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...
In Uganda's semi-detached West Nile district in the far northwest the West Nile Bank Front remains in action despite divisions in its leadership between Idi Amin-veteran Juma Oris and former Constituent Assembly member Zubairi Atamvaku...
Juma Oris and consists of remnants of ex- President Idi Amin Dada's army...
Tanzania has long-standing links with Burundi's Hutu: in 1979 some Hutu refugees were recruited into the force Nyerere sent into Uganda to overthrow President Idi Amin Dada...
People are buying weapons for protection from 'Tanzanian looters' and recall old stories about Tanzanian soldiers who went into Uganda in 1979 to overthrow President Idi Amin Dada...
Outside the north-east Ssemogerere's Catholicism did not seem to sway many voters; Mayanja son of the energetically Muslim Abubakar Mayanja (a minister under Obote Idi Amin Dada and Museveni himself) insisted that he was the candidate of the young not of a faith...
This is the homeland of ex-President Idi Amin and West Nilers were brutally treated after his overthrow in 1979...
