Word: baganda
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...time known as the "Pearl of Africa," Uganda has been beset by tribal rivalries ever since it won its independence from Britain in 1962. The once powerful and privileged Baganda tribe in the south has chafed under a central government and army largely controlled by Langi and Acholi tribesmen from the north. The discontent has given rise to a ragtag insurgent movement that has tried to disrupt Obote's efforts to reassert control. The government has taken brutal countermeasures. Ugandan soldiers have destroyed villages and crops and herded civilians into detention camps in an effort, as Abrams...
Since then, the guerrillas have changed their tactics, attacking lone U.P.C. officials or small groups of government soldiers. Diplomats believe that the two main groups-the Uganda Freedom Movement, composed mainly of Obote-hating Baganda tribesmen, and the People's Revolutionary Army led by ex-Defense Minister Yoweri Museveni-are biding their time until June. That is when the 10,000 Tanzanian troops who remained in Uganda after they helped to overthrow Amin in 1979 are scheduled to be withdrawn. Their departure will leave a dangerous power vacuum. Speculates a Western diplomat: "Any of three things could happen. Obote...
...several no-confidence motions brought by his rivals in the country's interim parliament, the 129-member National Consultative Council. The main reason he has stayed in office seems to be that the N.C.C., whose 28 rival political factions range from hardline Marxists to supporters of the deposed Baganda monarchy, has been unable to agree on who should replace...
...first, Amin promised free elections and declared that Obote could come home to contest them if he wanted to; Obote wisely stayed away. A few months later, Amin won the support of the Baganda people by bringing the body of King Freddie back to Uganda for burial. But by early 1972, to divert attention from Uganda's growing economic problems, Amin was threatening to invade neighboring Tanzania...
...dominated by his own West Nile group of Moslem tribes, had already massacred thousands of Lango and Acholi tribesmen after Amin's overthrow of President Milton Obote in 1971. Since last month's brief battle with invading Ugandan exiles from Tanzania, the army has turned on the Baganda, the country's largest tribe. Military police have made wholesale arrests, including Benedicto Kiwanuka, the Chief Justice of Uganda who was also the Baganda's most revered leader. Also arrested were the head of Makerere University and the president of the National Students Union...