Barracks massacres of Acholi and Lango people under Idi Amin
Script error: No such module "Draft topics". Script error: No such module "AfC topic".
| Barracks massacres of Acholi and Lango people under Idi Amin | |
|---|---|
 Idi Amin torture chamber, Lubiri, Mengo, Uganda | |
| Location | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 665: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Date | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 665: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Target | Acholi and Lango soldiers and civilians |
Attack type | Genocide, mass murder |
| Deaths | over 15,000 |
| Perpetrators | Idi Amin dictatorship |
| Motive | Anti-Acholi and Lango sentiment Purge Obote supporters |
After Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada overthrew the regime of Milton Obote in 1971, he declared that the Acholi and Lango ethnic groups were enemies of the state. Obote was a Lango; Amin was also threatened by perceived Lango control of the army.[1] He retaliated against the attempted invasion by Ugandan exiles in 1972, by purging the Uganda Army of predominantly Acholi and Lango Obote supporters.[2] In July 1971, Lango and Acholi soldiers were massacred in the Jinja and Mbarara barracks.[3] By early 1972, some 5,000 Acholi and Lango soldiers, and at least twice as many civilians, had disappeared.[4] In these massacres between 150 and 250 were killed in Mbarara, 120 in Moroto, 800 in Jinja, and 50 in the Magamaga Ordnance Depot.[5]
In January 1972, Amin issued an order to the Ugandan army ordering that they assemble and kill all Acholi or Lango soldiers, and then commanded that all Acholi and Lango be rounded up and confined within army barracks, where they were either slaughtered by the soldiers or killed when the Ugandan air force bombed the barracks.[1]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Combat Genocide Association | Uganda 1971–1985".
- ↑ Tall, Mamadou (Spring–Summer 1982). "Notes on the Civil and Political Strife in Uganda". Issue: A Journal of Opinion. 12 (1/2): 41–44. doi:10.2307/1166537. JSTOR 1166537.
- ↑ Lautze, Sue. Research on Violent Institutions in Unstable Environments: The livelihoods systems of Ugandan army soldiers and their families in a war zone (PDF) (Thesis). Hertford College, Oxford University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2007. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Moore, Charles (17 September 2003). "Obituary: Idi Amin". Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 31 July 2018. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Avirgan, Tony, and Martha Honey. 1982. War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin. Westport, CT: L. Hill. p 31.
This article "Barracks massacres of Acholi and Lango people under Idi Amin" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Barracks massacres of Acholi and Lango people under Idi Amin. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
