Timeline Wednesday 11 April 1979

Events on Wednesday 11 April 1979 1

• 1979 Uganda-Tanzania War ends Idi Amin's rule Tanzanian forces oust the Ugandan dictator Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles captured Kampala on 11 April 1979, forcing dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile. The war began after Amin's failed 1978 invasion of Tanzania and ended eight years of brutal rule marked by mass killings. Amin never returned to Uganda and died in exile in Saudi Arabia in 2003.