Bazilio Olara-Okello

Bazilio Olara-Okello

Bazilio Olara-Okello (1929 – 9 January 1990) was a Ugandan military officer and one of the commanders of the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) that together with the Tanzanian army organized the coup d'état that overthrew Idi Amin in 1979. In 1985, he was briefly the chairman of the ruling Military Council and de facto head of state of Uganda, and later, lieutenant-general and chief of the armed forces. During the civil war in Uganda between the UNLA (which was now the national army) and Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army, president Milton Obote alienated much of the Acholi-dominated officer corps, including Olara-Okello and General Tito Okello, by appointing his fellow ethnic Lango, Brigadier Smith Opon Acak, as army Chief of Staff. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bazilio Olara-Okello has received more than 224,589 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Bazilio Olara-Okello is the 1,429th most popular military personnel (down from 1,347th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Uganda (up from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Ugandan Military Personnel.