Museveni sworn-in as US, EU envoys walk out
Posted Friday, May 13 2016 at 01:00
A number of diplomats representing the US and a number of western countries were seen walking out immediately after these comments were made, a development that the American Embassy confirmed to Daily Monitor.
The US was represented at the function by the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Mr Bruce Wharton, and the US Ambassador to Uganda, Ms Deborah Malac.
Uganda, as a signatory to the Rome Statute of 2002 that set up the ICC, is duty-bound to arrest Gen Bashir and hand him over to the ICC the moment he steps on Ugandan soil.
"Failure to do so (arrest Bashir) would be a breach of its duty and would be a cruel betrayal of the hundreds of thousands of people killed and displaced during the Darfur conflict," said a statement by Mr Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International's Regional Director for East Africa.
On a day that increasingly appeared set aside for bashing the West, Mr Museveni, after introducing a "special representative" for Russian president Vladimir Putin, made his preference for Russia clear. Russia is an arch rival of the US and Western Europe.
Speaking in Luganda, Mr Museveni said: "Abarussia abo batuguza amafumu gano gemulabye awatali bukwakkulizo n'omwepankopanko. Omanyi emyepankopanko twagigaana dda. Buli omu afuge ennyumba ye. N'olwekyo abantu abo mikwano gyaffe ddala."
Joining presidents Bashir, Mugabe, Kenyatta and Zuma were Mr Idriss Déby of Chad, the current chairman of the African Union who also spoke on behalf of the visiting presidents and heads of State.
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