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That is the rallying cry of a determined armed force that entered southern Uganda a few weeks ago from northern Tanzania. The invaders, composed of recently organized bands of 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...
...current fighting dates from October, when Amin's forces invaded northern Tanzania, hoping to annex a section of territory that Amin had long coveted. The action caused some 4,000 Ugandans who had previously escaped from their country to gather in Tanzania near the fighting area. There they received rudimentary military training, then crossed the border and began to link up with dissidents inside Uganda...
After years of living in silence in Tanzania, the man whom Amin overthrew as Uganda's President, Milton Obote, called on the Ugandan army to rebel against "this regime of terror...
Finally, in early February, Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, fed up with repeated territorial squabbles with Amin, announced that he had ordered his forces "to cross the border and fight inside Uganda if Amin tries to invade Tanzania again." Says a Ugandan exile leader: "That was taken by us to be the signal that the onslaught...
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...