Idi Amin Was A Murderer, His Sons Are Sugarcoating The Truth

 Idi Amin Was a murderer....  Original Link

By Conrad Nkutu

For all those regular consumers of fiction-writing by Hussein Lumumba Amin in his pitiful effort to erase the reality of mass murder from the history of his blood-thirsty father, Idi Amin, let me share some indelible facts:

1. In 2007-2008, one Jaffer Remo Amin and one Maimuna Amin, elder siblings to Hussein Lumumba Amin, set up an Amin-murder denial website. In the single article on the site, they claimed that with one exception, not a single Ugandan had died at the hands of their father’s army.
The single exception was Hon. Shaban Kirunda Nkutu, a senior minister in the Obote1 Independence Cabinet, who was abducted by the army in Jinja on January 11, 1973. In the article, Remo and Maimuna were pained to note that Shaban Nkutu “was an Uncle to our Mum.” They were referring to the former First Lady, Mama Maryamu Kibedi Amin, who is my elder cousin. Clearly, it is an embarrassment for Amin’s family that their blood thirsty dad murdered his own father in law, Shaban Nkutu and buried him in a secret grave, without the knowledge of his family.
To paraphrase the fiction-write up of Amin’s children, who are my former school mates, Amin suspected my father of being in contact with exiled rebels. But that when soldiers were sent to interview him, “Nkutu’s armed supporters opened fire on the army and unfortunately, Hon. Shaban Nkutu was killed in the crossfire…” When I posted the truth on their website, Amin’s children took the website off-line.

In 2016, their younger brother Hussein Lumumba Amin, came up with a new “explanation” for my father’s murder. The occasion was the announcement of the death of my senior cousin, Ambassador Joshua Wanume Kibedi, brother of Mama Maryamu Kibedi Amin.
The murder of Shaban Nkutu forced Wanume Kibedi, who was Foreign Minister, to resign, flee and denounce Amin as a murderer. First Lady Maryamu followed suit and fled the country.
In his condolence message to Wanume’s family, Hussein Lumumba Amin said Kibedi had fled for no good reason because Amin did not kill Nkutu.
In a new height of Amin-whitewash fiction writing, Lumumba claimed that Shaban Nkutu had died of natural causes in his Jinja home “but his family just decided to bury him secretly and blame his death on President Amin…”(!!!)

Most Ugandans who use Facebook were born long after the horror of Amin’s reign of terror and murder. I myself was only 5 years old when my father was murdered. It took us 32 years to discover his remains. We were the first of possibly only 2 families of the thousands of “disappeared ” Amin victims to find the remains of a murdered father.
To the extent that the tragedy and permanent pain inflicted on my family continues to be included in Lumumba’s fiction writing, I will share the true facts below:
1. http://www.newvision.co.ug/…/shaban-nkutu-tragedy-cabinet-m…
2. http://www.newvision.co.ug/…/1317073/nkutu-murder-killed-eac
3. http://www.monitor.co.ug/…/At-school-with-Idi-Amin-s-childr…
4. Reconciliation with Amin’s family? I think I have done more than many would do: http://www.monitor.co.ug/…/688342-1842664-120cdw…/index.html
Jaffer Remo Amin has now dedicated himself to apologizing to the families of his father’s murder victims. I think he means well but his approach is not shared by some of his siblings. We do not blame Amin’s children for their father’s murders but for Amin’s children to dance on the graves of his victims is unacceptable.
So as we mark Amin’s murdering Archbishop Janan Luwum, you can now await the next fiction from Hussein Lumumba Amin.

Cruel Blood thirsty

To understand Amin's reign of terror it is necessary to realize that he was not an ordinary political tyrant. He did more than murder those whom he considered his enemies: he also subjected them to barbarisms even after they were dead. These barbarisms are well attested. It was common knowledge in the Ugandan medical profession that many of the bodies dumped in hospital mortuaries were terribly mutilated, with livers, noses, lips, genitals or eyes missing. Amin's killers did this on his specific instructions; the mutilations follow a well-defined pattern. After Gofrey Kigala was shot in 1974, his eyes were gouged out and his body was partially skinned before it was dumped outside Kampala. Medical reports on deaths of Shaban Nkutu, Lt.Col Ondoga etc stated that the bodies had been cut open and that a number of internal organs had ben tampered with...... H. Kyemba (State of Blood).

How Idi Amin Killed Janani Luwum.

