Justine Odong Latek

Justine Odong Latek yali muserikale w'amagye ga Uganda era omukulembeze w'abayeekera eyaweereza mu ggye lya Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) mu lutalo lwa Uganda olw'omunsiko era oluvannyuma yakulembera eggye lya Uganda People's Democratic Army (UPDA) mu lutalo lwa 1986–1994 mu Uganda .

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Odong Latek yali mujaasi wa Kikosi Maalum eyagenda mu maaso n’obuweereza bwe mu maggye mu kibiina kya UNLA oluvannyuma lw’olutalo wakati wa Uganda ne Tanzania . Yasituka ku bwa kapiteeni okutuusa Pulezidenti Milton Obote lwe yagibwa mu buyinza ekibinja kya UNLA mu kuwamba gavumenti ya Uganda mu 1985 . Ku mulembe gwa Pulezidenti omuggya Tito Okello, Odong Latek yakuzibwa n'afuulibwa brigadier n'ateekebwa mu buvunaanyizibwa bwa Gulu .

Oluvanyuma lw'obuwanguzi bw'eggye lya Yoweri Museveni erya National Resistance Army (NRA) n'okugwa kw'obukulembeze bwa Okello mu 1986, Latek yatandikawo ekibiina kya UPDA. Nga 16 Ogwomunaana 1986, UPDA yatandika okulumbagana ebibinja bya NRA mu ttaka lya Acholi . Wabula UPDA teyasobola kuwamba bantu okuva ku NRA. Oluvannyuma lw’okusisinkana NRA nga 21 Ogwokusatu 1987, General Salim Saleh yalinnya enyonyi ennyonyi n’agenda mu nkambi ya UPDA n’asisinkana Latek, eya yogerwako okuwagira endagaano y'okukuuma emirembe. Wabula mu Gwokutaano UPDA yakyusa Latek n’eteekawo Angelo Okello, abadde aduumira UPDA Division One e Gulu . Okello yassa omukono ku ndagaano y'emirembe nga 3 Ogwomukaaga 1988. Alipoota eyafulumizibwa mu 1997 egamba nti Latek n'ebitongole bya UPDA ebimuwuliriramu teby'etaba mu nteeseganya z'emirembe ku magezi g'ekiwayi ky'ebyobufuzi ekya UPDA mu Bungereza .

Olwo Latek n’abagoberezi be beegatta ku ggye ly'abayeekera erya Lord’s Resistance Army okugenda mu maaso n’okulwana. Okusinziira ku kukwatibwa kw'abaduumizi ba LRA mu Gwomwenda 1987 Latek yasisinkana omukulembeze wa LRA Joseph Kony, eyalonda Latek omuduumizi omukulu ow’amagye ge. Wabula okusinziira ku eyali omuntu ow’oku lusegere lwa Kony, Odong Latek n’ekibinja ky’abagoberezi be baali bawummudde mu kitundu ekyesudde mu Disitulikiti y’e Kitgum lwe beewuunya amagye ga Kony. Baazingiddwa, Kony n’agumya abaali abalwanyi ba UPDA nti tebagenda kutuusibwako bulabe. Olwo Odong Latek "yayitibwa" okwegatta ku ggye lya Kony.

Mu Gwekkuminogumu 1989, Odong Latek yattibwa abajaasi ba NRA bwe balumbibwa mu nkambi y’abayeekera e Pawic mu Ssaza ly'e Palabek mu Disitulikiti y'e Lamwo .

Ebijuliziddwa

Emirimu egijuliziddwa

• Lamwaka, Caroline (2016). The Raging Storm: A Reporter's Inside Account of the Northern Uganda War 1986-2005. Kampala: Fountain Publishers. ISBN 978-9970-25-221-3.