UGANDA: DISSIDENTS ELUDE TROOPS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06827336
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2020
• Case Number: F-2018-01308
• Publication Date: January 17, 1985

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UGANDA: Dissidents Dissidents Elude Troops
Large numbers of the dissident National Resistance Army have
broken out of the Luwero triangle of central Uganda. where a
6,000-man government force had been attempting to trap them in a
major campaign since October. Troops are being moved into western
Uganda in an effort to head off the querrillas and prevent attacks on
large towns in the region.
Comment: Kampala can claim some success in forcing the dissidents
out of Luwero, their primary base of popular support, but the regime's
continuing failure to defeat them will erode Ugandan military morale
further. Frequent sweeps failed to locate sizable dissident groups in
the Luwero campaign, and the only major engagement occurred in
early January, when the guerrillas surprised and overran a garrison at
a military school. The dissidents almost certainly have dispersed into
small groups in western Uganda and will limit their activity to small,
hit-and-run attacks until most government forces withdraw.
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