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Title: | The Amin Coup |
Author: | Twaddle, Michael |
Year: | 1972 |
Periodical: | Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 99-112 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | coups d'état Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government |
Abstract: | Two explanations of Amin's seizure of power are popular in Britain: one theory views his assumption of control as a cleansing operation upon the local body politic, the other one views African soldiers not as moral reformers but as the local beneficiaries of a neo-colonial situation. The author views the coup not as a military take-over of civilian government, but as an internal war led by an army general whose network of followers managed to seize the national armour before anyone else did. It changed the shape of Ugandan political life not towards parliamentary government rather than dictatorial rule but rather towards a realignment of Ugandan factions along a new axis. This axis would be a more tribal and less racial one than Obote had finally adopted but to start with it was unclear what position Amin would adopt on economic policy and politico-religious alignments. Notes. |