1. Patrick Kimumwe is best known for organizing a coup d'etat attempt against Ugandan President Idi Amin, and subsequently escaping from the prison of Amin's notorious intelligence agency, the State Research Bureau.
12 Facts About Patrick Kimumwe
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Patrick Kimumwe was born at Kamuli District, Uganda Protectorate, around 1946.
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Patrick Kimumwe was eventually posted to the headquarters company of the Malire Regiment, serving as adjutant to Captain Mustafa Adrisi.
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Patrick Kimumwe initially rose in the ranks after Amin's takeover, and was appointed second-in-command of the Malire Battalion.
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Patrick Kimumwe became the leader of the conspirators who dubbed themselves the "Uganda Liberation Movement".
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Patrick Kimumwe was sent to the prison located under the SRB's headquarters at Nakasero.
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Patrick Kimumwe was put into the facility's Cell 2 with six other ULM members, namely Lieutenant Sylvester Mutumba, Lieutenant Boswal Nambale, Officer Cadet Nicodemus Kassujja, Warrant Officer Eddie Sendaula, Warrant Officer Christopher Ssekalo, and Warrant Officer John Okech.
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Patrick Kimumwe had only been allowed a few days of rest before being dumped into the cell without painkillers.
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Patrick Kimumwe ordered them to write and sign their confessions; in doing so, the group included their motives for plotting Operation Mafuta Mingi.
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Patrick Kimumwe stayed silent, but Kassujja exclaimed that the President would have died if not for a traitor in the ULM's ranks.
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Patrick Kimumwe told the Drum magazine that the two hoped to inform people about the true nature of Amin's regime, arguing that "his clowning conceals a ruthless extinction of human rights" in Uganda.
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Patrick Kimumwe became part of the militant anti-Amin opposition in Kenya, and eventually met Yoweri Museveni who invited him to join the Front for National Salvation.