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Odwar was an ethnic Acholi [1] and born at Orom in northern Uganda. [2] In April 1979, Tanzanian forces and the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA), a coalition of armed rebel groups, overthrew the regime of Ugandan President Idi Amin. This resulted in widespread unrest, with fleeing Uganda Army troops looting across
Dominic Ongwen (born 1975) is a Ugandan former child soldier and former commander of one of the brigades of the Ugandan guerrilla group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).. He was detained in 2014 [5] and in 2021 the International Criminal Court convicted him of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, torture, and enslavement.
At least 10 Ugandan soldiers were beaten to death by enraged civilians [1] armed with furniture and pieces of wood. [78] Lieutenant Colonel Juma Butabika , one of Amin's top commanders, was killed in a firefight with soldiers of the 205th and 208th Brigades in the Bwaise – Kawempe area as they moved in from Mityana to secure the northern ...
Patrick Kimumwe was born at Kamuli District, Uganda Protectorate, around 1946.He enlisted in the Uganda Army in 1965. [2] His brother Wilson "Willy" Kimumwe also joined the military, eventually becoming a pilot in the Uganda Army Air Force [3] [4] and training to fly MiG-21 and MiG-17 jets in the Soviet Union and Iraq. [5]
Christopher Israel Umba Gore, [b] also known as Gadwin Gore, [5] was an Ugandan military officer who served as head of the Uganda Army Air Force during the last stages of President Idi Amin's dictatorship. He disappeared during the Uganda–Tanzania War, with some sources claiming that he either died in combat in 1979 or escaped to southern Sudan.
According to Amin's family, Ugandan oral tradition, and his Saudi death certificate, Idi Amin Dada Oumee was born on 30 May 1928 at ≈ 4:00 AM in his father's workplace, the Shimoni Police Barracks in Nakasero Hill, Kampala. [1] [15] [16] [17] He was given the name Idi after his birth on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
A search by Ugandan police did not find Bloch, and the Ugandan government informed the UK that they "had no responsibility" for Bloch after Operation Entebbe. [14] In early July, a Ugandan traveller reported seeing a body, which he believed to be Bloch, near a group of Ugandan soldiers, [16] [15] around 18 kilometres (11 mi) from Kampala. [16]
Major General Kasirye Ggwanga (26 August 1952 – 9 June 2020), was a Ugandan military officer in the Uganda People's Defence Force. [1] He was previously incarcerated as a prisoner of war for 897 days, inside both Uganda and Tanzania. [2] He was a presidential advisor on Buganda Kingdom affairs.