Uganda Salvation Front

Uganda Salvation Front

The Uganda Salvation Front (alternately Uganda Salvation Army) was a terrorist organization operating in eastern Uganda.

Activities

*In 1998, the USF attacked Tororo Prison and abducted several inmates. [ [http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/uganda/Uganweb-09.htm VII. THE MOVEMENT SYSTEM AND THE CONFLICTS IN WESTERN AND NORTHERN UGANDA] Human Rights Watch.]
*In 1999, David Nyekorach-Matsanga, a senior official of the Lord's Resistance Army, announced his resignation. Matsanga stated that the LRA had become a tool of the Sudanese government, and that he would continue the fight to remove Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni with his own rebel group: the USF. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/312322.stm Ugandan rebel official resigns] "BBC News". April 5, 1999.]

ources

[http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/277.htm Uganda: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999] Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State. February 2000

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