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
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.
From 1986 to 1994, a variety of rebel groups waged a civil war against the Ugandan government of President Yoweri Museveni. Most of the fighting took place in the country's north and east, although th
Ugandan Bush War
…Obote and Okello went into exile. Despite the nominal end of the civil war, numerous anti-NRA rebel factions and militias remained active, and would continue to fight Museveni's government in the next decades. The Ugandan Bush War is also known by a variety of other names. For instance, Ugandan Civil War has also been used, though this…
Soldiers of the Uganda People's Defence Force, the NRA's successor organization, in 2012.
The Rwenzori Mountains at the Zaire–Uganda border harbored various rebel groups.
The Ugandan government accused Kenya under President Daniel arap Moi (pictured 1979) of supporting Ugandan rebels.