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The Pan African Congress conference at Manchester in 1945 had emphasised the morality of the use of violence in independence movements, and ex-servicemen who had fought in the British Army in World War II burned white-owned property and attacked foreigners. Wartime experiences politicised many Ugandans and contributed to the decrease of regionalism, as Ugandans from different regions and religions met, often for the first time, in the armed forces.
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Idi Amin became the first black commission officer in the Kings African Rifles
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In 1953 Kabaka Mutesa II demanded independence for Buganda (The most powerful of the five regions of Uganda). Although he had demanded independence for Buganda alone, his deportation by the British in 1953 encouraged others in Uganda to agitate for independence.
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The Democratic Party (DP) was established in 1954 and it represented the interests of the nation's Catholics
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The Ugandan People's Congress (UPC), established in 1960, was very much a northern and western party.
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The Kabaka Yekka ("King Only" or KY) was established in 1962 and it was a Bugandan party.
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Milton Obote, leader of the Ugandan People's Congress (UPC), combined with the Kabaka Yekka party and became prime minister of an independent Uganda (parties had been so divided that they had focused their opposition to each other rather than British)
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Idi Amin became commander of Ugandan army.
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Military dictatorship of Idi Amin persecuted pro- Obote tribes -- possibly over 80,000 died.
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Idi Amin expelled large Ugandan Indian population giving them 90 days to leave. Increasingly odd -- declared himself Conqueror of British Empire and awarded himself Victoria Cross.
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1978 -- Idi Amin invaded Tanzania but fell from power.
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Milton Obote restored to power.