The contemporary political history of the Republic of Uganda

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New Year's Resolutions for Uganda
By Dr. Emmanuel K. Twesigye, 2 January 1995. Necessary policies for the future.
Africa's new landlord? Green Berets in Uganda
By Monica Moorehead, Workers World, 31 July 1997. An example of U.S. imperialist succession to France under a humanitarian guise.
Rebels Acquire Better Training And Weaponry
By Judith Achieng', IPS, 27 December 1999. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), believed to be drawing support from the DRC and Sudan, are now better equipped and trained, have carried out insurgency since 1997. Their attacks are similar to those of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), who are fighting Museveni's government in the north. In the view of the IPS, these groups are terrorists.

Museveni's dissolution of Uganda

Emergency Meeting on Uganda
By the Emergency Ad Hoc Committee, Washington, D.C. 4 September 1994. Objection to installation of NRM in place of multi-party system, President Museveni's invasion of Rwanda on 1 October, 1990, and Uganda's financing of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF).
East Africa's Hitler
By Uwiringiyimana Leonard, December 1994. Critique of Yoweri Museveni.
Corruption in Uganda
UDC Newsletter, 19 January 1995. Within 9 years of NRM's reign, public corporations which are the backbone of Uganda's monetary economy, have been bankrupted by Museveni's appointees.
Museveni, The African Dictator
By Mayindi Mokwala, Congo Unity (USA), 24 April 1999. Yoweri Museveni, the dictator of Uganda, through his military campaign to establish the Tutsi ethnic domination in the Great Lakes region in 1983, has caused more deaths, misery and desolation than anyone in recent African History.
The cause of the crisis in the Great Lakes Region
Letter to the Paris Club from A. Milton Obote, President of Uganda Peoples Congress, 28 August 1999. The Paris Club is the group of governments and institutions contributing to Musevemi's support. Wants the Paris Club to pursue friendly relations with the people of Uganda as a whole and not to finance or assist the NRA regime or to carry out the devices of tyranny contained in the Constituent Assembly Statute, 1993 and the draft Constitution. The crimes of Museveni and the NRA catalogued (104 Kb).
Uganda leader says army killed warriors in clashes
Reuters, 14 September 1999. President Yoweri Museveni acknowleged that his helicopter gunships killed a significant number of tribal warriors in an effort to stop ethnic clashes in eastern Uganda.
Roundups of gays reportedly have begun in Uganda
Intolerant rhetoric turns to repressive reality. The Queer News Network, press release, 1 November 1999. President Yoweri Museveni disregards human rights. Authoritarian leaders like Museveni demonize homosexuality hoping to shore up their political support. This intolerance spreads until it is recognized for what it is--a threat to democracy and fundamental human rights.
Uganda nets $33,5m in biggest privatisation deal
Business Report, 1 June 2000. The Musevemi regime sells the Ugandan people's Uganda Telecommunications to a German consortium under Deutsche Telekom, and it is the largest component in an eight-hear privatization process.