Tag Archive: Idi Amin

The Birth of a Tyrant

Author: Satish Sekar March 8, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 8th 2015) One Party – One Leader Uganda had been independent less than five years before its first Prime Minister, Milton Obote, overturned its fledgling democracy, but a one-party government was not enough…
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Amin, Brigadier Pierino Okoya, Gafaar Nimeiry, Geoffrey Kasule, Idi Amin, Kampala, Milton Obote, Obote, Smuts Guwedeko, the Uganda Peopleʼs Congress, Uganda

Political Machinations

Author: Satish Sekar March 8, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 7th 2015) Consolidation The defeat of the Kabaka (ruler of the Kingdom of Buganda) Mutesa II neutralised both him and also his party Kabaka Yekka. Defections from it to the Uganda Peopleʼs Congress…
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Amin, Che Guevara, Congo, Congo-Léopoldville, General Olenga, Idi Amin, Joseph Désiré Mobutu, Kabaka, Kabaka Yekka, Kabila, Kingdom of Buganda, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Milton Obote, Mobutu, Mutesa II, Nicholas Olenga, Obote, Olenga, Patrice Lumumba, Pieere Mulele, Uganda, Uganda Peopleʼs Congress

Independence

Author: Satish Sekar March 7, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 6th 2015) Independence Struggle Milton Obote died in 2005 aged 80. Even in death he polarised opinion. To colleagues he was a great man. To others he was a ruthless and unrepentant tyrant,…
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