Odora-Obote Alex

On 31 March 2016, in a unanimous ruling, all nine Justices of the Supreme Court (SC) upheld the declaration by the Electoral Commission (EC) chairman Dr Badru Kiggundu of incumbent Mr. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni as validly elected president of Uganda.

I have read, with interest, the replies of former ICTR Defence Counsels Mr Peter Erlinder and Mr Christopher Black. The issues they raise are not new but a repetition of positions peddled by a number of other former ICTR Defence Counsels over the years.

In the ongoing conversation, or lack of it, between Herman and Peterson on the one hand and I, on the other, the two authors have adopted a strategy of denying what they write and revising their narratives as they go along. I refer to a few falsehoods, for illustrative purposes only.

Edward S. Herman is professor emeritus of finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He is attributed with having written extensively on economics, political economy and the media. His co-author, David Peterson is an independent journalist and researcher based in Chicago.

Maj. Gen. Dominic Ongwen surrendered to the Seleke militia in the Central African Republic (CAR) on 6 January 2015. On the same day he was handed over to US military advisers working with the African Union (AU) Regional Task Force in CAR.

The process of investigating and prosecuting serious international crimes is complex, imperfect and still a work in progress.

The crisis in South Sudan was avoidable and a self-inflicted disaster created by the political and military leadership of that country. There is no excuse or justification for the war that started on 13 December 2013.