Fall of Kampala

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The Liberation of Kampala
Part of Uganda-Tanzania War
Date 1979 Location Kampala Result Tanzanian victory. Overthrow of Idi Amin
Belligerents
Ugandan Army	Tanzania People's Defence Force Uganda National Liberation Army
Commanders
Idi Amin	Tanzanian army: Julius Nyerere UNLF: Tito Okello Yoweri Museveni David Oyite-Ojok
Strength
Number of Ugandan Army troops: ?	Numbers of Tanzanians: ? Number of UNLA troops: ?

The Fall or Liberation of Kampala was a battle during the Uganda-Tanzania War, in which the combined forces of the Tanzanian army and the Uganda National Liberation Army (composed of Ugandan exiles) attacked and captured the Ugandan capital Kampala. This resulted in the overthrow of Idi Amin, the military dictator of Uganda, whose invasion of Tanzania had started the war. Idi Amin fled first to Libya, then to Saudi Arabia, where he died in 2003.

[edit] In popular culture

This battle is fictionally depicted in the novel The Last King of Scotland.