 Click link below.

https://www.facebook.com/1493780077583211/videos/1529445260683359/?fref=nf

On several occasions as Minister of Health, Amin insisted on being left alone with his victim's bodies. Such was the case when Brigadier Arube was murdered in 1974. Amin came to see the body while it was in the mortuary; he ordered the deputy medical superintendent, Dr Kyewalabaye to "wait outside". Amin then went in by himself....... Source H.Kyemba.

http://www.reimaroltmanns.com/2008/06/afrika.html

http://africanhistory.about.com/od/biography/a/bio_amin.htm

http://africanhistory.about.com/od/biography/a/bio_amin_2.htm

http://photography.a24media.com/index.php/idiaminexecutions

Unidentifiable Victim

We hereby honour this unidentifiable victim and hundreds of thousands who are unidentifiable.

Like hundreds of thousands of victims who were executed in Nakasero SRB, his head was battered beyond recognition.

We cannot name this man, the vast majority of Amin's victims were never identified and were disposed of in forests, rivers, mass graves etc.

This man was murdered in Nakasero State Research Bureau.

The above picture was shot by Reimar Oltmanns.

German journalist and author. He was 1970-1972 Spokesman of the Lower Saxony Minister of Education Peter von Oertzen.

Amin ordered murders

Amin ordered murders using euphemisims that were recognized as orders for execution by his henchmen. One phrase was "Give him the VIP treatment" which meant death after torture, a phrase i heard him use when he was ordering the death of the Minister of Information, Alex Ojera in september 1972. Other code phrases were "Take him to Malire" and "Kalasi" which means "death" in Nubian, a language few ugandans speak.

Source Henry Kyemba.....


But Amin murdered Luwum himself.

How Idi Amin Killed Archbishop Janani Luwum

Click Link below:

https://www.facebook.com/1493780077583211/videos/1529445260683359/?fref=nf 

Amin's Government By Terror

THE REPRESSIVE ORGANS

Amin kept thorough surveillance on Ugandans through five repressive organs that were either ccreated in Obote's period and then recreated and given new names by Amin himself, or founded after January 1971. Amin replaced the General Service Unit with a similar intelligence organ called the Bureau of State Research.  Located at Nakasero near what had been Obote's official Kampala residence, the bureau used the same house, headquarters, and surveilance equipment as those used by the deposed president.  Amin also established the Public Safety Unit in 1972  ostensibly to curb Kondo-robbery with violence- but in reality to give security personnel an opportunity to arrest enemies of the regime.  Its headquarters were at Naguru Police Training School.  The Military Police, created under Obote, was expanded.  Makindye, its headquarters, became notorious as a slaughterhouse in Amin's time.  As the economy worsened, another paramilitary unit, the Antismuggling Bureau, was created under Bob Astles.  It accused successful businessmen of smuggling and hoarding. 

These repressive agencies helped Amin gather intelligence on his enemies and survive in office.  Although their methods were crude, they succeeded by not taking chances: any suspect was instantly presumed guilty and eliminated.  Between January and August 1972, for example, in a wave of intensified political violence, political prisoners who had been locked behjind bars because of their presumed opposition to the Amin regime were all killed.  Most were members of the police, the GSU, and the Civil Service who had served Obote with loyalty,  including the bracss of the Police Central Intelligence Department, which had investigated Amin's part in the murder of Brigadier Okoya.  The victims included Mohammed Hassan.  the chief of CID. Festus Wawuyo, his deputy, and Ocungi, another deputy in the CID. Twenty Acholi/ Langi Military bandsmen who had been arrested and put under the care of Major Hussein Marella in December 1971 were also killed in this period,  reportedly on Amin's orders.  Hundreds of innocent people were trapped in a vicious circle of violence.  All the members of these paramilitary units used violence for their own selfish motives:  the demarcation line between offically sponsored and private violence was very thin.

Thousands of people in Uganda were tortured by government agents.  Detainees might be made to go through humiliating muscular ordeals such as "hopping like a frog" while being beaten.  The victim's eyes might be gouged out and left hanging out of their sockets.  During the "wheel torture," the victim's head was put in a wheel-rim that was repeatedly struck with iron bars.  People were beated with hammers, mallets, or iron bars to break their limbs as well as kill them.  Wires were attached to the victim's genitals, nipples, or other sensitive parts of the body and then connected to an electric battery or wall socket.  Women were raped or otherwise sexually abused.  Prisoners were slashed with knives and bayonets, body organs were mutilated and limbs cut off.  Prisoners might be lined up and every second one would be ordered to hammer the first to death,  the second one would be ordered to hammer the first to death, the second would be hyammered by the thrid, and so on, until only one was left to tell the tale to other prisoners.  Such incidents often happened at Makindye prison.  There were by no means the only forms of torture; theyere were many others.

