By Col. John Ogole
28th January 2013:
On the 25th January 1971, the black cloud that had been hanging over Uganda from independence finally came down with devastating effects – effects that will haunt our country and its people for generations to come.
On this date, a fraction of disgruntled citizens in collaboration with some foreign exploiters toppled the democratic UPC government led by President Apollo Milton Obote.
It was a bloody coup that left horrors of utter destruction in its wake – horrors that the nascent spirit of patriotism and nationalism never survived.
The epicentre of these dastardly acts was where I worked as (more…)