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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 16, 1985
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It is hard to see the country getting itself a just and effective
government in the near future. There is too much bitterness, too
many unavenged killings... • The best solution would be for all
the various groups to invite Britain to send a High Commissioner
to rule the country until the Army can be retrained, the police
and judiciary re-established on an impartial basis, and fair
elections held to produce a truly representative Parliament. But
this would probably be too big a blow to the pride of Africans.
The likelihood therefore is that Uganda will continue its post
Independence history of bloody tyranny, punctuated by anarchy.
What is really.needed is the establishment of a just, fair and firm govern
ment that can also educate--which the British Empire, for all its glory,
could not do--the various subject peoples as to the real purpose of life.
The Government of God will institute true religion, which will put an end
to, not just temporarily squelch, witchcraft and other pagan practices.
The Uganda horror story and its lessons for the rest of Africa--and South
Africa--was stressed in the "Worldgram" newsletter section of the August 12
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT:
Power grab by Uganda's military men in late July is latest in a
long chain of upheavals in bl.;1.ck-ruled African lands. In most
nations, roots of the violence are similar: Greed, tribal rival
ries and economic woes. Ousted Ugandan President Obote is a two
!:ime loser••.•
Extent of African violence is astonishing. Since 1956, the con
tinent has seen 56 successful coups.
In the last 18 months
alone, five of eight succeeded. Benin has had six takeovers,
Ghana five, Nigeria four. Even democratically oriented Zimbabwe
and Kenya fear tribal ferocity•••.
And note this--If blacks in white-ruled South Africa ever win a
one-person;--one=-vote, democracy, black-vs.-black arit'agonTsms
certainly will spring to life.
The radicals in South Africa and their U.S. supporters have shrewdly used
the liberal news media to their advantage. America's politicians, ignoring
the lessons of Africa as a whole, are running scared of an "aroused public
opinion." They are rushing into law a sanctions bill that the August 23
NATIONAL REVIEW cynically called "The Genocide Promotion Act of 1985." The
words of President Botha in his Durban speech seem appropriate: "Look at
what they [the revolutionaries] have done to a continent who is dying at
present."
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau