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[223] [224] It attempted to bolster the image of Idi Amin and raise the Uganda Army's morale by spreading fantastical tales, [225] such as claiming that a Tanzanian unit had been wiped out by crocodiles [58] or that the President could easily defeat 20,000 Tanzanians with just twenty Ugandan soldiers. [155]
The 1972 invasion of Uganda [2] was an armed attempt by Ugandan insurgents, supported by Tanzania, to overthrow the regime of Idi Amin.Under the orders of former Ugandan President Milton Obote, insurgents launched an invasion of southern Uganda with limited Tanzanian support in September 1972.
Nevertheless, relations between the two presidents remained tense, and Amin made repeated threats to invade Tanzania. [3] Uganda's economy languished under Amin's corrupt rule, and instability manifested in the armed forces. In late October 1978, Ugandan troops invaded Tanzanian border areas under unclear circumstances.
Tanzanian commanders felt that as long as Ugandan troops controlled the high ground at Mutukula, Uganda along the frontier they posed a threat to the salient. Able to see Ugandan troops encamped on the high ground through binoculars during his tour of Kagera, Nyerere was moved to agree with his officers and ordered them to capture the town. [108]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, whose rebel group was among those that ousted Amin with the help of Tanzanian troops, regularly dismisses Amin, and once even described him as “a primitive ...
The Tanzanian troops took cover in a drainage ditch and returned fire while the civilians scattered. [49] Fire was exchanged for 10 minutes until the source of the opposition, a limousine occupied by five Ugandan soldiers armed with semi-automatic weapons, emerged from cover and drove towards the Tanzanian column.
Nyerere originally planned to halt his forces in southern Uganda and allow the Ugandan rebels to attack Kampala and overthrow Amin, as he feared that scenes of Tanzanian troops occupying the city would reflect poorly on his country's image abroad. However, Ugandan rebel forces did not have the strength to defeat Libyan troops sent to Amin's aid ...
Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere ordered his troops to invade Uganda in response. Tanzanian Army and rebel forces successfully captured Kampala in 1979 and ousted Amin from power. Amin went into exile, first in Libya, then Iraq, and finally in Saudi Arabia, where he lived until his death in 2003. [11]