{UAH} This day in history - 27th May 1980...........lest you forget

This day in history (27th May 1980):

Dr. Milton Obote lands at Bushenyi, western Uganda to a heroes welcome returning from 9 years of exile in Tanzania. This was after he had successfully led a combined political and military organisation with the help of his host Julius Nyerere that saw the defeat of Idi Amin's (Libyan, Saudi & initially Anglo-Israeli) backed regime that had overthrown his democratically elected government on January 25th 1971 while he was attending Commonwealth Conference in Singapore and, where he was the official spokesperson for both the Mulungushi Club and the Front Line States campaigning for the end of apartheid rule in Azania (South Africa), Zimbabwe and Namibia.

At that Summit, they had successfully managed to get majority member States to demand that they would pull out of the British Colonial body unless London stopped arms sales to the Boer regime and, withdrew recognition of Ian Smith's regime in Harare. Ted Heath, the British PM was not amused and said so but most importantly, they had a plan - already worked out at Kampala - hence Amin, whom they called a 'gentle giant...'.

Sadly today, another 'Nyampala' team is at Kampala - after 35 years - on some scores including Africa's Liberation, worse....

But, the future is possible...

Ochieno

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