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6.8K views · 105 reactions | February 1985: Uganda's President Milton Obote talks about the Ugandan civil war, Yoweri Museveni, the forthcoming 1985 Ugandan elections and Uganda's human rights record in a BBC interview. | History of Uganda | Facebook

The 1985 Ugandan coup d'état was a military coup d'état executed by the Ugandan military, led by Lieutenant General Tito Okello and Brigadier Bazilio Olara-Okello, against the government of President Milton Obote on July 27, 1985. The coup was greeted by cheers and looting in the capital of the former British colony. There were earlier reports of fighting but they could not be confirmed. Obote's whereabouts could not be confirmed but there were reports he had entered Kenya, where his wife had be

The Ugandan Military Council and the Rebel National Resistance Army (NRA) signed a peace accord in Nairobi's Kenyatta Centre on December 17, bringing to a successful conclusion more than three months of difficult negotiations between the two factions. Uganda's military ruler, General Tito Okello, authorised the agreement on behalf on his governments, while NRA leader Yoweri Museveni signed for the rebels. The East African country has been wracked by years of bloodshed since attaining independenc