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...years since, Museveni has had no compunction about supporting similar campaigns in neighboring countries. The West has generally looked the other way, despite unspoken rules forbidding meddling across Africa's delicate borders. But Museveni believes African rulers have not only the right but the duty to intervene when they see a just cause. The Ugandan leader befriended Kagame when exiled Rwandan Tutsi raised their children among Museveni's Ankole tribe and the two later fought together in the Ugandan bush. Kagame even served in Uganda's army from 1986 to 1990. When the time came to lead an invasion...
...there are rumors of military intervention in Burundi. Talks to arrange power sharing between warring Tutsi and Hutu factions are faltering, economic sanctions have not cooled the fighting and the violence threatens to spill over into Tanzania. Museveni told TIME that before U.S. ambassador Michael Southwick left Kampala at the end of July, he delivered a "verbal note" warning Uganda against exercising a military option in Burundi. Says Museveni: "I ignored it." The Ugandan President has also been told by Washington to keep out of Kenya, where riots are undermining the increasingly troubled regime of Daniel arap...
...Museveni is unabashedly no democrat, at least by U.S. standards. When at age 41 he took Kampala, he had long been disillusioned with the divisive, sectarian politics of Uganda. Instead the country needed a system that discouraged tribal rivalry. He made his National Resistance Movement the sole legal political structure...
...welcomed members of the other parties into his government but banned all further party activities. He copied a system he saw Frelimo use in Mozambique, organizing the population into a hierarchy of governmental committees to which members were elected as individuals, not party members. The U.S. accepted it when Museveni called this system an indigenous democracy, even when he won the presidency in 1996 by the same method of no-party elections. But last month Southwick blasted new legislation institutionalizing the system as "the functional equivalent of a one-party state." He is worried that the economically liberal President...
...Museveni called Southwick's noisy exit "rude." He is tired of the "shallowness" of Western thinking that demands that Uganda instantly model its politics on the U.S. "Unless you say all the societies in the whole world are uniform, then you cannot say their political management must be uniform," says Museveni. He believes Uganda has not "evolved" to the stage of development where multiparty democracy is possible or successful; it is still a preindustrial society that does not have enough of the well-off, well-educated middle class upon which Western democracy rests, so parties form along tribal, sectarian lines...