Important or prominent people were killed like other prisoners.  However, their bodies were dismembered and parts used for ritual purposes.  For example, the head of Brigadier Suleiman Husein, who was killed at Makindye, was cut off and taken to Amin, who is reported to have addressed it and kept it in a fridge.  The penis of Colonel Mesesura Arach, commander of the First Infrantry, was severed and plugged into his mouth.  Few victims were given a proper burial.  Their bodies were thrown into rivers (such as the Nile at karuma, Jinja and other places), Kioga, Wamala, etc.), in mass graves,or burnt in their houses or cars.  Michael Kagwa's body was left in his burnt car as was the body of Father Clement Kiggundu, editor of Munno, a daily.

Robert (Bob) Scanlon

Robert Scanlon (fourth from left) carrying Amin, went missing shortly after this event.  Like the hundreds of thousands murdered by Amin and his regime, his body has not been recovered, does anybody know what happened to him? Why was he murdered? When? Where?  Where are his remains?

Please see appeal by his daughter hereunder.
My father, Robert (Bob) Scanlon went murderedormissing (MoM?) in Uganda in 1977.  This was during the Idi Amin years. I just wonder does any one out there have any information which might help to discover what happened to him and why?

My brother said he was told petrol was poured on my father in a room at the state research bureaux and he was set on fire. My brother did not feel that this was the truth.

http://murderedormissing.wordpress.com/

Bishop Janani Luwum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janani_Luwum

How Idi Amin Killed Janani Luwum.

Click Link Below:

https://www.facebook.com/1493780077583211/videos/1529445260683359/?fref=nf


Idi Amin with Archbishop Luwum. Note the pistol at the side of Amin. He was said to have used it shortly afterwards to murder the Archbishop.

Bishop Luwum was tortured and killed by Amin and Minawa Farouk at Nakasero State Research Bureau torture chambers in 1977.

We forgave Amin, says Luwum family

This Month (February 2012) marked 34 years since the death of Archbishop Janan Luwum, who was allegedly murdered by State Research Bureau, an intelligence outfit under President Idi Amin’s regime. His son, Ben Okello Luwum, the former minister of Lands from 1986 to 1990, Auditor General and now a private accountant, talked to Risdel Kasasira about the death of his father.

1. Could your father have done things differently to avoid death or having confrontations with Idi Amin and to what extent should religious leaders get involved in politics?
Amin and his men were terrible people. Just seeing you drive a beautiful car; you are dead. If his soldiers liked your house, they would kill you. So, I don’t know the kind of answer I can give but I know he handled it well because Amin would kill for any reason.
There was no rule of law. Every religious leader is like I and you. They can comment about political issues whenever they get an opportunity because like any other Uganda, they should ask questions about political decisions in the country.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/-/689844/1330154/-/c65ojn/-/

Martin Okello

Mr Martin Okello (RIP) Murdered by Amin.

My father was called Martin Okello, he was the first MP West Nile Madi region. The soldiers came to our home and did not get him, they followed him where he was in the evening with his friend called Gaspero Oda, and they were taken to River Obongi and murdered. Their badly decomposed bodies were discovered because of the strong stench, he was buried at Ediofe Cemetery, may his soul rest in eternal peace. (Identity of Victim is withheld)

"I am what I am now because i lost my father at that early stage, otherwise i would have been somebody better than what i am now, the tears that my mother shaded while looking after us still rings in my mind, the only thing our mother taught us forgiveness. May the souls of my parents rest in peace.  (Identity of Victim is withheld)

At the cemetery in Ediofe Arua visiting my late

father the late Hon. Martin Okello

Amin's Rule.

In the first few weeks after the 1971 coup

d'etat, Amin set about eliminating suspected opponents in the army.  While Obote used the 1967 Detention Act to lock his opponents in prisons where they were "well treated."  Amin killed them.  Such was the fate of various high-ranking officers known or perceived to be his opponents.  There were mass killings of members of the GSU, the Special Force, Police, Prisoners and civilians.  Victims were abducted by loyal security men, put on trucks and taken to prisons like Luzira, Makindye, Mutukula, and Jinja, which had been turned into slaughterhouses.

