30 years after the fall of Amin,
causes of 1979 war revealed
Part 1
Thirty years ago today, the military government of Idi Amin was overthrown by a combined force of the Tanzanian army and a motley of armed Uganda groups exiled in Kenya and Tanzania during the 1970s. It brought to an end the eight-year rule of the man who has gone down in contemporary history as one of the most brutal rulers in modern Africa. In Part I of our new series on the fall of the Amin regime, Timothy Kalyegira contests the widely held belief that the war with Tanzania was started by Amin’s soldiers: --
The first question to ask about the 1978-79 Tanzania-Uganda war is, how did it start and who triggered it off?
The commonly held view, widespread in thousands of books, scholarly papers, and now on websites from all over the world is that as usual, the bad man of Africa, Idi Amin, sent his troops into Tanzania for no apparent reason and what Tanzania subsequently did was counter-attack.......click on for full text>>>>>>
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