The CNRD's membership is not officially listed but based on observation and multiple sources the top figures include: Gen Aboubacar Sidiki Camara (nicknamed ‘Idi Amin'): Survived the end of the previous junta after the 2008 coup by former Captain Moussa Dadis Camara...
In turn Obote was overthrown by Idi Amin Dada his army commander who ruled from 1971 and 1979...
Idi Amin was then forced to flee by an alliance of local dissidents and Tanzanian soldiers...
Obote was overthrown in a coup d'état in 1971 by army commander Idi Amin Dada who was about to be arrested on corruption charges...
Having helped overthrow several governments including that of Idi Amin in 1979 and Milton Obote in 1985 Museveni knows the reality of this...
The airline founded by President Idi Amin in 1976 Uganda Airways was liquidated in 2001 in a wave of state privatisations...
He compared the continuing absence since 5 November of 'my brother Jamshid Kavuma' to the murder by General Idi Amin's soldiers of Jolly Joe Kiwanuka and Ben Kiwanuka in 1972 and 1973...
Eyebrows may be raised over the choice of retired General Aboubacar Sidiki Camara (aka 'Idi Amin') as Minister of Defence...
That's when President Idi Amin Dada's soldiers arrested and later murdered the Ugandan Chief Justice Benedicto Kiwanuka as he sat in the High Court...
There were military mutinies in British East Africa (defeated until Idi Amin tried again); in Ghana which succeeded in unseating Nkrumah...
The second piece was also notable for raising for the first time some of the background to Idi Amin's relations with Obote which would lead to the latter's eventual overthrow...
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Rashid says his family now based in Calgary are of Asian desecent and were expelled from Uganda under Idi Amin Dada's regime in the 1970s...