Milton Obote
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Apollo Milton Obote was a Ugandan politician who served as the Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and the president of Uganda from 1966 to 1971 and later from 1980 to 1985.
Obote in 1962
From left to right: Grace Ibingira, Obote, and John Kakonge in 1962
Milton Obote's grave
Ugandan Bush War
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The Ugandan Bush War was a civil war fought in Uganda by the official Ugandan government and its armed wing, the Uganda National Liberation Army, against a number of rebel groups, most importantly the
Milton Obote
…to be neither free nor fair in 1980, a year after Amin's 1979 overthrow. His second period of rule ended after a long and bloody conflict known as the Ugandan Bush War during which he was overthrown a second time by another coup d'état in 1985 led by Tito Okello, prompting him to live the rest of his life in exile…
North Korea under Kim Il Sung (pictured) was one of Obote's foreign allies during the Bush War, and provided military equipment as well as advisors.
Much of the fighting during the Ugandan Bush War took place in the countryside (pictured: farmland and adjacent wilderness at Mbazzi, central Uganda).
The "Butuntumula War Memorial Mass Grave", one of many mass graves for victims of the Bush War across Uganda.