WI: Milton Obote and Tito Okello killed in 1980

Mort the Reaper

Just before the 1980 Ugandan elections, a group of Idi Amin loyalists known as the Western Nile Front ambushed former and future Uganda president Milton Obote as he was touring the West Nile sub-region of Uganda. Obote was nearly killed, and so was Tito Okello, a high-ranking military commander who would later overthrow Obote in a coup before being ousted himself by Yoweri Museveni.

What if the two had died?
 

Mort the Reaper

marktaha said:
Could hardly have been worse How could anyone have been loyal to Amin?
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Well, calling the WNF "Amin loyalists" was a bit of a simplification on my part. It was made up of Ugandan troops who had fled to Zaire and Sudan during the Uganda-Tanzania War, and while some were still loyal to Amin, others wanted to distance themselves from him. This disagreement caused infighting, and eventually a split into the Uganda National Rescue Front (UNRF) and the Former Uganda National Army (FUNA).
 
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