{UAH} HOW DID MUSEVENI CONTRIBUTE TO IDDI AMIN'S BRUTALITY
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HOW DID MUSEVENI CONTRIBUTE TO IDDI AMIN'S BRUTALITY
After his Sept. 1972 failed hasty invasion, Museveni desparately intensified his clandestine hit squads inside Amin's Uganda. In Jan. 1973, Amin's security services captured some members of such hit squads who had been infiltrated into the country. Their network was bursted the captives sumarily tried by a military tribunal headed Col. Ozoo and found guility and sentenced to death on 23rd Jan. 1973. The evidence against them was overwhelming following the defection of some two recruits from a newly set up camp in the Bunya forest in Busoga region. The following day on 24th Jan. 1973, they were publicly executed by firing squad in their respective home areas. Among them was Capt Masaaba, Joseph Bitwari, James Karambi, and Pheres Kasoro. On 30th Jan. 1973 a one Abwooli Malibo from Tooro was arrested in Kampala in posession of a pistol and he confessed that he had been sent to kidnap and assasinate key targets in the Amin goverment. Also, from the northern region Amos Obwona and John Labeja were found in posession of five assault rifles and were given the same treatment. These ones may have belonged to the Oyite Ojok clandestine group.
Back in Tanzania, it had by then become clearer that Museveni intended to run parallel efforts to ouster Iddi Amin. The main group was that of former President Milton Obote which comprised of senior army officers. Museveni intensified clandestine acts of sabotage inside Uganda and against exile groups. This is confirmed by Museveni's self confession of deliberate destabilisation thus "it was following these encounters that ......and some of the most prominent members of Amin's government fled into exile." These were top government officials like Prof Dan Nabudere, Prof Banage, Prof Rugumayo, Prince Elizabeth Bagaaya etc.
Inside Uganda, the Amin regime was thrown into confusion and Iddi Amin now behaved likd a wounded buffalo. Suspicion and mistrust took centre stage as is the situation in Museveni's Uganda now. With some key figures in his cabinet fleeing into exile, Iddi Amin filled cabinet positions with military officers and top positions in the army and intelligence services were dominated by his ethinic west Nilers of Sudanic origin. However, some performed very well i.e Brig. Barnabas Killi the Minister of Education oversaw a flourishing education standard in the country that is yet to be witnessed again. In support of the Palestenian cause, Iddi Amin expelled the Israelis and ceased relations and later he expelled the Asians.
Arrests, torture, murders, kidnapping, forced disapperances and detention without trial became the order of the day. Some of these murders, kidnappings and disappearances of prominent personalities have never been satisfactorily explained. The fact is that both the Iddi Amin regime and the groups fighting him contributed. A Nairobi based Museveni close confidant, Wyclife Kazoora sent a group from Nairobi armed with a pistol and good amount of cash with instructions to assasinate prominent personalities but were intercepted by Amin's security agents. Another FRONASA operative Chris Nyombi was intercepted at Malaba border post with heeps of anti-Amin propaganda pamphlets enroute from Nairobi. Museveni's Nairobi station managers were Amama Mbabazi, Otafiire and Wyclife Kazoora. Such pamphlets would either be posted to specific addresses or slitted into offices of prominent people with the sole aim of putting the targets into Iddi Amin's dirrect line of fire. A one Peter Owili of Obote's group posed as a member of Amin's State Research Bureau and kidnapped the Central Bank Governor Joseph Mubiru. In Sept 1972 both Michael Kabali Kagwa and Ben Kiwanuka the President of Uganda Industrial Court and the Chief Justice respectively disappeared without trace. Around the same time, such incidents led to leading personalities to flee Uganda.
It is because of the contribution of the Anti-Amin groups (Museveni in particular) in these murders, that no single member of Iddi Amini's intelligence services has ever been made to answer.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
Back in Tanzania, it had by then become clearer that Museveni intended to run parallel efforts to ouster Iddi Amin. The main group was that of former President Milton Obote which comprised of senior army officers. Museveni intensified clandestine acts of sabotage inside Uganda and against exile groups. This is confirmed by Museveni's self confession of deliberate destabilisation thus "it was following these encounters that ......and some of the most prominent members of Amin's government fled into exile." These were top government officials like Prof Dan Nabudere, Prof Banage, Prof Rugumayo, Prince Elizabeth Bagaaya etc.
Inside Uganda, the Amin regime was thrown into confusion and Iddi Amin now behaved likd a wounded buffalo. Suspicion and mistrust took centre stage as is the situation in Museveni's Uganda now. With some key figures in his cabinet fleeing into exile, Iddi Amin filled cabinet positions with military officers and top positions in the army and intelligence services were dominated by his ethinic west Nilers of Sudanic origin. However, some performed very well i.e Brig. Barnabas Killi the Minister of Education oversaw a flourishing education standard in the country that is yet to be witnessed again. In support of the Palestenian cause, Iddi Amin expelled the Israelis and ceased relations and later he expelled the Asians.
Arrests, torture, murders, kidnapping, forced disapperances and detention without trial became the order of the day. Some of these murders, kidnappings and disappearances of prominent personalities have never been satisfactorily explained. The fact is that both the Iddi Amin regime and the groups fighting him contributed. A Nairobi based Museveni close confidant, Wyclife Kazoora sent a group from Nairobi armed with a pistol and good amount of cash with instructions to assasinate prominent personalities but were intercepted by Amin's security agents. Another FRONASA operative Chris Nyombi was intercepted at Malaba border post with heeps of anti-Amin propaganda pamphlets enroute from Nairobi. Museveni's Nairobi station managers were Amama Mbabazi, Otafiire and Wyclife Kazoora. Such pamphlets would either be posted to specific addresses or slitted into offices of prominent people with the sole aim of putting the targets into Iddi Amin's dirrect line of fire. A one Peter Owili of Obote's group posed as a member of Amin's State Research Bureau and kidnapped the Central Bank Governor Joseph Mubiru. In Sept 1972 both Michael Kabali Kagwa and Ben Kiwanuka the President of Uganda Industrial Court and the Chief Justice respectively disappeared without trace. Around the same time, such incidents led to leading personalities to flee Uganda.
It is because of the contribution of the Anti-Amin groups (Museveni in particular) in these murders, that no single member of Iddi Amini's intelligence services has ever been made to answer.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
Viele GruBe
Robukui
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