Obote pictured at the beginning of his second regime in 1980

Apollo Milton Obote (December 28, 1924, Apac, Uganda – October 10, 2005, Johannesburg, South Africa), Prime Minister of Uganda 1962-1966 and President of Uganda 1966-1971/1980-1985, was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence in 1962. His government replaced the British colonial administration. He was overthrown by Idi Amin in 1971, but gained power again in 1980. His second rule was marred by repression, and the death of many civilians during a civil war. Milton Obote, President of Uganda in 1980. ... Milton Obote, President of Uganda in 1980. ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Apac is a district in northern Uganda. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... City motto: Unity in Development Province Gauteng Mayor Amos Masondo Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0. ... The Prime Minister is the Ugandan head of government. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... The President of Uganda is the head of state in Uganda. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... This article is about the year. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bold textItalic text World map of colonialism at the end of the Second World War in 1945. ... Idi Amin on a ten Shilling note Idi Amin Dada Oumee (May 17, 1928 Kampala, Uganda – August 16, 2003, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) was an army officer and President of Uganda (1971 to 1979) whose regime was notorious for its brutality. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... A civil war is a war in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire. ...

Early life and first presidency

Milton Obote was born at Akokoro village in Apac district in northern Uganda. He was the son of a local chief of the Lango ethnic group. He began his education in 1940 at the Protestant Missionary School in Lira, Gulu Junior Secondary School, Busoga College and later Makerere College, where he honed his natural oratorial skills but was expelled for participating in a student strike (Obote claims he left Makerere voluntarily^[1]). He worked in Buganda in southern Uganda before he went to Kenya, where he worked as a construction worker for an engineering firm. While in Kenya he became involved in the local independence movement. Upon returning to Uganda, he joined Uganda National Congress (UNC) in 1955 and was elected to the colonial Legislative Council in 1958[2]. In 1959, the UNC split, and Obote became head of the newly formed Uganda People's Congress (UPC). After several years as head of the opposition, Obote formed a coalition with the Buganda royalist party, Kabaka Yekka, and was elected prime minister in 1961. He assumed the post on April 25, 1962, with Sir Walter Coutts as Governor-General of Uganda. The following year, he deposed Queen Elizabeth II as Ugandan head of state, and Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda, became the ceremonial president, with Obote as executive vice-president. Apac is a district in northern Uganda. ... The Lango (plural Langi) people live in the central area of Uganda, north of Lake Kyoga. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Lira is a district in northern Uganda. ... Gulu is a district in northern Uganda. ... Makerere University is Ugandas premier institution of higher learning. ... Buganda is the kingdom of the 52 clans of the Baganda people, the largest of the four traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda. ... Uganda National Congress (UNC), Ugandas first political party was formed in 1952 by Ignatius Musaazi. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Legislative Council in British constitutional thought is the second-to-top tier of a government led by a Governor-General, Governor or a Lieutenant-Governor, inferior to an Executive Council and equal to or superior to a Legislative Assembly. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Uganda Peoples Congress is a political party in Uganda. ... Buganda is the kingdom of the 52 clans of the Baganda people, the largest of the four traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda. ... Kabaka Yekka was a monarchist political party in Uganda. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir Walter Fleming Coutts (1912–1988) was a British colonial adminstrator and was Ugandas last Governor before independence 1961–2. ... This page contains a list of Governors of Uganda. ... Elizabeth II in an official portrait as Queen of Canada (on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing the Sovereigns badges of the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary) (born 21 April 1926), styled HM The... Edward Mutesa. ... The Kabaka is the title of the King of Buganda. ...

As prime minister, Obote was implicated in a gold smuggling plot, together with Idi Amin, then deputy commander of the Ugandan armed forces. When the the Parliament demanded an investigation of Obote and the ousting of Amin, he suspended the constitution, abolishing the roles of leaders of Uganda's five tribal kingdoms and giving himself almost unlimited power under state-of-emergency rulings; he had several members of his cabinet arrested. Obote's judiciary cleared him of the gold-smuggling charges, but the episode created tensions between him and Mutesa, who was critical of Obote for suspending the constitution. Obote staged a coup against Mutesa and had himself declared president on March 2, 1966. His nominally socialist rule made him unpopular with the Western powers, particularly Britain, and his regime was greatly destabilized by the military. In 1971 he was deposed by his army chief, Idi Amin, after which he fled to Tanzania. The British government of Edward Heath is known to have given at least tacit approval for the coup.[3] General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... These lollipops, above, were found to contain heroin when inspected by the DEA. Smuggling is illegal transport, in particular across a border. ... Idi Amin on a ten Shilling note Idi Amin Dada Oumee (May 17, 1928 Kampala, Uganda – August 16, 2003, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) was an army officer and President of Uganda (1971 to 1979) whose regime was notorious for its brutality. ... An aerial view of Parliament of India at New Delhi. ... A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ... March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Idi Amin on a ten Shilling note Idi Amin Dada Oumee (May 17, 1928 Kampala, Uganda – August 16, 2003, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) was an army officer and President of Uganda (1971 to 1979) whose regime was notorious for its brutality. ... The Right Honourable Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG , MBE (July 9, 1916 – July 17, 2005), soldier and politician, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ...

