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Last month Aquino's disaffected Vice President, Salvador Laurel, secretly | sent feelers to Honasan, who remains at large in or around Manila and constantly threatens to strike again with rebel soldiers. Laurel, who has publicly attacked Aquino and her policies, wanted assurances that the colonel would not stage a coup while the Vice President was in the U.S. on a speaking tour. Laurel was afraid that if Aquino were ousted from the presidency while he was abroad, he would be maneuvered out of the succession. Aquino, meanwhile, was not above tweaking her Vice President. Members of Philippine consulates...
...first, it was hard to tell whether rebel troops in northern and eastern Uganda favored the weapons technology of the 20th century or that of the Stone Age. While some insurgents fought government troops with Kalashnikov rifles, many others went into battle bare chested and armed with nothing more than sticks and rocks. These warriors were following the orders of a 27-year-old self-styled "priestess" known as Mama Alice, who was trying to overthrow the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni with an odd mixture of Christian theology and African witchcraft. Believers in her Holy Spirit Movement...
...been reduced by death and desertion to several hundred. Alice, wounded in the leg by government soldiers, was reported by authorities to be in hiding near the town of Iganga, about 80 miles east of Kampala, the capital. According to the Kampala-based newspaper Munno, the once fearless rebel was afraid that she would be killed if she surrendered to villagers or the army...
...Mama Alice is rooted in Uganda's tribal politics as well as in Africa's tradition of magic worship. The daughter of an Anglican clergyman and a member of the small Acholi tribe in the savannas of northern Uganda, Alice has appealed to regional animosities to build her rebel force, composed mostly of peasant farmers, teenage boys and ex-soldiers. One source of strong resentment is the domination of Museveni's National Resistance Army by Bantu-speaking southerners and westerners. Alice claimed to be under the command of a holy spirit called lakwena, the Acholi word for messiah, which...
...wore a plastic rosary and crucifix around her neck, Alice declared herself the possessor of many supernatural powers that have no connection with Christian belief. She spoke only Acholi and a smattering of English but claimed that her spirit was fluent in 74 languages. The oil she encouraged rebel fighters to smear on their bodies, which came from shea trees and is used in the manufacture of shampoo in the West, would make bullets "slip on top of your skin" and bounce back at the enemy. Alice also passed out sachets of powder ground from squirrels' bones that she promised...