May 24th 2016 marks 50 years since the first president of Uganda, Sir Edward Mutesa, fled into exile. He fled following an attack on his Palace “Lubiri”, by government forces on the orders of self-imposed President Milton Obote. After a day-long battle, in which the army deployed tanks and heavy artillery, the Kabaka and his defenders’ small arms could not hold the palace against the attacking force. Thousands of people were massacred in this attack. The 1966 crisis, as it is known, started when
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The Obote Revolution 1966 On May 24th 1966 the first president of Uganda, Sir Edward Mutesa, fled into exile. He fled following an attack on his Palace “Lubiri”, by government forces on the orders of self-imposed President Milton Obote. After a day-long battle, in which the army deployed tanks and heavy artillery, the Kabaka and his defenders’ small arms could not hold the palace against the attacking force. Thousands of people were massacred in this attack. The 1966 crisis, as it is known, star
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Three months after Prime Minister Milton Obote seized supreme power in Uganda and suspended the Constitution, he ordered the Uganda Army to launch an assault on the Kabaka's palace in Mengo the symbolic heart of Buganda. The attack was launched on May 24th, 1966 and after 12 hours of bitter combat costing several hundred lives the government troops fought their way into the palace. The Kabaka, Edward Mutesa escaped by going over the 12-foot high wall during a heavy downpour. | History of Uganda
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June 23rd 1966: The former President of Uganda and the Kabaka of Buganda Edward Mutesa arrives in London, traumatized, injured and tired after being attacked in his palace by troops loyal to self-imposed president Milton Obote. Kabaka Mutesa escaped by climbing over the 12-foot high wall that surrounded the palace and evaded being captured as his crossed the country to the Congo and finally flew to London from Bujumbura, Burundi. “You must remember” he said (Kabaka Mutesa) “that I was not only t
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The video shows Kabaka Mutesa's palace burning in May 1966: The following is from an article titled “A Comedown For A King” by Charles Snaderd in the May 1967 issue of Ebony The clothes were bad: the brownish tweed jacket too big in the shoulders, the trouser legs baggy at the knees. But the face – it was one that had taken generations of royal blood to form: fine-boned, the skin tight, black and smooth, the forehead high, the eye a bit squinted like those of an Oriental. This was, standing ther
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THE OBOTE REVOLUTION From an article by M. Crawford Young published in the June 1966 issue of the magazine AFRICA REPORT. KAMPALA Uganda’s smoldering political crisis burst into violence on May 23, when the prolonged test of strength between the Kingdom of Buganda and President Milton Obote suddenly became a trial by fire. Much of Buganda rose in revolt against the central government: villagers armed with pangas blocked the roads leading to Kampala, cut the telephone lines, and overran police po
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