{UAH} IDDI AMIN NEVER TARGETED LANGIs/ACHOLIs, THEY TARGETED HIM {---Series thirty six}

Friends

 

As the series cruises passed the thirty sixth level, I continue to raise the violence of Acholi, here is a data collection that was done this time by Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia: www.ucdp.uu.se/database, Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research | conflictdatabase@pcr.uu.se. Sweden. In this data the Sweds University of Uppsala has on Uganda, they define UNLA as a force of Acholi and Langi soldiers that were hastily enrolled with minimum training but little sense of displine. Again they list Acholi as men that took revenge into West Nile. But again Acholi committed atrocities in Luwero.  I refuse to agree that Acholi revenged into West Nile. They only did what they know to do best, massacre people. For if what they did in West Nile was revenge due to Iddi Amin, how do you explain what they did in Luwero? What were they revenging for? Did Baganda harm Acholi at all? And the answer is no Acholi were in power all long and they committed crimes into Kampala with impugn, going into Luwero was just a continuation of a very normal brutal life style they own. Friends if EM hates Acholi, do the Sweds also hate them? I am going to pile sources after sources that are very independent,  yet all of them reach the same conclusion, Acholi are violent people and sadly their violence is now starting to be appended on Uganda as a state.

 

We need as Ugandans to stand up and address Acholi violence candidly.

 

Uganda

 

 

Uganda gained independence from Britain in 1962. However, the new state did not enjoy the fruits of independence, but soon became trapped in a pattern of leadership manipulation of ethnic and religious differences. To some extent this was a product of colonial times, which had seen the diversity of the country's people being used to divide and rule. When the country became independent the societal cleavages were deep and national unity absent.

Between 1962 and 1971 Milton Obote from the northern Langi ethnic group, ruled Uganda. During his reign the national armed forces were dominated by soldiers from this group as well as from fellow-northerners, the Acholi. In 1971 Obote was ousted in a coup led by his chief of the armed forces, Idi Amin. To consolidate his power, Amin changed the ethnic balance of the military, recruiting heavily from the West Nile region, his home area. The army ranks were filled with Nubians in general and Amin's own Kakwa tribe in particular. Large numbers of Acholi and Langi soldiers were massacred presumed to be supporters of the deposed Obote.

While the country had seen an increasing resistance to Amin's rule and an attempt had been made to topple him in a military coup in 1974, it was not until 1979 that he was finally ousted from power. After a failed army revolt in 1978, Amin had pursued mutinous troops across the border into Tanzania, prompting the neighbouring state to join numerous Ugandan opposition movements in launching an intrastate conflict. In March the following year the anti-Amin Ugandan forces joined together and formed UNLA (Uganda National Liberation Army). A month later UNLA troops together with its Tanzanian supporters seized power in Kampala. In 1980, after some politically tumultuous months, an election was held that brought Obote back to power. However, some of the groups that had joined UNLA in 1979 did not accept the results of the elections. Notably Yuweri Museveni, from southern Uganda, and what would become the NRM (National Resistance Movement) left the political scene for guerrilla warfare and was soon joined by other groups.

Obote's second period in power was mainly characterised by the conflict fought with the numerous rebel groups. The ethnic balance in the armed forces was yet again changed as UNLA's many Acholi and Langi were hastily enrolled with minimal training and little sense of discipline. Having born the brunt of Amin's anti-Acholi massacres in previous years, Acholi soldiers took revenge on inhabitants of Amin's home region, whom they blamed for their losses. Furthermore, gross human rights abuses were committed in the Luwero district, north of Kampala, where Museveni's NRM had a big following and thousands of civilians were killed.

In 1985 Obote was deposed once more, this time by a faction of the armed forces, led by General Tito Okello. Okello ruled for six months until he was deposed by the NRM. Museveni became president and remained in power well into the 2000s. However, his reign was not unchallenged. Fearing reprisals for the killings conducted in the Luwero region and elsewhere, remnants of Obote's former army launched an intrastate conflict under the banner of UPDA (Uganda People's Democratic Army). Eventually a number of other northern rebel groups emerged, of which the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) was the most long-lived. Museveni's government also faced armed resistance in the east, in the west and in the north-west.

Aside from the internal conflicts plaguing the country, Uganda has also been deeply involved in many of the conflicts in the surrounding region, although the involvement has in most cases concerned support such as arms supplies. However, in the conflict in neighbouring DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), Museveni sent troops first in aid of the rebel group who eventually toppled the regime of Mobutu Seso Seke, and later in aid of rebels fighting the new regime of Laurent Kabila.

Since 1946, Uganda has experienced the interstate, intrastate, non-state and one-sided categories of UCDP organised violence.

 

 

Stay in the forum for Series thirty seven on the way   ------>

 

EM

On the 49^th Parallel          

                 Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"