Bodies were dumped in lakes, rivers, forests, and isolated areas.  Mass graves were dug near barracks by prisoners who were themselves eventually killed.  Traditional Kakwa rituals were resurrected.  Parts of the body, including the penis, were often cut off and ceremoniously put into the mouth of the victim.  If the victime was a tough opponent of the regime, his head was preserved and "addressed" by those in authority.

Amin consolidated his base in the army by using his own ethnic groups.  In march 1971 more than thirty Acholi/ Langi soldiers were dynamited at Makindye Barracks.  On 22 July 1971 about 150 to 500 Acholis and Langi from Simba Battalion, Mbarara, were hearded into trucks, taken to an isolated ranch, and gunned down.  On going to Israel and Europe in July 1971, Amin gave orders for the elimination of the Langi and Acholi soldiers fearing they might organize a coup.  At Mbarara soldiers from these ethnic groups were separated from the rest and taken to their deaths.  On 9 July 1971 about twenty new Acholi/Langi recruits were killed; more died the following day.  Between 10 and 14 July 1971 some fifty Acholi/ Langi soldiers were killed at Magamaga Ordnance Depot.  Further massacres of these ethnic groups occurred at military barracks at Masindi, Soroti, and Kitgum.  On 5 February 1972, about 117 soldiers and other security men of the Obote regime were mowed down as they tried to escape.

What is upsetting about Ugandans is that while the Langi and Acholi suffered, many laughed thinking their turn would never come.......  But wherever violence occurs in the state, it eventually overflows to everyone.  By 1971 the fires of political violence that had been lit at Nakulabye were spreading into the rural areas of Apac, Lira and Gulu.  Soon they would scorch all the land.

Amin based his support in the armyon the Kakwa and Nubi, with the former Anyanya Zairean and Sudanese forming the nucleus to which were attached other West Nile groups like the Madi, the Lugbara, and the Alur.  Other individuals were bound to Amin or his lieutenants on a clientele basis, including Smartus Guwedeko.  Francis Itabuka, Kassimu Obura, and many others.  His political fortunes began to decline when he narrowed his base by gradually trimming th larg West Nile support in the army.  From 1971 to 1972 the Alur were gradually marginalized.  Lieutenant Colonel Valentine Ochima, an Alur with a following in the army, was imprisoned in July 1971 and shot the following year.  After the 1972 invasion of Uganda by Ugandan exiles, Alurs were removed from most strategic positions.  The turn of the Madi came in late 1972.  Amin accused all Madi of drunkenness and removed them from sensitive positions.  He then called in Madi elders to explain to them the crimes of "their sons".  Pruning of the Lugbara began in early 1972.  Their "son," Obitre-Gama, was dismissed in march as Minister of Internal affairs, brought back in a minor portfolio and again dismissed in mid 1973.  Another Lugbara, Lieutenan Colonel Ondoga, the ambassador to Moscow, was recalled and made minister of Foreign Affairs.  He was later publicly dismissed and his body was found floating in a river.  Many Lugbaras were killed at this time.  Amin dismissed his Lugbara wife, though he took the opportunity to divorce two more from other ethnic groups as a show of "tribal impartiality."

By 1975 the Kakwa-Nubi-Anyanya core had closed ranks and was the foundation of Amin's power machine.  They held most of the strategic positions, manned key installations, and easily grouped whenever there was trouble.  The other alienated West Nile groups did not fight Amin because they rightly judged that it was not in their interest to overthrow him.  If he were overthrown, they would be punished for their natural association with him.  Subsequent events have proved them right: the Acholi/Langi militia brutalized the whole population of West Nile in 1980-83 for being associated with Amin on ethnic basis.

Source:  The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda 1964-1985.

Mr Masembe Yusuf Ssewanyana

Brooke Bond (OXO)

Masembe the Manager of Broke Bond Tea Factory was executed for his failure to provide sufficient quantitites of tea for Amin's exports to pay for his imported luxury.
--------------------------------------------------------------
"Mr Masembe Yusuf Ssewanyana"

6 Comments - Show Original PostCollapse comments

1 – 6 of 6

 Trudy said...

My name is Gertrude Masembe a daughter to the late Masembe Yusuf Ssewanyana. I did not live to see my father because he did barely before i made 3years. I have over the years been wondering why my father was murdered and i want to thank The author of "Atrocities of Amin" for having answered this question on my heart. To daddy i miss you and may your soul rest in eternal peace.

