Groups estimate that more than a million people have perished through massacres and displacements over this period. The atrocities continue.
“A Brilliant Genocide” exposes how Gen. Museveni ordered his army to evict two million Acholis from their homes and confine them in concentration camps where women and girls were victims of sexual assault by Museveni’s soldiers and roughly 1000 people died each week, mostly from starvation and disease, according to a 2005 World Health Organization report. This went on for 20 years, during which time more than one million people may have perished. Museveni seized power in 1986, during the administration of Ronald Reagan. Since then, he has been re-elected five times in elections deemed not free or fair by both international observers and the Ugandan Supreme Court. How can the U.S. continue to aid such a criminal regime?
Dear U.S. President, I demand that:
Please see the film trailer for “A Brilliant Genocide” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE-a-fbv_CM
#ENDIMPUNITY #ENDTHESILENCE
Take a stance against injustice and impunity by sharing this petition and helping reach the audience deserves. #JusticeNow http://bit.ly/STOPM7
Dear President Obama,
As you know on Feb. 18 Uganda held elections that were universally condemned by credible observers including by the U.S. as flawed and having not been free, fair or credible; they were also marred by violence against opposition leaders and their supporters by state security agents.
The Ugandan military has since escalated its human rights abuses by inflicting brutal repression against civilians.
The U.S., which is a major security partner of the Ugandan regime, providing arms and training for its army – in addition to $700 million in financial support — must at the very least suspend this relationship as required by the Leahy Amendment which “prohibits the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense from providing military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity.”
With respect to the Feb. 18 vote, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo condemned the Ugandan regimes’ vote suppression in opposition strongholds; he said the delays in delivery of election material were “inexcusable.”
“Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude skyrocketing, and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the region has become the scene of a competition between major powers that recalls the 19th-century scramble for colonization. Already, the United States imports more of its oil from Africa than from Saudi Arabia, and China, too, looks to the continent for its energy security.”
Can the United States restrain Chinese influence on the resource rich continent?
GB Times – The Third Angle
Hillary Clinton in Uganda… And why would she smile so lovingly at a brutal dictator who soon, like Kagame, will be exposed?
Forget Kony, the man you want is staring at you in the face! Kony will stop when Museveni is made accountable for his crimes also. Just my opinion…
‘Clinton is expected to highlight US programmes on development, education and HIV/AIDS — long the backbone of US engagement with Africa — as well as US economic interest in a continent whose rich resources and enviable growth rates have drawn rival suitors, including China and India.’
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/security-in-focus-clinton-heads-africa-4999102
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A wise man once said that 'there comes a time when silence is betrayal'. That time is now. #EndTheSilence
You can make a real difference by sharing and signing our petition at: http://bit.ly/STOPM7 #EndImpunity
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