ON THIS DAY 25-january-1971-GENERAL IDI AMIN OUSTS UGANDA PRESIDENT OBOTE.

Published two days ahead. General Idi Amin has seized power from president Milton Apollo Obote the man who led Uganda to independence in 1962. The General led a military coup while the president was out of the country attending the commonwealth conference in singapore. Ugandan troops have sealed off Entebbe airport and there are reports of tanks and soldiers on the streets of the capital, Kampala. The presidents residence is said to have been blocked. Dr. Obote became the country's first prime minister in 1962 at the head of an uneasy coalition between his own Uganda peoples Congress and the kabaka yekka or kings party representing the Baganda tribe from the largest and richest province of the country sir Edward Mutesa better known as King Freddie became president. Boxing champion General Amin for seven years heavyweight boxing champion of Uganda spent most of his army Career as a sergeant the KAR promoted his second lieutenants once Obote became president he promoted Idi Amin to chief of the Armed Forces. A broadcast on Uganda radio accused the Obote government of corruption and said that ministers and senior civil servants owned cars fleets of buses belong to Obote himself and even aeroplanes the broadcast said the army believed president Obotes policies would lead to bloodshedes accusing him of giving special treatment to Lango region in the North of the Country. Millions of cheering crowds were reported in the streets of Kampala all other cities in the country after radio broadcast of taking over the govenment from Apollo Milton Obote. Dr.Obote arrived in Nairobi airport in Kenya tonight and was taken immediatelyto a hotel where he is holding talks with the kenyan vice president Arap moi and the attorney general and foreign minister, after the Coup, he went into exile in Tanzania from where he tried to organize his come back President Idi Amin left Uganda in April-13-1979 and settle in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. He died in exile August-16-2003 at king faizal Royal Hospital in Jeddah Saudi Arabia and burried there. http://www.isna.net/ http://www.zawiyah.ca/ From Mr. Alemi Junior. & Family in Vancouver Western Canada. the holiday starts Saturday. 20-2007. up to january. 27-2007. january. 26-2007. NRM/A day. Bravo.