Uganda's Army (UPDF) and the Fight for Mogadishu...part 2

Here is part two of my continuing serialization of the Ugandan mission in somalia…well in case you are wondering…i did my Thesis on this area of conflicts and peace keeping in Africa… Both Uganda and Burundi suffered massive troop casualities…in one attack over 70 Burundi soldiers were killed and their bodies dragged and displayed in a stadium…would the Kenyan public have endured such

warning very graphic images

https://mogadishuman.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/amisoms-offensive-backfires/

https://mogadishuman.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/peacekeepers-bodies-dragged-in-mogadishu/

https://mogadishuman.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/536/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ-RkbnU9hM

at 1.05 you will the equivalent of the CDF of UPDF Gen Katumba Wamala…quite an leader …(uganda main language of instruction for the military is in swahili…there is a popular saying in kampala that goes “at night if you speak swahili u are either a soldier or a ganster”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRlg_vwCpZs

BBC documentary by Reeves more close quarters combat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fur62yGwU80

from 7.14 more fighting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecb_pf78lYg

UPDF troop rotation and more interviews

the only thing keeping our casualties ‘low’ are the gunship…period