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	Milton Obote
		Apollo Milton Obote (born December 28, 1924) was President of Uganda from 1966 to 1971 and again from 1980 to 1985.
		Obote began his political career with Jomo Kenyatta in Kenya, after being denied an opportunity to study law in the United States by the United Kingdom British colonial government.
		Obote was eventually cleared of the charges but the episode created tensions between him and Mutesa, who was critical of Obote for suspending the constitution.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Milton_Obote.html (262 words)

	Former Ugandan President, Prime Minister Milton Obote
		Milton Obote, 80, Uganda's first prime minister and a two-time president, was remembered Tuesday as an outstanding leader by some Ugandans, but others blamed him for the deaths of as many as a half-million people and said they would not mourn him.
		Obote, whose initial term ended with a coup led by Idi Amin, died Oct. 10 at a hospital in Johannesburg, said Henry Mayega, secretary-general of Mr.
		Obote escaped imprisonment and the threat of death in 1971 because he was at a commonwealth meeting in Singapore when Idi Amin, an army commander and a trusted aide, seized control.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/11/AR2005101101917_pf.html (345 words)

	Milton Obote dies : Africa: News: News24
		Lusaka - Uganda's former strongman Milton Obote, who was first toppled by Idi Amin and overthrown again after a second stint in power, died on Monday in a South African hospital at the age of 81, his son told AFP.
		Obote, whose rule was marred by repression and torture of political opponents, was granted political asylum in Zambia following his second time in power from 1980 to 1985.
		Obote, who spent the Amin years in exile, returned to Uganda on May 27 1980, and won disputed general elections a few months later to become president for a second time.
	www.news24.com /News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1814551,00.html (297 words)

	Apolo Milton Obote Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Milton Obote was born at Akokoro village in Lango territory in the northern part of the British Uganda Protectorate in 1925.
		Obote was opposed by the Bugandas, by the Acholi peoples of the north, and most importantly by a guerilla movement in the west, the National Resistance Army.
		In 1985, Obote was toppled in a coup and fled to Kenya.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/apolo-milton-obote (741 words)

	Uganda's Milton Obote
		Obote was also aware that Amin had been steadily recruiting new soldiers from the region of his birth in Uganda.
		Obote waited as the stage was set for his return.
		Obote even flirted with the idea of accepting military aid from the North Koreans.
	wiwi.essortment.com /ugandamiltonob_rhiw.htm (1420 words)

	Milton Obote Dies at 80; Strongman in Uganda, Twice Overthrown - New York Times
		Obote was expelled from college in Kampala in the late 1940's for leading a student strike and took a job as a construction worker in Kenya.
		Obote's socialist policies also made him anathema to the West and when his army chief, Idi Amin, overthrew him in 1971 while he attended a summit meeting of Commonwealth heads of state in Singapore, few were initially concerned.
		Obote, who spent the Amin years in exile in Tanzania, returned to Uganda on May 27, 1980, and won disputed general elections a few months later to become president for a second time.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/10/11/international/africa/11obote.html?ex=1286683200&en=862779ef307294a8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (602 words)

	Milton Obote Summary
		Milton Obote was born at Akokoro village in Apac district in northern Uganda.
		Obote was deposed again, on 27 July 1985, by his own army commanders Brigadier Bazilio Olara-Okello and General Tito Okello in a military coup.
		Milton Obote was given a state funeral, attended by president Museveni in the Ugandan capital Kampala in October 2005, to the surprise and appreciation of many Ugandans, since he and Museveni were bitter rivals.
	www.bookrags.com /Milton_Obote (1596 words)

	Obote: The Premier's Own Story
		The man who is known as plain "Milton Obote" by all his followers was born the son of a chief, went to Makerere College in Kampala - and then took a job as a labourer in order to gain trade union experience.
		Milton Obote is one African politician who does not need to wear a funny hat or wave a flywhisk to make himself noticed - he relies on his speeches.
		Milton Obote was not much older when he was walking alone along a track at dusk - and found a leopard in his path.
	www.ugpulse.com /articles/daily/homepage.asp?ID=174 (1429 words)

	USATODAY.com - Uganda's first prime minister dies at 80 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Obote was not a bad man. During his rule, especially in the 1960s the country was stable," said Binaisa, who served as attorney general under Obote.
		Obote escaped possible death or imprisonment in 1971 because he was at a Commonwealth meeting in Singapore when Idi Amin, an army commander and a trusted aide, seized control.
		Obote was married with four children and had another child by a mistress.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-10-11-oboteobit_x.htm (608 words)

