Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables, Figures, and Maps ix
4. Abbreviations and Glossary xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 3
7. A Legacy of Violence
8. Precolonial and Colonial Uganda 17
9. Inequality and Violence in Uganda 30
10. From Nakulabye to Namugongo
11. From a Negotiated to an Imposed Constitution, 1962–66 59
12. From a Civilian to a Military Dictatorship, 1966–71 88
13. Idi Amin and the Politics of Survival, 1971–79 104
14. Weak Governments and Social Chaos, 1979–85 128
15. Four and One-Half Years of Brute Violence, 1980–85 145
16. Civil War, 1981–85 164
17. Conclusion 193
18. Epilogue 209
19. Appendices
20. The Language Debate 227
21. Buwunga Subcounty: A Case Study of the Impact of Violence on a Local Community 235
22. Some of the Massacres under the Military Commission and Obote’s Regime, 1980–84 240
23. Some of the Victims of Amin’s Years of Terror, 1971-79 249
24. A Few of Those Reported Killed during Obote’s Second Regime, 1981–85* 254
25. Some of the Detainees at Luzira Gazetted by Ugandan Authorities 273
26. Memorandum of Uganda’s Religious Leaders to Obote, August 1981* 275
27. Letter of the Leader of the Opposition to the President of Atrocities* 279
28. Memorandum from the Chairman of the National Resistance Movement to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers and Haeads of Government* 282
29. Public Statement by Uganda’s Ambassador to the Scandinavian Countries, Ibrahim Mukiibi 285
30. Notes 289
31. Bibliography 319
32. Index 339