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Wars and Insurgencies of Uganda, 1971-1994
Adrien Fontanellaz
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Paperback. In 1971, Idi Amin Dada, a former officer of the King's African Rifles and commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in a military coup in Uganda. Characterised by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption and gross economic mismanagement, Amin's rule drove thousands into exile. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 297. .
In 1971, Idi Amin Dada, a former officer of the King's African Rifles and commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in a military coup in Uganda. Characterised by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption and gross economic mismanagement, Amin's rule drove thousands into exile. Amin shifted the country's orientation in international relations from alliances with the West and Israel, to cooperation with the Soviet Union. With Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere offering sanctuary to Uganda's ousted president, Milton Obote, Ugandan relations with Tanzania soon became strained too. Already in 1972, a ... Read more
In 1971, Idi Amin Dada, a former officer of the King's African Rifles and commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in a military coup in Uganda. Characterised by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption and gross economic mismanagement, Amin's rule drove thousands into exile. Amin shifted the country's orientation in international relations from alliances with the West and Israel, to cooperation with the Soviet Union. With Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere offering sanctuary to Uganda's ousted president, Milton Obote, Ugandan relations with Tanzania soon became strained too. Already in 1972, a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Helion & Company United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Africa@War
Condition
New
Weight
293g
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Solihull, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910294550
SKU
V9781910294550
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About Adrien Fontanellaz
Tom Cooper is an Austrian aerial warfare analyst and historian. Following a career in worldwide transportation business - during which he established a network of contacts in the Middle East and Africa - he moved into narrow-focus analysis and writing on small, little-known air forces and conflicts, about which he has collected extensive archives. This has resulted in specialisation in ... Read more
Reviews for Wars and Insurgencies of Uganda, 1971-1994
... This ... study remains the best available English-language chronicle of Ugandan military operations before the country's Congo adventures ... I loved it.
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