Word: ondoga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joke. Victims of the terror include some of Uganda's best-known political figures. In March, Michael Ondoga was snatched off the street shortly after Big Daddy dismissed him as Foreign Minister. His body was later found floating in the Victoria Nile. In September 1972, six gunmen barged into the nation's high court and dragged off the Chief Justice, Benedicto Kiwanuka. He disappeared without a trace, as did George Kamba, a former Ambassador to West Germany who vanished from a reception that Amin was giving in his honor. Ugandans explain the missing with a wry joke that...
...Lugbaras that their turn as targets was bound to come. Sure enough, Lugbara soldiers and officers started disappearing from barracks last year and dozens of others were slapped into the infamous Makindye prison outside Kampala on conspiracy charges. Last month the bullet-riddled body of Lieut. Colonel Michael Ondoga, who as Foreign Minister was the highest-ranking Lugbara in the government, was found floating in the Nile...
...seems likely that Amin had Ondoga killed to provoke a rebellion and hence justify a purge. If true, the scheme worked because the Lugbaras decided to move. Brigadier General Charles Arube, a Christian member of Amin's Kakwa tribe, joined the conspiracy because he was worried by Big Daddy's purges of the Christian Lugbara, Acholi and Langi tribesmen. Arube was also irritated when he recently returned from a military course in the Soviet Union to find that a Sudanese mercenary had supplanted him as acting chief of staff...
...before, he had divorced three of his four Moslem wives: Senior Wife Miriam, sister of a former Foreign Minister, who fell out with Amin and fled the country last year; Second Wife Kay, a Lugbara and a cousin of Lieut. Colonel Ondoga, and Third Wife Nora, related to a cousin of ex-President Obote. The remaining wife, Madina, Amin says, was given to him as a gift in 1971; she apparently has no political ties to any Amin enemy...
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