	The Monitor Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After all, Obote was supposed to have been an evil dictator, extremely unpopular in Kampala and Buganda, having rigged the December 1980 elections, and having massacred 300,000 Baganda and other Bantu-speaking Ugandans in Luweero Triangle in the war against the NRA guerrillas of Yoweri Museveni.
		The answer, of course, is simple: Obote is not the demon he has consistently been portrayed to be by Museveni since 1986 and the public as far back as 1985 knew that.
		When Obote returned from exile in May 1980, Yoweri Museveni went paranoid and after launching his Uganda Patriotic Movement party that June, he devoted almost all of his election campaign to warning that he would "go to the bush" if Obote and the UPC rigged the 1980 election.
	www.monitor.co.ug /specialincludes/ugprsd/obote/ob072414.php (1400 words)

	News \| Telegraph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Milton Obote, the former President of Uganda who died on Monday aged 80, led his country to independence from Britain in 1962, then laid the foundations for what was to become, under Idi Amin, one of the most brutal tyrannies in Africa.
		Obote saw himself in the mould of Jomo Kenyatta, the man of destiny who would rise above petty factionalism and bring unity and prosperity to his people; after his election as prime minister in 1962, he attempted to maintain a balance between the disparate tribal and regional factions within a multi-party democracy.
		Apollo Milton Obote, the third of nine children, was born, probably in 1925, at the village of Akokoro beside Lake Kwania, in the Lango district of northern Uganda.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/12/db1201.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/10/12/ixportal.html (403 words)

	Obituaries: Milton Obote of Uganda, Louis Nye - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		KAMPALA, Uganda Milton Obote, the first prime minister of Uganda and a two-time president whose initial term ended with a coup led by Idi Amin and whose second was best known for its harsh repression, has died at a hospital in South Africa.
		While Obote was at a summit in Singapore in 1971, Amin, his trusted aide, seized control of the country.
		Obote was ousted for a second time in a 1985 coup and Museveni took control.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/10/11/news/obits.php (522 words)

	netcyclo: Obote, Milton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Milton Obote was educated at Makerere University College, in Kampala, entering in 1948 and dropping out after two years.
		On 25 January 1971, while attending a meeting in Singapore, Obote was deposed in a coup led by Idi Amin.
		In 1985, Milton Obote was again ousted and exiled to Zambia, where he remained until his death.
	www.netcyclo.com /people/o/milobote/milobote.htm (161 words)

	Guardian \| Milton Obote
		Milton Obote, who has died aged 80, had that rarest of opportunities among deposed African leaders - a second chance - and he blew it.
		The horrors of Idi Amin's reign of terror did much in the early days of Obote's "second coming" to cover the excesses of his government, but it is estimated that more than 100,000 people died fighting in the guerrilla war waged by the ultimately victorious Yoweri Museveni, the country's current president.
		Milton Apollo Obote was once quoted as saying: "I'd rather have Milton's brains than Apollo's good looks." In the event, it was brawn that kept him in power and muscle that eased him out.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5306971-115645,00.html (931 words)

	Milton Obote; Uganda's first prime minister and two-time president; 80 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Milton Obote, Uganda's first prime minister and a two-time president whose initial term ended with a coup led by Idi Amin and whose second was best known for its harsh repression, died Monday at a South African hospital.
		President Obote sought refuge in neighboring Tanzania where he was protected by his friend, then-President Julius Nyerere, whose soldiers later helped Ugandan rebels overthrow Amin in April 1979.
		President Obote was ousted for a second time in the 1985 coup and Museveni took control.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051015/news_1m15obote.html (394 words)

	Milton Obote Dies at 80; Strongman in Uganda, Twice Overthrown -- Rest in Peace
		Milton Obote, Uganda's former strongman, who was first toppled by Idi Amin and overthrown again after a second period in power, died Monday in a South African hospital, said his party.
		Obote declared himself president a year after scrapping the Constitution and replacing it with one giving the executive nearly absolute power.
		Obote, whose rule was marred by repression and who was accused of torturing political opponents, was granted political asylum in Zambia following his second ouster, in 1985.
	www.voy.com /87202/1120.html (523 words)

	(Apollo) Milton Obote - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Obote established a multiparty democracy, but was removed in a second military coup in 1985.
		Uganda's exiled ex-president Obote to retire from party's presidency.
		Obote's body to be flown from S. Africa to Zambia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O48-OboteApolloMilton.html (277 words)

