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...seized power in 1971 from the country's first leader, Apollo Milton Obote. During Amin's eight-year reign of terror, an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people were killed, and thousands more were forced into exile. After the dictator expelled the country's Asians, who traditionally controlled Ugandan commerce, the economy collapsed. Production of coffee alone, the country's primary source of foreign income, plummeted 40% during Amin's tenure...
Still another Ugandan government seemed on the verge of falling last week. Only six months after a coup had toppled the corrupt and bloody regime of President Apollo Milton Obote, an estimated 3,000 rebels from a group that calls itself the National Resistance Army moved into the capital, Kampala, and quickly captured a major portion of the city. Some government troops retreated to the suburbs, but others stayed behind, fighting back with heavy mortar barrages. In the exchange of gunfire, both a hospital and a church were hit. At least 20 people were reported killed or wounded...
...answer must begin with cases. Consider Uganda under Idi Amin. Amin was the legitimate ruler when Tanzania invaded and overthrew him. The Tanzanians might say that this was in response to Ugandan border incursions, but Amin had ordered his troops withdrawn more than a month before Tanzania's action. In any case, if repelling a trespass at the border was the problem, Tanzania should have stopped there. It hardly had to drive to Kampala and install the leader of its choice. Tanzania's action, ridding the world of Amin, was a violation of Ugandan sovereignty. It is hard...
...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 put it, "to dry up the civilian sea that the guerrillas swim...
...officials say that the Ugandan army has never been adequately trained or disciplined. Incidents of random violence have increased in recent months, and some analysts suspect that the army may be out of Obote's control. Underfed and poorly paid, soldiers roam the country in gangs, setting up roadblocks to rape and rob hapless travelers. Funeral announcements on the radio and in the press refer more frequently now to "sudden death," a euphemism used when the deceased has been killed by the army. Says a U.S. expert: "They can't end the guerrilla movement so they seem determined...