He labelled his opponent as part of the old order of Idi Amin Dada and Milton Obote although Besigye joined Museveni's guerrilla struggle in 1981 and was at one time the Movement's chief ideologue...
Solicitor General under Idi Amin Dada then Museveni's Minister of Lands and Housing then Minister in the Office of the President...
Without that it will return to the ethnic violence it knew under Presidents Milton Obote Idi Amin Dada and others...
Appalled by Idi Amin Dada's brutal dictatorship in neighbouring Uganda Nyerere in 1979 sent 45 000 Tanzanian troops to topple it...
Vol 40 No 18 |
- RWANDA
- UGANDA
In the late 1970s the old Front Patriotique Rwandais (then exiled in Uganda and Tanzania) had joined forces with Museveni's National Resistance Movement to help oust two Ugandan Presidents first Idi Amin Dada and then Milton Obote...
It began when Tanzania helped Ugandan dissidents to overthrow Idi Amin Dada’s regime...
African and European human rights groups had filed claims in several European countries against Kabila for crimes against humanity ranking him after only 18 months in power with Central African Republic's Jean-Bedel Bokassa and Uganda's Idi Amin Dada...
Vol 38 No 22 |
- COMMONWEALTH
He also argued that the products of colonial armies are corrupt and badly motivated (pace Idi Amin) and that revolutionary armies like his own were required...
In the remote north-west the West Nile Bank Front (WNBF) is led by Colonel Juma Oris once in the notorious President Idi Amin Dada's cabinet...
Idi Amin had pacified the WNBF by making Juma Oris Foreign Minister and when Amin fell Juma reverted to rebellion...
An early and unlikely catalyst was Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada...
