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Prominent people killed during Amin’s 8-year rule Sunday April 11 2021 Former minister for Information in the UPC government Alex Ojera (R) meets president Idi Amin in Kampala following his arrest in September 1972. PHOTOS | FILE Summary Exactly 42 years ago today, president Idi Amin’s military government was overthrown following a six-month war between Uganda and combined forces of Tanzanian army and Ugandan guerrillas. However, Amin’s eight-year rule was no ordinary one. Stories of killings and disappearances during his rule have been told over the years. Felix Ocen revisits some of the most prominent cases. Advertisement Amid an endless wave of killings by Idi Amin’s henchmen following the 1971 military takeover, according to the book To Those Who Have Died, Milton Obote’s army chief of staff, Brig Hassan Suleiman, whose appointment Amin had bitterly opposed only three months before the coup, was captured in Kampala as he tried to flee the coun ....
Daily Monitor Sunday February 07 2021 Roy Innis, CORE’s national director (left), with Gen Idi Amin, president of Uganda. The photo is from the early 1970s. Photo | harlemcore.com/ Summary According to the book To Those Who Have Died, Uganda offered its African American friends the unique experience of belonging, at last, to the African continent to contribute to where their effort was valued. Advertisement About 40 years ago, in December 1972, a delegation from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), an Afro-American organisation fighting against racial inequality in the United States, arrived in Uganda for a meeting with then president Idi Amin. ....
Daily Monitor Sunday January 03 2021 Former Deputy Prime Minister Paul Etiang (left) with Mr Museveni (centre) during the President’s visit to Tororo District in 2000. PHOTOS/COURTESY. Summary Etiang was, however, no stranger to controversy. He, in 1965 while serving at Uganda’s mission to Moscow, announced his pending marriage to a Tanzanian national, Ms Zahra A Foum. Advertisement Uganda president, Gen Idi Amin, was not in attendance but a delegation from Uganda was. With Mr Edward Heath, the prime minister of Britain, seated across the oval conference table, the head of the Ugandan delegation launched an unprecedented attack, accusing the British of racism and neocolonialism and working in pursuit of an agenda that “threatened the very foundation of their Commonwealth of nations”. ....
On the eve of Uganda’s Independence in 1962, thieves broke into the embassies of the United States of America and several other foreign missions, but this was a strange kind of robbery. The only valuables they made off with were the flags of those nations. The attacks were coordinated by Ally Muwabe Kirunda Kivejinja, a member of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) youth wing, who at the time was also a secretary at the party’s research bureau. “After getting the certainty that the Ugandan flag was to be hoisted… Some of our youth clandestinely moved to the American embassy and the embassies of all nations that we considered to be enemies of Uganda and stole their flags,” he said. ....