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I would like to respond to the article in Daily Monitor of April 27 titled, ‘‘Al-Shabaab is defeated-Museveni’’. In the article President Museveni bases his argument on the fact that al-Shabaab is only targeting civilians as a sign of defeat.
Just because al-Shabaab is attacking civilians does not in any way make them weak or defeated. We should actually establish the root causes of the al-Shabaab attacks. The attack on civilians does not make them weak but it is one of the methods they use to intimidate the population, cause regime unpopularity, destabilising or destroying the foundation of political, economic and social structures of a country. I am sure if they have not been successful at this in Uganda and Kenya, at least it is more evident in Somalia. We need to attack the root causes of al-Shabaab in order to consider it defeated.
Solomon Mbubi,
solombubi@gmail.com
