44 years later, Buganda remembers the 1966 Mengo (Lubiri) attack
Buganda loyalists admire a potrait of the late Kabaka Fredrick Walugembe Muteesa II on Thursday, May 24, during the commemoration of the attack on the Mengo (Lubiri) palace by former President Milton Obote in 1966. Muteesa was Kabaka when, On May 24, 1966, under the command of then Col. Idi Amin, the army staged an attack on the palace on Obote’s orders to forestall a supposed coup. On this day, the kingdom flag and those of the 55 clans, fly at half-mast. The attack led to the exile of Kabaka Edward Mutesa in Britain and abolition of kingdoms. Photo by Stephen Wandera.
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