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Last week around 2,000 mutinous Acholi troops, led by Northern Brigade Commander Bazilio Olara Okello, seized control of parts of the north and began moving southward. They surged across the White Nile and went on to overpower Obote loyalists at Bombo Barracks, 20 miles from the capital of Kampala. Finally, on Saturday, a column of about 20 tanks, jeeps and buses filled with heavily armed troops rolled into Kampala. Half an hour later, a voice interrupted programming on the state-run Radio Uganda to announce the "end of Obote's tribalistic rule." Obote had been charged with the killings...
...coalition of opposition groups, aided by neighboring Tanzania, finally overthrew Amin in 1979 but then fell to bickering among themselves. Obote eventually emerged to lead the country, but the bloodshed continued. Last July the army, led by General Tito Okello, ousted Obote...
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...
Skirmishes between various military groups have been commonplace since the July coup. Uganda's new leader, Major General Tito Okello, had appealed to the rebels to lay down their guns and join his government. On Dec. 17 he met with Insurgent Leader Yoweri Museveni in neighboring Kenya and signed a peace accord that called for Museveni to become deputy chairman of a restructured military council. But the truce soon fell apart. In Uganda, generals may come and go, but the blood always seems to flow...