{UAH} WHAT PROVOKED IDDI AMIN(UPC) TO BECOME BRUTAL?
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WHAT PROVOKED IDDI AMIN(UPC) TO BECOME BRUTAL?
The new regime of Iddi Amin had innitialy been embrassed by Ugandans and the international community. Iddi Amin made a cabinet line up composed of the best brains Uganda has ever had. The likes of Prof. Rugumayo, Prof. Banage, Wanume Kibedi, Princes Elizabeth Bagaaya, Grace Ibingira, Godfrey Binaisa and several others of that calibre were Amin's top government officials. The strategic Buganda region had embraced Iddi Amin more especially after he arranged for the return of the remains of their king the Kabaka and according it a descent burial. Of course its the same Iddi Amin then a Colonel who had commanded the assault on king's palace leading to the king's exile where he died. Ofcourse, Col. Iddi Amin as an Army officer was implementing the Commander in Chief (President Obote)'s orders. Similary, recently Gen. Tinyefuza pleaded superior oder for having masterminded the raid on High Court. Cabinet promoted Iddi Amin to the rank of General and appointed him President. Godfrey Binaisa publicly stated tha Iddi Amin had overthrown Obote because the former loved Uganda. Uganda's Ambassador to UN, Grace Ibingira wrote an article attacking Tanzania's Nyerere for giving sanctuary to deposed President Obote. Foreign Affairs Minister, Prince Elizabeth Bagaya urged the exiled former President Obote to return home because "the country was developing at a supersonic speed".
No doubt the Iddi Amin government was set to lead the country to stability and prosperity. However, this was not good news to those in exile who were bent on dislodging the new Iddi Amin government. All efforts were made to destabilise and turnish the image of the Iddi Amin government by groups in exile. Museveni and Oyite Ojok opened up clandestine subversive guerrilla cells inside Uganda. Driven by ambition, Museveni managed to convince Tanzania's President Nyerere that inside Uganda existed a geral feeling of dissent agains Iddi Amin such tha a slight external invassion would trigger an internal uprising that would dislodge the regime.
President Nyerere blessed and facilitated an open day invasion of Uganda on 17th September 1972. After overunning the Uganda border, the invaders split into two columns - the Okello column headed for Masaka while the Museveni one made up of five trucks headed for Mbarara. Within a few hours, the Uganda Army had overwhelmingly defeated the invaders on the two fronts. Many of the invaders were either killed, captured and the remaining fled back to Tanzania. Worthy noting is the fact that ordinary civilians helped alot in capturing and lynching the disarrayed invaders. Civilians in these areas paid heavily eight years later 1978/79 when Museveni carried out reprisal attacks during the full scale invasion that ousted Iddi Amin. The whole venture had been ill prepared and unnecessary but was driven by Museveni's overambitiousness. This incident and other acts of sabotage that followed made Iddi Amin to behave like a wounded buffalo.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
No doubt the Iddi Amin government was set to lead the country to stability and prosperity. However, this was not good news to those in exile who were bent on dislodging the new Iddi Amin government. All efforts were made to destabilise and turnish the image of the Iddi Amin government by groups in exile. Museveni and Oyite Ojok opened up clandestine subversive guerrilla cells inside Uganda. Driven by ambition, Museveni managed to convince Tanzania's President Nyerere that inside Uganda existed a geral feeling of dissent agains Iddi Amin such tha a slight external invassion would trigger an internal uprising that would dislodge the regime.
President Nyerere blessed and facilitated an open day invasion of Uganda on 17th September 1972. After overunning the Uganda border, the invaders split into two columns - the Okello column headed for Masaka while the Museveni one made up of five trucks headed for Mbarara. Within a few hours, the Uganda Army had overwhelmingly defeated the invaders on the two fronts. Many of the invaders were either killed, captured and the remaining fled back to Tanzania. Worthy noting is the fact that ordinary civilians helped alot in capturing and lynching the disarrayed invaders. Civilians in these areas paid heavily eight years later 1978/79 when Museveni carried out reprisal attacks during the full scale invasion that ousted Iddi Amin. The whole venture had been ill prepared and unnecessary but was driven by Museveni's overambitiousness. This incident and other acts of sabotage that followed made Iddi Amin to behave like a wounded buffalo.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
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Viele GruBe
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