	Milton Obote-Comment-Obituaries-TimesOnline
		MILTON OBOTE was Uganda’s first leader after his country gained its independence from Britain in 1962, first as Prime Minister, and later, when he had seized power from his own president, as executive head of state.
		Apollo Milton Obote was born in the Lango district of north-east Uganda in 1924, one of nine children of a peasant farmer.
		With Obote as Prime Minister and the Kabaka as President in a federal state, this alliance of convenience survived for four years until, in 1966, Obote felt strong enough to suspend the constitution, arrest a number of Baganda ministers and appoint one of his trusted army officers from the north, Idi Amin, as commander-in-chief.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/comment/obituaries/article1081268.ece (1397 words)

	[Ugnet] I Am Coming Home, Says Milton Obote
		The party said Obote's decision to return was a result of recent developments in the country, including the official registration of UPC and the planned transition to multi-party politics.
		However, Obote said that Museveni must be "self deluded." He said that when he came to power in 1986, Museveni appointed many commissions of inquiry, including one on human rights to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity by the Obote administration.
		Obote admitted the UNLA committed atrocities in Luweero, but said whenever such cases were reported, the soldiers involved were arrested and punished.
	www.mail-archive.com /ugandanet@kym.net/msg19084.html (854 words)

	UPC ..::\|::.. Uganda Peoples Congress
		On 16.7.2004 Dr. Milton Obote was approached by one Dev Babber, a Zambian/Kenyan citizen of Indian extraction, with a proposal that he consents to a meeting with Gen. Museveni in Lusaka when the latter travels to Lusaka on 30.7.2004 to officiate at the Zambian Agricultural Show.
		Milton Obote's response to Gen. Museveni's emissary are contained in an e-mail message to the Chairman of PPC copied to Chairmen of PRC, NOC and MOF dated the same day.
		Judging from how Museveni acts and treats National matters, he is probably not aware that Milton Obote is not a free agent but a bounded servant of the UPC and does things on behalf and in the name of his party the UPC.
	www.upcparty.net /press/Lies_11Aug04.htm (1812 words)

	Uganda's Milton Obote Dies - International - RedOrbit
		Milton Obote, who led Uganda to independence from Britain in 1962 and became the country's president until being overthrown by Idi Amin, has died at age 80.
		Obote died of kidney failure in a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, his family announced, reports the BBC.
		But Obote was overthrown in 1985 by another army officer, Tito Okello who in turn lost power to Yoweri Museveni, the current president.
	www.redorbit.com /news/international/267915/ugandas_milton_obote_dies/index.html (177 words)

	Milton Obote’s body flown home
		The body of Uganda’s first post-independence leader Milton Obote arrived back in the country yesterday after his death in exile, which has exposed deep divisions in the nation.
		Obote, 80, died of apparent kidney failure in a South African hospital on October 10, over two decades after being forced out of power for a second time by a military coup.
		Obote’s coffin, draped in a Ugandan flag, was unloaded from the aircraft as baggage handlers in fluorescent yellow vests walked in formation behind it carrying bouquets.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/cl/print/news.php?articleid=30775 (364 words)

	The Monitor Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Milton Obote was always a hit on radio: Very articulate, combative and eloquent.
		Mr Yosaamu Mugenyi was the Obote II minister of transport.
		At 80 years of age one would expect former president Apollo Milton Obote to seek, from Ugandans, a genuine understanding of his actions during the two times he was at the helm of politics.
	www.monitor.co.ug /specialincludes/ugprsd/obote/index.php (2211 words)

	Uganda honors controversial former leader Milton Obote \| csmonitor.com
		Obote died in a South African hospital last week, he had spent the past two decades of his life in exile.
		Obote from office in 1985 after a brutal civil war - approved a state funeral for Obote in the capital, many Ugandans were surprised.
		Obote's army killed between 300,000 to 400,000 people, many of them in the Luwero district north of Kampala, as it tried to crush Museveni's rebellion.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/1021/p06s01-woaf.html (557 words)

	Geopolitical Review: Milton Obote Is Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MILTON OBOTE was Uganda’s first leader after his country gained its independence from Britain in 1962, first as Prime Minister, and later, when he had seized power from his own president, as executive head of state.
		But Obote was enabled to return to Uganda and resume the reins of power in 1980 after troops from Tanzania entered the country and overthrew Amin.
		After Amin was pushed out by the Tanzanian army at Obote's behest, Obote took the reins again and tried to patch things up with his neighbors and his country as a whole.
	www.geopoliticalreview.com /archives/001217milton_obote_is_dead.php (657 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Obituary: Milton Obote
		Milton Obote was one of the last of the founding fathers of African independence and twice became Uganda's president.
		Milton Apollo Obote was born the third of nine children to a minor chief of the northern Langi tribe.
		Obote was given exile in Tanzania, and when that country, under Julius Nyerere, invaded Uganda to put an end to Amin's murderous regime, Obote returned.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4353286.stm (585 words)

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