Uganda's war in the bush
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Alan Kasujja tells the story of the guerilla war in Uganda which began nearly 40 years ago and led to the current President Yoweri Museveni taking power. After the fall of Idi Amin there was a power vacuum in Uganda which led up to a general election. The former President Milton Obote returned from exile and was declared the winner. But amidst accusations of gerrymandering and intimidation, opposition groups claimed the 1980 election had been rigged. A young politician, Yoweri Museveni, had promised to fight an armed uprising in the bush if Obote won, and in 1981 he began a protracted guerrilla war.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a program about the legacy of war, Uganda's war in the bush. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Alan Kossuja and for the BBC Wall Service I'm looking at how the past |
| 0:12.0 | still shapes the lives of many |
| 0:14.0 | Ugandans. A couple of hours north of Uganda's capital city Kampala is |
| 0:22.1 | a town of Lueiro. |
| 0:24.5 | It's a lively market town surrounded by subsistence farms, dusty roads, and lush plantations. |
| 0:30.4 | Things feel peaceful here now, but in the 1980s it was a very different story. |
| 0:37.0 | Between 81 and 86, this was the center of a guerrilla war. |
| 0:42.0 | Smoke from a grenade rises, in which it's estimated over a hundred thousand Ugandans, |
| 0:46.8 | lost their lives. |
| 0:48.8 | Four years ago, this man, Uraimvelli, there are 27 disaffected soldiers into the |
| 0:56.0 | Bush. |
| 0:57.0 | Today his National Assistance Army numbers an estimated 6,000. |
| 1:01.6 | The Ugandan Army's fighting methods against the rebellion |
| 1:04.0 | have brought it into the center of human rights and shocks. |
| 1:07.0 | For the past 33 years, the man who led the war in the Bush, |
| 1:11.0 | as it's come to be called, has been Uganda's President Joware in Museveni. |
| 1:15.4 | In this program I'll be asking what motivated Museveni and his National Resistance Army to start that war? |
| 1:25.0 | Patriotism, we did not accept the ideology of sectarianism at the expense of interest. |
| 1:33.0 | We decided to die if we had to in order to change the situation and to create a peaceful country. |
| 1:42.0 | They provoked the government in power. |
| 1:45.0 | No government can already that. |
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