14 December 2009 01:24

 

 Julie said...

Daddy, even when years are long past, the pain never seems to heal. It is sad that you died such a painful death. Juliet Nabyonga Masembe

23 September 2010 10:33

 

 Henry said...

Dad, I am honored to be your child and to have shared my early childhood days with you. It is sad that you left us so early. Even though we cannot physically see you, you will always live in our hearts until that glorious day when we meet again (eye-to-eye). Life has been hard without you dad, but the good Lord has been kind to us. I will always love you
Henry Masembe Katumwa

8 November 2010 11:29

 

 TIMOTHY said...

Daddy, am timothy, its a pity that you died such a terrible death, in your death, may we as your children have even more faith to stand together as one, may God guide us in all our work and always remember to keep hope alive.
We shall always remember your love and hard work.
To my bro henry katumwa in the US, we miss you.
God bless.

30 December 2010 00:46

 

Brigadier Pierino Okoya

Commander of the army's Second Infantry (RIP) and his wife Anna Okoya (RIP), were shot and killed in their home at Koro village, a few miles from Gulu town and Military Airbase on January 25, 1970.

Acholi Times.

Born in 1928 at Palaro, sub-county, Gulu district, Okoya joined the King’s African Rifles (KAR) in 1950, joining a long line of Ugandan soldiers in the outfit. Those who had joined earlier included Idi Amin, Tito Okello and Shaban Opolot. By the time Okoya died in 1969, he was only 41 years old and obviously with a long soldiering life ahead of him.

Read on......  https://brigadier-okoya.blogspot.co.uk/

Shaban Nkutu: Tradgedy of a Cabinet Minister with solid achievements

Shaban Nkutu: Tradgedy of a Cabinet Minister with solid achievements

Shaban Kirunda Nkutu disappeared and died at the violent hands of Idi Amin in 1973 with one of the most outstanding personal records of public service and national development in the history of Ugandan Cabinet Ministers. - See more at:  http://www.newvision.co.ug

Brig. Charles Arube

 Brig. Charles Arube; Sandhusrt trained officer from Kakwa tribe.

Shot by Amin himself

Three gunshots that ended the coup against Amin

Share Bookmark Print Rating

After about 10 minutes of total silence Brig Charles Arube made the second mistake, attempting to capture president Idi Amin by himself. Little did he know that Amin was hiding behind the door. Illustration by Alex Kwizera 

By Faustin Mugabe

Posted  Sunday, July 26   2015 at  01:00

In Summary

Costly mistake. In a continuation from last week, retired Captain Isaac Bakka, Brig Charles Arube’s accomplice in the March 1974 attempted coup against president Idi Amin, narrates how Arube blundered. He says Arube changed the initial plan and ended up in Amin’s ambush at his famous command post at Kololo Hill in Kampala where the president had been trapped, writes Faustin Mugabe.

SHARE THIS STORY

“He told me that as Arube entered, Amin hid behind the main door. It did not cross his mind that it would be possible [for Amin to take cover behind the door]. Arube ignored the door and just passed.”
“He thought the target [Amin] was hiding inside other rooms in the house. His attention was on the other rooms. Unfortunately, he had left Amin behind. Amin fired three bullets which hit Arube from his back.”
“He fell face down – meaning the bullets came from behind. The hole where the bullet comes out is bigger than where it enters from. I happened to see Arube’s body at the Mulago hospital mortuary, it had three bullet holes.”
“Immediately Amin recognised Sgt Toburo, he put him at gun point, saying ‘I’m going to kill you. Where is your brother?”
“Then he said [to Toburo], ‘you say Arube killed himself. You must never say I killed him. [You must say] after he [Arube] realised he couldn’t succeed, out of fear of embarrassment, he turned the gun on himself. I want you to maintain that.’ Now, that is the story which many people believed.”
Sgt Toburo was taken to Radio Uganda and said what Amin had told him to say.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/Three-gunshots-that-ended-the-coup-against-Amin/-/689844/2807990/-/5agj00/-/index.html

Sebastino Namirundu

Suspected "Guerillas" alleged, apprehended, tried and convicted by the regime.



Sebastino Namirundu (Left) with Tom Masaba (Right) before their public execution by firing squad in 1973.

Tom Masaba (RIP)

Tom Masaba is stripped naked before being publicly executed in 1973.

