Tanzania action against despot Amin of Uganda....

[General Duke]

In October 1978, Amin ordered the invasion of Tanzania while at the same time attempting to cover up an army mutiny. With the help of Libyan troops, Amin tried to annex the northern Tanzanian province of Kagera. Tanzania, under President Julius Nyerere, declared war on Uganda, then began a counterattack, enlisting the country's population of Ugandan exiles.

 

On 11 April 1979, Amin was forced to flee the capital, Kampala when the Tanzanian army, aided by Ugandian exiles who had united as the Uganda National Liberation Army, took the city. Amin fled to exile, first to Libya, departing Uganda in a Bell UH-1 registered 5X-UWG, where sources are divided on whether he remained until December 1979 or early 1980, before finding final asylum in Saudi Arabia. He opened a bank account in Jeddah and resided there, subsisting on a government stipend. The new Ugandan government chose to keep him exiled, saying that Amin would face war crimes charges if he ever returned. The Saudi motive was to silence him because of the harm they believed he was doing to Islam.[1]

 

In 1989, Amin, who had always held that Uganda needed him, and who never expressed remorse for the abuses of his regime,[17] attempted to return to Uganda, apparently to lead an armed group organised by Col. Juma Oris. He went as far as Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), where Zairian President Mobutu forced him to return to Saudi Arabia.

 

[General Duke]

1.Amin declared war on Tanzania.

The clan courts declared war on Ethiopia.

 

2.Amin had Libyan troops with the aim of covering up a mutiny.

The clan courts had Eritrean, Oromo & other foreign troops, & declared Jihad to cover up this fact.

 

3.Tanzania with the Ugandans crushed Amin his Libyan & other supporters taking Kampala.

Ethiopia with the TFG crushded the clan courts and their Eritrean & other foreign backers securing Mogadishu..

[Gordon Gekko]

History repeats itself huh? Nice analysis GD.

[General Duke]

^^^Indeed, the other intervention of India in East Pakistan is even more interesting.

[Xargaga]

You are wrong Mr tesfaye. Amiin actually invaded Tanzania and took over part of Kagera province. while the Islamic courts never invaded ethiopia actaully its ethiopia who invaded somalia from the begining in diguise.This is totally an irelevant comparison.

[Cara.]

Originally posted by General Duke:

The clan courts had Eritrean, Oromo & other foreign troops, & declared Jihad to cover up this fact.

 

3.Tanzania with the Ugandans crushed Amin his Libyan & other supporters taking Kampala.

Ethiopia with the TFG crushded the clan courts and their Eritrean & other foreign backers securing Mogadishu..

It's clear that Ethiopia has invaded Somalia (yes yes, at the TFG's gilded RSVP), but Eritrea was never shown to have a significant presence in Somalia, much less "other foreign troops". The parallel may break down there.

[General Duke]

^^^Eritrea's action speake for themselves dear sis. They are the only country to support the clan courts as well as giving them a safe heaven even Djibouti has given up on them, but Eritrea oh no. Even the hapless Sharif Xasan is there now.

 

The UN monitoring group. The US, Uganda & the AU have highlighted the Eritrean involvement.

[General Duke]

Another really stark simmilarity is the psychological character of Amin to the clan courts Baffons. Specially IndaCade, Xasan Dahir who prayed for a war and then ran away and left the kids to find their way back to their schools in Mogadishu.

[Cara.]

Originally posted by General Duke:

^^^Eritrea's action speake for themselves dear sis. They are the only country to support the clan courts as well as giving them a safe heaven even Djibouti has given up on them, but Eritrea oh no. Even the hapless Sharif Xasan is there now.

 

The UN monitoring group. The US, Uganda & the AU have highlighted the Eritrean involvement.

Eritrean military involvement? Is there any concrete evidence of Eritrean military personnel during the conflict? Any troops killed or captured?

 

Giving Sheikh Sharif a safe haven is frankly laudable, I certainly wouldn't hand him over to the Ethiopia & TFG when one is a foreign power with no jurisdiction over him and the other is no friend of his.

[General Duke]

personnel during the conflict? Any troops killed or captured?

Lady, thats a millitary secret, which will come out in due course. As for foreigners we even have a white US dude who was captured running for his life over the border, many Oromo's, Eritreans were captured at the Kenyan border some with top clan court officials..

 

Why is Eritrea helping Sharif Xasan, IndaCade & Xasan Dahir, is it their love of Islam or democracy?

[Gordon Gekko]

Military involvment as in fuelling the arms trade to the country to support the clan courts, etc.