Genocide in Buganda?

It seems the fight over Kingdoms is more serious than I thought.  Well for this Bugandan commentator anyways:

But probably the most dangerous aspect of Mr. Museveni’s 2 year anti Buganda campaign is his use of government resources to build anti-Buganda feelings, even hatred, among other Uganda communities….to fan hatred, which, if ignored could lead anti-Baganda genocide.

Genocide? Hmm… granted I have only been in Uganda for 6 months but I was living in the Bugandan Kingdom for the majority of that and I never witnessed or heard my Ugandan friends talk about such issues.  Here in the Ankole Kingdom, on the other hand, I went to a ‘mixed’ wedding last weekend and the Bugandan Uncle of the bride, when making his speech, said, “thank goodness you are a woman, because otherwise I would not have let your father allow you to marry one of the Ankole.”  No one was laughing, it wasn’t meant as a joke.

I think it is disgraceful when the word genocide is bandied about like it is an everyday occurrence. It is a term that should be used with the utmost sensitivity or else it does harm to the memory of those who have been victims and to their descendants.

The author continues,

[T]ens of thousands of Baganda youth who now have little else to lose are now fully committed to protecting Buganda.

That sounds like a call to arms to me.  Is this author trying to start a civil conflict?  What happened to being a human being also, with values and morals?  I think that would be something pretty big for all those youth to lose.

Then the term ‘self-determination’ starts cropping up which further proves that the use of the word genocide was extremely hasty.  If you are able, as a people, to hold peaceful, uninterrupted rallies…

And the same Muganda recently attended Ttabamiruka ’08 by the hundreds and resolved that Baganda must never beg for anything from Mr. Museveni again. Sounds like a positive side to me.

…then you are not at risk, anytime soon or with the present political, social, and economic government agenda, of becoming the target of a mass government campaign “with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:

• Killing members of the group
• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
• Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group (United Nations)