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Museveni's National Resistance Army ( NRA ) took power in 1986 from the government of Gen. Tito Okello Lutwa who had six months earlier toppled Obote's UPC government in a July 27th 1985 bloodless military coup, making him President.
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* January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a successful 5-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed.
In their efforts to stamp out an insurgency led by Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army ( NRA ), they laid waste to a substantial section of the country, especially in the Luwero area north of Kampala.
However, the UPC's opposition believed that the elections were rigged and this led to a guerrilla war by Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army ( NRA ) and several other military groups.
During the civil war in Uganda between the UNLA ( which was now the national army ) and Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army, president Milton Obote alienated much of the Acholi-dominated officer corps, including Olara-Okello and General Tito Okello, by appointing his fellow ethnic Lango, Brigadier Smith Opon Acak, as army Chief of Staff.
He commanded the army until Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army seized power on 26 January 1986.
The February 2006 elections, the first multiparty elections in 25 years, were held with Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change ( FDC ) as the main challenger to Museveni's National Resistance Movement ( NRM ).
It is important at this stage to recognise the multitude of forces that now joined the National Resistance Movement, because it is only then that one can understand Museveni's success:
In response, Obote denounced Museveni's National Resistance Army ( NRA ) as composed of Banyarwanda.
Kategaya was part of Museveni's Front for National Salvation ( FRONASA ), a group of Ugandan exiles in Tanzania who eventually helped topple Idi Amin in 1979 with the help of the Tanzania People's Defence Force.
Between 1986 and 2001, Kategaya served in various capacities as National Political Commissar for the NRM and Minister in Museveni's governments.
FDC was founded as an umbrella body called Reform Agenda by that time, mostly for disenchanted former members and followers President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement.
After the elections, the party suffered many high level defections to Museveni's ruling National Resistance Movement and to the FDC.
Prior the 2001 presidential elections, Besigye had become an opponent of Museveni's National Resistance Movement " no-party " system of government, saying that he believed the leadership was " incorrigibly off course ", and that " someone had to step in and get things back on course ".
In 1983, they moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, and stayed there until May 1986, four months after Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army had seized power in Kampala.
In 1986 attacks against civilians were initiated by the Museveni's government force called the National Resistance Army, now known as Uganda People's Defence Force.
The group merged with Yoweri Museveni's Popular Resistance Army to create the National Resistance Army ( NRA ).
He stated, that his reason for doing so was mainly anger at Museveni's National Resistance Army, which had confiscated property of his.
* The Nairobi Agreement, 1985-signed by Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement and the Ugandan government of Tito Okello.
Museveni's and Resistance
NRA was formed in 1981 when Yoweri Museveni's Popular Resistance Army ( PRA ) merged with ex-president Yusuf Lule's group, the Uganda Freedom Fighters ( UFF ).
Following the victory of the NRA and Museveni's taking of the presidential office in 1986, Resistance Councils were implemented in every district.
Museveni's and Army
In April 1988, 3, 000 former Uganda People's Army ( UPA ) fighters and members of several other small rebel groups accepted a government amnesty by surrendering and declaring their support for Museveni's regime.
Museveni's and NRA
The two men briefly ruled the country through a Military Council, but after a few months of near chaos, Museveni's NRA seized control of the country.
Although there were other guerrilla armies fighting the government, such as the Uganda Freedom Movement led by Andrew Kayiira, Museveni's experience gained during his time with FRELIMO enabled him to develop the NRA more effectively.
Besigye attracted many of the disgruntled former NRA / NRM members, but they were unable to overhaul Museveni's popularity and lost to the president by a large margin in the elections.
The constitutional amendment was criticised by some of Museveni's closest allies like Eriya Kategaya-at the time seen by many as the number two in the NRM / NRA political hierarchy.
Meanwhile, Yoweri Museveni's NRA rebels were gaining ground, having taken advantage of the chaotic situation in the country, caused by power struggles within the government and a demoralized and disintegrating UNLA.
Museveni's and took
Museveni's action made him extremely popular, particularly as the Democratic Party which took up its seats in Parliament was perceived as increasingly irrelevant.
Museveni's and power
Since assuming power in early 1986, Museveni's government has taken important steps toward economic rehabilitation.
Museveni's home district in the West saw him as a route to gaining power.
Museveni's and 1986
As the Museveni's force continued to commit atrocities against the civilian, several rebel groups were formed by the end of 1986.
Museveni's and from
Kizza Besigye, Museveni's political rival, returned from exile in October 2005, and was a presidential candidate for the 2006 elections.
In October 2005 Kizza Besigye, Museveni's main political rival, returned from exile.
Many of these came from Museveni's own tribe, the Banyankole and other western tribes like the Batoro.
This time they turned to Museveni's main opponent Kizza Besyigye ( from the South ) who led the Forum for Democratic Change ( FDC ).
Museveni's and government
Museveni's forces organized a government with Museveni as president.
The movement, led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the " spokesperson " of God and a spirit medium, aims to overthrow Yoweri Museveni's Ugandan government and to establish a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and Acholi tradition, according to its leaders.
The development of the " Movement " political system previously used by Museveni's government has often been attributed to Binaisa.
The war continued for almost five years before Museveni's forces succeeded in toppling the government and Museveni became President of Uganda.
Museveni's and Gen
The new regime, headed by former defense force commander Gen. Tito Okello ( no relation to Lt. Gen. Olara-Okello ), opened negotiations with Museveni's insurgent forces and pledged to improve respect for human rights, end tribal rivalry, and conduct free and fair elections.
Museveni's and .
However, neither Kagame's Rwandan Tutsi forces nor Museveni's Ugandan forces had any intention of leaving the Congo, and the framework of the Second Congo War was laid.
Rwigema then returned to Tanzania and fought in the 1979 war in which Museveni's army, allied with the Tanzanian army and other Ugandan exiles defeated Amin.
After Museveni's inauguration as President, he appointed Kagame and Rwigema as senior officers in the new Ugandan army ; Kagame was the head of military intelligence.
In early 1983, to eliminate rural support for Museveni's guerrillas the area of Luwero District, north of Kampala, was targeted for a massive population removal affecting almost 750, 000 people.
The same month, another of Museveni's rivals, Milton Obote, died in South Africa, and was given a state funeral in Kampala.
Museveni's UPM gained only one parliamentary seat in what was widely seen as an election rigged in favour of Obote's UPC.
The army responded by carrying out a brutal campaign in the south particularly in the central Luwero district where Museveni's forces were established.
Museveni's speeches were often laced with words of Marxist / socialist influence, which attracted young university students.
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