{UAH} MUSEVENI'S CATASTROPHIC MISSION THAT FAILED BEFORE IT EVEN STARTED

Photo (attached): President Idi Amin checking some of the weapons captured from the attack.

Exactly 51 years ago today, the first Tanzanian invasion of Uganda took place on 19th September 1972 as deposed dictator Milton Obote and henchman Yoweri Museveni tried to topple President Idi Amin and return Obote to power. 

This invasion happened as the people of Uganda were still celebrating the expulsion of British economic colonialism and its cronies, a decree which had just been announced the month before on 4th August 1972.

The main thrust of Obote's invasion was crushed by the civilian population in the Western Uganda town of Mbarara. Obote's second group of henchmen sank in a ferry by themselves as they tried to cross Lake Victoria from Tanzania to Kampala. None survived.

A third group failed to take off by plane from Tanzania to capture Entebbe Airport because the East African Airways plane they had used for the mission with help from Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, that plane crash-landed in Arusha where it was supposed to pick it's cargo of Obote henchmen and bring them to take over Uganda's international airport and attack State House Entebbe. Apparently, their inexperienced pilot failed to unlock the landing gear mechanism properly while landing in Arusha, causing a tyre to burst and the plane, an East African Airways DC-9, to swerve off the runway and crash.

Now they had a whole ferry of rebels, a whole plane-load of rebels, and an entire group that went to Mbarara, and all of them their role somehow over before even facing the Ugandan army.

However, a fourth and last group 

managed to make headway from Mutukula border to Masaka by road, then they melted into the population. Just three days later, they abducted the Amin government's Chief Justice Ben Kiwanuka. This took place on 22nd September 1972. Barely a week after Ben Kiwanuka, the abduction of Central Bank Governor Joseph Mubiru happened, then the Makerere University Vice Chancellor Frank Lutamaguzi, then former Minister John Kalema, former minister Basil Bataringaya, and several other political prisoners who had been imprisoned by Obote in 1969 but had been set free by General Amin in a major popular ceremony when he came to power. In the three months that followed the September 1972 invasion, nine government officials and Ugandan elites had been mysteriously dissappeared, and more would follow in the next two years, including my late mother First Lady Kay Amin.

On January 22nd, just 4 months after the invasion, Yoweri Museveni who had been part of the invasion, was found driving the very Volkswagen vehicle whose registration number UUU 171 had been reported by eye witnesses of the broad daylight abduction of Chief Justice Ben Kiwanuka. Museveni managed to escape arrest in Mbale during a raid at their terrorism hideout House 49 Maluku housing estate, and he has remained a fugitive in this case to this day. Museveni's terrorist colleagues who had supported him in the heinous abductions, some were captured alive, put on trial in a military tribunal, and sentenced to firing squad the following month on 11th February 1972.

Signed: Lumumba Amin

Kampala, Uganda.

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