{UAH} History: Uganda's Baganda tribe Vs Acholi's.

 Picture: Idi Amin

"The Baganda who were victims of the 1966 crisis [between their Kabaka Muteesa and Milton Obote], became killers of the Acholi's in 1971 [when Amin took over]. And if Idi Amin had not intervened, all UPC, Lango and Acholi in Buganda would have died." - Fred Guweddeko, Ugandan Researcher, Historian.

The Baganda again pursued Acholi's in 1986 when Yoweri Museveni took over. In fact before it officially became Operation North against Joseph Kony's Lords Resistance Army, it was reportedly Baganda NRA soldiers who first went on a rampage in Acholiland between 1986 and 1987.

They were again pursuing the Acholi (who formed the defeated UNLA army) in revenge for serious abuse and persecution by the Acholi governments (Obote II & the Okello's) that came after Amin.

Similarly to Amin before him, Museveni had to intervene to contain his Baganda officers.

In the modern history of Uganda since independence, only Yoweri Museveni and Idi Amin worked closely with Baganda and protected them from real persecution by Acholi and Langi's.

The quote above by Historian/Researcher Guweddeko is a rare instance where a Muganda came clean for their own actions against Acholi's and Langi.

Others surprisingly preferred to join the fray that pointed fingers at Field Marshal Idi Amin who really wasn't part of their revenge spree, but has bared all responsibility since.

Even when Amin told them that it was the Ugandan exiles (Obote & FRONASA) who were behind Chief Justice Ben Kiwanuka and other prominent persons disappearance, many Baganda refused to listen. Yet some individuals have come out publicly to reveal that all the disappearances were plotted in Daresalaam, Tanzania where a list of prominent Ugandans was drafted for the purpose.

Thes assassination plots are clearly discussed in Dr. Arnold Bisase's book "Guardian Angel". (Book review here: swahilitime.blogspot.ru/2011/02/guardian-angel-kitabu-kuhusu-siasa-za. )

The author was a staunch Muganda, the Health Minister under Yusuf Lule (another Muganda), and Mr. Bisase was also with the Ugandan exiles who were organizing the so-called "covert operations".

In the book he also questioned if the Tanzanian invasion was a liberation at all, with the death, looting and destruction that was unleashed on civilians everywhere they stepped in Uganda.

It is worth noting that by the time the Tanzania.forces left Uganda in 1984, they were comparable to the US army in Iraq more recently: Highly despised by the Ugandan masses who saw them as an occupation force.

Researcher and Veteran Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda added recently that: "Tanzania's intervention in Uganda led to state collapse and anarchy. We then fought civil wars for decades to the bitter end."

Incredibly today, Milton Obote, the biggest murderer of Baganda, a person they fought to that "bitter end", with 500,000 human skulls of Baganda's relatives still on display in Luweero, the same Obote who told Uganda that "a good Muganda is a dead one", the same Obote who had a bus nicknamed "Mpawo atalikaaba" that every morning collected the bodies of Baganda civilians killed the previous night on the streets of Kampala by his UNLA Acholi henchmen (the very Acholis crying crocodile tears about prosecution yet for seven consecutive years (79-86) they tortured, raped, maimed and murdered hundreds of thousands across the country), that same Milton Obote has been officially granted the highest Ugandan honours: National Hero and the Nalubaale medal. (NB: Nalubaale is the original Luganda name for the majestic Lake Victoria).

It is therefore mind boggling that a Ugandan politician can claim persecution by Amin yet he/she is awarding National Honours to Milton Obote, and therefore celebrating Obote/Acholi murderers who committed the most heinous crimes.

Written by Hussein Lumumba Amin. Kampala, Uganda. 1/1/2016

Hussein Juruga Lumumba Amin

Kampala, Uganda

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