Speaker 1: On This Day and Working Class History.
Speaker 2: The twenty third of January and on the twenty third
Speaker 2: of January nineteen sixty four, around three hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: soldiers in the newly independent Ugandan army mutinied and took
Speaker 2: their British officers and non commissioned officers hostage, demanding pay increases.
Speaker 2: When the Minister of the Interior arrived to speak with them,
Speaker 2: they took him hostage as well. The mutineers were also
Speaker 2: unhappy at still being commanded by British officers despite having
Speaker 2: supposedly achieved independence. Prime Minister Milton Obote, who had been
Speaker 2: the leader of the anti colonial movement, called in British
Speaker 2: troops from Kenya. The Staffordshire Regiment then seized control of
Speaker 2: the rebel camp. On the twenty fifth of January. The
Speaker 2: Ugandan government did agree to the demands of the mutineers,
Speaker 2: but then it dismissed nearly.
Speaker 1: All of them. The move followed the mutinies of two
Speaker 1: battalions in Tanzania earlier that week. The sources maps and
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