1971 Ugandan coup d'état

The 1971 Ugandan coup d'état was a military coup d'état executed by the Ugandan military, led by General Idi Amin, against the government of President Milton Obote on January 25, 1971. The seizure of power took place while Obote was abroad attending the Commonwealth Heads of State conference in Singapore. [cite book |author=Hebditch, David, and Ken Connor |title= How to Stage a Military Coup: From Planning to Execution |year= 2005 |publisher= Greenhill Books |location= London |id= ISBN 1-85367-640-3 |pages= 128]

The 1971 coup is often cited as an example of "class action by the military", wherein the Ugandan armed forces acted against "an increasingly socialist régime whose equalitarian domestic politics posed more and more of a threat to the military's economic privileges". [cite journal |quotes=no |last=Lofchie |first=Michael F. |year=1972 |month=May |title=The Uganda Coup—Class Action by the Military |journal=The Journal of Modern African Studies |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=19–35 |doi= |id= |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-278X%28197205%2910%3A1%3C19%3ATUCABT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I |format= |accessdate=2007-01-04]

ee also

*Uganda under Idi Amin

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