Editors Note: This is a response to a comment under "Letter to Mr. Kazini" of 17 June 2008

Dear reader of RK

Thanks a lot for for your response to my letter to Gen. Kazini in which you brought forth Capt. Muze Yosa having ordered the killing of Brig. Yorokamu B Tizihwayo, Western Brigade commander at Nakasero State Research Bureau in April 1979.

When Capt. Yosa returned from exile, I did talk to him extensively about SRB killings during Amin's regime, something I thought either he knew so much about or was involved. He told me he was not the head of SRB in the first place; the head of SRB was Francis Itabuka. Second, I never heard of Capt. Yosa, a very powerful man during Amin's regime despite being Amin's tribesmate compared to many of the Leo Kyandas of the Museveni era.

I also asked him why he was moving freely in Uganda well knowing he could be arrested for any killings during Amin's era. He told me as far as he knew, he didn't kill nor ordered the killing of anyone. I therefore wonder where the writer who responded to my article was when Capt. Yosa was in Uganda for more than four years. According Capt. Yosa nobody brought any complaints against him, which was why he was moving freely.

However, Capt. Yosa was later arrested for allegedly having ordered the killing of someone from Ankole. He was imprisoned in Luzira. Unfortunately, he was not taken to court to prove his innocence or guilt. It was just an order to put him behind bars without the opportunity to give him the chance of giving his side of the story.

The allegation was brought about for two reasons. First, the Museveni government failed to get any evidence against Capt. Yosa's involvement in any killings during the Amin era. Second, Mr. Yosa refused to join ISO, which the government wanted to employ him in. He felt and understood the governments intention to use him to kill people and later say it was the Amin elements who did it or drag him to do some killing and then say "you killed so and so," so that the government would have an excuse of getting him into trouble. Against such a background, he refused to join ISO. As you are aware, Mr. Museveni's government did the same to Amin's son by hiring him to work in ISO.

I therefore cannot deny the fact that Capt. Yosa could have ordered the killing of Brig. Yorokamu B Tizihwayo, Western Brigade commander at Nakasero State Research Bureau in April 1979. I would be willing to find out from Capt. Yosa about this allegation but he is already dead. As a matter of fact, I urge RK readers to bring such issues foward so those accused have the opportunity to give their side of the story. If the reader brought out such an allegation when Capt. Yosa was alive, I would have pressed him to tell the truth.

For the reader of RK, remember that so many allegations of killings during the Amin era were blamed on him just because he was the leader then but whether he ordered those killings or not is a subject a debate. This not say he ordered or did not order some killings.

RK continue with this work of exposing people who have killed or ordered killings of innocent Ugandans. Time will come for those people to account for the killings they ordered or participated in.