Uganda, 1987 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 6 January 1987, during the outbreak of multiple armed insurgencies against the new National Resistance Movement government of Yoweri Museveni in northern and eastern Uganda, less than a year after his National Resistance Army captured Kampala in January 1986. By late 1986 and early 1987 several anti-NRM rebellions were under way, led largely by former Uganda National Liberation Army officers and Obote and Okello loyalists displaced by the NRA takeover, including the Uganda People's Democratic Army in Acholiland and Alice Auma's Holy Spirit Movement. The Holy Spirit Movement went on the offensive at the turn of the year, overrunning Pajule on 25 December 1986 and, after heavy fighting, capturing the government position at Camp Kilak on 14 January 1987 before being badly defeated by an NRA counter-attack on 18 January 1987.
The 6 January 1987 coding sits in this period of armed anti-Museveni conspiracy and insurgency in early 1987, as the northern and eastern rebellions escalated against the NRM government.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
50001061987
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Museveni's NRA contained the insurgencies and he remained in power into the following decades.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
CSP
Globe and Mail
Afro-American
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