The lifeless body of Masaba after the firing squad

John Ntesibe

Wednesday
February 17,  2016

The jailed footballer who carried Archbishop Luwum’s body

“We, however, got a major shock on seeing the third body. It obviously belonged to a religious man who was dressed in religious attire and with a red collar around his swollen neck.

Because his face was in a very bad shape, apparently as a result of torture (being a Catholic) I first mistook him to be Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga who was then the Archbishop of Kampala. However on more careful observation, I came to realise that this one was much taller and darker.”

Ntensibe is the one who carried the archbishop’s body to the store or cell and according to him, he seemed to have died a few minutes or hours before since he could still feel the warmth of the body. The archbishop’s body had a very deep bullet wound in the head and it appeared he had died after being shot in the head or face because unlike the other two, the rest of his body appeared a bit alright.

Click link below for full article:

http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/Jailed-footballer-carried-Archbishop-Luwum-body/-/691232/3078006/-/sc257vz/-/index.html

Mr Lakayana Acika-CYO

Extremely touching,humbling,vicious and haunting yes the naked and extreme satanic,barbaric,evil and diabolical tortures unleashed on our people.My late father [Mr.Lakayana-Acika-CYO] a pioneer Radio Journalist and Broadcater met his death at Nakaserro Dungeon that fateful day in Feburary 11th 1977 together with his best friend;Mr.Charles.D. Ogwal-Agea for Commissioner for Education,Western Province ,both arrested from Fort Portal /Toro,driven to Kampala State Research HQ-Nakaserro Dungeaon were they wrote their names in their own blood,recorded the date and time of their arrest and eventual transfer to the killer Dungeon were they were butchered according to one Dungeon survivor Mr.Apollo Okello-Lawoko [Former Director of Broadcating];Ministry of Information and Broadcating;himself a personal friend of my late father and one of the most emminent Pioneer of Pioneers in fields of electronic news gathering and broadcasting,i want to pay glowing tribute to him for writing a deeply touching book abt the gruesome murders of prominent Ugandan and other nationals murdered by Amin and his henchmen;yes these are rock solid reminder for posterity and future generations to learn from the tragic history of our nation,written in the blood of our own people.May all who met their violent death at the hands of the evil men/women who took their sacred lives,be rested eternally in the presense of God up yonder in that mansion in heaven where the only thing there created by man are the scars in the hands of Jesus.R.I.P all our departed kinsfolks.Finally i want to personally thank my good freind and dear brother,beloved Daudi Kololo for courageously putting up the sad,sad,sad saddest links above,may God bless and keep you safe;best of the best;warmest good wishes for the new year from me2u.GBU.Amen.

 

  

Today in History: Updated on 11th Feb 2016

Exactly 39 years ago on a day like today,my late father Mr.Lakayana Acika.C.Y.O was brutally murdered at Nakasero State Research Dungeon in Kampala,Uganda.Lakayana Senior,the lanky one on the right (standing) was born on 23rd January 1935 in Lango,Northern Uganda,murdered on 11th February 1977.He was one of the pioneer radio broadcaster from Lango.He worked in local government by the time he was murdered.RIP

Museveni Survived.

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.  

Read via the link below:

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/How-Museveni-survived-public-execution/-/688338/1689208/-/ukmb8rz/-/index.html

Dora Bloch

British-Israeli Hostage.

On the morning of july 4, 1976, israeli commandos raided entebbe airport (old airport) to free 102 israeli hostages taken after a plane hijack by the palestinians. The raid cost amin 20 of his soldiers. One hostage, 75-year-old dora bloch, who had been hospitalised at mulago, was picked up by maj. Farouk minawa of the state research bureau and capt. Nasur ondoga, amin’s chief of protocol. She has never been seen again

After the humiliation at the hands of the israelis, amin asserted his authority through further indiscriminate killings in parts of uganda.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30572709

The Real Amin

The Real Idi Amin:

By Vison Reporter:  Added 4th October 2012.

• Home
• Golden jubilee uganda
• The real Idi Amin

The real Idi Amin

By Vision Reporter

Added 4th October 2012

•  0
• Google +0
•  0
•  0

• Print
• A A A

Fill in your Name and Email Address to receive a Free Newsletter

- See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1307958/real-idi-amin#sthash.oQlYpSxl.dpuf

Read the link below.

http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1307958/real-idi-amin

Captain Patrick Isabirye

Captain Isabirye's head was cut off.