Second term

After Idi Amin was ousted in 1979 by Tanzanian forces aided by Ugandan exiles, Uganda was governed by an interim Presidential Commission before elections. The elections in 1980 were won by Obote's UPC party. However, the other political parties believed the elections were rigged, leading to guerilla rebellion by Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army and several other military groups. This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Presidential Commission of Uganda, composed of Saulo Musoke, Polycarp Nyamuchoncho and Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol, jointly held the office of President of Uganda between 22 May and 15 December 1980. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The Uganda Peoples Congress is a political party in Uganda. ... Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. ... In the 1990s, Museveni was fêted by the west as part of a new generation of African leaders. ... The National Resistance Army (NRA) began as a guerilla army of Uganda in the 1980s, led by Yoweri Museveni. ...

It has been estimated that 100,000 to 300,000 people died as a result of fighting between Obote's UNLA and the Guerillas. UNLA (Uganda National Liberation Army) is the military arm of the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF). ... Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. ...

Obote was deposed again, on 27 July 1985, by his own army commanders Brigadier Bazilio Okello and General Tito Okello in a military coup. Okello and Okello briefly ruled the country through a Military Council, but after a few months of near anarchy, Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA) took control of Uganda. July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... This article is about the year. ... General Bazilio Olara Okello (1929 - 1990) was a Ugandan soldier, and one of the leaders of the military movement that overthrew Idi Amin in 1979. ... Tito Okello (1914 - June 3, 1996) was the leader of Uganda from July 1985 until January 1986. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ... Museveni on a visit to Washington Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (born 1944) has been the President of Uganda since 1986. ...

Death in exile

After his second downfall, Obote fled to Zambia. For some years it was rumoured that he would return to Ugandan politics. In August 2005, however, he announced his intention to step down as leader of the UPC.[4] In September 2005, it was reported that Obote would return to Uganda before the end of 2005.[5] Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Atlantic hurricane season • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak • Bali bombings investigation • California wildfires • UK Conservative Party leadership election • DeLay political financing scandal • Dengue outbreak in Singapore • Fuel prices / Peak oil • Harriet Miers nomination and hearings • Hurricane Wilma • Irans nuclear program • Kashmir earthquake • London bombings... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On 10 October, Obote died of kidney failure in a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.[6] October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... Renal failure is the condition where the kidneys fail to function properly. ... City motto: Unity in Development Province Gauteng Mayor Amos Masondo Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0. ...

Milton Obote was given a state funeral, attended by president Museveni in the Ugandan capital Kampala in October 2005, to the surprise and appreciation of many Ugandans, since he and Museveni were bitter rivals. Other groups, such as the Baganda survivors of the "Luwero Triangle" massacres, were bitter that Obote was given a state funeral. He was survived by his wife and five children. A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony held to honour heads of state or other important people of national significance. ... Baganda, also called Ganda, are the largest ethnic group in Uganda. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

On November 28, his wife Miria Obote was elected UPC party president.[7] November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Uganda
• President of Uganda
• Politics of Uganda
• History of Uganda
• Political parties of Uganda

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Reference

• ^  I come from royal ancestry, Published in The Monitor
• New York Times, October 11, 2005. Obituary
• Uganda's First Prime Minister Dies, The Guardian, 11 October 2005
• Uganda's President Museveni Mourns Foe, The Guardian, 20 October 2005
• Thousands Attend Obote Funeral in Uganda, The Guardian, 21 October 2005

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External links

• Obote Series - a series of articles and interviews published in The Monitor
• Amnesty International report on Uganda.
• Former Ugandan leader Obote dies, BBC News, 10 October 2005
• A founding father adored, dreaded in equal measure, The Monitor