Word: amins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar force was quickly defeated by the Ugandan army in 1972, a year after Amin seized power. But this time the invaders seem to have the upper hand...
Since October, the Tanzanians have shot down 18 of Amin's 26 combat aircraft, and in one recent week captured a Soviet T-55 tank, seven armored cars and other equipment. Some Ugandan army units based at Masaka and nearby Mbarara are reported to be in rebellion. Says a Western diplomat in Nairobi, capital of neighboring Kenya: "It looks as if Amin has abandoned all of southern Uganda...
...Amin's problems have been further complicated by a wave of sabotage. On Feb. 3, a fuel depot and two electrical substations were blown up in Kampala, knocking out power and water supplies in the area for three days. The Save Uganda Movement, one of several guerrilla groups operating inside the country, claimed responsibility for the attack. The State Research Bureau, Amin's notorious secret police agency, has arrested hundreds of "suspects," but has failed to crush the guerrillas. With pride, the leader of one anti-Amin group declared in Nairobi: "Our office in Kampala was searched...
...current fighting dates from October, when Amin's forces invaded northern Tanzania, hoping to annex a section of territory that Amin had long coveted. The action caused some 4,000 Ugandans who had previously escaped from their country to gather in Tanzania near the fighting area. There they received rudimentary military training, then crossed the border and began to link up with dissidents inside Uganda...
After years of living in silence in Tanzania, the man whom Amin overthrew as Uganda's President, Milton Obote, called on the Ugandan army to rebel against "this regime of terror...