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...troops with Kalashnikov rifles, many others went into battle bare chested and armed with nothing more than sticks and rocks. These warriors were following the orders of a 27-year-old self-styled "priestess" known as Mama Alice, who was trying to overthrow the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni with an odd mixture of Christian theology and African witchcraft. Believers in her Holy Spirit Movement, she told followers, could ward off enemy bullets by coating themselves with the oil of a local tree and could lob stones that would magically explode like grenades in battle...
...daughter of an Anglican clergyman and a member of the small Acholi tribe in the savannas of northern Uganda, Alice has appealed to regional animosities to build her rebel force, composed mostly of peasant farmers, teenage boys and ex-soldiers. One source of strong resentment is the domination of Museveni's National Resistance Army by Bantu-speaking southerners and westerners. Alice claimed to be under the command of a holy spirit called lakwena, the Acholi word for messiah, which she adopted as her family name. Her goal: to seize Kampala and install a civilian government, presumably one led by fellow...
...Museveni, who had studied economics and politics at the University of Dar es Salaam, returned in exile to Tanzania during the Amin era. He came back to serve as Defense Minister following Amin's fall but withdrew into the bush five years ago, when Obote won an election that was widely regarded as rigged. There, Museveni says, he founded his National Resistance Army with just 27 men and rifles. Since then, his forces have grown to 8,500 well-armed soldiers. Many of them are the young, orphaned children of the more than half a million people killed under Amin...
...Museveni, 41, finally met with General Okello in Nairobi, Kenya, last Dec. 17 and signed a peace accord in which he agreed to dismantle his troops and become deputy chairman of a restructured military council. But the rebel leader, who now claims he was forced to sign the peace treaty under "great external pressure" from Presidents Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and Ali Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania, never put into effect the terms of the agreement. Instead, he returned to his stronghold in the south of Uganda and, a month later, mounted his successful assault on Kampala...
Gaining power in Uganda is one thing, but maintaining it is quite another. Last week Museveni appealed to all government troops to lay down their arms. Many former army soldiers retreated to the northern part of the country, assaulting and looting along the way. General Okello reportedly sought refuge in Sudan, where he is said to be planning a counterattack. From his own haven in Saudi Arabia, Idi Amin charged the new government with slaughtering civilians and claimed that he had urged his followers inside Uganda to resist Museveni. The old guard may be gone, but it will probably...