How Museveni survived public execution
The suspected guerrillas fighting Amin’s government had been tracked and
captured since December 1972 across the country before they were court
marshalled in Kampala and sentenced to death by firing squad.
In Summary:
Cheating death. Early this week, President Museveni, in a letter to the media, referred to an incident in Mbale, where he narrowly survived death while his other associates were killed by soldiers loyal to Idi Amin in the 1970s. Faustin Mugabe revisits the incident the President talked about.
Today 40 years ago, President Yoweri Museveni and a dozen of
other fervent freedom fighters survived death by firing squad
orchestrated by the brute President Idi Amin. On Saturday, February 10,
1973, 11 suspected Front for National Salvation (FRONASA) rebels and one
robber, Badru Semakula, were executed by firing squad in public in the
four regions of the country.
The suspected guerrillas fighting Amin’s
government had been tracked and captured since December 1972 across the
country before they were court marshalled in Kampala and sentenced to
death by firing squad. The military tribunal chaired by Lt. Col. Ozzo
found the 11 guilty of treason by involving in rebel activities against
the sitting government.
The tribunal, which sat Makindye Barracks in
Kampala, decided that the 11 rebels and one robber be shot dead in
public in their home villages in front of their parents, relatives,
friends and colleagues.
This was done to deter any rebel activities as
well as Kondoism or thuggery in the country. FRONASA, a military group,
was established in 1971 by Ugandan exiles in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to
fight Amin – and was led by Yoweri Museveni.
In his book, Sowing the Mustard Seed, page 57,
President Museveni wrote: “We began infiltrating arms into Uganda around
May 1972, some to Kabale, some to Atiak and some to Kampala. Those in
Kabale were kept by James Karambuzi and Joseph Bitwaari, who were
publicly executed by Amin in 1973. The ones in Kampala were kept by
Haruna Kibuye, and those in Atiak by Akena p’Ojok. We also developed
cells in Tooro, Mbarara, Mbale and Jinja.”
The February firing squad.
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