Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Idi Amin
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.....
Saturday, 1 March 2008
Colonel Khamis Saafi
Head of Moslem religion in the army, a firm believer in witchcraft. Amin frequently consulted him as well as other witch doctors.
Major Juma Aiga
A taxi driver at the time of the coup later a District Commissioner in Toro). Was the second in command when journalists N. Stroh and Robert Siedle went to investigate massacres in Mbarara. The commander Lt Col Ali Fadhul Warriss, was in Kampala at the time and was in close contact with Amin. Stroh and juma got into a heated argument. The two Americans were killed and were buried in a shallow grave nearby. Major Juma was later seen driveing 'stroh's ble Volkswagen in Mbarara. When the American Embasys in Kampala began inquiries a week later, the bodies were dug up from their grave, put into sacks and burned in the barracks. Their remains were dumped in a river. The car was burned and thrown into a mountain valley.
Brigadier Bogere
Chief Medical Officer of the Army. He is the one who phoned Idi Amin, about Ahmed Oduka's death.
Re: Oduka by H.Kyemba
Ahmed Oduka was one of the men who had reported tha amin planned to asassinate Obote on rturn from Singapore. He had fled immediately after the coup to Mombasa. One of Amin's men visited him ther in march and told Oduka that it woul be safe to return. When he arrived, he was taken to see Amin, who asked him to record a statement at Makindye prison. The meeting was friendly, but as soon as Oduka left, Amin ordred him to be "taken to Malire" There his skull was smashed in with a club. News of the murder reached Amin while I was with him. He was telephoned by Brig Bogere, who reported the facts of Oduka's death. Amin turned to me and said coldly, "Oduka is dead" as if reporting the completion of some trivial task. I already knew btter than to react in any way... Source. Henry Kyemba. Amin's former Minister of Health.
Re: Oduka by H.Kyemba
Ahmed Oduka was one of the men who had reported tha amin planned to asassinate Obote on rturn from Singapore. He had fled immediately after the coup to Mombasa. One of Amin's men visited him ther in march and told Oduka that it woul be safe to return. When he arrived, he was taken to see Amin, who asked him to record a statement at Makindye prison. The meeting was friendly, but as soon as Oduka left, Amin ordred him to be "taken to Malire" There his skull was smashed in with a club. News of the murder reached Amin while I was with him. He was telephoned by Brig Bogere, who reported the facts of Oduka's death. Amin turned to me and said coldly, "Oduka is dead" as if reporting the completion of some trivial task. I already knew btter than to react in any way... Source. Henry Kyemba. Amin's former Minister of Health.
Saturday, 2 February 2008
Rose Akullo
worked in Amin's office for 12 years. Akullo after completing her secretarial studies at Nakawa College of Business in 1965, was posted to the Ministry of Defence as Amin's personal secretary. Amin was a Major in 1965.
Captain James Okello
in the airforce in the late 70s was an Acholi, a co-pilot in the MiG-21"Sungura" squadron.
Captain Harry Oluoch
Pilot
(Otto and Oluoch were pilot and co-pilot on thehelicopter in which Oyite-Ojok died.)
(Otto and Oluoch were pilot and co-pilot on thehelicopter in which Oyite-Ojok died.)
Captain Alfred Otto
Under Amin in the late 70s, an Acholi, was a pilot in the helicopter squadron
(Otto and Oluoch were pilot and co-pilot on thehelicopter in which Oyite-Ojok died.)
(Otto and Oluoch were pilot and co-pilot on thehelicopter in which Oyite-Ojok died.)
Smith Opon Acak
, was a Company Commander in Malire in 1977,having been sent to train in Greece, Israel, and Russia. He wouldbecome the army chief of staff succeeding Oyite-Ojok after the later's death in December 1983.
Captain John Charles Ogole
In 1977, a Langi, was the adjutant of the ChuiBattalion of the Uganda Army based in Gulu. In the mid 1980s, Lt. Col. Ogole would lead the counter-insurgency operations in the Luwero Triangle against Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army rebels.
It was Amin who in 1972 promoted Ogole from Lieutenant to Captain. AnotherLangi, Capt.
It was Amin who in 1972 promoted Ogole from Lieutenant to Captain. AnotherLangi, Capt.
Major Peter Oboma
, anAcholi, was Uganda's Military Attache at the Ugandan embassy in Bonn, WestGermany from 1971 to 1974. Later in 1981, Lt. Col. Oboma attempted a coupagainst the newly installed UPC government.
Venansio Okello (Senior Superintendent of Police)
the Director of music in the Uganda Police, who became very popular with the public during state events. Before he defected
Lt. Ben Ongom
,an Acholi, was the Intelligence Officer of the army's most sensitive andpowerful unit, the Malire Specialist Reconnaissance Regiment.
