National Resistance Army

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The National Resistance Army (NRA), the military wing of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), was a rebel army that waged a guerilla war, commonly referred to as the Luwero War or "the war in the bush", against the government of Milton Obote, and later that of Tito Okello.

NRA was formed in 1981 when Yoweri Museveni's Popular Resistance Army (PRA) merged with ex-president Yusuf Lule's group, the Uganda Freedom Fighters (UFF). Museveni, then leader of the Uganda Patriotic Movement party, alleged electoral fraud and declared an armed rebellion, following the victory of Uganda Peoples Congress in the bitterly disputed 1980 general elections.[1]

Museveni, who had guerrilla war experience with the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) in Mozambique, and his own Front for National Salvation (FRONASA) formed in Tanzania to fight Idi Amin, led the NRA to victory against Ugandan government troops (UNLA) in 1986. NRA then became the national army, and was renamed Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF).

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  1. ^ "A Country Study: The Second Obote Regime: 1981-85", Library of Congress Country Studies


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