Uganda: Information on the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) and the government's attitude towards members of this group in 1992 Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada <http://www.refworld.org/publisher/IRBC.html> Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada Publication Date 1 January 1993 Citation / Document Symbol UGA12374 Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Uganda: Information on the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) and the government's attitude towards members of this group in 1992, 1 January 1993, UGA12374, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ac1b70.html [accessed 11 January 2015] Disclaimer This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States. The Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) was the backbone of President Milton Obote's second regime from 1980 to 1985 (Amnesty International June 1989, 7; Cultural Survival Quarterly 1987, 46). The UNLA was mainly composed of members of the Acholi and Langi tribes from the northern part of Uganda. According to Amnesty International, the army ranks of the UNLA were filled by the urban unemployed; it was ill-clothed and ill-fed and paid irregularly...this combination of indiscipline and material shortage led to widespread theft and looting from the civilian population, and also the frequent imprisonment of individuals for ransoms (June 1989, 7). The UNLA was notorious for the gross human rights violations committed against the people of Uganda during the Obote II regime (Ibid; Minority Groups Rights Report 1989). The atrocities committed by the UNLA in the "Luwero Triangle" attracted the attention of the international community (Ibid.). Amnesty International further reports that according to the U.S. State Department Report of 1984, between 100,000 and 200,000 people had been killed (Ibid.). The government of President Milton Obote was overthrown in a military coup masterminded by one of his army commanders, Lt-General Tito Okello in July 1985 (Current History 1990, 206). The government of Lt-Gen. Tito Okello was in turn overthrown six months later in another military coup which brought President Yoweri Museveni to power (Ibid.). The UNLA reportedly retreated to the north and waged a war against the National Resistance Army (NRA), the army that supports the government of President Museveni but some members were reportedly incorporated into the NRA (Africa Confidential Feb. 1987, 4). Information on the government attitude towards members of the UNLA in 1992 could not be found among the sources currently available to the DIRB in Ottawa. For detailed information on the UNLA please refer to the attached documents. References Africa Confidential [London]. 4 February 1987. Vol 28. No. 3. "Uganda: False Messiah." Amnesty International. June 1989. "Uganda: The Human Rights Record 1986-1989." (AI Index: AFR 59/01/89). London: Amnesty International. Cultural Survival Quarterly. 1987. Vo. 2, No. 4. R. Winter."The Armies of Uganda and Human Rights: A Personal Observation. Current History. May 1990. Vol. 89, No. 547. G. Gertzel. "Uganda's Continuing Search for Peace." Minority Rights Group International. 1989. Uganda: The Minority Rights Group Report No. 66. London: Minority Rights Group. Attachments Africa Confidential [London]. 4 February 1987. Vol 28. No. 3. "Uganda: False Messiah." Amnesty International. June 1989. "Uganda: The Human Rights Record 1986-1989." (AI Index: AFR 59/01/89). London: Amnesty International. Cultural Survival Quarterly. 1987. Vo. 2, No. 4. R. Winter."The Armies of Uganda and Human Rights: A Personal Observation. Current History. May 1990. Vol. 89, No. 547. G. Gertzel. "Uganda's Continuing Search for Peace." Minority Rights Group International. 1989. Uganda: The Minority Rights Group Report No. 66. London: Minority Rights Group. Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/ <http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/> . Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld. EM On the 49th Parallel Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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