Amin Son Plans To Topple Government â€" Kaihura
Aug 20, 2003
<b>KAMPALA, August</b> – A son of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is preparing for war to topple the Kampala government from bases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a senior Ugandan military official said Saturday.
KAMPALA, August – A son of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is preparing for war to topple the Kampala government from bases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a senior Ugandan military official said Saturday.
“We know that Taban Amin has been dreaming of launching an attack against us since 1998 with the help of the late Laurent Kabila,†Brigadier Kale Kaihura told AFP by telephone, referring to the murdered former president of the DRC.
“When we left DRC, Taban’s fighters, estimated at several hundred, re-organised and started mixing with the Ngiti and Lendu militias in the DRC’s Nyacucu areas near the Semliki valley with the aim of attacking Uganda, but they will not succeed,†Kaihura said.
The Semliki valley is on the border between the DRC and Uganda. The fighters of Amin’s son are reportedly based in the hills on the DRC side, called the Blue Mountains.
Taban has been living in the DRC capital, Kinshasa, and has occupied the chancery in the Ugandan embassy, whose Ugandan diplomats were forced out during the DRC conflict, Ugandan officials said.
Taban’s father, who ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979 in an orgy of brutality and economic meltdown, died earlier on Saturday at a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he has been living for more than a decade.
Kaihura said Taban’s plan for war would not succeed because there was already a government of national unity in Kinshasa that will to take responsibility for DRC’s sprawling territory.
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“We know that Taban Amin has been dreaming of launching an attack against us since 1998 with the help of the late Laurent Kabila,†Brigadier Kale Kaihura told AFP by telephone, referring to the murdered former president of the DRC.
“When we left DRC, Taban’s fighters, estimated at several hundred, re-organised and started mixing with the Ngiti and Lendu militias in the DRC’s Nyacucu areas near the Semliki valley with the aim of attacking Uganda, but they will not succeed,†Kaihura said.
The Semliki valley is on the border between the DRC and Uganda. The fighters of Amin’s son are reportedly based in the hills on the DRC side, called the Blue Mountains.
Taban has been living in the DRC capital, Kinshasa, and has occupied the chancery in the Ugandan embassy, whose Ugandan diplomats were forced out during the DRC conflict, Ugandan officials said.
Taban’s father, who ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979 in an orgy of brutality and economic meltdown, died earlier on Saturday at a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he has been living for more than a decade.
Kaihura said Taban’s plan for war would not succeed because there was already a government of national unity in Kinshasa that will to take responsibility for DRC’s sprawling territory.
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