{UAH} UGANDA AFTER AMIN: "THE DECADE OF HELL". THIS SUNDAY ON BBC WORLD SERVICE RADIO.

Pictures (attached): Hundreds of thousands of human remains of those who died at the hands of Ugandan dictator Milton Obote in 1980's Uganda, all killed in a genocide that started right after Idi Amin left the country for exile in Libya, then Saudi Arabia.

Fellow Ugandans,

I have previously stated that Uganda after Amin was like Libya after Ghaddafi. For those who have no clue about what happened to Uganda after Idi Amin, tune in to the BBC World Service this Sunday 6am and again at 6pm local time. The Documentary is called "Uganda's war in the bush" by BBC news anchor and correspondent Alan Kassujja.

During that 'Decade of Hell', the very Ugandan exiles in Tanzania who had been calling Amin a murderer, were the ones now engageing in despicable, senseless mass killings all over the country, resulting in an estimated 500,000 innocent civilians, mainly poor peasants, loosing their lives. What is even more disturbing is that the international community which had said it was disturbed by purported killings under the Amin government, well they never even lifted a finger to condemn the fascist Milton Obote regime backed by Tanzanian forces as the two combined to slaughter Ugandans in what has been termed as a terrible genocide by those who survived it.

Only the US embassy in Kampala, under President Ronald Reagan, refused to side with the madness and mass murder, and thereby issued the first ever strong public condemnation of the blood bath almost two years into the debacle. If it wasn't for that US condemnation, the senseless killings, famine, chaos and economic collapse of the now failed state would not have come to light. Even the British government which was training and arming the fascist Obote dictatorship and it's murderous UNLA soldiers, well the UK in fact denied at the time that anything wrong was going on. Yet to this day, the skeletons, human skulls and mass graves of the Milton Obote killing fields in Luweero and around the country remain a stark reminder of the darkest decade in Uganda's history. In contrast, and even after Amin left the country in 1979, reporters and researchers found nothing that substantiated all their previous claims against Idi Amin. It was essentially all lies.

Yet what happened in Milton Obote's Uganda after the charismatic military strongman left the country is only surpassed by the 1994 Rwanda genocide where almost a million civilians were similarly hacked to death in broad daylight as the world stood by. In fact it is this Obote's war in Uganda that led to the Rwandese refugees living in Uganda finally taking the decision to fight and reclaim their country so as never again to find themselves caught up in a civil war in a foreign country. Essentially, if we study very closely the bigger picture, we discover that Ugandan dictator Milton Obote and his 1980 forced expulsion and slaughter of Rwandese refugees living in Uganda, is actually the true origin of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Had the Obote dictatorship not persecuted these refugees inside Uganda, the need for a war of return wouldn't have arised amongst the Rwandese refugees, and the political dialogue with their home government might have had time to mature as the only sensible option for the Rwandese refugees to return to their country peacefully.

The entire story behind Uganda's "Decade of Hell" of the 1980's has to-date been unheard of by most people around the world. To many, when they hear about Uganda, they know only what they have been told about Idi Amin.

Yet here's the reality. The very people who had been lying to the world that Idi Amin was a mass murderer killing 500,000 people, well these fascists were the very ones now in government in 1979, and incredibly, they were the very ones now slaughtering an estimated 500,000 civilians for real. Their victims were the poorest of the poor, murdered in a frenzy of butchery, human blood, human guts, and outright madness for power that was worse than Liberia's civil war.

The Ugandan sectarian and tribalist mayhem lasted for an entire decade, and even continuing with quack priestess Alice Lakwena's Holy Ghost rebel movement in 1987. In fact the true origins of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army insurgency can be traced to the 1980's Decade of Hell when the group and their tribalist supporters were in government under dictator Milton Obote. And once kicked from power, they embarked on a disturbing resistance and heinous insurgency from 1986 upto 2006 where they were even murdering hundreds of thousands of their own Acholi people.

I am tuning in to the BBC this Sunday 27th at 6am (with a repeat at 6pm) to listen to what the BBC is saying about that dark episode of Uganda's history. There will reportedly be eyewitness accounts by survivors of this unimaginable bloodbath conducted by those who fought Amin, and who now reigned over a failed state and a reign of terror on the people of Uganda. Indeed it was the "Decade of Hell".

Signed: Hussein Lumumba Amin

Saturday 26th October 2019.

Kampala, Uganda.

Check here for broadcast times of the BBC radio documentary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszbb0

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