ARMY ON JANUARY 25, 1971 OBOTE IS OUSTED BY UGANDAN ARMY ON JANUARY 25, 1971. The following is a news article published in the New York Times the day after the coup: New York Times KAMPALA, Uganda, Tuesday, Jan. 26—Uganda's Army ousted President Milton Obote yester day and set up a military gov ernment. Thousands of cheering Ugan dans thronged the streets of this East African capital cele brating the army take‐over, while the President himself was still heading home after attend ing the conferen

This video shows life in the West Nile District of Uganda in 1982. The Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) committed atrocities in the West Nile District while fighting the soldiers of Idi Amin. President Milton Obote was unable to control the military and violations of human rights in Uganda increased. (AP video) | History of Uganda

Uganda can't seem to crush guerrilla leader Museveni September 20, 1984 By William Pike Special to The Christian Science Monitor Mao Tse-tung said if you get an egg and put it in an incubator, after a while it will hatch a chick. But if you put a stone in an incubator, nothing will happen even if you leave it there for 100 years.'' Yoweri Museveni, leader of antigovernment guerrillas in Uganda, was speaking in a camp concealed beneath the thorn trees and scrub of savanna country 100 miles north

April 1985: Peter Otai the Minister of State for Defence in the Obote II regime, denies stories of massacres of innocent people by Uganda government troops in Luwero. Peter Sisson of Channel 4 News NEWSWEEK/AUGUST 13, 1984 Starvation and Slaughter in Uganda One of the world’s most massive – and deadly – violations of human rights in recent years may now be occurring in the Luwero triangle of Uganda, according to State Department sources in Washington. That area is a center of the Baganda tribe a

Human rights violations under the Obote II regime 1980-1985. (washington Post) Uganda Again Troubled On Rights, U.S. Asserts By Lena H. Sun and Karen DeYoung August 10, 1984 Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams said yesterday that the East African nation of Uganda, which became notorious during the rule of Idi Amin, has once again developed one of the most serious human rights problems in the world. "Repeated reports" have reached the State Department in recent months "of large-scale civi