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Massacre

Uganda · Revolution / Revolution of Uganda. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1971Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1971

Milton Obote1971

Revolution / Revolution of Uganda

Amin established the so-called "State Research Bureau," which were actually his own brand of death squads to hunt down and murder Obotes supporters, as well as much of the intelligentsia, whom he distrusted

Names involved

Milton Obote

Provenance

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