Kagera War
Part 1V
Uganda united in joy
at Amin's exit
Thirty years ago, Idi Amin’s military government was overthrown by a combined force of the Tanzanian army and a motley of armed Ugandan groups exiled in Kenya and Tanzania during the 1970s. In our continuing series on the events before and after the fall of the man who has gone down in history as one of the most brutal leaders in post colonial Africa, Timothy Kalyegira reports on the euphoria in Uganda and beyond after he was overthrown:-
For those who have lived long enough in Uganda to gauge public euphoria during changes of government, in order of ranking the change of government that was received with the greatest outpouring of cheers, screams, whistles, car horns, ululations, and tens of thousands of Ugandans pouring on the streets, was the January 25, 1971 military coup that brought the 42 year-old army commander, Major-General Idi Amin to power.
The second greatest such outpouring of euphoria was that which received the news, announced by Lt. Colonel David Oyite-Ojok on April 11, 1979, of the fall of the Amin regime…click on for full text>>>>>
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