Peace in Uganda?

Another brutal war in Africa hinges its hopes on another potentially illusory cease fire that largely depends upon the caprice of another ruthless rebel leader. This time the backdrop is Uganda, which not so long ago was terrorized by Idi Amin and his minions. (And yes, I am very much looking forward to the new movie on Amin, The Last King of Scotland even if the filmmakers have apparently taken their story from a fictionalized account.) Today's New York Times has a solid story on what its author Jeffrey Gettleman appropriately calls "one of Africa’s most grotesque and bizarre wars," and which has endured for two decades and cost tens of thousands of lives.