On This Day and Working Class History.
The twenty third of January and on the twenty third of January nineteen sixty four, around three hundred and fifty soldiers in the newly independent Ugandan army mutinied and took their British officers and non commissioned officers hostage, demanding pay increases. When the Minister of the Interior arrived to speak with them, they took him hostage as well. The mutineers were also unhappy at still being commanded by British officers despite having
supposedly achieved independence. Prime Minister Milton Obote, who had been the leader of the anti colonial movement, called in British troops from Kenya. The Staffordshire Regiment then seized control of the rebel camp. On the twenty fifth of January. The Ugandan government did agree to the demands of the mutineers, but then it dismissed nearly.
All of them. The move followed the mutinies of two battalions in Tanzania earlier that week. The sources maps and all of our anniversaries each day. Check out the on this Day section of our stories at at stories Stopworkingclasshistory.
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