Major Martin Okello
the Director of Music in the Uganda Airforce (who, incidentally, was a relative of Lt. Col. David Oyite-Ojok, the exiled guerrilla opposed to the Amin regime).
Lt. Col. Charles Alele
a Langi, was the Officer in-charge of the UgandaArmy Shop in Kampala that supplied drinks, clothes, music systems, homeelectric appliances, and other consumer goods to soldiers and theirfamilies.
John Bosco Okumu
Uganda Army Band.
Served in all post independent Uganda Governments and is still in service with the UPDF based in Bombo.
Served in all post independent Uganda Governments and is still in service with the UPDF based in Bombo.
Major Moses Ogwang
From Lango
State Research person
Played a role in the infantile cover-up of the murder of Luwum, Oboth & Oryem by appearing on UTV bandaged up and claiming he survived the crash.
State Research person
Played a role in the infantile cover-up of the murder of Luwum, Oboth & Oryem by appearing on UTV bandaged up and claiming he survived the crash.
Kassim Obura
Obura was the deputy to Ali Toweli, the commanding officer
of the infamous Public Safety Unit (PSU), a special police unit during
the brute Idi Amin’s era, had earlier been sentenced to death by the
Kampala High Court.
Shortly after the collapse of the Amin regime in
1979, Obura was arrested by police. And on October 13, 1980, he was
arraigned for the first time before the High Court in Kampala presided
over by Justice Benjamin Odoki.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/Reliving-former-IGP-Obura-s-last-days-in-Luzira/-/689844/2592622/-/n225vfz/-/index.html
Major Farouk Minawa
Notorious, responsible for the murder of countless Ugandans.
Chief of the State Research Bureau
Chief of the State Research Bureau
Brigadier Sabuni
http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/News/Why-Tanzania-defeated-Amin/-/1840392/2331220/-/view/printVersion/-/ovgk90z/-/index.html
John Pancras Orau
JP Orau worked in the Airforce.
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Ali Toweli
Sudanes Nubian. Run one of Amin's instruments of terror, the Public Safety Unit (Naguru) which acquired notoriety in late 1971 when he took over.
A peculiarly sadistic form of death was developed by Ali Towelli. To save ammunition, one prisoner was forced to batter out the brains of another with a heavy hammer on the promise of a reprieve. The "executioner" is then killed in the same way by another brought from the cells with the same promise.
A peculiarly sadistic form of death was developed by Ali Towelli. To save ammunition, one prisoner was forced to batter out the brains of another with a heavy hammer on the promise of a reprieve. The "executioner" is then killed in the same way by another brought from the cells with the same promise.
Brigadier Isaac Maliyamungu
One of the most evil was this Lieutenant who was in charge of quelling dissent in the army. Before he joined the army, he had been a gatekeeper at nyanza Textile Industries, where Kisajja(Henry Kyemba's brother) was personnel manager. At the time of the coup, he commandeered a tank with which he shot up the entrance to the Entebbe airport terminal, killing two priests. After the coup he headed Amin's execution gangs, with unlimite power to execute anybody in the army, even officers senior to him His modes of execution are as atrocious as anything imaginable. he is fond of disemboweling. Along with several other officers, he is known to have executed his victims by having them run over by tank. But perhaps the grisliest episode concerned Francis Walugembe, who had previously been Mayor of Masaka. In September 1972, Walugembe was arrested, had his genitals cut off and was paraded through the streets before being killed and dismembered. So violent and brutal is Malyamungu that even Amin once commented to me that he feared he might be going mad.
A Zairean.
A Zairean.
Colonel John Mwaka
Lt. Col. John Mwaka, an Acholi, was the Chairman of the Uganda Army Court Martial, Makindye.
On June 4, 1974, the tribunal sat for the second time, according to the records available.
Lt Col Aseni had just returned from exile from Congo, and as soon as he returned, he was arrested and court marshalled.
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On June 4, 1974, the tribunal sat for the second time, according to the records available.
Lt Col Aseni had just returned from exile from Congo, and as soon as he returned, he was arrested and court marshalled.
He was accused of treason and therefore would be
hanged if convicted. But the soldiers had resolved that in the event
that he was sentenced to death, they would organise for another coup.
Amin got that military intelligence and secretly told Col Mwaka,
chairman of the military tribunal, to alter the judgment and exonerate
Aseni of all charges.
Aseni was, therefore, released and was later appointed to the USSR as Uganda’s ambassador.
He died in battle in 1980 near Bondo, Arua, in the war against Tanzanians and Ugandan forces that had ousted Amin a year earlier.
Aseni was, therefore, released and was later appointed to the USSR as Uganda’s ambassador.
He died in battle in 1980 near Bondo, Arua, in the war against Tanzanians and Ugandan forces that had ousted Amin a year earlier.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/Senior-officers-Arube-Aseni-attempt-overthrow-Amin-/-/689844/2774966/-/item/1/-/m21y6pz/-/index.html
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