| 1. ASANASIO MASEMBE The royal palace staff chief:Shot in the legs and bundled onto an army truck and In pain from his bullet wounds,burried alive. | 2. KABAKA'S DRIVER NYANZI Shot at close range from fire that originated from the top of a palace building. He died on the spot. |
3. TURKER LWANYAAGA DDUNGU The palace treasurer: Shot right outside the main gate as he fled with a bag in his hands. As he bled, he was bundled onto the army truck to the main prison fields where he was burried still alive.
| 4. ROYAL DOOR KEEPER KIGOZI Shot dead as he ran for dear life not far from the rear of the old Twekobe building.
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| 5. ROYAL DOOR KEEPER DDUNGU Shot as he almost reached the top of the palace wall to jump over.The bullet hit his skull and so he died instantly. | 6. AN ELDERLY WOMAN CARRYING A GRANDCHILD Names withheld on family request. Was shot with a hail of bullets as she ran towards the main gate and she and her grandkid died instantly after bleeding profuesly right infront of the main gate. |
7. MAJOR BENEDICT KIBIRIGE Palace Commanding Officer: In command of about a hundred guards some of whom were off duty and so Benedict abandoned the commanding to engage in combat with the attacking army after the heavy rain at around 2pm. He realised his forces had been overun and surrendered but the angry invading army refused to spare him and fired at close range killing him instantly.
| 8. CORPORAL KYATIFU A royal guard: Surrendered after the death of Benedict but the attacking army shot him in the chest with his arms up and he collapsed and died of bleeding.
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9. CORPORAL KAGGWA A royal guard: He ran out of ammunitions and ran towards the armoury where he encoutered an attacking force, he threw his gun but it was too late he was shot right in the chest and he collapsed dead.
| 10. CORPORAL MUKASA. A royal guard: One of the unlucky escaping guard killed as he climbed over the palace wall. |
11. CORPORAL SEKA A royal guard: He had been overwhelmed after the heavy rain and his hands were up when he was shot from the back as he approched an army truck to seek refuge.
| 12 CORPORAL JINGO A royal guard: Found inside the new Twekobe protecting royal property and shot dead instantly. He was unarmed. Jingo was a new recruit in the royal guard forces according to Sergent Mukama in charge of the Twekobe Palace Main gate security today and a survivor of the 1966 attack. |
13. CORPORAL JOSEPH KAKOOZA A royal guard: His parents say they begged him to leave the palace three months before the attack when a war of words broke out between the Kabaka and the Premier of the State. He refused to leave the palace declaring that he prefered to die in defence of the Kabaka. Joseph was slightly injured on the leg but bundled in the trucks carrying the massacre victims to the Prison's field. He hoped to escape from there. Prison mass grave diggers on release confessed to Joseph's parents that he pleaded not to be burried alive and that it was at that moment that he was shot with a hail of bullets that killed him inside the mass grave. Joseph was in full royal guard uniform when they finally burried him in the mass grave.
| 14. PRINCE KIKULWE A member of the royal clan and a palace guard killed as he hid inside the official residence of the Kabaka. He was un armed. |
| 15. CORPORAL MUSOKE A royal guard: After the rain at around 2pm he decided to run outside for his dear life and was shot from a distance. He fell down and died much later of bleeding inside the truck that ferried the victim's bodies with him unconsious to the Prison's fields. He is among those they burried still alive. | 16. CORPORAL MULONDO A royal guard: Found dead but without any firearms. Either they took the firearm after killing him or they killed him after he surrendered like many of his collegues. |
| 17. CORPORAL KAYANJA A royal guard: One of the guards killed after they surrendered near the main Palace Building. | 18. CORPORAL KAMYA A royal guard: No one saw how he died but his body was found without any firearms. |
19. CORPORAL MUGWANYA A royal guard: He had escaped and was crossing the ring road near Kabaka's lake when a distant shot got him by the back. He was in uniform. He crawled as he bleed but died for lack of any help from his bleeding.
| 20. CORPORAL KIZITO A royal guard: Slightly injured but deliberately bundled onto the army truck to be burried alive and indeed they burried him alive. |
21. CORPORAL MABIRIZI A royal guard: The most flumboyant guard and a great friend of Corporal John Semambo who escaped the attack to tell of the most buffling massacre of the day. He was already wounded and crawling towards a water drum when an army landrover showed up and drove right on top of his wounded legs. The army officers in the landrover broke into laughter only to drive right into a ditch. John came out of hiding to pull Mabirizi to safety but it was raining heavily and mabirizi breathed his last in front of John.
| 22. CORPORAL SENYONGA A royal guard: Captured but burried alive at the mass graves in the National prison's field. |
23.CORPORAL SEMUWEMBA A royal guard: Captured but burried alive at the mass graves in the National Prison's field.
| 24. CORPORAL KISITU A royal guard: Captured but burried alive at the mass graves in the National Prison's field. |
| 25. CORPORATE SEMPALA A royal guard: Captured but burried alive at the mass graves in the National Prison's field. | |
26.NABAGEREKA PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPIL:
I was a pupil at Nabagereka Primary School, and Dad had dropped us off to school that morning. When the palace war intensity increased, we were still in school. I remember the school authorities endeavouring to round us up and put us in a safe place while we waited for our parents to take us home. Many parents began flocking in and quickly whisked their children away from the danger.
My brothers and I were too young to travel home on our own, and yet my Dad had made a duty trip outside Kampala. This meant that we were some of the last to be picked from the place of horror!. While we waited in the small security house by the side gate, one of the pupils (much older than all of us) who was waiting with us decided that she would endeavour to make her way home since the rain had subsided. I remember her running off, not to the outside of the palace, but across the compound to reach the other side, where probably she could follow a footpath. While she made her way across, there was a loud sound
of a gunshot, and I literally saw her body sprawling to the ground into stillness. She had been shot and died instantly. My small brain cannot recall her name, although she was evidently dressed in our school uniform.
That scene keeps replaying in my brain like it happened only yesterday! I mourn her loss and her memory brings tears to my eyes. Now that I am a mother, I feel pain and grief for her mother who was never able
to see her again! This site has helped me to relive my past and to endeavour to bring closure to that grief
which I experienced at such a tender age of 5 ½ years. May God rest her young soul in eternity peace.
© MS CHRISTINE MULIMIRA.
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