Word: amins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ugandan exiles, slipped into Uganda amid heavy fighting between regular Tanzanian and Ugandan forces on the border. By last week they had advanced 50 miles and had fought their way to Masaka, a city just 80 miles from Kampala, Uganda's capital. Their goal: to overthrow Idi Amin Dada, 55, the self-styled President-for-Life whose tyrannical regime is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 300,000 Ugandans in the past eight years...
Joshua Muvumba, a native of Uganda studying at Harvard, said "it is likely there will be military rule for some time" after Amin leaves because there has been so much "dislocation and exile" in the country...
Dike, Omara and Olara Otunnu, and Muvumba all said they will return to Uganda if Amin's regime falls...
Otunnu said that the news that Amin is losing power indicates that "the freedom fighters have begun to take the upper hand." Ugandan exiles who entered the country from Tanzania are responsible for the current fighting in Uganda, Otunnu added...
...wires reported yesterday that Tanzanian regular troops and Ugandan exiles were fighting Amin's troops in southern Uganda...