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Obote moved the army headquarters approximately 54 miles ( 87 km ) from Jinja to Kampala.
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Obote and moved
During the rule of Milton Obote and Idi Amin, who were both from northern Uganda, a significant number of northern Ugandans moved to Kampala from the 1950s until the mid-1980s.
Obote and army
The Acholi and Langi ethnic groups were particular objects of Amin's political persecution because they had supported Obote and made up a large part of the army.
Obote ruled until 27 July 1985, when an army brigade, composed mostly of ethnic Acholi troops and commanded by Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello, took Kampala and proclaimed a military government.
In January 1971, Obote was overthrown by the army while on a visit to Singapore, and Amin became President.
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.
Instead, Obote turned to Idi Amin and the army, and, in effect, carried out a coup d ' état against his own government in order to stay in power.
Obote appeared particularly uncertain of the army after Amin's sole rival among senior army officers, Brigadier Acap Okoya, was murdered early in 1970.
Obote also enlarged the paramilitary Special Force as a counterweight to the army.
The army, which had been progressively expanded under Obote, was further doubled and redoubled under Amin.
The undisciplined army continued its atrocities under Obote's government and Paulo Muwanga ( Vice President ), Tito Okello ( Commander of the Army ) and David Oyite-Ojok ( Army Chief of Staff ) had all been rewarded by Obote.
Obote appeared confident that as long as Tito remained in place, the resentment would disappear, and in the meantime he began to build an internal army called the Special Forces, dominated by Langi Officers to counter any army mutiny.
The National Resistance Army ( NRA ), the military wing of the National Resistance Movement ( NRM ), was a rebel army that waged a guerrilla war, commonly referred to as the Ugandan Bush War or Luwero War, against the government of Milton Obote, and later that of Tito Okello.
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Obote appealed for British military support, hoping to prevent the mutiny from spreading to other parts of the country.
Apolo Milton Obote ( 28 December 1925 – 10 October 2005 ) was a Ugandan socialist political leader who led Uganda towards independence from the British colonial administration in 1962.
After his second removal from power, Obote fled to Tanzania and later to Zambia.
In 1960 a political organizer from Lango, Milton Obote, seized the initiative and formed a new party, the Uganda People's Congress ( UPC ), as a coalition of all those outside the Roman Catholic-dominated DP who opposed Buganda hegemony.
The first major challenge to the Obote government came not from the kingdoms, nor the regional interests, but from the military.
The turning point came when several DP members of parliament from Bunyoro agreed to join the government side if Obote would undertake a popular referendum to restore the " lost counties " to Bunyoro.
After the assault, Obote was reasonably secure from open opposition.
Obote began to recruit more Acholi and Langi troops, and he accelerated their promotions to counter the large numbers of soldiers from Amin's home, which was then known as West Nile District.
Another charge against Amin was that he had continued to aid southern Sudan's Anyanya rebels in opposing the regime of Gaafar Nimeiry even after Obote had shifted his support away from the Anyanya to Nimeiry.
In 1971 and 1972, the Lugbara and Kakwa ( Amin's ethnic group ) from the West Nile were slaughtering northern Acholi and Langi, who were identified with Obote.
Shortly after Muwanga's 1980 coup, Obote made a triumphant return from Tanzania.
The factions that formed the alliance of exiles included former military officers like Tito Okello from the previous government of Milton Obote which Idi Amin had overthrown in 1971.
Two northern tribes, the Langi ( of Milton Obote ) and the Acholi ( of Tito Okello ) had been extensively brutalised by the regime of Idi Amin ( a northerner from West Nile sub-region ) and saw this as a chance to consolidate their position in Uganda.
Oyite-Ojok was from the Lango tribe along with president Obote.
Acholi resentment grew when Obote appointed a relatively unknown officer from his tribe, Brigadier Smith Opon Acak as the new Army Chief of Staff.
The death of Milton Obote has also resulted in the lack of any political force from northern Uganda.
In 1969, Obote ordered all " unskilled foreigners " to be removed from government jobs, affecting thousands of Banyarwanda.
In 1962 Uganda became independent from Britain under the leadership of Milton Obote.
In 1966 Mutesa's estrangement from Obote merged with another crisis.
Obote faced a possible removal from office by factional infighting within his own party.
Uganda People's Congress dominated Ugandan politics from independence until 1971 when Milton Obote was overthrown by Idi Amin.
Obote and Kampala
Milton Obote was given a state funeral, attended by president Museveni in the Ugandan capital Kampala in October 2005, to the surprise and appreciation of many Ugandans, since he and Museveni were bitter rivals.
As if determined to replay the January 1971 events, Obote once again left the capital after giving orders for the arrest of a leading Acholi commander, Brigadier ( later Lieutenant General ) Bazilio Olara-Okello, who mobilized troops and entered Kampala on July 27, 1985.
The same month, another of Museveni's rivals, Milton Obote, died in South Africa, and was given a state funeral in Kampala.
Obote and .
The departure of Uganda's President Milton Obote to the 1971 CHOGM allowed Idi Amin to overthrow Obote's government.
* 1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
* 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
** In Uganda, Idi Amin deposes Milton Obote in a coup, and becomes president.
With the overthrow of Milton Obote in 1986, many northern Ugandans left the city.
Political maneuvering climaxed in February 1966, when Prime Minister Milton Obote suspended the constitution and assumed all government powers, removing the positions of president and vice president.
The December 1980 elections returned the UPC to power under the leadership of President Milton Obote, with Muwanga serving as vice president.
Under Obote, the security forces had one of the world's worst human rights records.
Obote fled to exile in Zambia.
In the same month, Milton Obote died in South Africa.
Milton Obote, a northerner and longtime opponent of autonomy for the southern kingdoms including Buganda, was prime minister.
Mutesa recognized the seriousness of the rank-and-file demands for Africanizing the officer corps, but he was more concerned about potential northern domination of the military, a concern that reflected the power struggle between Mutesa and Obote.
When Congolese aircraft bombed the West Nile villages of Paidha and Goli on February 13, 1965, President Obote again increased military recruitment and doubled the army's size to more than 4, 500.
On May 24, 1966, Obote ousted Mutesa, assumed his offices of president and commander in chief, suspended the 1962 constitution, and consolidated his control over the military by eliminating several rivals.
Eventually, Amin held the rank of Major General in the post-colonial Ugandan Army and became its Commander before seizing power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote.
Milton Obote of Uganda was the first to propose a specifically titled ' secretariat ', which was then formally proposed by Eric Williams of Trinidad and Tobago, who wished to see it based upon the secretariats of the OAS, EEC, and OAU.
Milton Obote was born at Akokoro village in Apac district in northern Uganda.
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