The month of January arouses sad memories to the family of the late Captain Patrick Isabirye, who served in Uganda Air Force during Idi Amin's Regime.

The sad memories started in January 1978 whe Isabirye's head was cut off and his body dumped in a forest at Ktuugo parish.  Kakooge sub county in Nakasongola.......  (full story via the link below)

The month of January arouses sad memories to the family of the late Captain Patrick Isabirye, who served in Uganda Air Force during Idi Amin regime.

The sad memories started in January 1978, when Isabirye’s head was cut off and his body dumped in a forest at Katuugo parish, Kakooge sub County in Nakasongola.

He was murdered weeks after the operatives of State Research Bureau picked him on November 30, 1977, from Lake Victoria Hotel; where he was enjoying evening leisure with his wife, Margret Namukasa, the daughter of Eriabu Danze of Butambala. The 38 year old Isabirye left behind six children.

- See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1414681/capt-isabiryes-head-cut-anti-amin-coup#sthash.l9ensFEi.dpuf

The month of January arouses sad memories to the family of the late Captain Patrick Isabirye, who served in Uganda Air Force during Idi Amin regime.

The sad memories started in January 1978, when Isabirye’s head was cut off and his body dumped in a forest at Katuugo parish, Kakooge sub County in Nakasongola.

He was murdered weeks after the operatives of State Research Bureau picked him on November 30, 1977, from Lake Victoria Hotel; where he was enjoying evening leisure with his wife, Margret Namukasa, the daughter of Eriabu Danze of Butambala. The 38 year old Isabirye left behind six children.

- See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1414681/capt-isabiryes-head-cut-anti-amin-coup#sthash.l9ensFEi.dpuf

The month of January arouses sad memories to the family of the late Captain Patrick Isabirye, who served in Uganda Air Force during Idi Amin regime.

The sad memories started in January 1978, when Isabirye’s head was cut off and his body dumped in a forest at Katuugo parish, Kakooge sub County in Nakasongola.

He was murdered weeks after the operatives of State Research Bureau picked him on November 30, 1977, from Lake Victoria Hotel; where he was enjoying evening leisure with his wife, Margret Namukasa, the daughter of Eriabu Danze of Butambala. The 38 year old Isabirye left behind six children.

- See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1414681/capt-isabiryes-head-cut-anti-amin-coup#sthash.l9ensFEi.dpuf

http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1414681/capt-isabiryes-head-cut-anti-amin-coup

How Capt. Isabirye's head was cut off during anti-Amin coup

By Admin

Added 12th January 2016

- See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1414681/capt-isabiryes-head-cut-anti-amin-coup#sthash.l9ensFEi.dpufaa

• Home
• Opinion
• How Capt. Isabirye's head was cut off during anti-Amin coup

How Capt. Isabirye's head was cut off during anti-Amin coup

By Admin

Added 12th January 2016

•  544
• Google +0
•  0
•  1

• Print
• A A A

Fill in your Name and Email Address to receive a Free Newsletter

- See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1414681/capt-isabiryes-head-cut-anti-amin-coup#sthash.l9ensFEi.dpuf

• Home
• Opinion
• How Capt. Isabirye's head was cut off during anti-Amin coup

How Capt. Isabirye's head was cut off during anti-Amin coup

By Admin

Added 12th January 2016

•  544
• Google +0
•  0
•  1

• Print
• A A A

Fill in your Name and Email Address to receive a Free Newsletter

- See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1414681/capt-isabiryes-head-cut-anti-amin-coup#sthash.l9ensFEi.dpuf

• Home
• Opinion
• How Capt. Isabirye's head was cut off during anti-Amin coup

How Capt. Isabirye's head was cut off during anti-Amin coup

By Admin

Added 12th January 2016

•  544
• Google +0
•  0
•  1

• Print
• A A A

Fill in your Name and Email Address to receive a Free Newsletter

- See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1414681/capt-isabiryes-head-cut-anti-amin-coup#sthash.l9ensFEi.dpuf

• Home
• Opinion
• How Capt. Isabirye's head was cut off during anti-Amin coup

How Capt. Isabirye's head was cut off during anti-Amin coup

By Admin

Added 12th January 2016

•  544
• Google +0
•  0
•  1

• Print
• A A A

Fill in your Name and Email Address to receive a Free Newsletter

- See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1414681/capt-isabiryes-head-cut-anti-amin-coup#sthash.l9ensFEi.dpuf